Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,346 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local planning authorities on the allocation of land owned by those authorities within local plans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local planning authorities are permitted to allocate land that they own for (a) housing and (b) mixed-use development in local plans.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether mechanisms are in place to ensure independent scrutiny of the findings and recommendations of the review into the Organisation, Performance and Transformation of the Permanent Civil Service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extreme heat and consecutive drought on tree planting and established woodland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of spatial targeting of tree planting in urban areas to help reduce social inequalities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of modernising the Forestry Act 1967 to support nature recovery and ecological targets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of offering updated dietary guidance to schools, hospitals and other public institutions, and ceasing to use the Eatwell Plate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential barriers faced by neurodivergent academics in higher education institutions to progressing through academic career pathways.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to issue guidance to higher education providers on reasonable adjustments for neurodivergent academic staff throughout recruitment, promotion and disciplinary processes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to address inequalities in career progression among academics from ethnic minority backgrounds who are also (a) disabled or (b) neurodivergent.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the extent to which non-traditional educational pathways affect access to (a) academic careers and (b) leadership positions within higher education institutions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of whether career progression outcomes differ for neurodivergent academics between highly selective universities and the wider higher education sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s capacity to undertake the electoral reviews required as a consequence of local government r
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Local Government Boundary Commission for England regarding the timetable for conducting electoral reviews of the proposed North Warwickshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on providing Barnett consequential funding to the Northern Ireland Executive to support a domestic heat pump scheme comparable to the Bo
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department's recognition of air-to-air heat pumps as a qualifying technology under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme will be reflected in (a) guidance and (b) encouragement to devolved go
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2026 to Question UIN 15107, if he will publish, for 2026–27, a) the amount of funding allocated to each individual employment support programme and b) the amount spent s
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Government will make it a requirement for prospective employers to reply to all job applications.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if, in the context of the review of National Lottery funding and its distribution, the Government will consider increasing the proportion of National Lottery proceeds allocated to cultur
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will outline the findings of the consultation on the introduction of an overnight visitor levy in England; whether guarantees will be in place to ensure that, where revenues are collected and distributed by
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a legal obligation on employers to reply to people who apply for a job.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent research his Department has carried out into the psychological effect on job seekers of employers not responding to their application.
To ask the Leader of the House, what steps he is taking to review the role of Member of Parliaments a) in general and b) given planned changes through local government reorganisation.
To ask the Leader of the House, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the allocation of an annual budget to Members of Parliament for distribution to good causes in their constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help improve the efficiency and value for money of defence procurement.