Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
Bank Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support face-to-face banking in rural communities.
What fiscal steps he is taking to help improve employment opportunities.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 2024 Budget on businesses in Runnymede and Weybridge constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she will take to help tackle the use of vehicle number plates which are (a) false or (b) unreadable by automatic number plate recognition technology, with regard to (i) increasing penalties for (A) u
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of aligning air quality index bands of Moderate, High, and Very High with those of other public health warnings such as the Yellow,
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the UK's negotiating position is at the UNECE in relation to Annex IX of the Gothenburg Protocol.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people signed up to her Department's email air quality alerts in each calendar month from September 2025 to August 2026 inclusive.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the table with health advice for each band of the Daily Air Quality Index was removed from the DEFRA UK AIR webpage; and for what reason.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the annual Compliance Assessment Summary for air pollution in the UK for 2025 before 14 September 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department (1) uses or (2) is taking active steps to install rooftop solar panels on its premises.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the length of waiting times for access to mental health services for residents of Royal Sutton Coldfield.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to eliminate rough sleeping in the Birmingham City Council area.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what has been the annual change in tax paid by individuals on savings interest in (a) 2022/23, (b) 2023/24, (c) 2024/25 and (d) 2025/26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will hold discussions with his counterpart in the Netherlands regarding the experience there in dealing with the number of younger people who are not in education, employment of training and
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of people aged 75 and over who have phoned the free bowel cancer screening helpline in each of the last three years.