Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability: Insurance Premium Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much new leases for Motability vehicles without advance payments will increase in end user cost from July 2026 as a result of the addition of insurance premium tax in the Autumn Budget 2026.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much new leases for Motability vehicles will increase in end user cost from July 2026 as a result of the Autumn Budget 2026.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Motability’s removal of luxury vehicles will result in a reduction of choice for wheelchair accessible users.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability: Disability Aids
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of non- wheelchair accessible disability-friendly safety and accessible features following changes to the Motability scheme.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 4 December to question 94564, whether he made an assessment of the potential impact of those policy changes on people with fluctuating conditions like MS before the policy was
3 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Tax Collection
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will set out the difference between (a) recovered unpaid taxes and (b) outstanding unpaid taxes in the period since July 2024 to date.
3 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Tax Collection
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of HMRC's ability to collect unpaid taxes.
2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Workplace Pensions: Index Linking
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension scheme members affected by the absence of pre-1997 indexation will receive indexation; and how many affected members will not receive indexation because they are in schemes that remain
2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Workplace Pensions: Index Linking
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of occupational pension schemes whose pre-1997 pension rights remain unindexed on retired members of those schemes.
2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Workplace Pensions: Index Linking
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of members of ongoing occupational pension schemes who will not receive pre-1997 indexation.
2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Workplace Pensions: Index Linking
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to extend pre-1997 pension indexation changes for members of the Pension Protection Fund and Financial Assistance Scheme to members of ongoing occupational pension schemes whose pre-199
2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish a consultation on the VAT treatment of Motability scheme vehicles.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential financial impact of the proposed (a) application of VAT on payments for higher value vehicles and (b) removal of the Insurance Premium Tax exemption for vehi
1 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Motor Vehicles: Disability
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to remove the VAT exemption for vehicles adapted for use by disabled people.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Crisis and Resilience Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28th November to question 93107, whether his Department will monitor how local authorities spend the Crisis and Resilience Fund; and will the wider essentials section be separa
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Crisis and Resilience Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28th November to question 93107, whether the Crisis and Resilience Fund will include an updated management information return to ensure that spend on furniture and white goods
1 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Furniture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28th November to question 92800, what information the best practice guide for furniture will provide to tenants about how they can access support with f
1 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Furniture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28th November to question 92800, whether the best practice guide for furniture provision for all landlords will make specific recommendations to furnish
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability: Tax Allowances
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Budget 2025, what estimate his Department has made of the number of existing Motability Scheme users who may be adversely affected by changes to Motability tax reliefs.
1 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Food: Prices
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to reduce inflation in the prices of food.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Maladministration
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Budget 2025, what measures his Department will take to reduce error and fraud in the welfare system by £4.6 billion by 2030-31.
1 Dec 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that reforms to the visa system help ensure that UK business can employ talented international workers.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Budget Statement on 26 November 2025, what estimate his Department has made of how many workers in the Poole constituency will benefit from the planned increase in (a) the Nationa
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Youth Guarantee: Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Budget Statement on 26 November 2025, what estimate his Department has made of how many 16-24 year olds in Poole constituency will have access to the Youth Guarantee and the right
1 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Poole
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Budget Statement on 26 November 2025, what estimate her Department has made of how many retail, hospitality and leisure businesses in Poole will benefit from lower business rates.
1 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Budget Statement on 26 November 2025, how many of the Government's planned 1.5 million homes will be built in Poole constituency by the end of the Parliamen
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been done as to the number of households that are affected by the overall benefit cap, rather than the two child limit.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households will be affected by the lifting of the two child benefit cap.
28 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has instructed that Access to Work criteria should be applied more strictly.
28 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the total amount of national insurance contributions made by recipients of Contributory Employment Support Allowance.
Source: official written-questions record.