Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
201,802 questions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made full provision for current and anticipated liabilities arising from compensation payments associated with the infected blood scandal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Oral Statement of 21 May 2026 on Middle East: Economic Response, Official Report, columns 731-733 and Ofgem's press release entitled Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to increase long term public and private investment in rewilding and nature restoration projects.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support is available for land managers seeking to transition to rewilding based approaches, including advisory services and payment schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards are in place within the NHS Federated Data Platform to help ensure that external contractors and third-party suppliers are not able to access identifiable patient data.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Section 254 direction under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 will be published and laid before Parliament for full scrutiny.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that changes to data access arrangements within the NHS Federated Data Platform have been subject to a Data Protection Impact Assessment and appropriat
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations of the cross-party parliamentary committee report on the role of Palantir in the NHS Federated Data
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will develop and publish a fully costed strategy for the NHS Federated Data Platform contract.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the closure of applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive on farmers seeking to undertake (a) nature recovery, (b) habita
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential role of nature based solutions, including beaver-led wetland restoration, in reducing storm flows and improving drought resilie
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to review licensing arrangements for the reintroduction of native species, including beavers and lynx.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to introduce legally binding targets for the restoration of Sites of Special Scientific Interest to favourable condition.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Department has to expand marine rewilding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what incentives are available to support rewilding projects that aim to (a) reduce flood risk, (b) mitigate extreme weather impacts, and (c) address soil erosion and agricultural runof
To ask His Majesty's Government what (1) financial support, and (2) other support, they are providing to support the (a) discovery, (b) development, and (c) delivery of new anti-fungal drugs.
To ask His Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to identify and prevent the importation of drug-resistant fungal pathogens in plant-derived materials in food and non-food products; and what research they have undertaken to support this work.
To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to publish a response to the consultation Exploring the role of alternative clean heating solutions, which closed on 10 February; and whether the response will be published in advance of the publication of
To ask His Majesty's Government what role they intend renewable liquid fuels to play in meeting current and future Carbon Budgets.
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current estimate of the cost to complete the HS2 work between Old Oak Common and Handsacre, including the interchange station on the Great Western Mainline at Old Oak Common.
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of mobile mast sites will be affected by the renewals provisions in sections 61 to 64 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022; and what methodology they have used for coming to
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the provisions concerning a complaints process about the conduct of operators under section 70 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 are now in effect; and, if not, when they will co
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether data collected by countries which are members of the Drone Subgroup of the OECD Working Party on Pesticides provides a sufficient basis to accelerate the use of drones to spray regu
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 28 April (HC116493), why the launch of the competition for a permanent appointment to the role of Director General for Propriety, Ethics
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made by her Department of the statistical reliability of the OBR's claim that the UK economy is growing more slowly than if the UK had remained in the EU after 2021; and if she will set out