Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
197,624 questions
Anti-Muslim Hostility
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that adoption by police forces of a definition of Islamophobia or anti-Muslim hostility does not result in discrimination in favour of Muslims and against those of other faiths.
Amazonia
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risks faced by environmental, land, and indigenous rights defenders in the Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian Amazon basin; what representations they have made to the governments concerne
Children: Maintenance
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will reconsider the cancellation of the public consultation on the Child Maintenance Service's calculation process.
Children: Maintenance
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of their commitment in 2023 to include unearned income in the standard calculation used by the Child Maintenance Service, when they intend to introduce the necessary legislation to facilitate this.
Alan Milburn
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 13 July (HL1811), what topics relating to health and social care Alan Milburn is recused from.
Child Maintenance Service: Telephone Services
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that Child Maintenance Service users who are assigned to the specialist domestic abuse caseworker team are transferred to that team when they contact the Child Maintenance Service helpli
Health Services: Screening
To ask His Majesty's Government whether data from cholesterol and lipid testing undertaken through the NHS Health Check Online pilot will be recorded in patient records and used to support follow-up care, including lipid optimisation where clinically indi
Health Services: Screening
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 5 June (HL108), what steps they are taking to ensure that delivery of NHS Health Checks is better incentivised across primary care and local systems.
Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 5 June (HL108), what steps they are taking to strengthen lipid management pathways, including diagnosis, referral, treatment optimisation and long-term monitoring, for pe
Health Services: Screening
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 5 June (HL108), what steps they are taking to ensure that improvements to the NHS Health Check programme are targeted towards communities experiencing the greatest health
Respiratory Diseases: Health Services
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of preventable deaths in the UK due to respiratory diseases; and what steps they are taking to address this.
Agriculture: UK Trade with EU
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are seeking legal advice about potential litigation risks from other international trade counterparties resulting from a future UK–EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement; and if so, to which departments will t
Disease Control: Treaties
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the strategic compatibility between a future UK–EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement and the UK's membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Biometrics: Retail Trade
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the use of live facial recognition systems by retailers to identify suspected offenders and alert the police.
Museums and Galleries: Artificial Intelligence
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the licensing of datasets held by publicly funded museums for the development of artificial intelligence models.
International Court of Justice
To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 21 May, on Right to Strike Under ILO Convention No 87, paragraph 15, for what reason they withdrew on 3 October 2024 their written statement t
UK Internal Trade: Import Controls
To ask His Majesty's Government which categories of low-value imports moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (1) will not face EU duties, (2) will be subject to EU duties, and (3) will be subject to any bureaucratic procedure which is not in place
Budget November 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury on 22 June (HC9337), what specific policies or announcements that were trailed or announced to the media prior to the ministerial statement on the Bu
Data Centres: Water
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the water usage requirements of large-scale data centres, particularly in times of drought.
Renewable Energy: EU Law
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of their commitment to dynamic alignment on rules governing the European Union electricity market set out in UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding, published on 19 May 2025, whether they are seeking an exemption fro
Renewable Energy: EU Law
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of their commitment to dynamic alignment on rules governing the European Union electricity market set out in UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding, published on 19 May 2025, whether they expect to be bound by the ma
Renewable Energy: EU Law
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of their commitment to dynamic alignment on rules governing the European Union electricity market set out in UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding, published on 19 May 2025, what assessment they have made of the Uni
Renewable Energy: EU Law
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of their commitment to dynamic alignment on rules governing the European Union electricity market set out in UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding, published on 19 May 2025, what assessment they have made of the pen
Renewable Energy: EU Law
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of their commitment to dynamic alignment on rules governing the European Union electricity market set out in UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding, published on 19 May 2025, what assessment they have made of the eco
Renewable Energy: EU Law
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of their commitment to dynamic alignment on rules governing the European Union electricity market set out in UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding, published on 19 May 2025, what impact assessment they have made, if