Written questions

713 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Constituencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her policy is on retaining parliamentary constituency boundaries when grouping the areas currently covered by county councils to form the wider areas to be covered by new un

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parish and Town Councils: Powers

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to enhance the (a) remit and (b) powers of Town and Parish Councils following the replacement of District and County Councils by unitary authorities; and w

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Unitary Councils: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the (a) earliest and (b) latest dates are at which she expects elections to be held to (i) the new unitary authority for the area currently covered by Hampshire County Counc

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what positions other than (a) new regional mayors and (b) parish and town councillors will elections be held in May 2026 in areas where local authority elections have been po

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Transport: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will expand the statutory requirements for local authorities to make mandatory the provision of free journeys for companions of people with (a) physical disabilities, (b) visual impairment and (c) learni

6 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Psychiatric Patients: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on patient confidentiality in relation to sharing information on (a) inquiry reports and (b) other relevant information on killings by mentally ill people with the (i) families o

5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Radiation Exposure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to facilitate the (a) recovery and (b) disclosure of medical records held in (i) the Merlin database and (ii) other Departmental archives of service personnel present at UK atomic b

4 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Independent Review of the Loan Charge

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she made an assessment of the potential merits of including within the terms of reference for the Independent Review of the Loan Charge consideration of the (a) mis-selling by scheme promoters, (b) advice on

4 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

BBC Monitoring and BBC World Service: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on how much and what proportion of the annual budgets of the BBC (a) World Service and (b) Monitoring Service are funded by FCDO; and wh

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason NHS hospitals have not commissioned beds available in care homes to restore capacity on hospital wards by enabling patients to be discharged.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Learning Disability: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications of the differential effects of the changes in last year's budget to National Insurance Contributions on employers of Learning Disabilities

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the totals of students on (a) all BSc nursing degree courses, and (b) specific courses for the degree of BSc Nursing (Learning Disabilities) since 20

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will take steps to ensure (a) social media companies and (b) website providers that have been found to have hosted illegal content viewed by people that have subsequently committe

20 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish a substantive Answer to Question 20914 on Gender Dysphoria: Surgery, tabled on 18 December 2024.

13 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Special Educational Needs: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations she has received (a) directly and (b) via other Departments from the Special Educational Needs and Disability Transport Operators Group on the potential inclusion of (i) drivers and (ii)

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Down's Syndrome and Specific Learning Difficulties

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people previously diagnosed with (a) Down Syndrome and (b) other severe learning difficulties will be required to undergo a further assessment when their (i) personal independence payment and (i

13 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Charities: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes made to employer's National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on the (a) staffing levels of and (b) level of (i) economic and (ii) so

7 Jan 2025 · Attorney General

Armed Forces: Ukraine

To ask the Solicitor General, what the Government's policy is on the potential prosecution of UK nationals returning to the UK after serving as volunteer fighters in the Ukrainian armed forces if they hold (a) both Ukrainian and UK citizenship, (b) sole U

18 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Gender Dysphoria: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of children travelling to (a) Poland, (b) Turkey, (c) Florida and (d) other countries for gender reassignment surgery in each of the last three years.

18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 11 December 2024 on Puberty-suppressing Hormones, Official Report, Column 923, what guidance his Department issues to parents considering taking their childr

11 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mozambique: Humanitarian Situation and Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in Mozambique on (a) violence perpetrated against Christians by Islamic extremists in Cabo Delgado and (b) the effectiveness

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Charities: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of increasing National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on the ability of (a) Citizens Advice services and (b) other community-centred cha

2 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Analgesics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on (a) doctors and (b) other qualified medical personnel administering pain-relieving drugs which may shorten lives; and whether regulations on that issue changed after the convi

2 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Fire and Rescue Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the Fire and Rescue Service is not receiving the exemption from the rise in National Insurance contributions as the other Emergency Services.

26 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure the availability of learning disability nursing studies programmes in the South East.

25 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend the remit of the Care Quality Commission to include vision rehabilitation services for blind and partially sighted people.

6 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

BBC Monitoring and BBC World Service: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to paragraph 4.44 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, published on 30 October 2024, whether any of the additional funding allocated to the BBC World Service wil

28 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help end violations of freedom of religion or belief in Afghanistan.

28 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Building Alterations: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will remove the presumption in favour of granting planning permission for developments which build extra stories on top of occupied apartment blocks.

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hip Replacements

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of NHS patients harmed by cobalt poisoning from modular neck hip replacements in each of the last three years.

Source: official written-questions record.