Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any of the Going Forward into Employment programmes which recruit Civil Servants require the recruits to be from a working class socio-economic background to be eligible.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the MHCLG annual report and accounts 2025 to 2026, HC484, 15 July 2026, page 62, and to the Cabinet Office, Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2026, how many of the special
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Office, Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2026, footnote 8, for what reason the special adviser temporarily worked part time.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans she has to reduce the size of the Civil Service as part of the transfer of responsibilities to mayoral combined authorities.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how often the National Economic Council will meet.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information the Resourcing Reform Team holds on specific secondments (a) out of the Civil Service and (b) into the Civil Service, across (1) the Cabinet Office and (2) the wider Civil Service.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will list the current secondments (a) into the Office of the Prime Minister and (b) from the Office of the Prime Minister to other bodies.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will publish the library catalogue of the Prime Minister’s Library.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many of the cars in the Government Car Service for (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials are electric cars.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many ONS staff are assigned to Darlington Feethams House; and what is the expectation of the percentage rate of office attendance for staff at that office.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for how many months has the Independent Chair of the Parliamentary and Political Service Committee been vacant; and what is the status of the replacement.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Office, Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2026, footnote 4, for what reason each of the salaries was temporarily uplifted.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the MHCLG annual report and accounts 2025 to 2026, HC484, 15 July 2026, page 174, whether any related party transactions were declared by special advisers across all Departments in 2025-26.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Civil Service Fast Stream staff are being required to work in (a) Darlington, (b) Glasgow or (c) Manchester, as part of their tenure in the Fast Stream.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in No10 North also have desks, whether allocated or unallocated, in HM Treasury's office at 1 Horseguards Road.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Deposited Paper reference DEP2026-0505, committed on 9 July 2026, entitled Letter dated 13/07/2026 from Victoria Cleland, Chief Cashier and Senior Advisor to the Governors, Bank of England in respo
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 8 June 2026 to Question 4139 on Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness, if he will place in the Library a copy of the efficiency saving reports provided to HM Treasury by each departmen
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Treasury Civil Service Fast Stream staff are being required to work in (a) Darlington, (b) Glasgow or (c) Manchester, as part of their tenure in the Fast Stream.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there is an (a) impact assessment or (b) business case, of the (i) costs and (ii) benefits of assigning staff to No10 North making relative to the staff being based in Westminster in HM Treasury.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 17 July 2026, to Question 16029, on Darlington Economic Campus: Remote Working, how many HMT staff are assigned to Darlington Feethams House; and what is the expectation of the percentage r
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether National Wealth Fund staff in Leeds are permitted to commute from London; and how many days a week the staff must be in the office in Leeds.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to HMRC's external research programme 2026 to 2027, updated July 2026 and published August 2026, reference 2627CCG01, the Tobacco Tax Gap: Improving Tax Gap Statistics Through Wastewater Analysis, wha
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 7 July 2026, to Question 13818, on DfE: Social Media, what was the aggregate cost of paying the 57 influencers in 2025-26, including agency fees.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15242 on Universities: Admissions, whether TUNDRA can be used to determine (a) whether an individual has an offer of admission and (b) the academic requirement
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has been made by (i) his department, (ii) the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and (iii) the Office for Students of adequacy of the number of white British working class students th