Written Questions

Visas: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the UK’s visa application system in preventing fraud.

British Nationality: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the current Life in the UK test.

British Nationality: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to update the content of the Life in the UK test;; and when she expects a revised version to be introduced.

Dual Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the number of people in the UK who have dual citizenship.

Immigration: Glasgow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what face-to-face support is available to people in accessing digital immigration status in Glasgow.

Electronic Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what non-digital and assisted-digital routes are available to people who are unable to use GOV.UK One Login; and how the use of those routes is monitored.

Department of Health and Social Care: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of full-time staff on full pay (1.0 FTE) in the department work compressed hours over a four day week.

Gangs: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of gang prevention programmes for young people.

Police: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the needs of people with autism are understood and accommodated by police forces.

UK Integrated Security Fund: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Integrated Security Fund annual report 2024 to 2025, published on 30 October 2025, and the Supreme Court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025], why th

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Government Communication Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the answer of 5 June 2026, to Question 3763, on Government Communications Service: Staff, and of 19 January 2026, to Question 104195, on Government Communication Serv

Necrotising Enterocolitis: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated to research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of necrotising enterocolitis.

Teplizumab

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the introduction of teplizumab contributes to reducing rates of diabetic ketoacidosis at diagnosis and inequalities in outcomes for people with type 1 di

Thromboembolism

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of potential impact of second-generation antipsychotic drugs on levels of risk of venous thromboembolism.

Thromboembolism

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve awareness among healthcare professionals of the risk of venous thromboembolism associated with second-generation antipsychotic drugs.

Department for Business and Trade: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the answer of 16 April 2026, to Question 126612, on China: Clean Energy, whether (a) Memorandums of Understanding and (b) non-legally binding agreements have been agreed between the (

Ministry of Justice: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure compliance with data protection requirements relating to the processing of special category data, including data relating to health or protected characteristics.

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of Universal Credit payments were in 2024/25 and 2025/26.

House of Lords: Fire Prevention

To ask The Senior Deputy Speaker, in respect of the evacuation of the House of Lords at 15:00pm on Thursday 2 July, (1) to what extent, if any, were members and staff of the House of Commons involved, (2) to what extent was the London Fire Brigade informe

Metropolitan Police: Palantir

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will instruct the Cabinet Office Procurement Review Unit to review the decision of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime not to approve the Metropolitan Police's contract with Palantir.

Intimate Image Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help protect the public from harmful deepfake content.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Cameras

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions have DVLA misread the image from an ANPR camera in the most recent year for which records are available.

Maternity Services: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what targeted interventions are in place to help reduce inequalities in maternal outcomes .

Electric Bicycles: Regulation

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to regulate e-bikes.

Motorways

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the final cost of the installation of new emergency areas on smart motorways; and what is the break down of costs for each relevant motorway.