Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,266 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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 Service: Staff, how many headc
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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 since the Government Chief Commercial Of
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2026, to Question 4222, on Erasmus+ programme, what information his Department holds on (a) how the reduction in the grant amount would be determined and (b) whether reductions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2026, to Question 4222, on Erasmus+ programme, what is the definition of a (a) direct action and (b) indirect action, in relation to the policy on financial corrections.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the technical arrangements for backing up messages on official No10 iphones include backing up officially-installed Whatsapp.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on phone calls to Lord Mandelson’s phones which were connected through No10 switch.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 12 June 2026, to Question 7163, on Proof of Identity: Digital Technology, if he will place in the Library a copies of the presentations and handouts given to the members of the People's
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2026, to Question 8058, on UK Statistics Authority: Remote Working, what estimatehas the Government Property Agency made of the average workplace attendance of civil service sta
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026, to Question 3350, on Public Appointments, from which organisation has the Prime Minister’s Expert Adviser on Energy and Net Zero been seconded; what is the length of the s
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the evidence from the Get Information About Schools dataset about the closures of independent schools.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on whether European Union citizenship is considered to be a conflict of interest in relation to Civil Service staff working in the EU Relations Secretariat.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what dates did (a) Cat Little, Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office, and (b) Antonia Romeo, Cabinet Secretary, find out that Lord Mandelson had failed UKSV clearance.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 4166, on Equality: Gender and Intersex, whether his Department consulted (a) trade unions, (b) Cabinet Office diversity networks, and (c) cross-Government Civil
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the United Kingdom will be participating in the Erasmus+ programme’s European Solidarity Corps.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to review his policy on forming a customs union with the EU for certain products.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 3344 on Senior Civil Servants: Termination of Employment, what was the type of Civil Service exit that Cabinet Secretaries have departed under since July 2024.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 4282, how many times aircraft has been commissioned through the Central Travel Contract since 4 July 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of pesticides and synthetic fertiliser on the level of nature depletion.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce the number of deaths resultant from falls from a ladder and (b) improve the safety of people working from heights.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the budget allocated to the Strategic Reserve is a separate to the budget allocated to the Volunteer Reserve.
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the sale of a mummified human head and a dangerous tribal skull from Borneo by On the Square Emporium Ltd in Belfast, whether they have any plans to restrict the sale of human remains by auction houses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which area of Departmental spending is the Strategic Reserve assigned to.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the budget allocated to the Strategic Reserve will be included in the Defence Investment Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what total budget has been allocated to the Volunteer Reserve in (a) each remaining financial year of the current Parliament and (b) each financial year of the next Parliament, broken down by single service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which area of Departmental spending is the Volunteer Reserve assigned to.