Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evidence is required to establish if paying parents are failing to disclose their full income; and what action the Child Maintenance Service takes if it is proven.
Public Houses: East Grinstead and Uckfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help prevent pub closures in East Grinstead and Uckfield constituency.
Department for Business and Trade: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has appointed staff from outside the civil service other than special advisers since July 2024.
Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many claims have been brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 since July 2024, relating to which public body in each case, and how many have succeeded.
Office for Nuclear Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the number of additional inspectors and specialist staff the Office for Nuclear Regulation will require to deliver its Strategy 2026.
Department for Work and Pensions: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate has been made of (a) the total capital cost of the Workplace Transformation programme, (b) expected annual savings arising from the programme, (c) the payback period, (d) consultancy expen
Slaughterhouses: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding was provided to abattoirs through the Smaller Abattoir Fund between its inception and July 4th 2024 inclusive.
Livestock: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for farmed animal mortality data to be published on publicly accessible platforms.
National Highways: Public Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2026, to Question 13259, on National Highways: Expenditure, which company or supplier provided the public affairs contract; if she will publish the contract and work specificat
Brain: Tumours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, What funding will he make available for the National Institute for Health and Care Research Brain Tumour Research Consortium in the next financial year.
Water Supply: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of indirect potable reuse schemes in improving London’s water supply resilience.
Water Abstraction: Teddington
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost per megalitre of water produced over an eighty-year lifespan of Teddington Direct River Abstraction.
Neurological Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated to research into Multiple System Atrophy.
Fertilisers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure the availability of nitrogen fertilisers.
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to adopt Recommendation 26 of the report Backdoors to Britain, published by the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire on 4 March 2026.
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to adopt Recommendation 25 of the report Backdoors to Britain, published by the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire on 4 March 2026.
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to adopt Recommendation 29 of the report Backdoors to Britain, published by the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire on 4 March 2026.
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to adopt Recommendation 30 of the report Backdoors to Britain, published by the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire on 4 March 2026.
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the transition away from direct payment schemes for farmers on a) food production and b) business viability.
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to adopt Recommendation 28 of the report Backdoors to Britain, published by the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire on 4 March 2026.
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the condition and capacity of food storage infrastructure used to support food security.
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure an integrated approach to agricultural payment scheme timelines and application windows.
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms her Department has in place to maintain the supply of food to the population in the event of a major disruption to food supply chains, including (a) formal agreements w
Fertilisers and Red Diesel: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage greater transparency for farmers on the price of fertiliser and red diesel.
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department last assessed the resilience of UK food supplies to a simultaneous disruption affecting major food-exporting countries; and what the findings of that assessment wer