Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,193 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects to publish the school-food monitoring framework being developed with the Food Standards Agency; whether compliance checks will be independent and findings published for individual schools; and
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will collect and publish data on school-meal take-up and food waste before and after the revised standards are enforced in September 2027; and how it will assess whether pupils are eating
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the revised standards impact the provision of halal meat in schools; whether schools will be expected to identify halal-certified meat on published menus; and what guidance she will provide on suitable
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what access the AI Security Institute (a) requested and received to Claude Mythos 5.1 before its release to approved users and (b) has subsequently obtained; whether restrictions apply to that access; whether An
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the adequacy of the AI Security Institute’s access arrangements with frontier AI developers following reports concerning Claude Mythos 5.1; whether the Minister will pu
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what arrangements are in place for a serious incident involving autonomous AI systems, with reference to the Written Statement of 7 September 2026 on Artificial intelligence update, HCWS314; which Minister and d
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether the Government plans to introduce binding requirements for developers of the most powerful AI models, in the context of reports concerning the availability of Anthropic’s C
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether the Department has held discussions with frontier AI developers, the Competition and Markets Authority and international counterparts on proposals for coordinated pacing of
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people aged 18 to 24 in (a) Aldridge-Brownhills constituency and (b) Walsall local authority area who will be eligible for the Jobs Guarantee in ea
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish data on the number of Jobs Guarantee participants who (a) start a placement, (b) complete a placement and (c) enter sustained employment six and 12 months after completing a
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the requirement for private enforcement agents to be accredited by the Enforcement Conduct Board, or to work for an accredited firm, will come into force; and what sanctions will apply to enforcement agents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many residents of (a) Aldridge-Brownhills constituency and (b) Walsall local authority area have (i) started and (ii) completed an apprenticeship connected with HS2; and how many of those completing an appr
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to protect people in the UK, including Hong Kongers, from the extraterritorial application of Article 63 of China’s ethnic unity law, incl
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her department's policy to reduce the percentage of asylum claims granted.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects her department to resume publishing asylum appeals statistics as part of the quarterly migration statistics.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made for the reason in the increase in the number of asylum appeals being withdrawn before being heard by the first-tier tribunal.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the public sector in Wales to date of the increase in Employers National Insurance Contributions from April 2025.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing VAT for the hospitality sector in Wales to 10%.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to work towards the phasing out of animal testing.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the amount of consequential funding the Welsh Government would receive through the Barnett Formula if (a) HS2, (b) East- West rail and (c) Northern Powerhouse Rail were re-classif
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure Wales receives its UK population share of UKRI funding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to ensure that projects based in Wales receive an adequate share of the Green Heat Network Fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment has she made of the impact of standing charges in Wales on levels of poverty in Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment has she made of the potential impact of moving green levies from households bills into general taxation on household energy bills in Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the amount of funding to be devolved to Wales from April 2027 in relation to (a) reducing the use of remand for children, and (b) early intervention and prevention services.