Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Motability: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has had discussions with Motability Operations on whether the additional mileage support criteria for the Motability Scheme adequately supports the travel requirements of disabled
Floods: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households received council tax relief under the Flood Recovery Framework in each financial year since 2023-24, broken down by local authority area; and what the total v
Social Security Benefits: Chronic Illnesses and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the total expenditure on sickness and disability benefits since the launch of the Timms Review in October 2025.
Personal Independence Payment: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce reassessment requirements for veterans with permanent and irreversible service-related injuries for Personal Independence Payments.
Universal Credit: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of treating student maintenance loans as income on Universal Credit claimants seeking to retrain for occupations with workforce shortages.
Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the average processing time between an application being accepted and the first payment for DLA and PIP for children and young people under 25 with cancer.
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of waiting times between a child or young person (under 25) being diagnosed with cancer and their first payment of disability benefit on (a) debt levels, (b) ca
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Young Lives vs Cancer’s report entitled The cost of waiting, published in March 2025, what assessment he has made of the impact of the average time between a child or young person (und
Civil Servants: Email
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department issues guidance to civil servants on the use of pronouns in email signatures.
Data Protection: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of personal data retained by age-assurance providers on levels of a) cyber attacks and b) data breaches.
Data Protection: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to Answer of 7 July 2026 to Question 14208, what guidance her Department has issued on the maximum period for which personal data collected for age assurance purposes should be
Home Office: Westminster Hall Sittings
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to her Department of preparing ministers to respond to Westminster Hall Debates.
Households: Nationality
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 7 July (HL1157), how many households in (1) Greater London, and (2) the United Kingdom, had a household reference person born (a) in the United Kingdo
Department for Education: Buildings
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (2) desks, and (2) civil servants are assigned to the Department for Education office in the Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London.
ADHD and Autism: Patient Choice Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a dual-tier NHS Right to Choose Tariff for ADHD and autism assessments that distinguishes between straightforward and complex ca
Chequers: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the cost to the public purse of security and policing in relation to Chequers.
Arson: Criminal Investigation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to support the police in promptly investigating arson offences.
10 Downing Street: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the cost to the public purse of security and policing in relation to Downing Street.
Police: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential for artificial intelligence technology to allow police forces to securely integrate information from across agencies to identify risk and suppo
Police: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to equip police forces to identify patterns of misconduct, welfare issues, and organisational risks through analysis of existing workforce data.
Police: Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is providing to police forces in adopting modern technologies to the identification of trends across complaints, misconduct, training, supervision and welfare data.
Metropolitan Police: Retirement
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of Metropolitan police officers who have left the service before retirement age in each year, due to the staff rotation policy of the metropolitan police.
Police: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training or exercises to prepare for civil unrest arising from a major national crisis have been conducted in the last 12 months, broken down by (a) police force and (b) number of exercises.
Animal Welfare: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of individuals convicted of animal welfare offences were (a) issued with an animal disqualification order under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 in each of the last 10 years and (b) not iss
Universal Credit: Debt Collection
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's target timescale is for updating Debt Management records following a (a) first-tier tribunal decision and (b) revised Universal Credit overpayment decision.