Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,399 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been convicted of possessing, without authority, a mobile phone inside a prison in the past year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2026 to Question 9696 on the Low Carbon Fuels Fund, whether companies which are wholly or majority owned overseas will be eligible to receive funding under the scheme.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC is taking to ensure the timely processing of settlements arising from the implementation of the Independent Review of the Loan Charge.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce guidance or requirements to ensure that patients’ religious or philosophical dietary preferences, including vegetarian and vegan diets, are prominently flagged in medical recor
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of pausing accrued interest on Plan 2 student loans for graduates while on maternity leave.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has any plans to consider expanding the Digital Services Tax to include Artificial Intelligence (a) products and (b) companies.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure the most timely and thorough delivery of the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many rapes were tried in the youth court last year and in each of the preceding three years; and of those, for each year, (a) how many resulted in a guilty verdict, (b) how many were sentenced in the youth co
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Government has made in implementing its strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods to animal testing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2026 to question 7572 titled AQA: Conditions of Employment and Pay, what discussions her Department had had with Ofqual specifically regarding pay and conditions for AQA staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will take steps to ensure that measures are put in place during the creation of Great British Railways to ensure that passengers who are less able to access technology are not excluded from (a
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing legislation that mirrors the Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (Scotland) Bill.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which minister has overall responsibility for volunteer search and rescue policy across government.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's document entitled Care and support statutory guidance, updated on 22 July 2025, when he plans to update the section on adult safeguarding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had discussions with the Pensions Regulator on the security of the Thames Water Pension Scheme.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to (a) help increase the number of banking hubs and (b) protect access to free-to-use cash machines in high-deprivation areas in Glasgow.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with relevant stakeholders on the protection of Thames Water employees’ pensions in the event of (a) insolvency or (b) entry into Special Administration.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for strengthening national oversight of local Safeguarding Adults Boards.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the merger of Vodafone and Three on the rollout of 5G services in (a) Devon and (b) Newton Abbot constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the new national adult safeguarding board to conduct the review of the legal framework for safeguarding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what support her Department is offering to Local Authorities to support the connectivity of 5G in their areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many prosecutions were brought under Railway Byelaws in each of the last five years, broken down by offence category.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the feasibility of transferring 19 Cambridge Square from Cambridgeshire County Council to Wyton on the Hill primary school in the Huntingdon constituency for use as an unde
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the Integrated Care Boards with a women's health hub are delivering all eight core services specified by NHS England; and if his Department will publish the location and service offer o
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to enforce the National Living Wage within the gig economy and delivery-app sectors.