Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
200,535 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the Answer of 16 April 2024 to Question 124632 on English language, whether his Department recommends local authorities comply with the guidance advising them against
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to publish the statistics his department collates on local authorities in an accessible open data format through an API interface.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the document entitled Traveller caravan count statistics: government response, updated 7 April 2026, whether the ending of site-level data includes ending data
To ask His Majesty's Government whether it will be for new unitary authorities to decide whether to apply for the creation of a Foundation Strategic Authority.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether changes to Green Belt and Grey Belt planning policy in the National Planning Policy Framework since July 2024 apply to planning applications and enforcement appeals relat
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that Covid era Build Back Loan repayment programmes do not contribute to business closures and liquidations.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the dependency of government departments and agencies on IT systems provided by (a) Microsoft and (b) Google; and whether the Government is contracted to those suppliers.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2026 to Question 6440 on Prime Minister: Mobile Phones, and with reference to paragraph 24 of the Cabinet Office guidance, Non-corporate communication channels for government bu
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 13 January 2026, to Question 102672, on WPP Media: Contracts, whether he has set Key Performance Indicators for the WPP Media contract.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to Part of a Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 4 February 2026 relating to the appointment of Lord Mandelson as HM Ambassador to Washington, Volume II Part I, HC2-I, publi
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the yearly cost of trade union facility time under the 2026 Facility Time Framework to his Department.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to have discussions with trade unions on the refresh of the Civil Service Code; whether his Department plans to share the draft Code with the relevant (a) Commons and (b) Lords Selec
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2026 to Question 4176 on Monarchy: information, whether he has considered initiating legal action to obtain official information held by the Crown retained by Lord Mandelson and
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4163 on Government departments: marketing, whether each of the Cabinet Office’s Arm’s Length Bodies have undertaken any expenditure on branded goods since the Go
To ask His Majesty's Government how many proposals they have received from local authorities under the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 relating to the promotion of sustainability in local government since 2015.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2026 to Question 4217 on Cabinet Office: Written Questions, whether any other codes are assigned to Parliamentary Questions other than those relating to (a) Commons or Lords, or
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the press release, Business and civil society leaders brought together to help build digital ID system that works for the public, of 10 June 2026, whether the Advisory Group of Experts have mad
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2026 to Question 1188 on Government Departments: Procurement, what transparency requirements do Departments have on publishing expenditure for tendered services to individual org
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2026 to Question 2755 on Youth Mobility Scheme: EU Countries, whether the Australia and New Zealand schemes allow for (a) benefit payment eligibility and (b) families to join.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2026 to Question 3790 on 10 Downing Street: Libraries, whether she has donated a book to the Prime Minister’s library.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 May 2026 to Question 2052 on Sanctions, whether the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has granted any licences relating to sanctioned Russian individuals and expenditure on pu
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many outstanding applications for compensation are there with the criminal injuries compensation authority as of the 1st June 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for compensation were submitted to the criminal injuries compensation authority in a) 2023, b) 2024, c) 2025 and d) 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has he made of the adequacy of the length of waiting times for applications to the criminal injuries compensation authority.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Regulation Action Plan - Progress Update and Next Steps, of 22 October 2025, if she will place in the Library a copy of the evidential basis for the administrative burden of regulation on busin