Written questions

561 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-resident parents who have repeatedly failed to meet their child maintenance payment obligations have had their driving licenses disqualified as a consequence in each of the last five years.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-resident parents who have repeatedly failed to meet their child maintenance payment obligations have been sent to prison in each of the last five years.

8 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS pension forfeiture provisions apply in cases where a former NHS employee has been convicted of serious criminal offences.

8 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to ICBs on the level of expenditure per capita for dental services.

5 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that cost recovery mechanisms within the electricity system do not adversely impact small businesses.

5 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of capacity charges on (a) small and (b) medium sized enterprises.

5 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of increases in electricity capacity charges on (a) consumers and (b) businesses.

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Treatment: Camelford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will consider the potential merits of a financial (a) redress or (b) scheme, for those affected by the Lowermoor Water Poisoning incident.

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Treatment: Camelford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will launch an independent public inquiry into the Lowermoor Water Poisoning with scope to cover (a) the role water privatisation played in the events, (b) the handli

1 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Geothermal Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will consider the potential merits of developing a national roadmap with targets for the development of geothermal energy for (a) heat and (b) power generation.

1 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Geothermal Power: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a ring-fenced budget specifically for geothermal projects in the next round of Contract for Difference funding

1 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Geothermal Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to improve regulatory support for geothermal energy.

26 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding per capita her Department provided for NHS dentistry in the 2025-26 financial year.

26 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding per capita her Department provided for NHS dentistry in the last financial year.

21 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Taxation: Disability

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the taxation of inherited pensions before transfer into trusts on the long-term financial security of disabled beneficiaries.

21 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department will assess the potential merits of providing funding to upgrade local energy networks to support at-home renewable energy generation in (a) North Cornwall constituency

21 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Natural Gas: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of high energy costs on households in rural areas that are not connected to the mains gas grid.

21 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: National Grid

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that households in (a) North Cornwall and (b) other rural areas can connect to (i) solar panels and (ii) other renewable energy systems without h

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Walking

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release entitled Government steps in to save historic rights of way from being lost to the nation, published on 26 December 2024, what her Department's plan

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

Housing: Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will hold discussions with representatives of the legal sector in Cornwall on the consultation entitled Home buying and selling reform, published on 20 October 2025.

12 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Property Transfer: Money Laundering

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of implementing a pilot scheme for banks to provide standardised anti-money laundering checks for use in property transactions.

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

Housing: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed introduction of (a) digital property logbooks and (b) open property data on (i) cyber-security and

11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trials have been delayed and court days lost because a prisoner has failed to be delivered to the Court by the Prisoner Escort and Custody Services.

11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown Courts in each of the six circuits in England and Wales are not used for five days per week.

11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court: Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how far in advance Crown Court trial dates are being set for each of the six circuits in England and Wales.

11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were waiting to be heard in Crown Courts in each circuit in England and Wales on 11 November 2025.

11 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Duchy of Cornwall: Housing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to improve transparency for homeowners on the terms under which (a) communal and (b) shared land may revert to the Duchy of Cornwall in the event of developers' insolvency.

11 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Duchy of Cornwall: Housing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of mechanisms for homeowners to seek recourse when land held by the Duchy of Cornwall reverts to Duchy ownership following the insolvency of housing develope

11 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Veterans: Identity Cards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department will assess the potential merits of allowing non-digital verification routes for veterans who do not wish to use GOV.UK One Login in order to obtain a digital Vet

11 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Veterans: Identity Cards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Data Protection Act 2018 and Article 5 of the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the saf

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