Written questions

1,189 written questions tabled, most recent first.

26 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Liver Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of removing the exceptionality requirement for Individual Funding Requires for Chemosaturation therapy and comparable intervention for people who

26 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eye Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to decrease treatment wait times for patients with metastatic ocular melanoma.

26 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve maternity estates and clear the fixable maintenance backlog.

26 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to deliver safe staffing levels for midwives.

23 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release of 21 February 2025 entitled Dental patients to benefit from 700,000 extra urgent appointments, how many of the additional urgent care appointments

23 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many urgent dental appointments were delivered in each month from January 2024 to January 2025.

23 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many urgent dental appointments were delivered each year from 2020 up to and including 2025.

19 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Gardens Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will meet the Gardens Trust to discuss plans to remove the organisation as a statutory consultee.

19 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Gardens Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of removing the Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee on local planning authorities.

19 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Gardens Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of removing the Gardens Trust's status as a statutory consultee on protecting registered parks and gardens.

19 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Learning Disabilities: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with learning disabilities do not remain in hospital beds when there is no medical need for them to do so.

19 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Learning Disabilities: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the use of digitalised the Learning Disability Health Passport across ICBs.

19 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure people with learning disabilities receive screenings for cervical cancer.

19 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Learning Disabilities: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reinstating the annual health check target of 75% for people with learning disabilities.

19 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes on 1950s-born women living in Epsom and Ewell constituency.

16 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Pornography

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of non-explicit sexual content and promotional material for adult services on social media platforms; and what steps she i

12 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) safety mechanisms.

12 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Commonhold and Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill.

12 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Equipment: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Off-Road Machinery Decarbonisation Strategy will be published.

12 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set a definition of corridor care.

12 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to regulate food preservatives associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer.

12 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Education: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to regulate health advice on AI overviews on internet browsers.

12 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people admitted to hospital in (a) England and (b) Surrey were aged between (i) 30- 39 and (ii) 40 and 49, (iii) 50 and 59 in the past year.

12 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the monetisation and algorithmic amplification of misogynistic and sexually degrading content on social media platform

6 Jan 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Small Modular Reactors: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether small modular reactors will be commercially insurable against nuclear radiation events.

6 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Transport: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help ensure the provision of safe transport for women and girls in rural areas in Surrey.

6 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Transport: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of safe evening transport for women in (a) rural areas and (b) Langley Vale.

5 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Taxis: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of VAT on taxis and private hire cars in rural areas.

5 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Freezing of Assets: Libya

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to (a) publish and (b) notify the House of Commons when licences are issued for accessing frozen Libyan assets.

5 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Libya: Freezing of Assets

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has considered compensating victims from the taxes collected from Libya’s frozen assets.

Source: official written-questions record.