Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
197,021 questions
Prisons: Fire Extinguishers
To ask His Majesty's Government how many prisons are equipped with (1) automatic water misting systems only, (2) manual handling water misting systems only, or (3) both automatic and manual handling water systems.
Prisons: Fires
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of prisoner awareness and understanding of what to do when a fire occurs; and what steps they are taking to ensure prisoners are aware of what to do when fires occur.
Rape: Criminal Proceedings
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the merits of specialist courts to fast-track rape cases.
Legal Aid Scheme: Community Care
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the number of community care lawyers in the light of the findings of the report by Dr Jo Wilding, Community Care Legal Aid in England and Wales: Urgent help needed, published in July.
Courts and Tribunals Bill
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to support further progress of the Courts and Tribunals Bill through Parliament.
Intelligence Services
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the provisions in the Public Office (Accountability) Bill on the functions of the security services.
Naâma Asfari
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to raise the case of Naama Asfari with the government of Morocco.
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will seek new legal advice on the sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory following the appointment of a new Attorney General on 20 July.
Financial Markets: Artificial Intelligence
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the financial stability risks arising from the increasing use of autonomous artificial intelligence agents in financial markets.
Pensions: Finance
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of the decline in UK birth rates on levels of pension spending.
Electricity: UK Relations with EU
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefits and costs to the UK of joining of the EU Internal Electricity Market.
Climate Change: Loans
To ask His Majesty's Government further to their press release Cheaper travel for millions with a third off fares, published on 22 July, to which specific international climate finance projects has the United Kingdom’s contribution been converted to loans
Climate Change: Loans
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their press release Cheaper travel for millions with a third off fares, published on 22 July, whether climate finance grants are being converted into loans to pay for this announcement; and, if so, which grants
Juries
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of changes to jury trials proposed in the Courts and Tribunals Bill on the Crown Court backlog.
Fire Resistant Materials: Costs
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Fidra's estimate that disposing of sofas containing chemical flame retardants costs local authorities £135 million per year.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Public Expenditure
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their press release Cheaper travel for millions with a third off fares, published on 22 July, what is the itemised breakdown of the £454 million funding reprioritised from the budget of the Department for Energy
National Energy System Operator and Ofgem: Databases
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to consolidate transmission project data currently held separately by the National Energy System Operator and Ofgem.
Energy: UK Relations with EU
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to negotiate energy alignment with the EU while maintaining the UK’s autonomy to regulate state aid and set environmental targets.
Carbon Emissions
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are considering capping the amount of credit that can be used to support investment in carbon-intensive activities and setting quotas for the amount of finance that should flow to low-carbon investment.
Wind Power: North Sea
To ask His Majesty's Government what process they intend to follow to resolve cross-border disputes arising from the Hamburg Declaration regarding supply chain protectionism and the financing of shared grid infrastructure in the North Sea.
Carbon Emissions
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are considering bringing forward their net zero target to 2035.
Climate Change: Loans
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their press release Cheaper travel for millions with a third off fares, published on 22 July, what assessment they have made of their ability to claw back funding from the international climate finance projects
Energy Supply
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of global confidence in the UK energy market; and what steps, if any, they are taking to improve this.
Fossil Fuels
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are considering introducing quotas for the use of fossil fuel energy.
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to seek a formal link between the UK and EU emissions trading schemes to exempt British manufacturers from the upcoming EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.