Written questions

1,189 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Rivers: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his department is taking to help protect chalk streams from (a) pollution and (b) overextraction.

4 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel were referred to mental health services in 2023.

4 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many incidents of (a) mould, (b) fire, and (c) flooding were recorded in military service personnel housing in each month in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

4 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Firearms

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department’s firearms were (a) lost and (b) stolen in each month in 2023.

2 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Charities

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funds the Government has committed to veterans charities in each of the last two years; and how much each such charity has received.

2 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's (a) computers, (b) laptops, (c) phones and (d) USB sticks were (i) lost and (ii) stolen in each month in 2023.

29 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the proportionate change in (a) spending on service personnel in (i) real and (ii) cash terms and (b) the number of frontline service personnel in each financial year between 2015-1

29 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

South Western Railway

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with South Western Railway on the accessibility of their fleet.

29 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of maintaining real-term levels of funding for the Holiday Activities and Food programme beyond March 2025.

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

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that youth homelessness is included in the cross-government strategy to end homelessness.

28 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Politics and Government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on improving public engagement with politics.

27 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in which constituencies are each (a) base, (b) garrison and (c) barracks located for each of the armed forces in (i) England, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Northern Ireland; and which of those bases are des

18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

NATO

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of NATO's readiness, in the context of potential changes in policy from the incoming United States administration.

4 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will make an estimate of planned defence spending in the next two years as a share of GDP using NATO's definition of defence expenditure.

16 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the number of armed forces veterans who will no longer be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment as a result of proposed changes to eligibility criteria.

12 Sep 2024 · Department for Education

Childcare: Epsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the (a) availability and (b) affordability of childcare in Epsom and Ewell constituency.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Surrey

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of SEND provision in (a) Epsom and Ewell constituency and (b) Surrey; and what steps she plans to take with Surrey County Council to help improve their delive

30 Aug 2024 · Home Office

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the conclusions of the Senior Coroner for Surrey’s Prevention of Future Deaths report following the murder of Emma and Ellette Pattison, published on 12 August 2024, whether she plan

30 Aug 2024 · Home Office

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the conclusions of the Senior Coroner for Surrey’s Prevention of Future Deaths report following the murder of Emma and Ellette Pattison, published on 12 August 2024, whether she plan

Source: official written-questions record.