Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Treasury's press release, Millions to benefit from lower travel and food costs, of 27 May 2026, whether the tariff reductions on the 125 types of goods will include goods imported

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what (a) statistics and (b) data his Department collects on industrial action in the public sector.

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress the Intellectual Property Office has made on discussions with the EU Intellectual Property Office on a memorandum of understanding to improve administrative cooperation in

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report of the Paterson Inquiry, what assessment they have made of the current system of regulation and whether the collaboration of regulators serves patient safety as the top priority; and what assessment t

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the answer of 27 February 2026, to Question 113802, on British Business Bank, what is the name of the defined pension workplace pension scheme provided by Aegon.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the answer of 20 May 2026 to Question 1185 on Council of Europe: LGBT+ People, what (a) is the name of the government funded project and (b) are the 36 activities that it has supported.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026, published on 21 May 2026, if she will outline the changes that the Government requested to

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of full-time staff on full pay in the Office for Equality and Opportunity work compressed hours over a four day week.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the answer of 27 April 2026 to Question 129027 on Equality: Impact Assessments, how that approach to equalities impact assessments will be (a) delivered and (b) enforced.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the answer of 29 April 2026 to Question HL16424 on Intelligence Services: Voluntary Work, whether the Office for Equality and Opportunity have advised on the status of White Irish as an ethni

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the prevalence of respiratory disease and (b) the number of emergency hospital admissions for respiratory conditions in Salford; and what steps he is

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the financial savings of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s decision to introduce a revised volunteer model for Coastguard Rescue Officers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to maintain operational resilience of HM Coastguard on the Lincolnshire coastline in the context of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s announcement regarding the future model for

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to introduce regulation to ensure the (a) prominence of UK public service broadcaster content on YouTube and other major Video Sharing Platforms and (b) distribution of t

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Health Services Safety Investigations Body now has full powers to investigate patient safety incidents; and what investigations, if any, it has conducted in the independent sector since those powers were conferr

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many licences for testing self-driving cars have been given to (a) Baidu and (b) other automotive companies partnered with Chinese providers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the outage of Baidu self-driving cars in Wuhan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) Baidu and (b) other Chinese software companies' compliance with the extraterritorial elements of the People's Republic of China (i) National intell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether current workforce planning assumptions for prevention and long term condition management services specify roles for (a) individual allied health professions and (b) dietitians; and whether

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS clinical pathways for patients prescribed weight loss medications require access to dietary and nutritional support, including referral to dietetic services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the workforce required to support the safe delivery of NHS weight loss medication services, including the management of nutritional complications.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for a dental appointment was in the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB area in each of the last ten years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve children's access to dental care in York Central constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions there were for dental treatment for (a) children (b) adults at York Teaching Hospital in each of the last 5 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was to access Community Dental Services for (a) children (b) adults under the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust area in each of the last 5 years.