Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,193 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she would consider the potential merits of appointing clinical research nurses to work only on brain cancer clinical trials.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater parliamentary scrutiny of the financial position of the Atomic Weapons Establishment.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 10 September 2026 to question UIN 27117, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of further international co-ordination on Public Country by Country Reporting.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether there are any extant arms export licences for Israel that could be used to materially contribute to the occupation of Palestine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether any arms export licences for Israel which could materially contribute to the occupation of Palestine have been revoked since 8 September 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will review the decision to exclude trainer aircraft components from arms export suspensions on Israel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will investigate whether British nationals serving in the Israel Defence Forces may have materially contributed to the occupation of Palestine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of placing sanctions on (a) Pearson Engineering Limited and( b) other UK-based companies that are (i) owned and (ii) partia
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether any goods, software, technology or equipment exported from the UK to Israel under extant export licences have been identified by his Department as being used for the operat
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of NHS Trusts willingness and financial ability to take on new specialty medical training posts for the August 2026 recruitment round.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to support women in the workplace with flexible working.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that employers are supporting women managing Menopause in the workplace.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to increase the supply of transitional accommodation for young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with housing associations, charities and local authorities on barriers to developing stepping stone accommodation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence her Department has considered on whether proposed technical education pathways for pupils from the age of 14 will improve pupil outcomes compared with existing Key Stage 4 technical provision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of national resilience arrangements in enabling Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service to maintain fire cover in Central Suffolk and North I
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the abstraction licensing regime in providing protection for water resources during periods of prolonged drought in water-stressed areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of incentives for recruiting and retaining GPs and other healthcare professionals in rural areas such as Suffolk.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the extent to which organised criminal groups are responsible for rural crime affecting farms and agricultural businesses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of whether sentences for theft of agricultural machinery and equipment adequately reflect the economic impact of such offences on farming businesses.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing the minimum weighting for social value in public contracts worth £5 million or more from 10 per cent to 20 per cent on the ability of small and m
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding she intends to make available for the recruitment and training of specialist staff required to deliver technical education pathways from September 2028.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of whether the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's cost-effectiveness methodology adequately reflects the particular circumstances of medicines for rare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration has she given to the potential merits of providing parents and carers with a statutory route of redress where provision specified in an Individual Support Plan is not delivered.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the administrative workload on local authorities, schools, families and the SEND Tribunal of operating parallel SEND systems during the transition to the proposed new system; and