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 steps her Department is taking to simplify access to environmental land management schemes for farmers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the level of administrative burdens faced by farmers applying for support schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of current farming schemes on food security.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase levels of (i) walking and (ii) cycling for everyday journeys in (i) Milton Keynes and (ii) Buckinghamshire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of local authority capability in (i) Milton Keynes and (ii) Buckinghamshire to deliver active travel infrastructure.
To ask His Majesty's Government what representations the British Embassy in Manama has made to the Bahraini authorities regarding the charges against the 41 Shia clerics arrested in May; and on what dates these representations took place.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the contribution of active travel investment on public health outcomes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential role of private sector finance in complementing public funding for (i) environmental land management and (ii) farm resilience.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that reformed farming schemes support the resilience of domestic food production against (i) climate shocks and (ii) supply chain shocks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department plans to measure the potential impact of the Farming Roadmap on domestic food security.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of 240 additional detention beds at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre on the number of enforced returns.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people detained across the immigration removal estate are (a) time-served foreign national offenders, (b) immigration offenders, (c) refused asylum seekers and (d) detained while th
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of time-served foreign national offenders were (a) deported immediately (b) detained in Immigration Removal Centres pending deportation and (c) released pending deportation for each of
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what was the process for arranging a meeting with Bowmer and Kirkland on 30 April 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to negotiate for alignment of deforestation regulations between the UK and the EU as part of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish figures on the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in Kent each month since January 2024.
To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of the Gulf Strategy Fund was allocated to Bahraini oversight and security institutions in the financial year 2025–26; and what consideration they have given to making future funding conditional on a transpa
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting a pharmacy-led gluten free service in England, with annual health checks and collaboration between pharmacies, GPs and dieticians
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact on anti-social behaviour of expanding the use of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to allow non-reg
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has assessed the potential impact of the United States withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on biomass sustainability
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the proposed Common Biomass Sustainability Framework will require imported forest biomass to originate from countries that are Parties to the Paris Agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to align future biomass sustainability criteria with the land-use, land-use change and forestry requirements set out in the EU Renewable Energy Directive III.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reliance on imports from countries that have withdrawn from international climate agreements on the UK's biomass strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has advised Cambridgeshire County Council that it is prohibited from re-procuring a contract for highway maintenance due to planned local government reorga
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish statistics on (a) eVisa errors, (b) cancellations of EUSS status and (c) EUSS status granted in error.