Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the water management grant of up to £15 million, within the drought support package.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken to deliver the fast-tracking of applications with 100% affordable homes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support smaller providers to access land to deliver affordable housing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the number of trusts where maternity services have had culturally sensitive training on racism and discrimination on Black women’s
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration his Department has made to utilise digital technology to allow the DVLA to tax vehicles by the day, rather than the month.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether artificial intelligence will be used to analyse responses submitted to the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care; and what steps will be taken to ensure that analysis reflects the vie
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps is she taking to increase Sikh community participation in mainstream sport.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to make schools more fit for students and staff during future heatwaves.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure delivery companies delivering alcohol comply with age and licensing requirements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to support UK bus manufacturing and strengthen the domestic supply chain, in the context of increasing competition from China in the zero-emission bus market; and what assess
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures she is taking to support small and medium sized businesses in the UK bus manufacturing supply chain.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Government's definition of social value rewards bidders who support businesses across the supply chain and create jobs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide a list of organisations that she has met with advocating for community sports partners, such as Parkrun, to remove gender self-identification from participants; wheth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of availability of NHS dental appointments in Bristol; and what steps her Department is taking to increase access to NHS dentistry for new adult and chi
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of dental workforce shortages on the provision of NHS dental services in the South West; and what steps she is taking to recruit and retain NHS
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding is available for preventive dental health programmes in Bristol.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) financial and (b) non-financial incentives her Department is planning to take to support SMEs in meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks for students with Education, Health and Care Plans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of support available to SMEs to provide Gatsby Benchmark-aligned careers and workplace opportunities for students with Education, Health and Care Plans, and what ste
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with representatives of SMEs on the potential introduction of incentives to support compliance with the Gatsby Benchmarks for young people with Education, Health and Care Plans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the number and proportion of complaints relating to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) that are escalated to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsm
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what enforcement powers are available to her Department where a local authority is repeatedly found by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman to have failed in its statutory duties towards children and
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department maintains records of local authorities that have received multiple Ombudsman findings relating to failures in the delivery of Education, Health and Care Plans, SEND assessments or statuto
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to make Palestinians in Gaza eligible for the new Named Community Sponsorship route.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much money from central government grants has been allocated to Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service in the 2026/27 financial year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her department’s priorities are for this parliamentary session.