Written questions
1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.
21 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Warm Home Discount Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to extend the Warm Home Discount beyond 2026.
21 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Travel: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she next plans to review the overseas scale rates.
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to replace the NHS pay review body process with collective bargaining.
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to reform the NHS pay structure.
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Trusts: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide additional resources to healthcare trusts to enable them to bring outsourced services back in-house.
20 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Factory Farming: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take legislative steps to allow local authorities to reject planning applications for (a) new and (b) expanding factory farms.
20 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dogs: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will introduce a ban on the imports of dogs with cropped ears as soon as possible.
20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Pupils: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage reading in schools.
20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Primary Education: School Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of library provision in primary schools.
20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Primary Education: School Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to monitor library provision in primary schools.
15 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Beavers: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to permit the controlled release of beavers into the countryside.
15 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that the use of AI does not lead to large scale job losses.
15 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to encourage people to buy electric vehicles.
13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to meet with the leadership of the Lobular Moon Shot Project to discuss funding.
8 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animals in Science Regulation Unit's Annual Report for 2023, published on 17 December 2024, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) letters of reprimand and (b) other
8 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 24 of the Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s annual report for 2023, published on 17 December 2024, what steps her Department is taking to improve the ability of the inspectio
6 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Boats
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to redistribute sea worthy boats used in migrant crossings to youth groups such as Sea Scouts.
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2024 to Question 19860, Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the expected performance parameters of private sector providers have changed since these contracts were awar
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2024 to Question 19860 on Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance, if she will publish the 2023 assessment.
6 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Environment: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to reform the marine licensing process.
6 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Young Futures Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans the Young Future Hubs to be jointly run with third sector partners.
6 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Young Futures Hubs: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Dorset will receive a Young Future Hub.
19 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Australia and Canada
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a frozen overseas state pension live in (a) Canada and (b) Australia.
19 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Environment: Carbon Capture and Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to (a) incorporate marine ecosystems into the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and (b) ensure that (i) land and (ii) sea are integrated into the carbon capture strategy.
19 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Biodiversity: Coastal Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support active restoration of coastal ecosystems; and if he will take steps to amend the licensing framework for that restoration.
18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Gender Dysphoria: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase (a) the level of funding for and (b) access to Children's and Young People's Gender Services.
18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Puberty Suppressing Hormones
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral statement entitled Puberty-suppressing Hormones of 11 December 2024, Official Report, column 914, what groups representing trans youth he consulted with before making his
18 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to help protect funding streams for specialist domestic abuse services.
18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to expand the reach of Start for Life services to (a) Poole and (b) other local authorities.
18 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential savings to the public purse of means testing the winter fuel payment.
Source: official written-questions record.