Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Management: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will set out his methodology for determining the future funding of leadership and management apprenticeships.
23 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Passports: Dual Nationality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of requiring the non-UK children of UK citizens to have a UK passport in order to enter the country on trends in the number of people entering the
23 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will meet with the Social Housing Action Campaign to discuss their concerns around service charges.
20 Feb 2026 · Treasury
Stamp Duty Land Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a fixed 4% stamp duty on the purchase of properties.
20 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Visitor Levy
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of introducing a visitor levy in England on (a) visitor numbers and (b) local economies.
20 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Mohamed Al-Fayed
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will have discussions with the Met Police on the potential merits of it releasing further information on Operation Corn Poppy into alleged abuse at Harrods and other workplaces connected to the
20 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Mohamed Al-Fayed
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will have discussions with the Met Police on the potential merits of publishing the terms of reference for Operation Corn Poppy into alleged abuse at Harrods and other workplaces connected to t
20 Feb 2026 · Treasury
Civil Society: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to extend VAT relief to community-based services like The Filo Project, that provide socialising activities and support for those with dementia.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Connect to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with prime contractors in the Connect to Work programme on their use of charities and smaller organisations in gaining job and learning outcomes.
12 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Social Workers: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the earned settlement proposals on backlogs for care assessments carried about by registered social workers.
12 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Social Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed earned settlement arrangements on the staffing of children's services.
12 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Social Workers: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed earned settlement arrangements on the number of registered social workers.
12 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans are in the GP IT roadmap to allow for the safe handover of care at the end of each working day to out-of-hours providers.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the Law Commission recommendations on reform of social care law for disabled children.
11 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to secure a carve out for animal welfare in the SPS agreement.
11 Feb 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Young Futures Hubs: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what role Young Futures Hubs will play in the delivery of the National Year of Reading.
11 Feb 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Public Libraries: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what role public libraries will play in the delivery of the National Year of Reading.
11 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to answer on 10 February 2026 to Question 110293, what steps are being taken in response to the number of Armed Forces pensions that remain unclaimed, beyond the 60 day tracing exercise conducted after t
10 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve Poole train station.
9 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport
Pedestrians: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is her Department taking to help ensure pedestrians are kept safe from accidents involving e-bikes and scooters.
9 Feb 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Community Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his proposed timeline is for implementing community energy generation and storage across the UK.
9 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the prevalence of respiratory disease and (b) the number of emergency hospital admissions for respiratory conditions in Poole constituency compared wi
9 Feb 2026 · Treasury
Credit Cards
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is taking steps to regulate credit card providers to ensure they lend to those who are (a) vulnerable and (b) persistently in debt in a responsible way.
9 Feb 2026 · Treasury
Buildings: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to remove VAT from refurbished building work.
9 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a form of licencing for high street vape shops.
6 Feb 2026 · Treasury
Debts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to end the sale of written-off consumer debts to third-party debt purchasers.
6 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to respond to breaches of the Supplier Code of Conduct v3.0 Ethical Behaviour provisions.
6 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help protect the interests of UK subcontractors that are engaged by Government suppliers.
6 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that subcontractors supplying Government departments have high standards.
6 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Furs: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information she holds on when the Animal Welfare Committee plans to publish its report on the responsible sourcing of fur.
Source: official written-questions record.