Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
197,624 questions
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what a) amount and b) percentage of Vape Products Duty has been spent to date on tackling rogue traders of vapes and cigarettes.
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what a) amount and b) percentage of Vape Products Duty has been spent to date on educational interventions to prevent children and young people from taking up smoking and vaping.
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what a) amount and b) percentage of Vape Products Duty has been spent to date on research into the long-term impacts of vaping.
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what a) amount and b) percentage of Vape Products Duty has been spent to date on 'swap to stop' schemes.
Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many departmental staff are part of teams considering the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the social security and welfare system.
Unemployment: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to train job coaches to support workers at risk of losing their jobs from Artificial Intelligence.
Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the National Insurance rate, Minimum Wage and Employment Rights Act on the unemployment rate.
Carer's Allowance: Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants receiving the higher Daily Living rate of Personal Independence Payment are in receipt of Carers Allowance.
Pathways to Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 23 April 2025 to Question 47466 on Pathways to Work: Impact Assessments, what the most recent equivalent disaggregation is by health category; what definitions are used i
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 1 June 2026 to Question 2672, what the reason is for the time taken to analyse the data collected in the study on the impact of anti-malarial chemoprophylaxis on functional effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2026 to Question 2672, whether the analysis of the data collected in the study on the impact of anti-malarial chemoprophylaxis on functional effectiveness of military personnel (7
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that clinical assessments for former Armed Forces personnel under (a) Op COURAGE and (b) Op RESTORE include screening for mefloquine (Larium) toxicity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve General Practitioners’ awareness and understanding of Mefloquine toxicity, particularly in respect of Armed Forces veterans.
Osteoporosis: Slough
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps have been taken to ensure the availability of early diagnosis services for osteoporosis in Slough.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her EU counterparts concerning the latter's' adoption of a ban on purchases and importation of Sudanese gold.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the EU's announcement of a ban on the purchase and import of Sudanese gold on the purchase and import of such gold to the UK.
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the ADE: Demand report entitled Powered by People, Powered by Place, what steps he is taking to help ensure that technologies which deliver whole system savings, such as the
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the ADE: Demand report entitled Powered by People, Powered by Place, whether his Department has plans to ensure that Regional Energy Strategic Plans support industrial sites
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the ADE: Demand report entitled Powered by People, Powered by Place, whether his Department plans to provide guidance on the expectations for reliability and planning for de
Video Games: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with the online gaming industry on its impact on the economy.
Video Games: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure future online safety regulation does not have unintended consequences for the online gaming industry.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2026 to Question 16513, if she can confirm that the information requested in that question is internally held.
East West Rail Line: Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 14 April 2026 to Question 124216, whether the final modifications have been delivered and tested on the trains that will be used on East West Rail from West Midlands Trains.
Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take urgent steps to respond to Professor Hughes’ deadline for the Government to commit to a compensation scheme for women harmed by pelvic mesh and sodium valproate.
Future Combat Air System and Global Combat Air Programme: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have been re-skilled mid-career as a part of FCAS and GCAP.