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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.

All oral statements and any written content from before 2014 can be found in Hansard.

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sustainable Farming Incentive
Edward Morello
Liberal Democrat, West Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on the viability of family farms.

Asked 12 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Daniel Zeichner (Labour, Cambridge)
37833
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Business and Trade
Bicycles: Antidumping Duties
Afzal Khan
Labour, Manchester Rusholme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with representatives from (a) the cycle manufacturing industry and (b) cycle manufacturing industries outside the UK on anti-dumping duties on (i) e-bikes, (ii) bicycles ...

Asked 20 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Mr Douglas Alexander (Labour, Lothian East)
39958
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Work and Pensions
Statutory Sick Pay
Michael Wheeler
Labour, Worsley and Eccles

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of employees receiving Statutory Sick Pay whose period of sickness absence reaches (a) one, (b) four, (c) six, (d) eight, (e) sixteen and (f) twenty-eight ...

Asked 17 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Alison McGovern (Labour, Birkenhead)
38798
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Equality
Mr Peter Bedford
Conservative, Mid Leicestershire

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether they have made an estimate of the potential impact of abolishing diversity, equity and inclusion roles in their Department on annual staffing costs.

Asked 17 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Georgia Gould (Labour, Queen's Park and Maida Vale)
38863
Answered
Commons

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Question for Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Recruitment
Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government by how much the (1) British Army, (2) Royal Navy, and (3) Royal Air Force are underrecruited.

Asked 11 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Lord Coaker (Labour, Life peer)
HL5655
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Copyright
Lord Freyberg
Crossbench, Excepted Hereditary

To ask His Majesty's Government how many meetings about artificial intelligence and copyright issues took place between Ministers and officials from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and representatives of the Tony Blair Institute betw...

Asked 11 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Lord Vallance of Balham (Labour, Life peer)
HL5666
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Business and Trade
Accountancy
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch on 10 March (HL5234), whether they have considered whether the Financial Reporting Council guidance would have caused the threshold for applying the going conce...

Asked 11 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Labour, Life peer)
HL5642
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Business and Trade
Accountancy
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Jones of Whitchurchon 10 March (HL5234 and HL5235), whether they have taken account of the fact that the House of Commons Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee's rep...

Asked 11 March 2025
Answered 25 March 2025
By Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Labour, Life peer)
HL5643
Answered
Lords

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Department for Transport
Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy
Mike Kane
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Labour, Wythenshawe and Sale East
Statement made 25 March 2025
HCWS550
Commons
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social and Affordable Housing Capital Investment
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State for Housing and Planning
Labour, Greenwich and Woolwich
Statement made 25 March 2025
HCWS549
Commons
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
New Commitments from the Broadband Industry to Put Communities First When Deploying New Fibre Networks
Chris Bryant
Minister of State for Data Protection and Telecoms
Labour, Rhondda and Ogmore
Statement made 25 March 2025
HCWS548
Commons
Department for Education
Protecting Public Money in Higher Education
Bridget Phillipson
The Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities
Labour, Houghton and Sunderland South
Statement made 25 March 2025
HCWS547
Commons

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Department for Transport
Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Minister of State for Transport
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 25 March 2025
HLWS548
Lords
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
New Commitments from the Broadband Industry to Put Communities First When Deploying New Fibre Networks
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Future Digital Economy and Online Safety
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 25 March 2025
HLWS547
Lords
Department for Education
Protecting Public Money in Higher Education
Baroness Smith of Malvern
Minister of State, Minister for Skills
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 25 March 2025
HLWS546
Lords
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social and Affordable Housing Capital Investment
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 25 March 2025
HLWS545
Lords

Commons daily reports

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House of Commons written answers and statements
24 March 2025
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House of Commons written answers and statements
21 March 2025
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House of Commons written answers and statements
20 March 2025
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House of Commons written answers and statements
19 March 2025
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House of Lords written answers and statements
24 March 2025
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House of Lords written answers and statements
20 March 2025
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House of Lords written answers and statements
19 March 2025
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House of Lords written answers and statements
18 March 2025
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