Written questions

404 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of schools awaiting essential building repairs.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of levels of funding for supporting pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of levels of changes in real-terms funding since 2010 on schools.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that Palestinian students in Gaza who are eligible to apply for visas and scholarships for UK courses beginning before December 2025 are able to access univers

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

Planning Permission: Heat Pumps

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that householders in conservation areas whose permitted development rights were removed by local authorities are not required t

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to encourage local authorities to support arts and culture.

10 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support local authorities with the availability of larger family homes and (b) ensure that future developments reflect local demand for

10 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Home Responsibilities Protection

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that older people entitled to Home Responsibilities Protection compensation are not excluded from claiming due to identity verification requirements.

5 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility for free prescriptions to people with Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome.

4 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Independent Office for Police Conduct

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on its compliance with Section 9.4 of the IOPC Statutory Guidance, published on 1 February 2020; and what guidance

3 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason outstanding pension payments to veterans under the McCloud Pension Remedy are being delayed.

3 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Weeds Act 1959

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what means the Weeds Act 1959 is being enforced.

2 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Weed Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in the context of Natural England no longer accepting complaints about the spread of injurious weeds, by what means the Weeds Act 1959 is now being enforced.

2 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Weed Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason Natural England is no longer accepting complaints about the spread of injurious weeds.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking into account both parents’ income in Child Maintenance Service calculations.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chewing Gum: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will require chewing gum manufacturers to disclose the full composition of gum base on product labels.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chewing Gum: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the ingestion of microplastics from plastic-based chewing gum on public health.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Investment Income: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring equitable taxation of (a) income derived from assets and (b) other passive income.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respite Care: South Cotswolds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of constituency boundary changes on the availability of (a) discharge to assess and (b) respite care beds in South Cotswolds co

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Travel: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending statutory guidance on home to school transport so that local authorities are required to consider providing free or subsidised t

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Droughts

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of drought on farmers in the South West; and what steps he is taking to help mitigate that impact.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Agriculture: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will work with the Secretary of State for Education to embed food, farming and sustainability education in the national curriculum.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Public Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of improving food, farming, and sustainability education on public health.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Sustainable Development: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has conducted impact assessments of food, farming, and sustainability education policy in the context of her Department's duties under the Equality Act 2010.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Allotments: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of local authorities selling statutory allotment sites on (a) rural and (b) smaller communities; and what steps sh

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Post Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department provides to ensure that people impacted by the Post Office Horizon scandal are aware that compensation payments are exempt from Universal Credit means testing; and whether a

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of providing funding for (a) continuous glucose monitoring and (b) other preventive technologies on (i) NHS expenditure a

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of providing free continuous glucose monitoring systems to patients eligible for the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme; and if he wil

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Further Education: Young Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve the early identification of young carers in further education settings and (b) increase (i) awareness and (ii) understanding of young carers by (A) college sta

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Young Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve the early identification of young carers by schools and (b) ensure that all education staff receive training to (i) recognise and (ii) support young carers at

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