Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has conducted a formal corruption and integrity risk assessment on the Chagos Deal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will provide a list of external legal, strategic, intelligence, PR and lobbying advice in relation to the proposed Chagos deal with Mauritius; who that advice was from;
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that people with epilepsy are represented in the work of the Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve maternity care for women with epilepsy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Intensive Supervision Court in Bristol on levels of reoffending.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the current security situation in Tigray and its potential impact on further implementation of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment her Department has made of the carbon emitted from disturbance of carbon stores on the seabed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will take steps to mitigate disturbance of blue carbon stores on the seabed by requiring marine developers to align with the Greenhouse Gas Assessment process.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will publish the consultation on banning the use of carbon dioxide gas stunning of pigs promised in the animal welfare strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department collects on (a) animal welfare breaches identified during farm inspections and (b) subsequent enforcement action taken; and whether she plans to publish those
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information from individual farm animal welfare inspections is routinely published, and what assessment she has made of whether those arrangements provide adequate public scrutiny
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to prohibit or discourage the use of plastic confetti and replace with biodegradable alternatives.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will encourage local authorities to (a) measure the level of furniture provision within their social housing stock and (b) ensure that (i) low-income and (ii) vulnerable p
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will standardise the approach for measuring and monitoring data on domestic abuse survivors and the housing tenure they receive to allow for a comparative study of the dif
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the answer to UIN 117428 given on 10th March 2026, what the timescale is for the evaluation of the Prison Education Service and if he will provide an update on progress.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the current evaluation of the Prison Education Service will include a review of pay structures for prison education staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional cost to the public purse of expanding the automatic eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to include all care-experienced children, incl
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of (a) the adequacy of the number of approvals for people to become adoptive parents and (b) whether further steps should be taken to encourage more potential adopters to come forwa
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will set out a timeline for a final funding decision from the Hydrogen Allocation Round 2 process.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) prevalence of respiratory disease and (b) number of emergency hospital admissions for respiratory conditions in Washington and Gateshead South const
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her Department’s timeline is for deciding on the second wave of Modern Service Frameworks; and whether respiratory conditions will be considered.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress her Department has made in (a) reforming the secondary ticketing market and (b) preventing the resale of live event tickets for profit.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle ticket fraud linked to online ticket resale platforms.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, a) how many people in Washington and Gateshead South receive Personal Independence Payment (PIP); b) how many PIP claimants are there per ward in the constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate her Department has made of the number of industrial electrification projects that are abandoned before they reach a formal grid connection application.