Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 18 June 2026 to Question 9022 on Education: Equality, whether the socio-economic duty will apply to policies and decisions on Civil Service recruitment.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether her Department maintains an internal Outcome Delivery Plan.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 13 April 2026 to Question 124080 on Lord Mandelson, whether Darren Tierney offered to interview Lord Mandelson.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet holds a list of envoys in place in each department.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Professor Sullivan report, Review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender: executive summary, published 19 March 2025, what steps is the Office for National Statistics taking to
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 8 July 2026 to Question 15709 on Lord Mandelson, whether the General Counsel to the Prime Minister produced a (a) written or (b) verbal report following his fact-finding exercise and in
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report, Cabinet Office, Second Headquarters: Year in Review 2025, published 9 January 2026, how many Cabinet Office special advisers are permanently assigned to the Second Headquarters in G
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will list the equivalent annual renumeration of Jonathan Powell when he was a direct ministerial appointment as Special Envoy to the Prime Minister.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 5 June 2026 to Question 3763 on Government Communications Service: Staff, and of 19 January 2026 to Question 104195 on Government Communication Se
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance has been given to local authorities by HM Government on (a) civil or (b) criminal penalties for urination in a public place in (i) England and (ii) London, includin
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much has the Shared Prosperity Fund made to employment schemes whose eligibility is restricted by (a) race and (b) to ethnic minorities since July 2024 ; and what assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many job advertisements for her Department were published on the Civil Service jobs website in 2025 which were (a) available on public website and (b) only available to Civil
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report commissioned by the Government Office for Science entitled False and Misleading Information: An Evidence Summary and Map for Policy and Practice, pub
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026, to Question 4161, on Government departments: marketing, how much has been spend on branded goods and merchandise by the Department since th
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2026 to Question 11665 on Local Government: Reorganisation, whether (a) the Privy Council and (b) her Department has a policy document on assess
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2026 to Question 11665 on Local Government: Reorganisation, whether (a) borough and (b) city status can be transferred to (i) a (A) town and (B)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 22 June 2026 to Question 9331 on DSIT: Buildings, what the percentage HQ office attendance is calculated using the number of unique individual security pa
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 14611 on DHSC: Facilities Agreements, for what reason the Code of Practice is being updated for the Employment Rights Act 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15234 on EU Files Forum, for what reason confidentiality is required in relation to the attendees of the EU Files Forum; and what
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, with reference to the KPI Regulator Dashboard, updated 8 July 2026, whether he has plans to set KPIs for all public sector regulators.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what was the cost of (a) restructuring and (b) rebranding the departments of DBT and DSIT to BIST.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 29 May 2026 to Question 421 on Independent Football Regulator, for what reason the Prime Minister’s Appointment Unit was consulted on the appointment; and whether No10 special advisers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 8 July 2026 to Question 14168 on DHSC: Stonewall, for what policy reason the NHS Blood and Transplant Service subscribes to Stonewall; and what was the total annual cost o
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of the level of pay differentials between senior public sector positions in (a) the Civil Service and (b) the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether all DHSC Arm's Length Bodies reported external EDI expenditure to the Cabinet Office for 2024-25 in line the Cabinet Office EDI expenditure guidance.