Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Infant Foods
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the existing regulations on (a) composition, (b) marketing and (c) labelling of commercial infant and toddler foods.
28 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help long-term unemployed back into work.
24 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pathways to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the details of the transitional arrangements for people who will be adversely affected by the proposals in the Green Paper: Pathways to Work.
23 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Furs: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to seek an exemption in any veterinary agreement negotiated with the EU that would ensure the UK's ability to ban the import and sale of fur products.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance: Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the decision to freeze Local Housing Allowance on other areas of public expenditure.
17 Apr 2025 · Treasury
Bank of England
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of the Bank of England paying interest on reserve accounts maintained by commercial banks.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Pupils: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether reducing the cost of school will be considered as part of the Child Poverty Strategy.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Pupils: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the report entitled Missing Chapter by Parentkind, published in March 2025.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Child Rearing: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of evidence-based parenting programmes in supporting families in poverty.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Child Rearing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential merits of evidence-based parenting programmes as part of the Plan for Change.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Child Rearing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a national digital rollout of evidence-based parenting programmes similar to Australia.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Child Rearing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made on the effectiveness of (a) Triple P, (b) Incredible Years and (c) other evidence-based parenting programmes to help ensure that 75% of five year-olds reach a good level of developm
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to (a) increase in-person assessments and (b) uphold claimants' rights to (i) fair treatment and (ii) reasonable adjustments.
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Public Sector: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's consultation Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, updated 7 April 2025, how would the proposals set out in the green pa
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability Living Allowance: Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the measures set out in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025 on peo
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made on the potential impact of the measure set out in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025 on PIP
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks and Food Insecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the measure set out in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025 on leve
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with (a) professional bodies, (b) disability organisations and (c) experts on changes to the PIP (i) descriptor points reallocation and (ii) scoring change.
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing financial penalties on companies that replace more than 10% of their workforce with AI.
7 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Gaza: RAF Akrotiri
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37040 on Gaza: RAF Akrotiri, whether those flights continued during the ceasefire.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Means-tested Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the take up of means-tested benefits in households with children in poverty.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Employment: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to implement (a) a workforce development strategy, (b) apprenticeships and (c) career pathways for the independent advice sector.
7 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Advisory Services: Departmental Coordination
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will develop a cross-Departmental advice sector strategy to ensure accessible social welfare advice across (a) health, (b) housing, (c) justice and (d) social care.
7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Security: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expand the statutory obligation for local authorities to include welfare advice.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether funding for personalised employment support for individuals with (a) health conditions and (b) disabilities will be made accessible to independent advice agencies to help disabled people into wo
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to provide additional support to (a) deaf and (b) disabled people’s organisations.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions her Department has had with (a) deaf and (b) disabled people’s organisations on the potential impact of proposed disability benefit changes.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ringfence school meal funding.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding for (a) free school meals and (b) universal infant free school meals to help source school meals from British produce.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Catering
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential impact of the 50% Buying British ambition on school caterers.
Source: official written-questions record.