Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
198,185 questions
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.
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.