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Enter an MP's name to view all written questions they have submitted. Written questions are formally addressed to government departments and require official written responses. In the House of Commons, these may be directed to the Secretary of State for a given department, or to a junior Commons Minister where the Secretary of State sits in the House of Lords. In the House of Lords, questions are addressed collectively to "His Majesty's Government" rather than to a specific Secretary of State or department.

Commons 1097
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of high-interest debt repayments by low-income countries on the ability of those countries to provide adeq...
Tabled: 2026-05-14
Sir Julian Lewis
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
Supporting developing countries to tackle unsustainable debt is a key priority of this government. Debt servicing costs are at their highest for 25 years and are crowding out vital investments in g...
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Commons 1096
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what her policy is on the (a) amelioration and (b) cancellation of high-interest debts incurred by low-income countries; and what steps she plans to take to implement...
Tabled: 2026-05-14
Sir Julian Lewis
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
Supporting developing countries to tackle unsustainable debt is a key priority of this government. Debt servicing costs are at their highest for 25 years and are crowding out vital investments in g...
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Commons 2156
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support victims of coercive control.
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Martin Wrigley
LD
To: Home Office
Answered 2026-05-28
Coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB) is a particularly insidious form of domestic abuse and I recognise the long-term emotional and psychological distress it can cause victims. We know that mor...
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Commons 2567
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Clare’s Law.
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Mr Will Forster
LD
To: Home Office
Answered 2026-05-28
We know that more needs to be done to address issues and inconsistencies in the way that the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (also known as ‘Clare’s Law’) is currently being implemented across ...
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Commons 2247
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to, a) reduce the number of children that go missing, and b) find children who have gone missing, in Devon.
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Martin Wrigley
LD
To: Home Office
Answered 2026-05-28
This Government remains firmly committed to working across government and with safeguarding partners, including the police and voluntary sector, to ensure a robust response to when people go missin...
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Commons 2962
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of accommodation provided by local authorities for survivors of domestic abuse; and what information ...
Tabled: 2026-05-19
Mr Will Forster
LD
To: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Answered 2026-05-28
Under Part 4 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, every Tier One local authority in England must assess local need for, and commission, support for victims of domestic abuse and their children within sa...
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Commons 1984
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 March 2026, HCWS1425, what programmes are included within the Human Development directorate.
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Wendy Morton
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
This increase is largely attributable to the profile of multilateral payments to the Global Fund and Gavi. For further details, I refer the Hon Member to Table 2 and Footnote 6 of the document acco...
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Commons 1983
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 March 2026 (HCWS1425), what explains the increase in Human Development spending from £433 million in 2026-27 to £1...
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Wendy Morton
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
This increase is largely attributable to the profile of multilateral payments to the Global Fund and Gavi. For further details, I refer the Hon Member to Table 2 and Footnote 6 of the document acco...
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Lords HL102
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 27 April (HL16209), what steps they will take to implement the recommendations of the report by Liverpool City Council, A Review of Safety Related Matters: L...
Tabled: 2026-05-14
Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe
Lab
To: Department for Business and Trade
Answered 2026-05-28
Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, event organisers must already conduct their activities in such a way that the public are not exposed to risk. They must also make suitable risk as...
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Lords HL71
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to increase the current period of statutory paternity leave entitlement to more than two weeks.
Tabled: 2026-05-13
Lord Weir of Ballyholme
DUP
To: Department for Business and Trade
Answered 2026-05-28
Through the Employment Rights Act, the Government have made Paternity Leave a ‘day one’ right as of 6 April this year. This brings an extra 32,000 fathers and partners into scope of the entitlement...
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Commons 1986
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department conducted a value for money assessment of the WBPC rebuild-after-demolition cycle; and whether programme-specific due diligence was carried out...
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Bob Blackman
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
I refer the Hon Member to the answer he received on 29 April in response to Question 27792.
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Lords HL213
To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have received regarding the costs and regulatory burdens of environmental permitting regulations for farm practices; and how they intend to address these concerns.
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
Con
To: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answered 2026-05-28
Defra engages a range of representations relating to the costs and regulatory burdens of different aspects of the environmental permitting regulations on farming. The Environment Agency designs per...
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Commons 1982
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 March 2026 (HCWS1425), what explains the reduction in allocations to (a) South Asia and Afghanistan and (b) Asia P...
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Wendy Morton
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
The Government has taken the decision to reduce Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the equivalent of 0.3 per cent of Gross National Income by 2027 to fund an essential increase in defence spe...
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Commons 1973
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 March 2026 (HCWS1425), what proportion of total ODA is expected to be delivered through multilateral organisations...
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Wendy Morton
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
Multilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocations that were not detailed in the 19 March statement will be confirmed in due course. Details of our ODA programming can be found on GOV.U...
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Commons 1972
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 March 2026 (HCWS1425), which multilateral allocations are subject to further consideration, including climate and ...
Tabled: 2026-05-18
Wendy Morton
Con
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-05-28
Multilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocations that were not detailed in the 19 March statement will be confirmed in due course. Details of our ODA programming can be found on GOV.U...
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