Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
193,089 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that social care is an attractive career for young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help improve terms and conditions for social care workers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to announce her decision on whether to apply the break clause for the Federated Data Platform contract with Palantir.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to commission an updated assessment of the ecological and economic impacts of ring-necked parakeets; and what consideration she has given to introducing measures to m
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to issue guidance to schools, early years providers and other settings attended by children on the use of camera-enabled smart glasses and other discreet wearable recording devices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to extend access to independent investigations beyond maternity services to patients who have suffered serious harm in NHS care and remain dissatisfied with local investigations;
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what oversight mechanisms are in place to ensure the quality and consistency of ADHD assessments for children commissioned under the NHS Right to Choose pathway.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether land within a National Landscape will be capable of meeting the definition of grey belt under the final revised National Planning Policy Framework.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the proportion of Green Belt land in England that would meet the proposed definition of grey belt if the existing Footnote 7 test is re
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make assessment of the potential impact of removing the existing National Planning Policy Framework Footnote 7 test from the definition of grey belt on Gre
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the proposed change in the draft National Planning Policy Framework from giving great weight to conserving and enhancing the landscape and scenic beauty of National Lands
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has undertaken modelling of the amount of land that would be newly capable of classification as grey belt as a result of the proposed removal of the existi
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has considered the potential merits of introducing a national 100 per cent council tax discount for households which include an individual with a terminal illness.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of non-essential use drought orders on (a) self-employed professional window cleaners and (b) small businesses providing window cle
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential health and safety implications of restricting the use of water-fed pole systems by professional window cleaners under non-essential use dr
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of (a) the volume of mains water used by professional window cleaning businesses and (b) the reduction in water demand that would result from rest
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with the Health and Safety Executive on the potential impact of non-essential use drought orders on the use of water-fed pole systems by professional wi
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents in receipt of Universal Credit received child maintenance at the latest date for which figures are available; how many such parents were (a) in employment and (b) not in employment; and
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information sharing arrangements are in place between local authorities and his Department when a child enters foster care; what steps his Department is taking to ensure that benefit entitlement is
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of overpayment to a birth parent of (a) Disability Living Allowance for children and (b) Carer's Allowance have been identified in each of the last five years, in cases where the child ha
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 18 May 2026 to Question 470 on Pedestrian Crossings: Design, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of adopting the Welsh Government's amendments to section 14 of the Tra
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on biodiversity and habitat restoration in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of serious dog attacks on victims, including the physical injuries sustained, psychological harm, loss of employment, fi
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to strengthen the role of Special Education Needs Coordinators in schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of post-16 education and training provision for young people with SEND; and and what steps her Department is taking to increase access to specialist pathw