Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
197,624 questions
Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
To ask His Majesty's Government how the "Experts at Hand" service will support classroom teachers to use evidence-based strategies to identify and support pupils with dyslexia.
Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
To ask His Majesty's Government how their SEND reforms will ensure (1) early identification of children with dyslexia, and (2) equality in access to support in every school.
Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that teachers are supported and resourced to support children with dyslexia, and to support their increased focus on inclusion for learners with SEND.
Schools: ICT
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) primary schools, and (2) secondary schools, in England provide a one-to-one screen-based device to every pupil.
Education: ICT
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report by the Information Commissioner's Office Edtech examined, published on 24 June, which highlighted a number of compliance gaps across the EdTech sector, what assessment they have made of the collection
Education: Digital Technology
To ask His Majesty's Government whether educational technology products adopted by schools are required to undergo a data protection impact assessment before deployment.
Education: Digital Technology
To ask His Majesty's Government what process they use to verify the safety, privacy, and educational value of educational technology products being used in schools in England.
Education: Digital Technology
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the cost of (1) one-to-one screen-based devices, and (2) educational technology software and licences, provided for use in schools in England in each of the last three academic years.
Health Services: Training
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the financial, professional, and mental health impact on applicants in the non-prioritised group who completed the eligibility process for the NHS UK Foundation Programme 2026 but remain un
Health Services: Training
To ask His Majesty's Government how many funded foundation year 1 posts have been identified for the third and fourth NHS UK Foundation Programme 2026 reserve-list allocation rounds, broken down by Foundation School; and what estimate they have made of th
Health Services: Training
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with NHS England, the UK Foundation Programme Office, and Foundation Schools about creating additional funded foundation year 1 posts for applicants remaining on the NHS UK Foundation Programm
Health Services: Training
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will provide funding for a time-limited transitional expansion of NHS UK Foundation Programme 2026 capacity, including additional standard, supernumerary, and delayed-start foundation year 1 posts, to support a
Health Services: Training
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the NHS UK Foundation Programme 2026 reserve-list will remain open beyond round 4 to fill approved vacancies arising after the August start date.
Cabinet Office: Ethnic Groups
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the Cabinet Office's style guide Writing about ethnicity, what assessment they have made of the use of (1) Global Majority, and (2) Global South in their communications.
Prime Minister: Taxation
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’s schedule of taxable sources of income and gains 2023/24 published 14 April 2025, whether they wil
Office for Equality and Opportunity: Religion
To ask His Majesty's Government for what reason religion and belief is not included in the remit of the Office for Equality and Opportunity.
Orphan Drugs
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the barriers to patient access for orphan medicines that do not meet the population size criteria for the Highly Specialised Technologies pathway.
Orphan Drugs
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the Standard Technology Appraisal (STA) pathway, in particular the STA methodology’s capacity to capture the clinical and societal value of orphan medicines which do no
Pancreatic Cancer: Genomics
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle regional variation in access to genomic testing for patients with pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic Cancer: Genomics
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to educate and equip healthcare professionals to engage in genomic testing for patients with pancreatic cancer.
Doctors: Training
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will allocate funding to the Learning Disability (LD) Physician training course beyond February 2027; if so, for how many years they project any such funding to continue, and how many training posts this will s
Pharmacy: Learning Disability
To ask His Majesty's Government how NHS England and Integrated Care Boards monitor compliance with the Accessible Information Standard in (1) community pharmacies, and (2) hospital pharmacies, in particular with regard to provision of easy-read, pictorial
Assessments: Artificial Intelligence
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications of emerging artificial intelligence-enabled and internet-connected technologies for the integrity and security of public examinations.
Agriculture: UK Trade with EU
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 1 July (HL Deb col 1066), whether they have asked for an exception carve-out for precision breeding and gene editing in the UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement n
Anti-Muslim Hostility
To ask His Majesty's Government what safeguards are in place to ensure that the policing of Islamophobia does not exceed the legal framework regarding the protection of those with religious beliefs.