Written Questions

Agriculture: Reservoirs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extending permitted development rights for agricultural reservoirs.

Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed appropriate prioritisation approach within Environmental Delivery Plans on environmental harm; and what framework w

Landfill: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Landfill Gas to Energy on supporting net zero goals.

Counselling and Psychotherapy: Misconduct

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the public protection implications of psychotherapists and counsellors continuing to advertise and practise despite having been removed from Professional Standards Authority accredited volu

Glass: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the cost of expanding bring banks for glass recycling.

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to publish a proposed interim solution to the exemption process for non-household waste under Extended Producer Responsibility regulations.

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to introduce mandatory reporting of ransomware incidents and payments.

Road Traffic

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of (a) the total hours of delay to road users, (b) the number of road users affected and (c) the economic cost of traffic disruption resulting from incidents on the strateg

Criminal Investigation: International Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2026 to question 16731, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of tracking response times to Mutual Legal Assistance requests.

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether an interim solution to the exemption process for non-household waste under Extended Producer Responsibility regulations will cover non-household drinks containers supplied indi

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department has held with the Welsh Government on the differentiation of identical glass containers in scope of the Deposit Return Scheme in Wales and Extended Prod

Reform UK: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether funding has been provided since July 2024 in relation to the security of Hon Members from the Reform UK party.

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 10 June 2026, to Question 6411, on Radicalism, whether the revised guidance will be published on gov.uk, and whether it will be provided to local government, or only apply to

Internet: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how her Department will measure whether proposed new restrictions on (a) social media and (b) additional online functionalities for under-16s are improving children's safety and wellbei

Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to ensure that the AI Adoption Plan for professional and business services reaches small and medium-sized businesses in deprived constituencies such as Glasgow

New Businesses: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of large scale capital in the UK for late stage start up businesses.

Higher Education: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with universities on increasing support for female founders emerging from higher education.

Aquaculture and Fisheries: Waste Disposal

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to assist the fishing and aquaculture sectors in appropriately disposing of end-of-life fishing and aquaculture gear to reduce coastal litter.

Aarhus Convention

To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they had with the devolved governments about missing the 1 July deadline to submit an action plan setting out their response to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee's recommendations.

Aarhus Convention

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take to address the UK’s non-compliance with the Aarhus Convention.

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Ofcom on whether Ofcom has established whether Meta carried out a risk assessment before the recent roll out of its new AI image-generation feature; an

Cabinet Office: Secondment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department holds records on staff that (a) are seconded to it from and (b) have been seconded from it to external organisations.

EU Countries: Immigration Controls

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions his Department has had with the European Union regarding the 90-days/180-days short-stay rule within the Schengen Area for UK nationals.

Visitor Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the overnight visitor levy cannot be levied on top of any Business Improvement District levy which is currently charged on overnight

Civil Servants: Trade Unions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the trade union Partnership Framework published by the Cabinet Office on 30 June 2026, whether it is government policy to support an increase in trade union membership in the Civil Service.