Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
201,802 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support will be available to hospices during the period between the publication of the interim Modern Service Framework for Palliative and End of Life Care and the implementation of subsequent
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department identifies employment, earnings and occupational outcomes for Sikhs as a distinct group.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the visibility of Sikhs across Government data collection systems.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evidence her Department uses to assess socioeconomic inequalities impacting Sikhs where Sikh-specific ethnicity data is unavailable.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government departments have made representations on the absence of Sikh ethnicity data in policy development and service delivery.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration he has given to the potential merits of using mobile phone alerts to warn of the dangers of cold water shock in hot weather.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's consultation document entitled Make Work Pay: ending one-sided flexibility – reforms of zero hours and similar contracts, published on 2 June 2026, what is the eviden
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department’s consultation document entitled Make Work Pay: ending one-sided flexibility – reforms of zero hours and similar contracts, published on 2 June 2026, what is the eviden
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department’s consultation document entitled Make Work Pay: ending one-sided flexibility – reforms of zero hours and similar contracts, published on 2 June 2026, what cost-benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department’s consultation document entitled Make Work Pay: ending one-sided flexibility – reforms of zero hours and similar contracts, published on 2 June 2026, whether his Depart
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department’s consultation document entitled Make Work Pay: ending one-sided flexibility – reforms of zero hours and similar contracts, published on 2 June 2026, what meetings he h
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has assessed the potential merits of establishing a national register of mobile mast sites that periodically reports on their number and operational status, inclu
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on ensuring children and young people with a visual impairment in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire get the support that they need.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, a) what assessment has the Department made of orthodontic waiting times in the Greater Manchester region and b) whether the Department is taking steps to bring down those waiting times.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has had discussions with the YMCA on their proposals to deliver 10,000 homes for young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of mandatory suicide prevention training for emergency service workers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Marie Curie's Fix End of Life Care campaign.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote and support the adoption of the (a) Rights Respecting Schools programme and (b) principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the change in funding levels for the Independent Commission for Aid Impact on the evaluation of the (a) effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to support hospices prior to the implementation of the reforms outlined within the Modern Service Framework for Palliative and End of Life Care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent progress he has made through the parental leave and pay review in assessing the potential merits of introducing a statutory entitlement to paid leave for kinship carers comparable to entitl
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking as part of the Parental Leave and Pay Review to enable kinship carers to access leave and pay entitlements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 10 June 2026 to Question 3569, what the estimated cost is of providing retrospective pre-1997 indexation only, excluding arrears, at a CPI cap of 2.5% to Financial Assistance S
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Jobcentre Plus offices share information across their region and nationally on the effectiveness of employment support programmes commissioned through
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the written answer to 7774 of 12th June 2026, whether the Department plans to publish the names of organisations awarded funding through the Democratic Engagement Fun