Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to improve digital literacy amongst children and young people in relation to the proposed under-16s social media ban.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the potential value to UK exporters of resolving the market access barriers recorded on the Digital Market Access Service in the 2025-26 fi

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact on trade in pound sterling of publishing a sector by sector summary of each trade deal that the UK has signed,

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact on the value of UK exports in pound sterling of removing all of the market access barriers reported to his Department

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 28 August 2026, to Question17449, on MHCLG: Expenditure, for what reason the Local Authority Housing Fund expenditure was returned by the Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 1 September 2026, to Question 19120, on Community Relations: Tower Hamlets, what specific activities were funded through the £25,000 of departmental fun

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the written statement of 1 September 2026, HCWS299, on the Social and Affordable Homes Programme and the reinvigoration of council housebuilding, how much funding is b

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what are the terms of reference of the democracy review.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Transformation Roadmap Update 2026, what the current percentage is of HMRC interactions with tax agents that take place digitally, against the target of 90% by 2030.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to HMRC's letter of 21 August 2026 (ref CEDEL/4628028/2026), whether he plans to commission an assessment of the impact of the Republic of Ireland's agricultural VAT flat-rate scheme on Northern Irela

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether grants to political parties through the Westminster Foundation for Democracy will be permissible given the new profit test for company donations in the Representation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC (a) holds or (b) has at any time held, a copy of the Revenue Commissioners’ report entitled Operation of the Flat-Rate Addition Scheme for Farmers in the Poultry Industry, published July 2019.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Dear Colleague letter on Introducing No10 North, of 1 September 2026, whether the policy of devolution by default will apply to requests for devolution by (

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HMRC has made of the potential impact of over-compensation in the Republic of Ireland’s flat-rate farmer scheme on Northern Ireland producers competing in the same market.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HMRC has made of the potential impact of the judgment of the Court of Justice of 12 October 2017 in Case C-262/16 on the operation of agricultural flat-rate schemes on the island of Ireland.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to HMRC’s letter of 21 August 2026 (ref. CEDEL/4628028/2026), on what date the Government became aware of the review undertaken by the Irish authorities referred to in the second paragraph of that rep

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the council tax surcharge will be levied on HMOs not subdivided into individual dwellings; and whether there will be any exemption.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to publish the assessment on which her Department based it's statement with regards to the expansion of Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre that the investment will deliver "value for money for the

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the availability and accessibility of NHS services for the diagnosis and treatment of tongue-tie in newborn babies; what the average waiting time is for treatment fo

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the findings of the investigation by the Guardian and Bureau of Investigative Journalism, published on 8 September 2026, that local authorities spent more than £250 million on ap

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the Cabinet Office has made of the average cost to businesses of preparing social value responses when bidding for central government contracts under the Social Value Model set out in Procurement P

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the supply of registered children's home placements for children with complex needs; and whether she has made an assessment of whether the £53 million allocated t

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the modelling used by her Department in assessing future demand for immigration detention places, including projected occupancy on the expansion of Campsfield and Haslar Immigratio

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) civil monetary penalties, (b) warning notices and (c) prosecutions have been issued or commenced in relation to the operation of unregistered children's homes since the commencement of the relevant

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the exemption in regulation 3(1)(c) of the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 for accommodation provided for holidays and other specified activities