Written Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many death in service pensions remain outstanding and unpaid as of 17 June 2026.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many ill-health civil service retirement cases remain unresolved as of 17 June.

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the potential impact of a mandatory retirement age in the House of Lords on diversity of experience, expertise, and representation among members of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to announce the final earned settlement model following the consultation period which expired on 12 February.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil service pensioners were awaiting pensions quotations as of 17 June.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Independent Football Regulator can credibly enforce equality and diversity standards in professional football, in the context of the absence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public appointments her Department made between 1 January 2020 and 29 April 2026; and how many of those appointees were a) Black men and b) Black women, broken down by ethnic group.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public appointments her Department made in the periods a) 1 January 2020 to 3 July 2024 and b) 4 July 2024 to 29 April 2026; and how many appointees in each period were i) Black men and

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many non-executive appointments were made to public bodies sponsored by her Department between 1 January 2020 and 29 April 2026; and how many of those appointees were a) Black men and b) Blac

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department holds data on the gender and ethnicity of a) applicants, b) shortlisted candidates and c) successful candidates for public appointments; and if she will publish the number

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have been appointed to the board of the Independent Football Regulator; and how many of those appointees are a) Black men and b) Black women.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department holds information on the gender and ethnicity of applicants and shortlisted candidates for appointments to the board of the Independent Football Regulator.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many appointments to board-level roles in public bodies sponsored by her Department were made between 1 January 2020 and 29 April 2026; and how many of those appointees were Black a) men and

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Livermore on 2 June (HL105), how many times Lord Mandelson was recorded as visiting 10 Downing Street between 4 July 2024 and being appointed Ambassador to the United States according

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the use of terrorist connection provisions under section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020 in cases where no terrorism offence has been (a) charged a

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, where NHSE's powers to negotiate commercial agreements with companies whose products are undergoing NICE appraisal will be transferred.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on legal fees and associated costs defending judicial review proceedings brought by the WASPI Campaign since December 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions Ministers or Officials from his Department have met representatives of the WASPI Campaign since September 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the comparative cost to the public purse of compensating women affected by maladministration in State Pension Age communications, as identified by the Parliamentary and Heal

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the legal costs that may be incurred by the Department in relation to ongoing litigation regarding compensation for women affected by maladministration in State Pension Age

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June to Question 6319 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, how much were the (a) assessment, (b) staff and (c) non-staff costs in each of those years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department has hired external public relations consultants since July 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department has hired external public relations consultants since July 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has hired external public relations consultants since July 2024.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of progress towards achieving the recommendation in the report from the Getting It Right First Time programme Renal Medicine, published in March 2021, that all renal centres should promote hom