Written questions

1,189 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set a national target for eliminating corridor care in NHS hospitals.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has conducted detailed (a) costings and (b) delivery timetables for the commitments outlined in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward the timeline for social care reform.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of delayed discharges from hospitals due to inadequate adult social care provision on overall NHS capacity.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Extracurricular Activities

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in living costs on children's levels of access to (a) extracurricular activities, (b) school trips and (c) enrichment programmes.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund: South East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review the effectiveness of the Household Support Fund in the South East, in the context of changes in food and housing costs.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of designating all chalk streams as protected habitats under a bespoke legal framework.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to address (a) over-abstraction, (b) phosphorus loading, and (c) urban development pressures on chalk streams.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (a) what recent assessment her Department has made of adequacy of the ecological health of chalk streams; and (b) what steps she is taking to meet Environment Act 2021 targets for thei

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's timetable is for publishing its planned consultation on bringing the licensing of shotguns under Section 2 of the Firearms Act 1968 in line with the licensing requirements under

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the August 2025 data breach for people with outstanding ARAP applications; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of that breach on the (a)

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people eligible under the ARAP scheme are still awaiting relocation.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Carbon Emissions: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism will exempt imports of in-scope raw materials that are used in the manufacture of military equipment in line with the EU UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict Prevention: Economic Situation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implication for her policies of the the IMF report, the Urgency of Conflict Prevention – A Macroeconomic Perspective, published in 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much her Department has spent on market systems strengthening by country in the most recent period for which data is available.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict Prevention: Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the level of funding for (a) conflict prevention, (b) mediation and (c) peacebuilding building efforts on l

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he will publish a framework for the assessment of the potential impact of the US-UK Economic Prosperity Deal.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he will publish an economic impact assessment of the US-UK Economic Prosperity Deal.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Reasonable Adjustments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of a right to request workplace modifications for employees not covered under the duty to make reasonable adjustments established in

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to improve support for people with epilepsy from Jobcentre Plus Disability Employment Advisers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Epilepsy

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of people with epilepsy in the workplace.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Reasonable Adjustments: Epilepsy

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure employers provide reasonable adjustments for employees with epilepsy.

10 Oct 2025 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Epilepsy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to reduce discrimination faced by people diagnosed with epilepsy in the workplace.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Intensive Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when his Department plans to set a timeline for the consultation on leave and pay for parents of critically ill children.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of further sanctions on Russia that target the network of camps being used for indoctrinating Ukrainian childr

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with European counterparts on joint sanctions for people attempting to forcibly deport and indoctrinate Ukrainian children.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of placing further sanctions on people attempting to forcibly deport and indoctrinate Ukrainian children.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support the release of the Ukrainian children held in Russia and its occupied territories.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Bramley Hill School: Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) students and (b) parents impacted by reports of abuse at the Bramley Hill School in Surrey.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Bramley Hill School: Governing Bodies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using her Section 69 of the Education Act 2006 powers to appoint an interim executive board to the Bramley Hill School in Surrey.

Source: official written-questions record.