Written questions
1,189 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Security Guards: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is available for councils contracting private security firms to patrol town centres.
23 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Police: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support people with the police complaints process.
23 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Russia: Shipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to expand the designation of vessels considered part of Russia’s shadow fleet.
23 Apr 2025 · Treasury
Oil: Exports
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for maritime insurers to verify with bank statements whether the oil price for Russian exports was paid below the price cap.
23 Apr 2025 · Treasury
Oil: Exports
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of lowering the Oil Price Cap on Russia’s revenue generation through seaborne oil exports.
23 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Explosives
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is conducting or plans to commission research into the long-term health impacts of explosive exposure for military personnel.
23 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Reserve Forces: Deployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department's policy on the call-out time for reservists has changed in the last six months; and what the minimum notice period is before deployment.
17 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Police: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 27962 on Police: Workplace Pensions, whether she plans to calculate the cost of allowing police survivors who (a) remarry and (b) cohabit after l
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Companies: Charitable Donations
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the merits of reintroducing the requirement for companies to report their charitable donations.
1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of (a) Challenger 2, (b) Warrior, (c) Boxer and (d) protected patrol vehicles were (i) fit for service and (ii) not fit for service in each year since 2015.
31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Epsom and Ewell
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed reductions to the level of the Personal Independence Payment on people in Epsom and Ewell constituency.
31 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
River Thames: Sewage
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with Thames Water on the adequacy of the time it takes to stop sewage overflows.
31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of months are between a service person enlisting and leaving the (a) Navy, (b) RAF and (c) Army; what the 2015 average number of months was between a service person enlisting and leaving t
31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
LGBT Veterans Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which recommendations of the Etherton Report have yet to be implemented; and what his planned timeline is for the implementation of those outstanding recommendations.
31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Frigates
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) type 23 Duke Class, (b) type 31 Inspiration Class and (c) type 26 City Class frigates the UK navy has; how many of each of those types are currently not fit for purpose; and for each frigate currentl
31 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Sabotage: Russia
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many cables his Department has recorded as damaged or suspected of being damaged by Russian ships in (a) the North Sea, (b) the English Channel, (c) the Irish Sea and (d) the North
31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Russia: Shipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many incidents of Russian military activity in (a) the North Sea, (b) the English Channel, (c) the Irish Sea and (d) the North Atlantic his Department has recorded per month for the last 24 months.
31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Russia: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to protect British supply chains from Russian interference and sabotage.
31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Associations: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Professor Alice Sullivan's review entitled Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender, published on 19 March 2025, if he will bring forward legislative proposals t
31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Sportsgrounds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what processes his Department undertook in its impact assessment into proposals for the Care Quality Commission to regulate sporting and cultural events; and if he will publish that work.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase research into the causes of prostate cancer in men of sub-Saharan African ancestry.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of implementing nurse-led mobile PSA blood testing clinics in deprived communities on (a) costs to and (b) staff productivity in the
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of providing mobile PSA blood testing clinics in deprived communities on rates of early prostate cancer detection.
26 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
USA: Intelligence Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will undertake a review of intelligence-sharing structures with the US.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a target for at least 75% of children and young people to be (a) diagnosed and (b) have cancer ruled out within 10 days of the
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase the level of research into (a) multi-cancer early detection tests and (b) other innovative cancer screening methods.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the late diagnosis of (a) rare and (b) less common cancers.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Parking: Pedestrian Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will introduce a ban on pavement parking in town centres outside of London.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Schools and Young Futures Hubs: Social Prescribing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to integrate social prescribing link workers into (a) schools and (b) Young Futures Hubs.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Social Prescribing: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the University of Manchester research entitled The right prescription: Young people, mental health and social prescribing, publishe
Source: official written-questions record.