Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with international counterparts on best practices for balancing the environmental benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility with economic sus
28 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on businesses in the UK compared to similar schemes in (a) France, (b) Germany and (c) Ca
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pathways to Work: Impact Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, whether she considered the potential merits o
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraphs 2.33 to 2.35 of HM Treasury's document entitled Spring Statement 2025, published on 26 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the changes in hea
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published on 26 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published on 26 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dogs: Animal Breeding and Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to introduce robust traceability of dogs across the UK.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Responsible Dog Ownership Working Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reconvene the Responsible Dog Ownership Working Group.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the decision not to consult on all the measures listed in Annex A in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025 on disabled peo
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Trout: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure oversight of the welfare of trout on farms in England.
20 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of households that will receive (a) up to £25, (b) between £25 and £50, (c) between £50 and £75, (d) between £75 to £100 and (e) more than £100 less per week a
20 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of children in poverty as a result of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
20 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Poverty Taskforce
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, on the work of the Child Pove
19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve the terms and conditions of teachers in the public sector.
19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of school teachers.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to take steps to remove the role of the private sector in carrying out (a) PIP assessments and (b) PIP reassessments.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pathways to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment with her Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the proposals set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper on levels of poor mental health among (a) children aged 17
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to fund (a) existing or (b) new programmes of support and training for people seeking employment from money raised from delaying the access to the health element of Univer
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delaying access to the health element of Universal Credit until age 22 on relevant people.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pathways to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's green paper Pathways to work: reforming benefits and support to get Britain working, published on 18 March 2025, what sanctions will be introduced for disabled people
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pathways to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, on reducing health inequaliti
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that adequate support is provided to help disabled people that can work into work before the implementation of reforms to (a) the levels of and (b) eligibility require
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of new Personal Independence Payment claimants who will not achieve a minimum of four points in at least one activity to qualify for the daily living
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of existing Personal Independence Payment claimants who will not achieve a minimum of four points in at least one activity to qualify for the daily li
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the cost to the public purse of providing (a) back to work support for disabled people, (b) ongoing in-work support for those disabled people once in employment and (c) i
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's green paper Pathways to work: reforming benefits and support to get Britain working, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact o
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pathways to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's green paper Pathways to work: reforming benefits and support to get Britain working, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential effect o
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential basis is for the proposition that reducing levels of disability benefits leads to increased levels of employment.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the amount of savings raised from (a) freezing the value of the health element of Universal Credit for existing claimants and (b) reducing the value of the health element o
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a Work Transition Guarantee to help ensure disabled people keep their benefits for a period after they move into work.
Source: official written-questions record.