Written questions
1,189 written questions tabled, most recent first.
1 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Demonstrations: Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether guidance has been issued to police forces on reducing risk during meetings between police officers and organisers of public protests.
1 Jun 2026 · Treasury
Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that compensation awarded to armed forces (a) veterans and (b) their families is not classified as income.
1 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made on the cost benefit to the NHS of making the Accessible Information Standard mandatory.
1 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support ICBs to engage with communities that may not trust the NHS.
1 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patient experience findings are published.
1 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Leadership
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve nursing leadership at (a) national, (b) regional and (c) local levels.
1 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthwatch England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is planning to take to ensure that patient safety is maintained during the transition period from Healthwatch England to his Department.
1 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department have made of the potential merits of the creation of an operationally independent regulatory function for NHS providers and commissioners.
1 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Records: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who will hold data controllership for the Single Patient Record; and who will be liable should the patient data be misused.
29 May 2026 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing the key recommendations of the UK MOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Baseline Study 2024/25 report.
29 May 2026 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response framework in the UK.
29 May 2026 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of developing a central register of civilian harm incidents and allegations.
29 May 2026 · Department for Transport
Active Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how the Government’s Better Connected transport strategy will ensure that walking and cycling are fully integrated into the wider transport system.
29 May 2026 · Department for Transport
Active Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to help people use cheaper forms of transport such as (a) cycling and (b) walking during continued fuel cost pressures.
29 May 2026 · Department for Transport
Active Travel: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how the new safer streets guidance for women and girls will help ensure that women feel safer when cycling as well as walking.
29 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Capita met their previously announced end of February target to restore service levels for the most urgent backlog cases in the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
29 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to support individuals entitled but currently unable to receive their Civil Service Pension due to the backlog.
29 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress has been made by Capita to address the case backlog of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
29 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department last reviewed the list of statutory consultees; and when the Department next plans to review it.
29 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Business Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the criteria used to determine the eligibility for discretionary business rate relief.
29 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) funding and (b) community recovery schemes are available for areas, such as Epsom, that are recovering from (i) economically and (ii) socially damaging public disorder e
29 May 2026 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles: Departmental Coordination
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for (a) the Home Department and (b) Business and Trade to ensure enforcement, regulation and market controls operate cohesively to tackle the use of illegal
29 May 2026 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of illegal high-powered electric bikes.
29 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of nationally setting and maintaining service specification and national tariff for GOS.
29 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Obstetrics: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making the OdonAssist available across all NHS Trusts.
29 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Learning Disability: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the learning disability workforce.
29 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthwatch England: Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will introduce safeguards to ensure that patient safety is maintained during the transition period from Healthwatch England to his Department.
18 May 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that public community health initiatives continue to be inclusive for all participants.
18 May 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what her Department's planned timetable is for updating (a) milestones, (b) KPIs and (c) delivery plans regarding the Replacing Animals in Science strategy; and whether progress will be
18 May 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what plans her Department has to secure long-term investment for (a) a UK Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods, (b) the pre-clinical translational models hub and (d) the Rep
Source: official written-questions record.