Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what date (a) officials and (b) special advisers last met with representatives of the Forest City 1 project; and who attended.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences were released and then recalled to prison because they committed violent or sexual offences, in the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted shoplifters and what percentage of convicted shoplifters avoided an immediate custodial sentence for shoplifting in the past two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the risks posed to recreational water users, including paddlers, by sewage discharges such as those affecting Torbay; and what steps she is taking to en
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information her Department holds on the number of people who were employed in the automotive manufacturing sector in each month since January 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the failure-to-attend rate for practical car driving tests was in each month since May 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to require operators of privately operated tolled crossings that have statutory powers to issue penalty charges to provide access to independent adjudication of those charges.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government continues to use £3.4 billion as its headline estimate of the cost of the Chagos agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, if he will outline the process for selecting the Furniture and Home Improvement Ombudsman and Trusted Payments as delivery partners for the Approved Code and Trusted Payments schem
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, which organisations his Department consulted before announcing the Approved Code for the home improvement sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what metrics his Department will use to evaluate the success of the Approved Code.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, how the Approved Code for the home improvement sector will interact with the Competition and Markets Authority's principles for trader recommendation platforms.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending funding for certain early support hubs in March 2027 on the number of young people at risk of becoming not in education, employment or
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to expand access to early support hubs to help prevent young people’s mental health difficulties from allowing them to participate in education, employment or training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people with physical disabilities require adapted accommodation from local authorities, broken down by each local authority area in the South East.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2026 to question 22868 on Military Exercises, what was the outcome of tests on the Talaria Sting R e-bikes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2026 to question 23037 on Trident Submarines: Procurement, what will trigger payment of the remaining £2.5bn allocated to Dreadnought Delivery Phase 4.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2026 to question 23071 on Air Force: Military Bases, what is the projected year each of the bases listed will be resurfaced.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2026 to question 23267 on Defence: Property, which states that “No projects within the Defence Estate Optimisation Portfolio have been resubmitted with a reduced scope to mee
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is the scope of the Future Rural Payments Service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of CARICOM’s 10-point plan for reparatory justice.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of 113mm ammunition until the Type 45 leaves service.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the Ministry of Defence regarding the requirements of the Maritime Capability Replacement Programme to support military naval operations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the scope of the £110m of funding fast-tracked to accelerate construction of new prison places and secure new land for prisons.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the scope of Project Horus.