Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,399 questions
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential benefits of (1) running a targeted public health campaign to raise awareness of the health consequences of physique-enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids, and (2) using
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of childcare support for parents seeking to enter or return to employment; whether she has assessed the extent to which the number of funded childcar
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the Nutrient Profiling Model, including the adoption of a free sugars methodology, on (a) the availability of fortifie
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support the rollout of 350 banking hubs by the end of this Parliament.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of towns that have been left without a bank but are not eligible for a banking hub.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the press release entitled Cardiff's biggest ever jobs fair sees thousands of young people connect with local employers, of 15 May 2026, whether his Department has plans to hold jobs f
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her department is taking to reduce anti-social behaviour on trains related to excessive alcohol consumption.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the relationship between alcohol consumption and incidents of anti-social behaviour on trains.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in compensation payments to prisoners convicted of terrorism offences in the past two years, broken down by each payment and the reason for it.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons currently have underfloor heating in prisoner cells; and whether any under construction prison places will have underfloor heating in prisoner cells.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals heard by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) in the last year were brought by sex offenders.
To ask His Majesty's Government what safeguards are in place to prevent potential structural bias in healthcare datasets and to address gaps in health data relating to Black, Asian and minority ethnic individuals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of the Muslim Brotherhood are held in prisons in England and Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held at HMP Belmarsh or HMP Manchester have sued the Ministry of Justice or HMPPS over alleged breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the open-source AI model Qwen in the past two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department provided funding to sharia councils in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there are sharia councils in (a) England and (b) Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women's health hubs have been established in NHS Devon ICB; and what services they provide.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June to Question 9171, whether the £65.5 million difference between the forecast and actual reduction in Support for Passenger Rail Services in 2025-26 was attributable to (a) lower
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the impact on learner drivers of average practical driving test waiting times at Lincoln Driving Test Centre; and what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times and increase te
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the amount of fuel burn resulting from the time taken for Free Route Airspace implementation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff are assigned to delivery of the Lower Airspace Concept programme.
To ask His Majesty's Government what support departments other than the Department of Health and Social Care provide to Integrated Care Boards to address social determinants of health and tackle health inequalities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the HS2 six-monthly report to Parliament published in May 2026, what lessons learned and innovative construction methods were deployed in the completion of the north portal structure at the Ch
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on the Liverpool Street Station redevelopment scheme of changes in senior leadership at Platform4 and Network Rail Property since January 2025.