Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of organised crime groups on local communities.
Body Searches: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the extent to which the Children Commissioner’s recommendations from the report Police Powers and Children – Strip Searching and Use of Force, published on 22 April 202
Body Searches: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of requiring police forces to have custody healthcare practitioners conduct child strip searches rather than police officers.
Body Searches: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to ensure that children are only strip searched where there is an immediate risk of significant harm.
Body Searches: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to help ensure that all police use of force against children is limited to cases preventing significant harm to themselves or others, rather than to detain children for the purposes
Body Searches: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of requiring police forces to 1) inform the child’s legal parent or guardian prior to the strip search taking place, and 2) ensure that the parent or guardian
Body Searches: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish data on a) multiple strip searches, b) the outcome, c) the reason, d) whether the outcome is linked, e) whether an officer of the opposite gender was present, and f) the search loc
Body Searches: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of requiring police forces to conduct all child strip searches at police stations.
Children: Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Minister for Women and Equalities regarding plans to end the use of strip search powers against minors.
Drugs: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress the Joint Combating Drugs Unit has made; and what policy work relating to combating drugs she is currently undertaking with other departments.
Asylum: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her written statement of 2 March 2026 on Asylum changes, what assessment her Department has made of the timeline for establishing a Names Community Sponsorship Scheme.
Asylum: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her written statement of 2 March 2026 on Asylum changes, what assessment her Department made of the intended scale of a Names Community Sponsorship Scheme.
Asylum: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to operationalise a named Community Sponsorship scheme for refugee resettlement.
Ministry of Defence: Members
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many hon. Members received direct payment from his Department in each of the last 10 years by year and service provided.
Home Office: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is an operation within her Department named ‘Operation Mosswood’.
NATO
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Defence Investment Plan on the United Kingdom's abilities to fulfil its NATO commitments.
Skynet
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the capability gap created by his Department's decision to cancel the Skynet 6 programme.
Cadets: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much will be spent on cadet funding in the (a) each remaining financial year of the current Parliament and (b) each financial year of the next Parliament.
Cadets: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent on cadet funding in financial year (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.
Cadets: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has authorised a reduction in the funding for cadets in the (a) current and (b) next Parliament.
F-35 Aircraft: Engines
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 29 June 2026 to question 11273 on F-35 Aircraft: Engines, what is the current global F-35 programme’s timeline for the transition from Technology Refresh 2 to Technology Refresh 3.
Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will fast track military pension cases from veterans who have not yet received their military pension.
Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on the implementation of the Pension Sharing Orders.
Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of delays to the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG) prioritisation process and their potential impact on equitable access to treatment for
Ketamine: Drug Seizures
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what quantity of ketamine has been seized at the UK border in each of the last ten years.