Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Childcare: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the expansion of the working family’s childcare entitlement on enabling parents to (a) work sooner, (b) support their families and (c) progress th
Children in Care: Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether children adopted from care, or previously looked-after children, will lose any existing free school meal entitlement from September 2026.
Free School Meals: Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the end of free school meal transitional protections will affect any adopted children who currently receive free school meals.
Opportunity Mission Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 5 June 2026, to Question 1174, on the Opportunity Mission Board, whether any of the meetings referenced in the answer were formal meetings of the Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity
Opportunity Mission Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2026, to Question 5777, on Opportunity Mission Board, if she will list the attendees of the Mission Board in the most recent meeting since the Mission Board was re-designated as
Mission Boards: Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 23 May 2025 to Question 52694 on Mission Boards: Senior Civil Servants, whether Director Generals remain SROs for the missions.
Cabinet Office: Marketing
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4161 on Government departments: marketing, how much has been spent on branded goods and merchandise by the Department, including Downing Street, since the Govern
Cabinet Office: Senior Civil Servants
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 8 June (HC4150), what is the public interest reason for not disclosing the objectives agreed for the last two Cabinet Secretaries; and w
Spinal Injuries: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of moving spinal cord injury services from nationally coordinated commissioning to the responsibility for ICBs.
Family Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out the Best Start Family Hub allocation broken down by (a) local authority and (a) resource and capital figures in each year of its operation.
Delivery Services: Robots
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered excluding autonomous delivery robots from plans for micromobility regulation.
Driving Tests: Edinburgh
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the answer to Question UIN 63826 on driving test waiting times in Currie, what the average waiting time is for a practical driving test at the Currie Driving Test Centre; and by what date she
Delivery Services: Robots
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Department has made of the level of need for further regulation of autonomous delivery robots operating on public pavements and highways; and whether the Department plans to publish addition
Roads: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the resilience of road surfaces to increasingly frequent periods of extreme heat.
Road Traffic: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help reduce congestion on urban road networks.
Railways: Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what funding has been provided to support rail connectivity between Belfast and Dublin through (a) PEACEPLUS, (b) direct UK Government funding and (c) any other source of UK Government funding; and what
Public Sector: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of procurement policy in reducing dependency on high-risk foreign suppliers in critical sectors.
Public Sector: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to issue updated guidance to contracting authorities on the assessment of national security risks in procurement decisions.
Public Sector: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the administrative impact of enhanced national security screening requirements on small and medium-sized enterprises bidding for public contracts.
Government Departments: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many government contracts were published in full during the last financial year.
Roads: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve maintenance of rural roads.
Arms Length Bodies: Lobbying
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department monitors compliance by arm's length bodies with Cabinet Office guidance on the use of public funds for lobbying.
Business: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses in West Dorset.
Shipping: Crew
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the exemptions in the regulations governing the employment of young seafarers.
National Highways: Public Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any part of National Highways' external affairs function has as one of its objectives engagement with Ministers, special advisers or officials within her Department.