Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Attendance Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has considered renaming the Attendance Allowance.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to take steps to reduce the number of questions on the Pension Credit application form.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Wildlife: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on steps to ensure that offences of (a) reckless and (b) negligent behaviour which causes harm to wildlife are appro
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Wildlife: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect animal habitats from building developments.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Trapping
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ban the (a) use and (b) sale of (i) glue traps and (ii) wire snares.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Wildlife: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing guidance on ethical principles for licensing of wildlife management.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase penalties for crimes against wildlife so that they are in line with sentences for other animal welfare offences.
4 Mar 2025 · Women and Equalities
Equality: Impact Assessments
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to ensure that Equality Impact Assessments are produced each time (a) policies and (b) Bills are introduced.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were refused an education, health and care plan assessment by their local authority in the last financial year.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ensuring that parents have a legal right to appeal decisions by their local authority to refuse to assess their child for an EHCP.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the number of households that are dependent on the Radio Teleswitch Service for energy meter connections in Poole constituency.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the amount of eligible Pension Credit that has been unclaimed as of 28 February 2025.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Ferries: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with harbour authorities in (a) Poole and (b) Portsmouth on the application of the Seafarers Wages Regulations 2024 on ferry services scheduled to operate from these ports in 202
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
DFDS: Roll-on Roll-off Ships
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with trade unions on seafarer jobs providing DFDS services to Jersey from (a) Poole and (b) Portsmouth.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
DFDS: Roll-on Roll-off Ships
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will list the vessels certified by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency for DFDS’s roll-on roll-off ferry services to Jersey from (a) Poole and (b) Portsmouth.
4 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Hunting: Foxes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will commission a review into the prevalence of fox hunting across England and Wales.
3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Domestic Violence: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the guidance entitled Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 in preventing children from being returned to abusive parents.
3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Music: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of continued funding of the Music Hub programme.
3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the utilisation of (a) unemployed and (b) underemployed healthcare professionals in the NHS.
3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential causes of (a) unemployment and (b) underemployment among qualified healthcare professionals.
3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professionals: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of (a) unemployment and (b) underemployment among healthcare professionals.
3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Social Workers: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of recently announced increases in Social Work England registration fees.
28 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Agriculture: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many agricultural workers are claiming Universal Credit.
28 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Basic Income
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Joanna Poulton, Jak Richardson, Kathleen Pollitt and Cleo Goodman entitled Sowing the Seed
26 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing child related benefits annually in line with trends in level of (a) inflation and (b) wages.
26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Older People’s Housing Taskforce entitled Our Future Homes: Housing that promotes
26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of implementing a cross-Government approach to older people's housing.
26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to help promote age-appropriate homes.
26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her statement of 30 July 2024 entitled, Building the homes we need, what steps she has taken to help ensure that the needs of an older population form part of h
26 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UNRWA: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement of 25 February 2025 on Defence and Security, Official Report, column 631, what assessment he has made of the potential i
Source: official written-questions record.