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, how many hours of bottom-towed fishing took place between June 2025 and May 2026 within the 41 English offshore marine protected areas subject to public consultation in summer 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she plans to provide emergency support to Air Ambulance charities for the costs of fuel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that fit note assessments comply with NICE guidelines for autism and severe mental health conditions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the context of fit notes, what clinical evidence supports removing or reducing GP involvement in decisions that NICE states require long term clinical understanding.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people were recruited into the National Institute for Health and Care Research supported phase 3 trials for (1) dementia, (2) cancer, (3) stroke, and (4) coronary heart disease, in 2025–26.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Chapman of Darlington on 15 June (HL535), what progress the Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues (1) has made, and (2) plans to make in the next six months, to (a) represent the
Pension Funds: Fossil Fuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will issue guidance to pension funds on reducing investment in fossil fuels.
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking in response to the findings of the report entitled Young people and work: interim report, published on 28 May 2026.
Personal Independence Payment: Means-tested Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of means testing PIP to ensure targeted support.
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of youth unemployment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds records of declarations of interest, conflict checks, due diligence, security screening and beneficial-interest checks completed before Nicole Junkermann was appointed
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department holds retained or closed public records from 1980 to 1992 relating to the Al Yamamah programme or the Saudi British Defence Cooperation Programme; and if he will publish a schedule of such
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Vetting Review into the National Security Vetting system and the Peter Mandelson case will consider how financial interests, business appointments, advisory roles, close personal relationships and th
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risks to the civilian population of El Obeid referred to in their joint statement with the E4+ on 23 June.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Written Statement of 21 May 2026 on the Return to the Humble Address on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, if his Department will publish an index of all files searched, records withheld
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on whether (a) expense claims, (b) hospitality records, (c) gifts records and (d) travel records for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s role as Special Representative fo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any member of the Healthtech Advisory Board declared interests in (a) companies and (b) funds active in (i) NHS data, (ii) artificial intelligence, (iii) algorithm verification, (iv) procur
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the delay in bringing forward the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill; and whether she plans to include this Bill in the forthcoming parliamentary timetable.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government plans to introduce mandatory disability pay gap reporting; whether this will be included within the scope of the proposed Equality (Race and Disability) Bill; and what the expected timet
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what priority the Government has assigned to extending pay gap reporting beyond gender to include race and disability.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department has assessed employer attitudes towards disabled employees and the extent to which such attitudes affect recruitment and retention.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of the disability employment gap; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce that gap.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of mandatory disability pay gap reporting on the disability employment gap.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has hired external public relations consultants since July 2024.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the danger of further genocide in Sudan as a consequence of the massing of troops around El Obeid by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militia, following the atrocities in El Fasher in Oc