Written Questions

Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.

198,185 questions

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that small businesses in each area can access practical support to adopt artificial intelligence safely and productively.

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade 14 Jul 2026Asked by Gordon McKee

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Department is taking with the devolved administrations and local authorities to support consistent safety and accessibility standards for electric-vehicle charging stations.

Department for Transport14 Jul 2026Asked by Gordon McKee

Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking with the devolved administrations to increase the number of patients able to participate in commercial clinical trials across the UK.

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Gordon McKee

Rare Diseases: Genetics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to improve interoperability between rare-disease registries and genomic-data systems across the UK.

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Gordon McKee

Career Breaks: Women

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to encourage employers to offer structured returnship programmes for women seeking to re-enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers after a career break.

Women and Equalities14 Jul 2026Asked by Gordon McKee

Debarment Review Service

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many active cases are currently being considered by the Debarment Review Service.

Cabinet Office14 Jul 2026Asked by Patricia Ferguson

Debarment Review Service

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average timescale is for consideration of cases presented to the Debarment Service.

Cabinet Office14 Jul 2026Asked by Patricia Ferguson

Debarment Review Service

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many investigations by the Debarment Service have resulted in an organisation being debarred from tendering for government services.

Cabinet Office14 Jul 2026Asked by Patricia Ferguson

Debarment Review Service

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Debarment Review Services operational target is for responding to MP's enquiries.

Cabinet Office14 Jul 2026Asked by Patricia Ferguson

West of England Line: Yeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed West of England Line timetable changes on stations in Yeovil constituency.

Department for Transport14 Jul 2026Asked by Adam Dance

West of England Line: Yeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help ensure passenger travel times from Yeovil constituency are not negatively impacted by any changes to the West of England Line timetable.

Department for Transport14 Jul 2026Asked by Adam Dance

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of children and young people with education, health and care plans for whom the special educational provision specified in section F of their plan was not secured in

Department for Education14 Jul 2026Asked by Alison Griffiths

Special Educational Needs: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of occasions on which local authorities failed to implement an order of the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) within the applicable time

Department for Education14 Jul 2026Asked by Alison Griffiths

Special Educational Needs: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many representations her Department received in each of the last three years concerning an alleged failure by a local authority to (a) secure provision required under section 42 of the Children and Families

Department for Education14 Jul 2026Asked by Alison Griffiths

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of children and young people with education, health and care plans who did not have an appropriate education placement available at the beginning of the academic yea

Department for Education14 Jul 2026Asked by Alison Griffiths

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on maintaining (a) a named accountable case officer, (b) continuity of communication with families and (c) a single written action plan where a child’s e

Department for Education14 Jul 2026Asked by Alison Griffiths

Cancer: Orphan Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the review of orphan medicines regulation required by the Rare Cancers Act 2026 will consider the full pathway from regulatory authorisation to NHS patient access, including evidence genera

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Dr Scott Arthur

Genetics: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve transparency on uptake, turnaround times and outcomes for genetic and biomarker testing across the NHS.

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Dr Scott Arthur

Learning Disability: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the decline in the recruitment of learning disability nurses.

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Maya Ellis

Miscarriage: Medical Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Single Patient Record could improve the recording of miscarriage across NHS services; and what steps are being taken to reduce the risk of double counting the same miscarriage recorded by d

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Maya Ellis

Miscarriage: Medical Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an update to the Digital Maternity Record Standard is planned to limit birth outcome to coded values and ensure that a value is included for second trimester miscarriage.

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Maya Ellis

Miscarriage: Medical Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Single Patient Record could improve the recording of miscarriage across NHS services and what steps he is taking to help reduce the risk of double counting the same miscarriage recorded by

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Maya Ellis

Miscarriage: Medical Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the recording of miscarriage experienced by women engaged with NHS services.

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Maya Ellis

Miscarriage: Medical Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans NHS England has to improve the collection of second trimester miscarriage data through the Maternity Services Dataset.

Department of Health and Social Care14 Jul 2026Asked by Maya Ellis

Broadband and Mobile Phones: Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to improve a) broadband coverage and b) phone signal in rural areas in Kent.

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport14 Jul 2026Asked by Sojan Joseph
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