Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
197,624 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2026 to Question 11285, and with reference to the report entitled UK National Screening Committee, Screening for prostate cancer, whether his Department is taking s
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential for drone technology to improve police response times and public safety in rural and geographically dispersed communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the operational benefits of using drones to provide police officers with real time aerial intelligence when responding to road traffic collisions, searches for criminal
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value of drone technology in supporting police forces to prevent and investigate rural crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of how Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations could improve police response times, operational efficiency, and public safety.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to support police forces to develop drone-as-first-responder programmes, including through funding, shared operational standards and the evaluation and expansion of
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to support police forces to develop drone-as-first-responder programmes, including through funding, shared operational standards and the evaluation and expansion of
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress she has made on securing the release of Craig and Lindsay Foreman from Evin prison; how often welfare checks are done on Craig and Lindsay Foreman; and w
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are being housed in Bromsgrove constituency for which the latest data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what formal mechanisms are in place to ensure that the views of patients, families and brain cancer patient advocacy organisations are reflected in the work of the National Clinical Lead for Rare C
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date liquid biopsy technologies will be routinely available for brain tumour patients across the NHS; how many additional patients are expected to gain access to targeted or repurposed trea
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which recommendations relating to the cancer workforce from previous workforce reviews, task and finish groups, and National Cancer Board workstreams remain outstanding; what assessment has been ma
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the (a) National Clinical Lead for Rare Cancers and (b) Rare Cancer Specialty Lead have been appointed; if so, on what date, and against which National Cancer Plan commitments they will be
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department will consider the appointment of a specific National Clinical Lead for Brain Cancers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what key performance indicators and outcome measures will be used to assess the effectiveness of the National Cancer Board; who will be responsible for overseeing delivery of those outcomes; where
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measurable improvements in (a) workforce capacity, (b) research activity, (c) clinical trial access, (d) speed of diagnosis and (e) patient outcomes are expected as a result of the work of the
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of UK Government investment programmes on communities in Scotland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions his Department has had with Scottish local authorities on the delivery of UK Government-funded projects.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of direct procurement expenditure was awarded to UK small and medium-sized enterprises in the last financial year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of reservists have been mobilised for operations in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the average time taken for a reservist to complete the Armed Forces recruitment process from initial application to enlistment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the risk of widespread flight disruption caused by air traffic control failures.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on simplifying the rail fares and ticketing system.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of cross-government coordination on national security priorities.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many exercises testing national resilience arrangements have been conducted in each of the last five years.