Written questions

404 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Fisheries: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the UK’s opening position at bilateral and trilateral negotiations for the years 2023 and 2024.

3 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the Minimum Income Requirement to ensure that retired British citizens with substantial savings and no recourse to public funds are not prevented from living in the UK with their sp

28 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Hospitals: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of services that have been permanently cut from community hospitals following temporary trials in each year for which information is available.

28 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cirencester Hospital

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support Cirencester Hospital.

25 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Prescribing: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will commit extra funding for social prescribing, including to support individuals to engage in nature-based interventions and activities.

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

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department will extend the definition of bathers to include other water user types in the context of the Bathing Waters Regulations.

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

Countryside: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she intends to publish a white paper on access to nature.

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

Countryside: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the upcoming Land Use Framework will include measures to improve public access to nature.

24 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Clean Air Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has considered introducing an automatic payment option for clean air zone charges nationwide, similar to the system operating in London; and whether she will review the level of penalty c

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Emergencies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to strengthen (a) national preparedness and (b) resilience for (i) public health and (ii) other national emergencies.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Members: Corrspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his correspondence of 10 June 2025, if he will ask the Minister for Energy to meet with the hon. Member for the South Cotswolds.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Utilities: Foreign Investment in UK

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what conclusions he has come to about the potential risks of foreign investment in our utilities sector.

10 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on SEND tribunal appeals in the last 12 months.

22 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the development capacity for housing on brownfield sites.

22 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications will be exempt from the requirement to replace lost nature under previous biodiversity net gain requirements.

17 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

New Brewery Arts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to provide funding to the New Brewery Arts in Cirencester through the Arts Everywhere Fund.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of pre-schools that have closed due to financial difficulties in the South West in the last five years.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of pre-schools that rely on fundraising to cover (a) operational and (b) staffing costs in the South West.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Gloucestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how funding rates for early years education in Gloucestershire compare with the rest of England; and what criteria these funding rates are based on.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Mobile Phones: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) indoor and (b) outdoor mobile coverage in Hullavington, Wiltshire.

14 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the cost of residential and nursing care home fees on older people; and if his Department will take steps to ensure that annual fee inc

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Digital Mapping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of compliance by water companies with their statutory obligations to maintain accurate digital maps of (a) potable water mains, (b) service

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Access to Work grants for deaf and hard of hearing people are renewed without interruption; what steps he is taking to ensure that staff administering

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Weed Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of National England's decision to not accept complaints on injurious weeds on (a) agriculture and (b) the public.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) the removal of the Direct Pay option and (b) other changes to the Child Maintenance service on the affordability of the system for both parent

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Young Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy for schools to (a) appoint a designated young carers lead and (b) implement a (i) flagging and (ii) registration scheme for young carers.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to introduce a successor scheme to support on-farm natural flood management and drainage maintenance from 2026 onwards.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that farmers continue to receive support for managing their land to prevent flooding beyond 2025; and whether she has made an assessment o

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Mobile Phones: South of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department is taking steps with (a) Ofcom, (b) mobile network operators and (c) local authorities to explore community-level infrastructure solutions to improve mobile cover

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Mobile Phones: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department is considering requiring mobile network operators to provide indoor coverage data alongside outdoor coverage maps to ensure that service availability more accurat

Source: official written-questions record.