Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of council housing sales have contributed to the construction of new social and affordable housing over each of the last five years.
To ask His Majesty's Government what the outcome is of NHS England's gap analysis on fresh-frozen tissue preservation capacity; and what the timetable is for implementing any recommendations arising from it.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce duplication in local clinical safety and implementation assurance processes for AI-enabled clinical tools that have already been assessed through a national evaluation route, such as the
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how NHS England's Ambient Voice Technology Supplier Registry is being used in practice by NHS organisations; and whether they plan to take any steps to ensure that AI-enabled scribing tools
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to require electronic health record systems to support open, standards-based interoperability, so that clinical documentation generated by AI-enabled tools can be exchanged securely across NHS settings.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the forthcoming mental health strategy for England will address the safety of medicines with psychiatric risk profiles when prescribed for physical health indications; and how the strategy's alignment with the suici
To ask His Majesty's Government how the Sustainable Farming Initiative will apply to upland farms, and in particular, graziers.
To ask His Majesty's Government to what extent the differential in farm payments between farmers in England and those in Scotland is affecting the competitive position of the former.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendation by the Court of Appeal in Haycock v R (EWCA Crim 1105) that there should be a systematic review process to ensure that individuals still subject to imprisonment for publi
To ask The Leader of the House when she expects a Written Answer to be given to the question asked by Lord Moylan on 13 July 2026 (HL2016).
To ask His Majesty's Government how many judicial reviews relating to local government reorganisation are currently in progress.
To ask His Majesty's Government what impact assessment they have undertaken of the effect of local government reorganisation on the financial stability of those local authorities involved.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the capacity of statutory responsible officers in local government in light of ongoing local government reorganisation.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement further fiscal devolution.
To ask His Majesty's Government when they will release the first wave of funding for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether non-mayoral authorities will receive funding from the Social and Affordable Homes Programme.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill on 15 September 2025 (HL10214), what progress they have since made for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's digital services other than driving licence tran
To ask The Leader of the House when she expects a Written Answer to be given to the question asked by Lord Pack on 9 July 2026 (HL1927).
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the merits of replacing council tax with a proportional property tax.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the additional administrative capacity required by local government to take on any new tax powers.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the merits of replacing business rates with a land value tax.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 4 September (HL2266), what specific regulatory mechanisms or market-concentration limitation rules will be established to NHS acute trusts and private corporate bodies th
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 4 September (HL2165), at what administrative level data on Accessible Information Standard compliance in pharmacies is collected; which local bodies, including Integrated
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the risk to the UK economy and national security from loss of access to frontier artificial intelligence models developed overseas.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enable UK technology start-ups to compete more effectively for public sector procurement contracts.