Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,266 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the long-term sustainability of projects supported in Kenya once UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Department's press release entitled UK backs communities on the ocean's front line with £13.9 million investment, published on 17 June 2026, what assessment she h
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what safeguards are in place to ensure that biodiversity credits supported by UK funding represent additional environmental benefits.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of private investment expected to be leveraged through biodiversity credit schemes supported by UK funding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the extent to which biodiversity credit schemes reduce reliance on future taxpayer-funded conservation programmes.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many outstanding cases of people facing the retrospective loan charge she expects will be settled as a result of the McCann Review; and the likely timescale is for bringing the topic to a conclusion.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories on 6 May 2025 (48828), how much of the £200 million towards forest-related climate finance for the Congo Basin was p
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to prohibit the routine castration and tail docking of lambs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department plans to take to provide additional practical support to lone parents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on improving support for carers via the carer allowance system.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising the Universal Credit threshold for single parents that work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she plans to provide people not in education, employment or training with free bus travel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she plans to offer children who are eligible for free school meals with free bus travel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve the level of consultant staffing in pathology departments to meed the target of 98% of histopathology tests to be reported within 10 days by March 2029, as sp
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the use of provisional licence holders riding mopeds displaying learner plates (L-plates) to undertake commercial delivery work; and whether she plans to introduce measures to pr
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, does the government plan to review the impact of the introduction of VAT on private school fees on (a) pupil numbers (b) public finances and (c) state school capacity.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the government has modelled the net fiscal effect of a reduced rate of VAT on fitness services compared to the reduction in NHS and public costs associated with physical inactivity.
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the warning by the UN Security Council over the imminent risk of mass atrocities in the Sudanese city of El Obeid, what action the Government is taking to hold accountable those responsible for attacks on civil
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Treasury will monitor the evidence after the Strait of Hormuz reopens to ensure that consumers are not continuing to pay higher prices.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to introduce legislation to prohibit the automatic addition of service charges to customer bills.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report by Viginum entitled Rokh Solis: Analysis of an informational modus operandi that targeted the municipal electi
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2026 to question 5065 on Armed Forces: Recruitment, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of rules (a) 10.1.4 and (b) 4.9 in the UK Code of Broadca
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the warning by the UN Security Council over the imminent risk of mass atrocities in the Sudanese city of El Obeid, what urgent diplomatic steps the UK has taken to prevent such atrocities; and, in particular, w
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they reject project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 because they deliberately inflict unacceptable levels of pain on animals.
To ask His Majesty's Government further to the remarks by Baroness Chapman of Darlington on 24 June (HL Debs cols 663–6), what imminent steps will be taken to protect civilians from the risk of violence and atrocities in El Obeid.