Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department will accept the recommendation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body that NHS England and the Department undertake a rapid evaluation of Advice and Guidance servi
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body's findings that poorly implemented Advice and Guidance pathways have co
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, if he will make it his policy to restrict sale of high tech smart glasses to those with a documented accessibility need.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2026 to Question 110439 on Defence: Finance, and with reference to the Defence Investment Plan published on 30 June 2026, what the Ministry of Defence Total Departmental Expe
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether cyclists are legally obliged to stop at a zebra crossing across a cycle track at a floating bus stop.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of local authority parking charges based on vehicle dimensions on households requiring larger vehicles due to family size.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of producing the video published on his Department’s X account on 25 August 2026, including the cost of (a) the cake, (b) fees and expen
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) revenue, (b) cost and (c) net profit was for on-board catering services, including buffet and trolley services, for (i) London North Eastern Railway, (ii) Northern Trains, (iii) Southeastern, (iv)
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending business rates improvement relief to property owners as well as occupiers.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact on investment in retail properties of reducing the standard business rates multiplier for retail, hospitality and leisure properties by a further 5p to 38p f
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many retail properties in England have become vacant in each of the last three years, and what proportion of those properties were still vacant after three months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people (a) sentenced to, and (b) still serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection have previously been living in local authority care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) serving, (b) not serving an IPP sentence have been released directly into the community from a secure hospital, since 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) serving, and (b) not serving an IPP sentence have been detained under the Section 47/49 pathway before release from prison, since 2016.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will undertake a review of the Community Amateur Sports Club threshold.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue HM Treasury raised from Community Amateur Sports Clubs in the last financial year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to publish constituency level data from the Agricultural Land Use in England survey from June 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of workforce shortages in the agricultural sector on UK food security.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to support farmers in addressing workforce shortages.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Further Education residential funding guidelines.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of average waiting times for Medical Examiner scrutiny of deaths since the statutory extension of the service to all deaths in England and Wales;
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on average waiting times for appointments to register a death at register offices in England and Wales; and what assessment she has made of the impact of any dela
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the time taken by HMRC to resolve cases, and what steps he is taking to reduce delays.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her department is taking to improve existing arrangements, or to develop new policy and funding mechanisms, to support the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce regional and socioeconomic inequalities in access to diagnostic assessments for neurodivergent differences such as dyslexia and ADHD.