Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,193 questions
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England is taking to increase the number of full-time stipendiary priests.
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, What assessment the Church of England has made of the potential impact of assisted dying legalisation on clergy’s cure of souls.
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church of England has made of the effectiveness of the Save the Parish led Consultation at St George’s House entitled ‘Parish Ministry: Addressing the Crisis
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reform the Civil Service to improve productivity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his Georgian counterpart on regulating surrogacy services offered by Georgian companies to UK citizens.
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what plans the Commission has to (i) extend the life of the UK Parliament Education Centre beyond 2030 and (ii) extend the Education Centre’s facilities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring datacentre operators to report on the purpose and end use of their computing capacity as a condition of planning ap
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of allowing qualifying datacentres to opt into the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project regime on local authorities'
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many datacentre developments are awaiting planning permission in England, and how many of these have opted, or are eligible to opt, into the Nationally Significant Infrastruc
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many datacentres are currently in the queue to connect to the National Grid, and what the average expected connection wait time is.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the water demand of new and planned datacentres, and whether she has made an assessment of the potential risk of their designation as critical national in
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with Water UK regarding its warning that the UK does not have sufficient water resources to support planned datacentre expansion.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's survey findings that 96% of emergency department staff have exp
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of violence and aggression against staff working in emergency departments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to NHS trusts on support for staff who report incidents of violence or aggression, including access to occupational health, counselling and time off.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there have been under section 1 of the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 in each of the last five years, broken down by sentencing outcome.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of recorded incidents of violence and aggression against NHS staff in emergency departments in England in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is issued to police forces on the priority given to reports of violence and aggression against NHS staff, including in emergency departments.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of an increase in Machine Games Duty on the financial sustainability of the land-based bingo sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to ensure that lower-income families are not priced out of decarbonisation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she agrees with ADE: Demand’s "No Home Left Behind" report findings that public policy should actively support households to install the clean-heat technology, such as compact heat ba
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to ADE: Demand’s "No Home Left Behind" report, what role she sees for heat batteries in easing grid pressure and supporting Clean Power 2030.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she will commit to providing a £7,500 grant for heat batteries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria he is using to measure the suitability of faux-fur alternatives to bearskin King's Guards caps.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which industry experts have been consulted and which materials have been tested in considering replacing the bearskin King's Guard caps with a faux-fur alternative.