Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,266 questions
Community Development: Pilot Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria will be used to select areas for the Community Power Pilots.
Community Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 will be brought into force.
Vagrancy Act 1824
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding has been allocated to local authorities to support the implementation of the repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824.
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on responding to the recommendations of the Law Commission's review of disabled children's social care.
Schools: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a maximum temperature threshold above which schools should not open.
Schools: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of heatwaves on schools and pupils’ learning.
Public Transport: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve passenger safety and comfort on public transport during periods of extreme heat.
Railways: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the resilience of the rail network to increasing summer temperatures.
Railways: Chichester
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of rail services that have been returned to state ownership on service levels in Chichester constituency.
Air Traffic Control: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have (a) applied for, (b) commenced and (c) successfully completed air traffic controller training in each of the last five years.
Airspace: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a risk-based framework for Beyond Visual Line of Sight drone operations.
Universities: Antisemitism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of StandWithUs UK’s Voice of Students 2025/26 Report about antisemitism at UK universities.
Railway Stations: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May to Question 510 on Railway Stations: CCTV, whether details have been made available by Network Rail on whether bike thefts will be included in the assessment of railway stations
Calder Valley Line: Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how short-formed services are accounted for in performance metrics compared with cancellations and delays.
Sexual Offences: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to review the sentencing guidelines for under-16s year olds found guilty of rape and sexual assault.
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the comparative cost of accommodating asylum seekers in (a) hotels and (b) Ministry of Defence sites per person per night.
Railways: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve train services to West Dorset.
Railways: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with rail operators on service reliability affecting West Dorset.
Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value of compensation awarded for cases of assaults on Emergency Workers was since 2019.
Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on compensation awards resulting from the offence of Assault on an Emergency Worker by type of emergency worker.
Asylum: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of refugees expected to enter under the proposed capped safe and legal sponsorship route each year.
Asylum: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role the UN High Commissioner for Refugees will have in determining eligibility for the proposed sponsored refugee scheme.
Calder Valley Line: Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what interim measures are being considered to reduce short-forming on heavily used commuter routes such as the Calder Valley line.
Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been removed from the UK following the exhaustion of all asylum and immigration appeal rights since 5 July 2024.
Calder Valley Line: Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of short-formed trains on passenger overcrowding on the Calder Valley line.