Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
201,802 questions
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have considered reviewing the eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to ensure support reaches children in working households experiencing poverty.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to renew or extend the £15 million surplus food redistribution fund supporting the diversion of surplus produce from farms to community food projects.
To ask His Majesty's Government what resources have been provided to the Care Quality Commission to undertake its additional function arising from the Manchester Arena Inquiry of managing registrations and inspections of medical providers delivering healt
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the resources required by medical providers delivering healthcare at sporting and cultural venues and events to become registered with the Care Quality Commission and maintain compliance.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the internal investigation by Liverpool Women’s University Hospital into inappropriate access to the medical records of victims in Southport included an assessment of whether the records of victims who had died in h
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the internal investigation by Liverpool Women’s University Hospital into inappropriate access to the medical records of victims in Southport considered the patient or the hospital itself to have been a victim of the
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the internal investigation by Liverpool Women’s University Hospital into inappropriate access to the medical records of victims in Southport examined (1) breaches using hospital systems to access the patients' GP re
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether there was any inappropriate access to records of people receiving NHS care as a result of events currently subject to a public inquiry other than the internal investigation by Liver
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the pilot announced in the Financial Inclusion Strategy, which aims to increase uptake of contents insurance among social renters in England, will include residents on socially rented Gypsy and Traveller sites.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the total direct cost to the United Kingdom economy of industrial action on the London Underground since 1 April 2026.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how many working days were lost across the broader London commuter base as a result of industrial action by members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers on the Lond
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of lost fare revenue attributable to industrial action on the London Underground since 1 April 2026.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Chapman of Darlington on 26 May (HL43), what was the total cost of each of the eight overseas visits undertaken by Baroness Harman as UK Special Envoy for Women and Girls since Mar
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce heat-related deaths during heat waves in the UK.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to mandate climate adaptation measures in urban planning.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support businesses with (1) accessing climate information, (2) adaptation planning, and (3) managing the health of employees during extreme weather.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the response given by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 28 April (HL Deb col 1112), how many key performance indicators for Capita have been set in total across its government and public sector contracts; w
To ask His Majesty's Government when the performance of a firm under other government and public sector contracts can or cannot be taken into account when deciding to which firm to award a new contract to.
To ask His Majesty's Government why the social media platform X has been selected for promotion in the standard signatures on many official Whitehall emails; why other social networks are not mentioned; and what plans they have to review the preference gi
To ask His Majesty's Government what will happen to the information, particularly the database, from the conflict and security monitoring project run by the Centre for Information Resilience if that project is closed.
To ask His Majesty's Government how closing the conflict and security monitoring project run by the Centre for Information Resilience for the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office is in line with their support for the enforcement and support of inte
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they had made of the potential impact on privacy rights under (1) the Data Protection Act 2018, and (2) section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, prior to laying the Equality and Human Rights Commission
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions her department has had with the ONS regarding the use of the Special Administration Regime in the water sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle knife crime in the North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps were taken to protect the newly establishing trees in the Western Forest during May’s heatwave.