Written questions
311 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Funeral Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to assess the adequacy of the clarity of the application process for the Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment for bereaved applicants.
2 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Funeral Payments: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the eligibility criteria for the Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment in line with the Scottish Government’s Funeral Su
2 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Funeral Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of simplifying the eligibility criteria for the Funeral Expenses Payment on (a) application processing times and (b) the administrat
24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Asthma: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making all NHS-provided emergency asthma inhalers free of charge.
24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Asthma: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential benefits of amending the Human Medicines (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 to require (a) colleges, (b) nurseries, and (c) universi
24 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Asthma
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential benefits of requiring schools to hold emergency asthma inhalers.
24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Asthma: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of mandating the installation of dosage counters in all NHS-provided emergency asthma inhalers.
24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Asthma: Birmingham Perry Barr
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support people with asthma in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency.
16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Israel Defense Forces: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on UK-Israeli dual nationals serving in the Israel Defense Forces.
16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Military Aid: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether procedures are in place to identify (a) UK citizens and (b) other dual nationals among foreign military personnel receiving UK military training.
16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Military Aid: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on providing military training to people with UK citizenship serving in foreign armed forces.
16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Israel Defense Forces: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department monitors the involvement of UK-Israeli dual nationals serving in the Israel Defense Forces.
16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any dual UK-Israeli nationals have received training from the armed forces in the last five years.
30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reinstating the Winter Fuel Allowance before the winter 2025-26.
19 May 2025 · Home Office
Older People: Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken with police forces to ensure the accurate collection of data on the abuse of older people.
19 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Wills: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the proposals in Law Commission’s report entitled Modernising Wills Law, published on 15 May 2025.
13 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Menopause
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that employers are supporting women managing menopause in the workplace.
13 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Flexible Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that employers are providing support for women in the workplace with flexible working.
7 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending the period for which driving theory test certificates are valid.
7 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to consumers from (a) fraud, (b) unfair trading and (c) unsafe goods in the secondary driving test market in each of the last five years.
7 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Birmingham Perry Barr
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test examiners have (a) been onboarded and (b) left the DVSA in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency in each of the last five years.
7 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Birmingham Perry Barr
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving tests have been cancelled in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency due to examiner (a) sickness and (b) annual leave in each of the last five years.
7 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many eligible (a) managers and (b) administrative staff will be deployed as driving test examiners in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Birmingham (Kingstanding) Test Centre through the DVSA Additional Testing Award
7 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional driving test examiner trainers will be deployed in (a) Birmingham and (b) Birmingham (Kingstanding) Test Centre through the DVSA Additional Testing Award Scheme.
7 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Birmingham Perry Barr
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Q44 of the oral evidence given by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the Transport Select Committee on 4 December 2024, HC 437, what the average waiting time for driving tests is in
30 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Media: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what role his Department plans for (a) civil society and (b) community organisations in delivering media literacy programmes for adults; and what steps his Department is taking to assis
30 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Media: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to implement media literacy programmes in (a) local and (b) regional development strategies.
30 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Media: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to media literacy education.
30 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Media: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to improve media literacy education in schools by (a) providing additional (i) resources and (ii) funding, (b) delivering teacher training and (c) improving curriculum support.
29 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Breakfast Clubs: Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to extend the breakfast clubs initiative to state-funded early childhood education institutions.
Source: official written-questions record.