Written questions

183 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for making the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper accessible for persons with disabilities online.

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cystic Fibrosis: Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what he has made of the potential merits of using pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy for people with cystic fibrosis.

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to increase funding to (a) Shelter and (b) other charities to support their work in (i) South West Norfolk constituency, (ii) Norfolk and (iii) Engla

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Charities: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to increase support for (a) Citizens Advice and (b) other charitable organisations in (i) Norfolk and (ii) England.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Leave: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help ensure that women on maternity leave are not subject to discrepancies in their pension employer contributions.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Leave: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women have been affected by pension employer contribution discrepancies while on maternity since auto-enrolment began in 2012.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help protect the use of children’s personal data on social media.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gun Sports: Lead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on phasing out lead ammunition for gamebird shooting.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents involving horses took place between 2019 and 2024 in (a) England, (b) East Anglia and (c) South West Norfolk constituency.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts and Copyright: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the most effective steps to protect copyright and the creative industries against the increase of artificial intelligence usage.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Copyright: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when he plans to publish the Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Governance consultation.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Copyright: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure copyright protections remain (a) robust and (b) fit for purpose from artificial intelligence.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of education, health and care plan tribunals that were lost by Norfolk County Council in each year since 2019.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parents or young people have taken Norfolk City Council to appeal at a tribunal against an Education, Care and Health Plan decision in each of the last five years; and what (a) number and (b) proportion

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to tackle the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) backlog in (a) England and (b) South West Norfolk constituency.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Russia: Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to protect UK (a) military personnel and (b) armed forces bases from potential drone attacks from Russia.

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the outcomes from the 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme consultation, which closed on 28 February 2025.

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase funding for services for children with eating disorders.

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate (a) training and (b) support for GPs in helping to diagnose cancer.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Lead

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Housing Ombudsman suggesting in January 2025 that there should be a pilot study to test and sam

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of potential impact of intensive animal farming on (a) water ways and (b) agricultural land.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the use of AI in farming.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lead: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to assess lead levels in food produced near to abandoned lead mining sites.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lead: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has commissioned recent research on the potential impact of the use of lead shot on the environment.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animals: Lead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animals were (a) slaughtered for food consumption and (b) then tested for the presence of lead in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021, (iv) 2022, (v) 2023 and (vi) 2024.

3 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Birds: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure national scale cavity nesting habitat is (a) preserved and (b) created to stabilise populations of red listed birds reliant on buildings to bre

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25th February to Question 31290 on Housing: Standards, whether levels of lead standardisation will be be included in the Decent Homes Standard for the s

12 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 27855, when the consultation for a reformed decent homes standard will be published and; what its scope will be.

5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lead: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Health and Security Agency is taking to prevent population exposure to lead.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Bereavement Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to increase the amount of bereavement leave.

Source: official written-questions record.