Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
197,624 questions
British Steel: Nationalisation
To ask His Majesty's Government what due diligence they conducted regarding the environmental, employee, trading, and general business liabilities of British Steel before acquisition.
British Steel: Nationalisation
To ask His Majesty's Government how much additional debt, if any, the UK has acquired through the nationalisation of British Steel.
British Steel: Nationalisation
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they acquired the debts and borrowings of British Steel as part of nationalisation.
British Steel: Nationalisation
To ask His Majesty's Government what consultation they held with steel-using UK businesses and other stakeholders before deciding to nationalise British Steel.
Department for Business and Trade: Strikes
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their policy on whether ministers in the Department for Business and Trade attend their department to undertake ministerial duties during periods of strike action by civil servants or contractors.
Cybersecurity: Export Controls
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk that access by users in the UK to (1) computing services, (2) software, or (3) artificial intelligence models, could be withdrawn or restricted as a result of export controls impos
Cybersecurity
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to mitigate the risk that computing capacity relied upon in the UK could be remotely disabled, restricted, or otherwise rendered unavailable by an entity based outside the UK.
Artificial Intelligence
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the time-criticality of enabling sovereign AI access.
Office for Nuclear Regulation
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Prime Minister on 2 July (HCWS180), what safety protections are in place for the functioning independence of the Office for Nuclear Regulation after its transfer to the Department fo
Homes England: Land
To ask His Majesty's Government how many acres of land Homes England owns.
Housing: Construction
To ask His Majesty's Government how many houses have been built on land owned by Homes England in each year since 2022.
New Towns: Council Housing
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of houses in new towns delivered through the New Towns Programme will be council-owned social houses.
New Towns Taskforce
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement the recommendations of the New Towns Taskforce; and by when they expect to do so.
New Towns
To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish their response to the consultation on the New Towns Draft Programme.
Housing: Construction
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they expect to meet their target of building 1.5 million homes by the end of this Parliament; and, if so, what proportion of these homes will be delivered through the New Towns Programme.
New Towns: Greenfield Sites
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the merits of greenfield new towns compared to urban extensions when implementing the New Towns Programme.
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to reintroduce the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill; and whether they plan to negotiate a new Memorandum of Understanding on this subject with the government of the United
Employment: Artificial Intelligence
To ask His Majesty's Government what support they plan to provide for young women entering the workforce in relation to the rise of artificial intelligence, lack of job security, and skills confidence.
Internet: Age Assurance
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the safety and privacy risks of online age-assurance safety checks which require biometric or identity data to be submitted to online platforms via third-party providers for LGBT+ users.
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask His Majesty's Government what analysis they have undertaken of the average amount awarded per recipient through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund in each financial year since 2015–16; and what assessment they have made of trends in
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask His Majesty's Government what analysis underpinned their decision to reduce the Fair Access Limit under the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund from £5,000 to £3,000; and whether that analysis considered the potential impact of the delay
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask His Majesty's Government whether evidence from the operation of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund during 2025–26, including effects of the introduction in April 2025 of the £3,000 Fair Access Limit and the timing of the fund's laun
Journalism and Media: Higher Education
To ask His Majesty's Government whether Media, Journalism and Publishing courses identified by Skills England as the key route to filling priority growth occupations in the creative industries in the 2026 Annual Sector Skills Assessment of the Creative In
Children: Care Homes
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Ofsted inspection Regulation 44; and what assessment they have made of how to remove incentives which discourage registered children’s homes from accepting high-needs children.
Film and Media: Education
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) secondary schools, and (2) Further Education colleges, offer (a) GCSEs in film and media, (b) A levels in film and media, and (c) Level 3 Qualifications in film and media, broken down by region; what percentage