Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has taken diplomatic steps in response to the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of July 2024 on the legal status of Israel’s presence in the occupie

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the humanitarian impact of demolition orders issued against Palestinian villages in the past year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the use of private providers in the children's residential care sector on (a) costs to local authorities, (b) placement stability, (c) outcomes for childr

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of whether UK arms export controls comply with the domestic laws of partner countries.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what oversight mechanisms are in place to ensure that UK-manufactured military components exported to third countries are not transferred onward in ways that may breach (a) UK export control requirements and (b)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the use of private hiring booking apps and navigation applications by taxi and private hire vehicle drivers on (a) road safety and (b) driver d

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department (a) has issued and (b) plans to issue guidance to developers of private hire booking apps and navigation applications on ensuring that such applications can be operated in a hands-free an

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with technology companies, including developers of navigation applications and private hire bookings, on improving safety features to reduce the need for driver interaction while ve

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to establish national accountability for improving brain cancer outcomes, including the development of a time sensitive clinical trials pipeline; and whether he

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to ensure that future children’s online safety policy reflects the experiences of children with additional needs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help ensure that parents and carers have access to clear, accessible and tailored support to help them manage children’s online safety.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that media and digital literacy education is accessible to children with additional needs.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to update the Crossbows Act 198, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislation; and what plans she has to regulate the

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has plans to review the operation and effectiveness of the Legal Ombudsman, including the timeliness within which complaints are handled.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of customers affected by the insolvency of Rowan Energy Ltd and (b) total value of unpaid Feed-in Tariff (FiT) payments owed to those customers; an

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of Ukrainian Government’s decision of 8 May 2026 to add the United Kingdom to its list of permitted second citizenship.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government is on track to reach its Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee target of 13,000 additional police personnel.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role new technology adoption and efficiency tools, including artificial intelligence, will play in reaching the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee target of 13,000 additional police personnel.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will publish a fully costed plan to reach the Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme’s target of £354 million in savings by 2028-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role Artificial Intelligence tools will play in the Government’s pledge to halve violence against women and girls by 2034.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces in England and Wales have procured and adopted new technologies and efficiency tools including artificial intelligence; and if she will provide an update on the progress of the ado

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he had with representatives of the pig industry on market conditions in the sector.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has he made in re-establishing his Department's capability to produce nuclear fuel.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessments her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Fair Dealing Obligations (Pig) Regulations 2025 in preventing abuse by processors.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what impact the awarding of a 10 year contract for supply of General-Purpose Machine Gun L7A2 weapon systems will have on the planned out-of-service date of the L7A2 of 2035.