Written questions

1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Climate Change Convention: Brazil

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Prime Minister will attend the COP30 UN climate summit in person.

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

Dogs: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has considered revising its guidance to local authorities on dog breeding licence fees in relation to (a) if the licence is new or being renewed, (b) the scale o

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

Dogs: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for his policies of variations in licence fees set by local authorities for dog breeding.

15 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the (a) time, (b) money and (c) other resources spent on policing (i) fox hunting and (ii) related crimes in each of the last five years.

14 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Older People: Advocacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of appointing a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing for England, in the context of equivalent commissioners in (a) Wales a

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to negotiate investment agreements without investor-state settlement mechanisms in the future.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review the Child Maintenance Service and Government Legal Department procedures so as to minimise (a) unlawful enforcement and (b) the wasting of court time.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Tea: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of (a) human rights issues (b) the provision of fair wages and (c) the impact of climate change of the tea trade.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of not giving people aged between 65 and 74 Covid-19 booster vaccinations on public health.

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

Animal Welfare: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of introducing method of production labelling on (a) the economy and (b) farm incomes.

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

Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed reforms to leasehold on (a) the relative value of existing flats and (b) new flats wit

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

Leasehold: Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to eliminate escalating ground rents on existing leases.

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

Leasehold: Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to protect leaseholders from increasing ground rents on properties sold prior to the implementation of new leasehold reforms.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Colombia

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will publish a full impact assessment of the UK–Colombia Bilateral Investment Treaty.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people seeking a potential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis are seen by a neurologist within 12 weeks.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Multiple Sclerosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the MS Society’s report entitled A Different Path: Rethinking MS hospital care, published in September 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of preventable unp

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

Inter-Ministerial Group on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, who the (a) members are and (b) chair is of the Inter-ministerial Group on Rough Sleeping and Homelessness.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Landfill: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to landfill taxation on house prices.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Crime Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has provided to (a) local police forces (b) local authorities and (c) residents in areas where vigilante groups have been set up purporting to patrol the streets.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

MBR Acres: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Contract Research Organisations have used beagles from MBR Acres in pre-clinical work on potential pandemic vaccines.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

MBR Acres: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many non-pandemic human vaccines have been licensed in the UK in the last 10 years that involved the use of beagles from MBR Acres; how many of those vaccines were later withdrawn or had contra

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

MBR Acres: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many beagles from MBR Acres were used in the UK in the development of pandemic vaccines in the last 10 years.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

MBR Acres: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many beagles from MBR Acres were used in the UK in the development of a covid-19 vaccine.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

MBR Acres: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the evidential basis is that MBR Acres is critical to pandemic preparedness.

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

Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Minister is responsible for overseeing the Government’s Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition; whether a successor has been appointed to the role of P

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Insomnia: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia more widely available in England.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Insomnia: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.

15 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Corporation Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of replacing corporation tax rules with a progressive tax based on turnover of companies trading in the UK.

11 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Tax Collection

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of HMRC processes for collecting outstanding tax payments.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving: Eyesight

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency plans to renew its contract with Specsavers to provide eye tests for people over 70.

Source: official written-questions record.