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Written questions allow MPs and Members of the House of Lords to ask for information on the work, policy and activities of Government departments, related bodies, and the administration of Parliament. Oral or written statements to Parliament are also made by the Government and others to inform both Houses of their work. Written statements are normally used to put the day-to-day business of Government on the official record and in the public domain.

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Commons written questions and answers

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The most recent four written questions in the House of Commons

Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Perinatal Mortality
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Labour, Clapham and Brixton Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that babies in the third trimester that have been removed from their mother after her death should not be (a) recognised and (b) recorded as stillborn.

Asked 6 February 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Karin Smyth (Labour, Bristol South)
29472
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Anaesthetics: Training
Peter Prinsley
Labour, Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with NHS England on the potential merits of making 70 extra higher anaesthetic training places available every year.

Asked 5 February 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Karin Smyth (Labour, Bristol South)
29286
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Training
Peter Prinsley
Labour, Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide more training places in (a) core anaesthetics and (b) across all medical specialties.

Asked 5 February 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Karin Smyth (Labour, Bristol South)
29285
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Written Questions
Bradley Thomas
Conservative, Bromsgrove

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of items of correspondence from Parliamentarians received by (a) her Department, (b) herself and (c) her ministerial team have not yet received a substantive response...

Asked 5 February 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Stephanie Peacock (Labour, Barnsley South)
29247
Named day
Answered
Commons

Lords written questions and answers

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
Baroness Altmann
Non-affiliated, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their latest cost-benefit analysis of rolling out fracture liaison services across the country, including (1) how many people are likely to avoid fractures and how many fractures could be avoided per year as a resul...

Asked 29 January 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL4522
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government on what date the new annual limit of £25,000 per institution on claims from the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme will commence; and whether it will apply to works begun before that date.

Asked 29 January 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Baroness Twycross (Labour, Life peer)
HL4549
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Botswana: Equality
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions the Minister for Africa held during his recent visit to Botswana regarding their policies on promoting gender equality, progress on LGBT+ rights and their priorities in formulating policies on sexual and re...

Asked 5 February 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour, Life peer)
HL4729
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Work and Pensions
Jobcentre Plus: National Careers Service
Baroness Stedman-Scott
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress has been made in the merger of Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service.

Asked 29 January 2025
Answered 12 February 2025
By Baroness Sherlock (Labour, Life peer)
HL4557
Answered
Lords

Commons written statements

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Cabinet Office
Security and Intelligence Agencies: Contingencies Fund Advance 2024-25
Ms Abena Oppong-Asare
Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
Labour, Erith and Thamesmead
Statement made 12 February 2025
HCWS448
Commons
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Further support for social and affordable housebuilding and next steps on supported housing
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State for Housing and Planning
Labour, Greenwich and Woolwich
Statement made 12 February 2025
HCWS447
Commons
Ministry of Justice
Probation Delivery
Shabana Mahmood
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Labour, Birmingham Ladywood
Statement made 12 February 2025
HCWS446
Commons
Home Office
Security Service
Yvette Cooper
The Secretary of State for the Home Department
Labour, Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
Statement made 12 February 2025
HCWS445
Commons

Lords written statements

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Cabinet Office
Security and Intelligence Agencies: Contingencies Fund Advance 2024-25
Baroness Twycross
Baroness in Waiting [Government Whip] and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for DCMS
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 12 February 2025
HLWS444
Lords
Ministry of Justice
Probation Delivery
Lord Timpson
Minister of State for Justice
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 12 February 2025
HLWS443
Lords
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Further support for social and affordable housebuilding and next steps on supported housing
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 12 February 2025
HLWS442
Lords
Home Office
Security Service
Lord Hanson of Flint
The Minister of State, Home Office
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 12 February 2025
HLWS441
Lords

Commons daily reports

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House of Commons written answers and statements
12 February 2025
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House of Commons written answers and statements
11 February 2025
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House of Commons written answers and statements
10 February 2025
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Commons
House of Commons written answers and statements
7 February 2025
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Lords daily reports

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House of Lords written answers and statements
12 February 2025
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House of Lords written answers and statements
11 February 2025
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House of Lords written answers and statements
10 February 2025
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House of Lords written answers and statements
7 February 2025
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