Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Iron and Steel: Energy Intensive Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will expand the Energy Supercharger package to include a larger proportion of the steel industry and related sectors, including scrap.
Net Zero Teesside Power: Iron and Steel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reviewing public procurement policy to (a) incentivise and (b) require greater use of UK-made steel in publicly funding projects in th
Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what is his planned timetable for (a) consulting on and (b) implementing the right to switch off and the associated Statutory Code of Practice.
UK Trade With EU
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to 8028, whether she has made an assessment of the EU's recent guidance on the removal of the De Minimis; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of this policy on the zero-rating for
Pensions and Social Security Benefits: Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contingency arrangements are in place to maintain payment of benefits and pensions in the event of a (a) major IT or (b) infrastructure disruption.
Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on implementing byelaws to ban bottom trawling in the 41 marine protected areas consulted on in June 2025.
Livestock: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions she has had with stakeholders on Welsh livestock numbers.
Wales Office: Emergencies
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many meetings her Department has held with the Welsh Government in the last 12 months on coordinating resilience planning for risks that span reserved and devolved responsibilities.
Deposit Return Schemes: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when she last met with representatives of the glass sector to discuss the Deposit Return Scheme.
Foreign Relations: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether (a) her Department and (b) the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs is informed when Welsh Government ministers meet foreign diplomats; whether permission is sought for such
Foreign Relations: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on their meetings with foreign ambassadors.
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the financial support available to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that ICBs commission community minor and urgent eye care services.
Glaucoma: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure Integrated Care Boards are (a) adopting the recent Get It Right First-Time guidance on glaucoma and (b) commissioning enhanced referral and filtering schemes.
Glaucoma: Primary Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure commissioners are making use of capacity and expertise in primary care optometry to improve access to care for those (a) at risk of and (b) with glaucoma.
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of compliance with animal welfare standards in commercial poultry production.
Health Services: Cornwall
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS workforce planning in Cornwall reflects the additional pressures placed on health services during periods of peak tourist activity.
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Publications
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to reference “sex” rather than “gender” in future departmental publications.
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the comparative costs of transitioning from farrowing crates to (a) temporary crating systems and (b) free farrowing systems, and if she will ask the An
Olympic Games 2012: Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to Question 11894, whether (a) her Department has a strategy for the maintenance of legacy assets, and (b) whether she would make an assessment of the need for a long-term strategy for a
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support will be available for pig producers to transition to free farrowing systems.
Sports: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that older people can engage in community sports in Royal Sutton Coldfield.
Prisons: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prisons have been (a) planned and (b) approved since 5 July 2024.
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her department has made on the effectiveness of farrowing crates for sows in rearing piglets.
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of farrowing crates on piglet mortality rates.