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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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Question for Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Zero Hours Contracts
Damian Hinds
Conservative, East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of people employed in the NHS who (a) have a zero-hours contract, for example as a bank staff arrangement as their sole or primary employment with the NHS, ...

Asked 2 November 2026
Answered 11 November 2026
By Karin Smyth (Labour, Bristol South)
40157
Answered
Commons
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Zero Hours Contracts
Damian Hinds
Conservative, East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made, for the last full year for which data are available, of the total number of individuals who were employed in the NHS at any point during the year under a ‘zero-hours’ co...

Asked 2 November 2026
Answered 11 November 2026
By Karin Smyth (Labour, Bristol South)
40156
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Carbon Emissions
Aphra Brandreth
Conservative, Chester South and Eddisbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Explanatory Memorandum to the Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, what the evidential basis was for indicating that her Departm...

Asked 3 November 2026
Answered 11 November 2026
By Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour, Suffolk Coastal)
40533
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fires
Sir Alec Shelbrooke
Conservative, Wetherby and Easingwold

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 26 October 2026 on the wildfire summit (HCWS418), whether an assessment was made of the potential merits of including changes to ...

Asked 2 November 2026
Answered 11 November 2026
By Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour, Suffolk Coastal)
39958
Answered
Commons

Lords written questions and answers

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Question for Treasury
Clothing: UK Trade with EU
The Earl of Clancarty
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Pitt-Watson on 26 October (HL Deb Col 929), whether they intend to seek reciprocal arrangements with the European Union at the EU-UK summit in November to allow fashion collections, samples, a...

Asked 28 October 2026
Answered 11 November 2026
By Lord Pitt-Watson (Labour, Life peer)
HL4647
Answered
Lords
Question for The Senior Deputy Speaker
Palace of Westminster: Fire Prevention
Baroness Coffey
Conservative, Life peer

To ask The Senior Deputy Speaker whether he intends to either (1) publish, or (2) share with interested Members of House of Lords, (a) the agenda of, (b) reports presented at, (c) and minutes of, all the meetings of the Fire Safety Committee in 2026; and ...

Asked 4 November 2026
Answered 11 November 2026
By Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Non-affiliated, Life peer)
HL4922
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rob Wilson
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
Green Party, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 25 September (HL3325), whether the final report into alleged duplicate travel expense claims submitted by the chair of the Consumer Council for Water has now be...

Asked 28 October 2026
Answered 11 November 2026
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL4659
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Hospital Beds: Disability
Lord Scriven
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the care and discharge planning provided to Mr Ravi Mehta by NHS South East London Integrated Care Board; and what steps they are taking to ensure that, since September 2025, individuals wh...

Asked 27 October 2026
Answered 10 November 2026
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL4625
Answered
Lords

Commons written statements

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Department of Health and Social Care
Ebola: Medical Evacuation from DRC of a British Citizen
Yvette Cooper
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Labour, Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
Statement made 10 November 2026
HCWS464
Commons
Department of Health and Social Care
GP Winter Proactive Care Programme
Dame Diana Johnson
Minister of State (Minister for Public Health and Patient Safety)
Labour, Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham
Statement made 10 November 2026
HCWS463
Commons
Treasury
Notification of Contingent Liability
John Healey
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
Labour, Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
Statement made 10 November 2026
HCWS462
Commons
Department for Transport
Railways Bill
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
Labour, Selby
Statement made 10 November 2026
HCWS461
Commons

Lords written statements

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Department of Health and Social Care
Ebola: Medical Evacuation from DRC of a British Citizen
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Women's Health and Maternity)
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 11 November 2026
HLWS473
Lords
Department of Health and Social Care
GP Winter Proactive Care Programme
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Women's Health and Maternity)
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 10 November 2026
HLWS472
Lords
Treasury
Notification of Contingent Liability
Lord Pitt-Watson
The Treasury Lords Minister
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 10 November 2026
HLWS471
Lords
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Regional water councils
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary Of State
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 10 November 2026
HLWS470
Lords

Commons daily reports

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House of Commons written answers and statements
10 November 2026
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House of Commons written answers and statements
9 November 2026
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Commons
House of Commons written answers and statements
4 November 2026
PDF (1.95 MB)
Commons
House of Commons written answers and statements
3 November 2026
PDF (1.9 MB)
Commons

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House of Lords written answers and statements
10 November 2026
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House of Lords written answers and statements
9 November 2026
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House of Lords written answers and statements
4 November 2026
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House of Lords written answers and statements
3 November 2026
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