Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
201,802 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many retail, hospitality and leisure businesses have ceased trading in Fylde constituency and Lancashire since April 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of industrial energy costs on the competitiveness of high street businesses and the wider retail, hospitality and leisure sectors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 13 April 2026 to WPQ 123377, when she will place a copy of NO2 Programme expenditure in the House of Commons Library.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to maintain access to pharmacy services in rural and underserved communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to miscarriage investigation and support services for patients in the Chichester constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take legislative steps to make the Water Restoration Fund a long-term legal entity in the proposed Clean Water Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish the draft legislative steps she intends to take to reform of out-of-area taxi-licensing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Government News Story published on 19 June 2025 entitled Government to invest over £100m in water company fines to local environmental projects, if she will publi
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the fines levied against water companies since October 2023 a) has been b) is going to be reinvested into river restoration projects; and if she will put mechanisms
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered extending to community pharmacies the business rates mitigation measures announced for other high street sectors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all electronic Personal Education Plan systems used by local authority Virtual Schools meet robust national minimum security and data protection standards, particularly f
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department plans to issue requiring Virtual School Heads to conduct appropriate due diligence and Data Protection Impact Assessments on third-party ePEP providers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to address gaps in broadband connectivity in rural areas where properties are beyond effective range of fibre-to-the-cabinet infrastructure and have no confirme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on police incidents over the past 10 years in which allegations of racism were recorded as a factor in the identification, treatment or handling of suspects and victims;
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will work with the ICO and CCS to review safeguarding risks posed by current ePEP platforms and consider mandatory independent cybersecurity audits and NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit compliance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of potential harm to looked-after children if weaknesses in ePEP systems lead to data breaches or inadequate safeguarding of their personal information.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to review police incidents over the past 10 years where allegations of racism were cited as a factor in the identification, treatment, and handling of suspects and victims.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many large business tax disputes have been submitted to international arbitration in the last 5 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to remove the requirement for three miscarriages before women are routinely offered support following pregnancy loss.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consistency of police responses in incidents where allegations of racism were recorded contemporaneously as a factor in officers’ operational decision-making; and w
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2026 to Question 2244, if she will publish the update issued to the Transport Select Committee on Friday 22 May 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of renaming the National Food Strategy as the National Food and Drink Strategy to recognise the impact of drinks on diet.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of updating the EatWell guide to reflect the importance of healthy drinks choices.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendation in Human Rights Watch's report entitled From Bogotá to El Fasher, publishe
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of incorporating renewable energy generation forecasts into publicly available weather broadcasts.