Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether his Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether her Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies sanctioned under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 were found to have sponsored visas in the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure the Probation Service has adequate capacity to effectively manage the number of offenders being released on license from October 2026.

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many passes to the parliamentary estate were active at the end of each calendar year between 2015 and 2025, broken down by (a) Members of the House of

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many passes to the parliamentary estate were granted in each calendar year between 2015 and 2025, broken down by (a) Members of the House of Commons, (

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to raise the standard of proof required for conclusions of unlawful killing at inquests from the civil standard back to the criminal standard.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Recommendation 2 of the Police Accountability Rapid Review published by Sir Adrian Fulford and Tim Godwin, what progress his Department has made on launching a public consultation on the standar

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been unable to have a second donor stem cell transplant due to NHS guidance which does not allow patients to have a second transplant within a year if they have relapse under

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients with blood cancer have been denied funding for a second donor stem cell transplant due to the current NHS policy of not allowing patients to have a second transplant if they relap

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders who volunteered under the Early Return Scheme have been removed for the UK since 1 April 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the longest time period to return a foreign national offender who volunteered under the Early Return Scheme since 1 April 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extreme weather changes on food availability, flooding and fires; and what measures her Department will take to ensure that the

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has for the restoration of wetlands, peatlands, floodplains and salt marshes as a flood defence mechanism.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are plans to roll out Green Social Prescribing on the NHS across (a) Lancashire and (b) England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to ensure a safe and effective transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies; and what financial assistance and incentives will be provided to homeown

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of additional deaths (a) related to and (b) caused by extreme weather temperatures; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce that number.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to tackle food insecurity in relation to reducing food waste, improving agricultural food production and increasing climate resilience.

To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to distribute to the book entitled Everybody Loves our Dollars by Oliver Bullough to his Cabinet.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what has been the change in the number of interventions under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, in acquisitions of entities and assets in, or linked to, the UK that may pose national security risks

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of whether the current immigration system meets Scotland’s projected workforce needs over the next ten years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of international examples of regional migration schemes, including those operating in Canada and Australia, and their applicability to Scotland.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of UK asylum processing backlogs on Scottish local authority public services.