Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
201,802 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to undertake a consultation on banning the sale of crossbows.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will announce details of a licensing scheme for existing crossbow owners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many slaughterhouses have been fined for contravening welfare of animals at the time of killing in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many slaughterhouses have been fined for failing hygiene standards in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her departments permits (1) Ministers, (2) Special advisers and (3) officials to use (a) Chat GPT, (b) Google Gemini, (c) Claude (d) Deepseek or (e) Grok as part of their offici
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his department permits (1) Ministers, (2) Special advisers and (3) officials to use (a) Chat GPT, (b) Google Gemini, (c) Claude, (d) Deepseek and (e) Grok as part of their official duties.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his department permits (1) Ministers, (2) Special advisers and (3) officials to use (a) Chat GPT, (b) Google Gemini, (c) Claude, (d) Deepseek and (e) Grok as part of their official duties.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on advertising on podcasts in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in Royal Sutton Coldfield have access to mental health support teams.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of digital connectivity for businesses in the West Midlands.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress she has taken to assist Zimbabwe's return to the Commonwealth; and for what reason her Department vetoed the proposal that Zimbabwe should return at the
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people took their own lives in each year between 2015 and 2025 where the primary cause was addiction to gambling.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will he consult on introducing a statutory Minimum Expiry Period for gift cards offered by retailers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects to receive the report on personal pension savings from the Pensions Commission.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of overseas aid on the provision of clean drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, under the international arrangements English HE providers have for registering with the Office for Students, on how many occasions in the past five years has there been an intervention by the OfS regarding alle
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what her policy is on civilian habitation of the outer atolls of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with international partners on the detention and enforced disappearance of Christians in areas of Yemen under Houthi control since Decembe
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to address cases under the Green Deal and related domestic retrofit schemes where a homeowner was not correctly registered as the energy generator at commissioning; wh
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support the investigation of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other mass atrocity crimes and egregious violations of human right
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department plans to refer the Arakan Army in Myanmar to international justice and accountability mechanisms, including via targeted financial sanctions, for poten
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will extend the temporary reduced rate of VAT on admission tickets to visitor attractions suitable for families with children to include events and festivals suitable for families with children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of East Midlands Railways trains from a) Sheffield to London and b) London to Sheffield have been i) on time, ii) less than fifteen minutes late, iii) 15-30 minutes late, iv) 30-59 minutes late,
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department's contract with East Midlands Railway for train services from Sheffield to London specifies the number of carriages each service should have available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of trains on the East Midlands Railway Sheffield to London service a) had the requisite number of carriages and b) were short formed in each year between 2022 and 2026.