Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
201,802 questions
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the economic impact of the proposed overnight visitor levy on the self-catering sector.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the economic impact of the proposed overnight visitor levy on rural and coastal communities.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish an independent economic impact assessment before bringing forward legislation on an overnight visitor levy.
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to amending the rate of VAT on accommodation in the context of the proposed overnight visitor levy.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend that the national specialty lead for rare cancers, to be appointed under the Rare Cancers Act 2026, is to be a full-time, appropriately remunerated post; and at what Civil Service grade or equivalent the
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they gave to the example of Elizabeth line trains when designing the Great British Railways train livery, particularly as regards the use of yellow paint on the face of the cab.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill on 20 April (HL Deb col 504) and the remarks by Baroness Blake of Leeds on 28 April (HL Deb col 1063), whether the previous Network Rail pay settlement did or did not i
To ask His Majesty's Government when a British diplomatic or consular representative in Ireland last visited Shannon Airport and whether any report was made as to the arrangements there for implementing the Common Travel Area for passengers arriving direc
To ask His Majesty's Government what the appeal backlog in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is as of 1 June.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many appeals have been resolved in the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in each of the last 12 months, broken down by month, for which records are held.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many respondents to their consultation paper Growing up in the online world, published on 2 March, said that they either (1) strongly agree, or (2) somewhat agree, that “social media services should have a minimum age o
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the Health and Safety Executive’s proposals to lower the permitted level of lead in the blood of general employees, what assessment they have made of the impact on those who work in the heritage arts and crafts
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the Health and Safety Executive’s proposals to lower the permitted level of lead in the blood of general employees, what assessment they have made of the impact on stained glass artists.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 10th February (HL14019), what the timeframe for the recruitment of a new Anti-Slavery Commissioner is; and what steps they are taking to ensure continuity in the rol
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to bring requesting and creating non-consensual intimate images into the scope of the image-based abuse offences in sections 66E and 66F of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the national police inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal has sufficient funding and resources.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the welfare implications of breeding wildcat hybrids.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to ban the breeding of wildcat hybrids in light of animal welfare concerns.
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of those releasing gamebirds under licence in England on (1) special areas of conservation, and (2) special protection areas, or within 500 metres of their boundaries, have registered their birds on the poul
To ask His Majesty's Government which notifiable diseases have been confirmed in (1) pheasants, and (2) red-legged partridges, in the last five years; and whether there is evidence of transmission to wild birds for any of these diseases.
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the Natural England report The risks from H5N1 to wild birds from captive-reared mallard, published on 24 June 2024, what assessment they have made of the need to regulate captive-reared mallard releases to red
To ask His Majesty's Government for what reason captive bred pheasants released and managed for shooting are considered wild birds under avian influenza rules; and what plans they have to reconsult on this classification.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Brazil; and what measures they are taking to develop an Ebola vaccine.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for genomic testing to identify which breast cancer patients require chemotherapy and which do not, in light of the recent trial by University College London entitled Optimal
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for the drug Daraxonrasib to treat advanced pancreatic cancer; and when they expect the National Institute for Health and Care to complete their technology appraisal of the dr