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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Supply
Martin Wrigley
Liberal Democrat, Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure UK food supply chains do not (a) contribute to the destruction of high-biodiversity forests and (b) undermine international food security.

Asked 9 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Daniel Zeichner (Labour, Cambridge)
58379
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Education
Meadowgate Academy
Steve Barclay
Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding is available from her Department for repairs to the heating system at Meadowgate Academy.

Asked 9 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Stephen Morgan (Labour, Portsmouth South)
58207
Answered
Commons
Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Regional Planning and Development: Staffordshire
Leigh Ingham
Labour, Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act on (a) Stafford High Street and (b) Eccleshall High Street.

Asked 10 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Alex Norris (Labour, Nottingham North and Kimberley)
58851
Answered
Commons
Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance
Gregory Stafford
Conservative, Farnham and Bordon

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of whether funding allocated to upper-tier authorities adequately reflects (a) inflationary pressures in social care, (b) the increasing cost ...

Asked 10 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Jim McMahon (Labour, Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
58835
Answered
Commons

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Question for Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Pay
Baroness Finn
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what roles (1) the Senior Leadership Committee, (2) the Government People Group, and (3) the Permanent Secretaries Remuneration Committee, play in monitoring and approving remuneration above the Senior Civil Service pay ban...

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour, Life peer)
HL8032
Answered
Lords
Question for Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Pay
Baroness Finn
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government further to the Forty-Seventh Annual Report on Senior Salaries, published on 22 May (CP 1329), what exemptions exist that permit base pay or total remuneration for Senior Civil Servant pay band 4 roles to exceed the publishe...

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour, Life peer)
HL8031
Answered
Lords
Question for Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Pay
Baroness Finn
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Forty-Seventh Annual Report on Senior Salaries, published on 22 May (CP 1329), whether they have published online the letter from the Director of Civil Service Talent at the Government People Group regarding...

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour, Life peer)
HL8029
Answered
Lords
Question for Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Intellectual Property
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Ministry of Justice holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licen...

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 17 June 2025
By Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Labour, Life peer)
HL8008
Answered
Lords

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Women, Peace and Security Annual Report
Stephen Doughty
Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories
Labour, Cardiff South and Penarth
Statement made 17 June 2025
HCWS706
Commons
Home Office
Firearms licensing: sound moderators
Dame Diana Johnson
The Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention
Labour, Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham
Statement made 17 June 2025
HCWS705
Commons
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Reorganisation
Jim McMahon
Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution
Labour, Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
Statement made 17 June 2025
HCWS704
Commons
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan
Mr Hamish Falconer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Labour, Lincoln
Statement made 17 June 2025
HCWS703
Commons

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Department for Business and Trade
Companies House, Public Measures 2025-2026 
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Legislation)
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 16 June 2025
HLWS700
Lords
Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces Commissioner Recruitment
Lord Coaker
Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 13 June 2025
HLWS699
Lords
Northern Ireland Office
The Establishment of the Patrick Finucane Inquiry
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
Government Spokesperson for Northern Ireland
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 13 June 2025
HLWS698
Lords
Treasury
Oversight Regime for Wholesale Cash Firms
Lord Livermore
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Labour, Life peer
Statement made 12 June 2025
HLWS697
Lords

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House of Commons written answers and statements
16 June 2025
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13 June 2025
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12 June 2025
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House of Commons written answers and statements
11 June 2025
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16 June 2025
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13 June 2025
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12 June 2025
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11 June 2025
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