Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Young Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Young Carers Covenant.
12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to deliver a new National Carers Strategy in the next 12 months.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carers: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to co-ordinate support for unpaid carers.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to review the (a) eligibility requirements for, (b) age threshold for, (c) tapering the earnings threshold for, (d) time spent caring condition for and (e) level of the Car
11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, what proportion of the funding announced for affordable and social housing will go to social housing; and w
11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neuroendocrine Cancer: Radiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has made an assessment of the potential merits of commissioning selective internal radiation therapy for patients with neuroendocrine tumours.
11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neuroendocrine Cancer: Radiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to commission selective internal radiation therapy for patients with neuroendocrine tumours.
11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many overseas social care workers have been successful in finding a new sponsor through the redeployment pool since 9 April 2025.
11 Jun 2025 · Treasury
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of the level of the new state pension for the finances of people subject to the lower personal tax allowance.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will create an Older People's Commissioner for England.
9 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the amount spent on providing (a) football, (b) pool, (c) table-tennis, (d) gym, (e) running, (f) yoga, (g) chess and (h) other sporting activities in prisons in the last
5 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport
Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of new vehicles manufactured (a) in the UK and (b) elsewhere that will be commissioned following the announcement of the allocations for the Transport for City Regions s
4 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
RCV Engines: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has issued licences to RCV Engines to export to Israel.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Dormant Assets Scheme: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether Dormant Assets Scheme funding will be used in part to support existing (a) Music Hubs and (b) other services and strategies.
2 Jun 2025 · Home Office
Immigration Controls: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will seek legal advice on the potential impact of her Department’s proposal to remove the right to return to the UK from existing social care workers who fail to find an alternative sponsor aft
30 May 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of rules requiring social care workers who fail to find alternative sponsorship arrangements to leave the UK on their dependents.
30 May 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to remove social care workers who fail to secure alternative sponsorship arrangements within the specified 60-day period.
30 May 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a certificate of common sponsorship for future social care workers from overseas.
30 May 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish a consultation on the proposal to remove the right of existing social care workers to return to the UK following the loss of their sponsorship arrangements set out in the
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential impact of the White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published o
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly reports from each of the 15 local partnerships on re-matching social care workers to new employers.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the success rate was of each local partnership using the International Recruitment Fund in re-matching social care workers to new employers in the last 12 months.
30 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has put enforcement procedures in place for local authorities that do not follow their statutory duties under the Homelessness code of guidance for local a
30 May 2025 · Treasury
Pensions: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a flat-rate 20% inheritance levy on unused pension funds.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the reasons are for the higher level of NICE Health Technology Assessments of new blood cancer treatments that have been terminated compared to Health Technology Assessments for other forms of
22 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Independent Review of Arts Council England
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which stakeholders she is consulting as part of the Arts Council England review.
22 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 21 May 2025, Official Report, col.1015, when the revised eligibility criteria for the winter fuel payment will come into effect.
22 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 21 May 2025 col.1015, when she will publish the details of the revised eligibility criteria for the winter fuel payment.
21 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Spondyloarthritis: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help support people with axial spondyloarthritis to (a) remain in employment or (b) return to the workforce.
21 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is planning to take to improve the delivery of joined-up care for people affected by (a) axial spondyloarthritis and (b) other musculoskeletal health conditions following the abolitio
Source: official written-questions record.