Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
National Grid: Wind Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to increase grid capacity to enable a reduction in wind curtailment.
Agriculture: Electricity
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support farmers with increased electricity standing charges.
Renewable Energy: Landfill
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his department has made of the potential impact the expiry of the Renewables Obligation for LFGTE on 31 March 2027 on local authority finances.
Pupil Exclusions: Young Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of data from ADR UK on multiple temporary exclusions of pupils and the criminal justice system, published in April 2026.
Breakfast Clubs: Lincolnshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire will begin offering free breakfast clubs from September 2026.
Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what changes the Government is considering to simplify the Right to Manage process for social housing tenants.
Sheltered Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance exists to help ensure that building managers do not rely on welfare checks, curtain-management or the provision of fans as substitutes for addressing underlying bui
Shared Ownership Schemes: Housing Associations
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions had with housing associations on their responsibilities to shared ownership tenants.
Bus Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance or expectation exists for the Health and Safety Executive to seek specialist input from the Office of Rail and Road when exercising its enforcement functions in relation to guided bus systems.
Restoring Your Railway Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 13561 on the Restoring Your Railway Fund, how much funding was spent on each individual scheme supported through the Restoring Your Railway programme; and what
Electronic Cigarettes: Retail Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a legal requirement that vape shops cannot operate near schools.
Landfill: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration she has given to amending Section 43 (5) of the Finance Act 1996 such that materials added for the purposes of dehydrating dredgings are subject to the lower rate of landfill tax.
Renewable Energy: Waste
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the annual tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues arising from energy from waste plants.
Renewable Energy: Waste
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what projection she has made of the annual tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues arising from energy from waste plants by 2030.
Landfill
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues committed to landfill in the most recent year for which data is available.
Waste Disposal
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues committed to non- landfill treatments in the most recent year for which data is available.
Waste Disposal
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the annual tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues used as a stabiliser to dehydrate dredgings under Section 43 (5) of the Finance Act 1996.
Waste Disposal
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the surplus market capacity within non-landfill treatment sites for the processing of additional Air Pollution Control Residues.
Breast Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the gap between breast cancer outcomes in the most and least deprived areas.
Victims: Codes of Practice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost of implementing the revised Victims’ Code; what estimate he has made of additional staffing requirements across police forces, the Crown Prosecution Service and victim suppor
Screening: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans exist for replacing outdated scanning machines as part of the programme for doubling capacity.
Victims: Codes of Practice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has established baseline data measuring compliance with the Victims’ Code; what performance indicators will be used to assess the revised Code; and whether any internal assessment has ident
Folic Acid
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to written question 11338 on Folic Acid, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the policy on prostate cancer rates and fetal death rates.
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of schools in England have a business continuity plan that has been reviewed in the last 12 months.
Health Services: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the trends in the level of excess deaths as a consequence of extreme heat, in the week commencing 22 June 2026.