Written questions

442 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will have discussions with stakeholders to create a proportional route for registration for (a) smaller providers (b) specialist providers, including (i) all such providers and (ii) those that offer Trin

13 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infant Foods: Sugar

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of infant and baby products with high sugar content.

13 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with stakeholders on the potential merits of auto-enrolling all eligible families to the Healthy Start programme.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will undertake a review of the maintained nursery school supplementary funding formula.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to create a pathway for Ukrainian refugees to apply to UK universities.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the level of support provided to Ukrainian refugees in applying to UK universities.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of safeguarding leads in schools being violence against women and girls accredited.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make (a) schools and (b) education providers statutory safeguarding partners.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing a unique ID for every child to (a) facilitate data sharing between public bodies and (b) identify children not in school or any form of ed

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Corporal Punishment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing the notion of reasonable chastisement.

5 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Orchestras: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to orchestral tax relief for International work on the orchestral sector's ability to deliver loss-making activities in the UK.

4 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Holiday Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to give local planning authorities further powers to prevent high concentrations of (a) short-term and (b) holiday-let accommodation.

22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to deliver age-appropriate (a) care and (b) settings for teenagers and young adults with cancer.

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Wood-burning Stoves: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of (a) Smoke Control Areas and (b) Ecodesign regulations, in the context of the impact of domestic log burners on air quality.

8 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 19 December 2023 on The Next Stage in Our Long Term Plan for Housing Update, HCWS161, if she will publish (a) the review into the wider

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the conclusions within his Department's Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (Englan

6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing financial protection to victims of (a) financially coercive and (b) other controlling behaviour.

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of GP appointments that have been booked through online forms as a result of the Help Us Help you advertising scheme since the inception of that

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cats: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to regulate cat breeding.

4 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the FTE staff hours that have been saved (a) in total and (b) per practice as a result of GPs using online forms promoted in the ‘Help Us Help You’ advertising scheme.

4 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost saving to the public purse of GP's using online appointment forms promoted in the Help Us to Help You advertising scheme (a) in total and

4 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of GP practices use online forms promoted in the Help us Help You advertising scheme.

3 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Dental Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's policy paper, titled Changes to the Class 1 National Insurance Contributions Secondary Threshold, the Secondary Class 1 National Insurance contributions rate, and the Employment A

3 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Dental Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's policy paper, Changes to the Class 1 National Insurance Contributions Secondary Threshold, the Secondary Class 1 National Insurance contributions rate, and the Employment Allowanc

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fish: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of restricting the use of treble barbed fishhooks in England and Wales.

22 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Chichester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has provided for the repair of potholes in Chichester constituency.

21 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Aerosols: Limonene

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of limiting the use of limonene in commercial aerosol products.

21 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Ownership Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of cancellation of the Community Ownership Fund on the projects of applicants.

21 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that patients in NHS Accident and Emergency waiting rooms are frequently monitored by clinicians.

19 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to (a) retail, (b) hospitality and (c) leisure business rates on high street businesses.

Source: official written-questions record.