Maintained Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Schools White Paper, what plans she has to safeguard local authority-run schools.
The ‘Every child achieving and thriving’ white paper sets out the unique and vital role local authorities play in delivery of high-quality education and opportunities for all children in their communities, including through working collaboratively with lo...
Conditions of Employment: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps is he taking to ensure that employment protections are adequate for the future, in the context of the potential for AI to replace some job roles.
DBT is working with DSIT and the AI Economics Institute to monitor impacts on jobs and skills. This will ensure we can respond quickly, alongside investment in training and lifelong learning, to help people adapt and prepare for future jobs.
Meningitis: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of rolling out the meningitis B vaccination to all children born before 2015.
As my Rt. Hon. Friend, the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, told the House on 17 March in the context of the meningococcal disease outbreak in Kent, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has been asked to re-exami...
Private Education: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department ensures effective oversight where safeguarding concerns are raised about independent schools.
Fire and Rescue Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure parity of recognition between Fire Control staff and other operational personnel who contribute to incident response, including thos
Academic Freedom: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled New powers to protect vital free speech at universities, published on 20 April 2026, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that students, staff
Energy: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling small businesses to renegotiate and exit fixed-term commercial energy contracts agreed during periods of peak wholesale p
The Government’s primary focus is on ensuring energy is affordable for all businesses, and that they are provided better protection from being locked into unfair and expensive energy contracts. That’s why the Government plans to directly regulate Third-Pa...
Phenylketonuria
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of regional variation in access to care and dietary support for people living with Phenylketonuria in England; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure c
Miscarriage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce will be considering miscarriage care as part of its remit.
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued to Integrated Care Boards on managing the transfer of NHS dental patients when a practice (a) hands back and (b) partially hands back its NHS contract.
Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to expand inpatient diagnostic capacity as part of the NHS productivity plan.
Nuclear Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the scope is of Great British Energy - Nuclear's study on the UK's potential for new nuclear development.
Nuclear Reactors: Oldbury Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential for the Oldbury site to host (a) small modular reactors and (b) advanced modular reactors.
Prison Officers: Conditions of Employment and Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) wellbeing and (b) working conditions for prison officers.
Staff Wellbeing Support – Prisons The Department recognises the unique challenges faced by prison staff and is improving wellbeing through a structured support framework that enables timely access to support, early intervention, and effective wellbeing m...
Lighthouses: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 9 January 2026 to Question 100955, if she will provide a breakdown of the capital expenditure programmes Trinity House is committed to for the decarbonisation of its lighthouse e
Transport Focus
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 9 January 2026 to Question 100955 on Department for Transport: Carbon Emissions, if she will set out the programmes Transport Focus is undertaking to ensure its advocacy work and
Nuclear Reactors: Oldbury Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential economic and social merits of a nuclear development at Oldbury to Thornbury and Yate constituency.
Afghanistan: Humanitarian Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in a) India and b) Pakistan about the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
The UK remains deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and it remains one of our largest humanitarian programmes. The £154 million we allocated to Afghanistan in the last financial year ensured continued access to health, nutritio...
Epilepsy
To ask His Majesty's Government how many requests have been made to the Refractory Epilepsy Specialist Clinical Advisory Service since it was established; and how many NHS prescriptions have been made available to children and young people with drug resis
Oldbury Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the current ownership status is of the Oldbury nuclear site.
Hospital Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of patients in NHS acute hospital beds in England whose (a) discharge and (b) onward care pathway is delayed pending a diagnostic (i) test and (i
Special Educational Needs: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on the application of discretion in attendance enforcement proceedings against parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Obesity: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NICE guidance on GLP-1 medications for obesity is implemented consistently across Integrated Care Boards; and if he will review the methodology us
Obesity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on establishing a cross Government obesity strategy that treats modern obesity t
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for consideration of the final outcome of the UK National Screening Committee's evaluation of prostate cancer screening.