Teaching Methods
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of kinaesthetic learning.
Teaching Methods
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to diversify teaching styles within traditional school settings.
Curlews: Lancashire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to maintain and protect curlews on the Lancashire coast.
Export Health Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the administrative impact of export health certificates on UK food producers.
Income Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people paying the higher rate of income tax in the most recent tax year.
In 2023/24, the number of people estimated to have paid the higher rate of income tax can be found in Table 3.4 of HMRC’s Personal Income Statistics, linked below: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69f1f12d2fae53a03709682f/Collated_Tables_3_1...
Capital Gains Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was generated from capital gains tax in the last financial year.
Capital Gains Tax receipts in the 2025 to 2026 tax year were £22.2 billion. This figure is provisional until aligned to HMRC’s annual report and accounts due to be published in Summer 2026. This figure, along with receipts data for other tax years and oth...
Home Education: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to sections 38 and 39 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 on local authorities visiting home educated children, whether she plans for parents to receive a draft report of the home vi
Home Education: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to sections 38 and 39 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 on local authorities visiting home educated children, whether she plans that visits must be pre-booked; and what systems wil
Family Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Bar Council's recommendation to increase legal aid funding in family law.
This Government recognises the vital role that legal aid plays in supporting individuals in family proceedings to have access to publicly funded legal assistance to uphold their legal rights. We know that the civil and family legal aid market faces challe...
Home Education: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to sections 38 and 39 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 on local authorities visiting home educated children, whether she plans to sanction parents if they cancel an arranged visit
Red Diesel: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce the impact of changes to red diesel prices during peak harvest season.
Heat Networks: Price Caps
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a price protection mechanism for domestic consumers connected to heat networks, comparable to that provided by the Price Cap
Heat networks buy the energy they need through commercial contracts and the price they charge domestic consumers reflects these individual contract prices and the energy efficiency of each heat network. Applying a price cap therefore risks being ineffecti...
Heat Networks: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to mitigate the exposure of heat network consumers to volatility in wholesale gas markets, given they are not protected by a domestic price cap.
Heat network operators buy the energy they need to provide heat to domestic consumers through commercial contracts. The Department and Ofgem are actively monitoring the contract prices paid by heat network operators since the Middle Eastern crisis started...
Defence: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the Defence Investment Plan has not yet been published.
We are working to finalise the Defence Investment Plan (DIP). We will publish it as soon as we can, but our aim is to ensure decisions in the DIP are robust and support the development of both current and future capabilities, helping to drive the transfor...
Artificial Intelligence: Investment
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent increases in investments received by United Kingdom-based artificial intelligence companies.
Artificial Intelligence: Cybersecurity
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of risks arising from the overseas processing of data by AI systems used by UK companies; and what steps they are taking to ensure compliance with data protection and cybersecurity requirement
Productivity
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase productivity.
The Government is committed to increasing productivity as a central driver of sustainable economic growth and rising living standards.To support this, at the 2026 Mais Lecture, the Chancellor announced that the government is going further with three big c...
Fuels: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to fuel duty on households and businesses reliant on road transport.
The Government recognises the pressures faced by households and businesses that rely on road transport, particularly during periods of global volatility which affect fuel prices. That is why the temporary 5p per litre cut to fuel duty has been extended to...
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of frozen state pensions on UK state pensioners residing overseas.
The UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide without regard to nationality and is uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so. This a...
Fertilisers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure the availability of fertiliser, including in response to sudden increases in demand.
Red Diesel
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contingency plans her Department has made for red diesel availability and costs if the conflict in Iran becomes a long-term issue.
Visitor Levy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Treasury has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed Overnight Visitors Levy on visitor numbers in coastal and seaside communities.
Visitor Levy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish assessments her Department has made of the potential impacts of the proposed Overnight Visitors Levy on (a) small and medium-sized businesses operating in the hospitality and tourism sectors and
Heat Networks: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the average annual cost increase for households connected to heat networks as a result of recent increases in commercial gas prices.
Heat network operators buy the energy they need to provide heat to domestic consumers through commercial contracts. The Department and Ofgem are actively monitoring the contract prices paid by heat network operators since the Middle Eastern crisis began a...
Heat Networks: Price Caps
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he expects to launch the proposed call for evidence on heat network price protections; and what the intended scope of that review will include.
Heat network suppliers and operators have until January 2027 to register with Ofgem and supply data, including information about pricing. Ofgem will use this to further inform their approach to pricing rules and guidance. The Department is working with Of...