Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
198,185 questions
Obesity: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of variations between integrated care boards in access to weight-loss injections such as tirzepatide for weight management; whether the funding provided to integrated ca
Ambulance Services: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students are expected to complete approved paramedic training courses in England in (a) 2026 and (b) 2027; how many Band 5 newly qualified paramedic posts NHS ambulance trusts plan to recr
Health Services: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that ambient voice technology used in the NHS captures structured, coded clinical data at the point of care rather than unstructured free-text notes; w
Health Services: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to establish a national deployment pathway for ambient voice technology, to move beyond repeated local pilots towards system-wide adoption across the NHS.
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Class 810 trains were expected to be in passenger service by (a) December 2022, (b) December 2023, (c) December 2024, (d) December 2025 and (e) the latest date for which figures are available.
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the proportion of rolling stock not required for the planned timetable for each train operating company in each month since July 2024.
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the maintenance backlog requirements are for the rolling stock fleet of each train operating company.
Respiratory Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a respiratory Modern Service Framework as a mechanism for reducing health inequalities, supporting economic participation and stre
Postal Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an impact assessment of Royal Mail’s new delivery model.
Royal Mail: Working Conditions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Royal Mail’s three workers to four frames delivery model on service quality and staff fatigue.
Visas: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants for student visas are subject to security screening in relation to a) extremist activity and b) support for proscribed organisations.
Attorney General's Office: X Corp
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hermer on 14 July (HL1910), whether they will now answer the question put, namely what is the evidential basis for the assertion that X prioritises misinformation.
Immunology: Consultants and Training
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to expand the number of specialist training posts and consultant posts in clinical immunology, in light of the Royal College of Pathologists' Clinical Immunology Workforce Report 2025, published in Sept
Accident and Emergency Department: Information Sharing
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to collect and publish the total number of patients who have waited over 24 hours in A&E from the decision to admit them until their admission.
NHS: Buildings
To ask His Majesty's Government how many square metres of the NHS estate are currently vacant; and what estimate has been made of the annual holding cost.
Medical Equipment: Innovation
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the success of the MedTech funding mandate since its launch.
Kidney Diseases: Drugs
To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the commercial engagements made by NHS England between June 2021 and July 2026 involving indication-specific pricing were for indications for (1) kidney conditions, and (2) rare kidney conditions.
Rare Diseases: Drugs
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England have to meet rare disease patient groups to discuss indication-specific pricing for multi-indication medicines as part of its work in the forthcoming Comme
Visas: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in student visa fees on levels of non-compliance with student visa requirements.
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Skilled Worker visas have been granted since 2024 to applicants sponsored by takeaway and restaurant businesses; and what assessment she has made of the occupations for which those visas were
Northern Ireland Office: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many agency staff were employed by his Department in each of the last five years.
Construction: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delays in HMRC VAT registration processing on construction businesses; and if she will consider changes to the VAT registration rules to allow businesses to re
Bank Services: Post Offices
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government's Access to Banking Services Review is making of the role that the Post Office's network of branches could play in providing access to in-person banking services for people who are dig
Bank Services
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government would consider establishing a minimum standard for access to in-person banking services, following the Access to Banking Services Review; and what role the Post Office network could play in me
Mortgages
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the forbearance obligations on mortgage lenders under the Financial Conduct Authority's Mortgages and Home Finance: Conduct of Business sourcebook, in particular the duty to consider appropriate forbearance