Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, if he will take steps to encourage businesses to provide deals and offers that accommodate the needs of individuals living alone.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the frequency of cases where incomes are being incorrectly inflated in child maintenance payment calculations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she will consider the merits of making one-to-one mentoring a statutory right for children in care & care leavers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, will she take steps to ensure energy companies provide automatic refunds to customers in a timely manner.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the role of desalination plants in mitigating the consequences of drought.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has her Department made of long-term water supply resilience in a.) Stevenage and b.) the East of England.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming Stamp Duty Land Tax.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with mutual building societies on their role in increasing sustainable homeownership and supporting economic growth.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current regulatory framework for mutual building societies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on first-time buyers of residential properties routinely selling for more than their advertised price, and what steps her dep
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing consistent data on (a) recurrence and (b) longer-term survival rates for secondary breast cancer.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure people at increased risk of breast cancer receive adequate screening and wrap-around support.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of support available to people with (a) multiple sclerosis and (b) other progressive neurological conditions in (i) Broxtowe constituency, (ii) Nottingh
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase capacity within NHS neurology services in (i) Broxtowe, (ii) Nottinghamshire, and (iii) England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with international allies to help safeguard shipping and international trade transiting through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support her Department is providing to Integrated Care Systems to ensure people with multiple sclerosis receive the best possible care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether UK aid funding is being used to fund depo Provera contraceptive injections.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help improve dementia diagnosis, treatment and long-term care provision for military veterans in (i) Broxtowe constituency and (ii) Nottinghamshire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential benefits of funding immunotherapy research for people with early-stage type 1 diabetes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation to require electric scooter and electric bike hire operators to provide helmets attached to each vehicle.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the judgment in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act [2026] UKSC 16, what s
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure adequate resources for the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman to handle caseloads and help resolve issues.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide an update on his Department's work to abolish the Work Capability Assessment as outlined in the 'Pathways to Work' Green Paper 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the level of Local Housing Allowance on the use of temporary accommodation in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of not uprating Local Housing Allowance in-line with inflation at the Autumn 2025 Budget on levels of homelessness among Universal Credit claimants in