Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
26 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Public Expenditure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) nurses, (b) teachers and (c) police offers that could be employed via an increase in spending equivalent to 0.2 per cent of GDP.
26 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Historic England: Crime and Disorder Act 1998
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making Historic England a named body for the purposes of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
26 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Eligibility
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a breakdown by (a) disability and (b) long-term illness of eligibility for (a) Universal Credit, (b) Employment and Support Allowance, (c) Disability Living Allowance and (d) Persona
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of appeals that are subsequently successful related to claims for disability and long term sickness benefits.
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of appeals related to claims for disability and long term sickness benefits.
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of returning the assessment process for disability and long term sickness benefits in-house.
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to review the organisations that carry out the assessment process for disability and long term sickness benefits.
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to review the assessment process for disability and long term sickness benefits.
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability and Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department plans to use when reforming the system of disability and ill health benefits.
25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to assess (a) the social determinants of ill health and (b) the measures necessary to address any causes.
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people of working age currently claiming sickness and disability benefits that would be unable to find gainful employment as a result of their disability or l
25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential causes of the (a) disabilities and (b) long-term illnesses that have contributed to the trends in the number of working age people
21 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Individual Savings Accounts: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is taking steps to reduce the Cash ISA allowance.
21 Feb 2025 · Women and Equalities
Gender Recognition
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she is taking steps to simplify the process whereby anyone seeking to change gender in the UK must get approval from a panel of doctors and lawyers.
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Profits
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Citizens Advice entitled Debt to society: what the network companies should do with their windfal
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made with Ofgem of the potential impact of the RIIO2 price control on network company performance.
21 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will undertake a review of the necessity of using dogs in regulatory testing across all sectors.
21 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing plant protection product testing to remove the need to use dogs for testing.
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce and (b) replace the use of dogs in testing required under plant protection product legislation.
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of plant protection product legislation on trends in the level of animal testing on dogs in the last five years.
21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring private health providers to pay a fee back to the NHS.
21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for health professionals to spend at least three years in the NHS following training before they can practice priva
21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the processes in place for dentists from overseas who wish to set up in (a) private practice and (b) the NHS.
21 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Individual Savings Accounts: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she has taken to ensure that savers are aware of their tax liabilities in relation to the use of ISAs.
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will announce a future funding settlement for the Adoption Support Fund beyond this year.
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Furs: Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to publish a response to the consultation entitled the Fur Market in Great Britain, published on 31 May 2021, after the Animal Welfare Committee publishes
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Furs: Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Animal Welfare Committee’s review of responsible sourcing of fur will be published before second reading of the Fur (Import and Sale) Bill on 13 June 2025.
11 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's timetable is for introducing a statutory registration scheme for holiday lets.
11 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2023, published on 11 September 2024, and to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, for what r
11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Arts: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that a range of arts subjects are included in the national curriculum.
Source: official written-questions record.