Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
201,802 questions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Share Foundation's proposal for an automatic release process for HMRC-allocated Child Trust Fund accounts; and whether the Government will introduce such a process
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel in the (a) military, (b) police and (c) intelligence services who were charged and prosecuted in Northern Ireland for any criminal offence connected to the Troubles during the period of Operati
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current planning guidance and national planning rules in enabling local planning authorities to consider the cumulative impact of m
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to embed speech and language therapists in neighbourhood health teams.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his planned timetable is for Awaab's Law to be implemented within the private rented sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on supporting the upskilling of regulatory assessors as part of the Replacing Animals in Science strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Tough US-style courts to crack down on repeat offenders, published on 12 June 2026, how many offenders are expected to participate in Intensive Supervisio
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Tough US-style courts to crack down on repeat offenders, published on 12 June 2026, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Intensive Supervis
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether a) there has been an estimate of the number of unoccupied retirement flats across the country and b) can they can clarify whether developers are receiving Government gran
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Ministry of Justice's press release entitled Tough US-style courts to crack down on repeat offenders, published on 12 June 2026, what estimate he has made of the savings to the prison estate
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Ministry of Justice's press release entitled Tough US-style courts to crack down on repeat offenders, published on 12 June 2026, how many offenders have participated in Intensive Supervision
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Ministry of Justice's press release entitled Tough US-style courts to crack down on repeat offenders, published on 12 June 2026, what criteria are used to determine eligibility for Intensive
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the Licensing Act 2003 in regulating the placement of alcohol products in retail premises near products primarily intended for children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the National Police Service will be covered by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the gap between NHS England's 2018 commissioning target of 1,000 left atrial appendage occlusion procedures per annum and current delivery.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the current in-development framework regarding the regulation of AI in healthcare will introduce a medical device classification for AI software requiring external assessment, and whether t
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure patient data privacy regarding the use of AI software in the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to strengthen protections against unauthorised access to patient data.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to limit the transfer of patient data to overseas contractors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government has assessed the compliance of its contracts with Oracle Corporation with UK GDPR in light of the US CLOUD Act; and whether the Information Commissioner’s Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what safeguards are in place to protect UK data held by US cloud providers from access requests made on US national security grounds outside the scope of the UK–US Data Access Agreement
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government has conducted a legal assessment of the interaction between the US CLOUD Act and the use of Oracle’s UK Sovereign Cloud for public sector data.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what alternative methods are available for individuals to demonstrate their right to work if they do not hold a Government digital identity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to post-16 qualifications on (a) skills development in the creative industries, (b) access to
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people receiving Carer’s Allowance are aware that taxable benefits in kind, including employer contributions to private health schemes, may be treated