Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,346 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone on Scotland's computing capacity and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of barriers to digital connectivity in Scotland.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on Scottish households of the removal of VAT from electricity bills from October.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Barnett consequentials will arise from the decision to cap single bus fares in England at £2; and when he expects these consequentials to be available to devolved governments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions the Department has had with the Scottish Government regarding opportunities for new nuclear power in Scotland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions the Ministry has had with the Scottish Government regarding match funding for the two Defence Technical Excellence Colleges in Scotland; and what assessment he has made of the potential implicati
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of potential opportunities the Defence Technical Excellence College programme can provide for apprenticeships and advanced technical training, national security and regional economic d
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what changes he plans to make to UK procurement rules to support the Government's commitment to increase domestic purchasing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential opportunities for Scottish industries arising from the Government's commitment to increase domestic procurement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the treatment of Palestinian healthcare workers in detention.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on the next steps laid out in the Animal Welfare Strategy for England, published on December 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of curent levels of access to omaveloxolone for patients with Friedreich's ataxia on NHS costs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in registration fees charged by the General Pharmaceutical Council on the pharmacy workforce; and if she will hold discussions with
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to (a) NHS employees considering retire-and-return arrangements regarding the potential effect of accessing their NHS pension on their future contractual redun
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing (a) transitional protections and (b) alternative arrangements for long-serving NHS employees who retired, accessed their NH
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has had discussions with Nuvation Bio about bringing clinical trials of Safusidenib to the UK for patients with IDH1-mutant Astrocytomas who have previously received radiothe
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to increase the provision and accessibility of post-16 technical education pathways.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help improve career development pathways for youth workers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing the availability of Level 3 vocational qualifications in youth work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing the availability of university undergraduate level qualifications in youth work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how rurality is taken into account when allocating funding for youth work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the levels of social benefit obtained from investing in youth work provision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on the type of jobs into which those leaving youth work enter.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will publish the analysis of costs and benefits that informed her Department's conclusion that the solar canopies on car parks policy would not be taken forward at this point.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department considered the potential merits of mandating partial installation of solar canopies on existing outdoor car parks above a specified number of spaces.