Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has examined the relative margin of error in Facial Age Estimation technology as compared with other methods of age assessment, when it comes to the assessment of age of people
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Facial Age Estimation technology procured by the Home Office has been tested on people seeking asylum.
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of potential bias and differential error rates in Facial Age Estimation technology procured by the Home Office by ethnicity, skin tone, sex and country of origin.
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how decision-makers will account for uncertainty when the estimated age as per Facial Age Estimation technology falls near the threshold between childhood and adulthood.
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what datasets, images or other personal data have been used to train, validate or test the Facial Age Estimation technology intended for use in asylum age assessments.
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how Facial Age Estimation results will be presented to caseworkers or other decision-makers, and what weight those results will carry in any age assessment, including in relation to: accommodation, sa
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training and guidance will be provided to officials using or interpreting Facial Age Estimation results, including relating to the treatment of uncertainty and trauma-related facial ageing.
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process will be available for a person seeking asylum to obtain, scrutinise, challenge or appeal a Facial Age Estimation result and any decision based on that result.
Sheep: Animal Welfare
To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish the results of the lamb welfare consultation on proposed changes to castration and tail docking methods, which closed on 9 March.
Sheep: Animal Welfare
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State on 9 June 2026 (UIN 7005), why they concluded that banning castration and tail docking of lambs was not the correct approach; and whether they will make their statemen
Recreation Spaces and Trees
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether access to trees and green spaces varies between communities with different levels of socioeconomic deprivation; and what steps they intend to take in response to any such variation.
Water Supply: Wales
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions, if any, they have had with the Welsh Government regarding future projections of the water requirements of English corporations who currently obtain some or all of their water from Wales.
Agriculture: Finance
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support (1) farmers in relation to increased costs deriving from the Iran war, and (2) the long-term financial sustainability of farm businesses.
Tree Planting: Urban Areas
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to use measures of socioeconomic deprivation to inform targeted tree planting programmes in urban areas.
Health Professions: Conduct
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with healthcare regulators on the application of adequate sanctions in cases of serious misconduct.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, for what reason Written Parliamentary Question 15089 on Project Gigabit: Mid Bedfordshire was not answered by close of business on 7 July 2026.
Hospitals: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effectiveness of the New Hospital Programme.
Chorley and South Ribble Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the 24-hour opening of the accident and emergency department at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital.
Defence: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 35, what is the full scope of the work to develop AI for underwater dominance.
Ministers: Council Tax
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps are being taken to ensure the Cabinet Office pays the second homes council tax premium in time.
Undocumented Migrants: Statistics
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 27 May 2026, to Question 2108, on Undocumented Migrants: Statistics, whether ONS or UKSA undertakes any validation of the data provided by the French Government.
Ministers: Council Tax
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 13 November 2025, to Question 86773, on Ministers: Council Tax, whether a numeric occupation limit was previously imposed under previous Administrations.
Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out current policies to encourage the reuse of medical equipment such as (a) orthopaedic boots, (b) wheelchairs and (c) crutches within the NHS.
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the financial impact on community pharmacies of the current reimbursement and price cap arrangements for prescription medicines; and if he will review cases where pha
Food Supply: El Niño
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of an El Niño weather event on (a) food security and (b) critical infrastructure in the UK.