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AMBER (30/100) 28 Oct 2026 Dr Al Pinkerton to Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of exclusion from the EU's Made in Europe programme on the UK's (a) steel and (b) energy sector.

RED (17/100) 28 Oct 2026 The Earl of Clancarty to Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to pursue a permission-first policy for the protection of individual artists’ work from scraping by tech companies and to ensure all artists who are included in a licensing deal will receive fair remune

AMBER (50/100) 28 Oct 2026 The Earl of Clancarty to Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to protect the copyright of artists and creatives whose work has been scraped by tech companies; and what plans they have to license such content.

AMBER (30/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Brennan of Canton to Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential impact of the proposed US Federal Tax Incentive on film and TV production in the UK financed by US studios and streamers.

AMBER (35/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Brennan of Canton to Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether contractual terms imposed as a condition of using a digital platform can override machine-readable rights reservations such as robots.txt; and how that assessment will impact their

RED (20/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Scriven to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask His Majesty's Government whether Judge Jassim Al-Ajlan, who previously held senior roles in Bahrain’s Alternative Sentencing Programme, has benefited from any UK-funded training, technical assistance, or other support, whether directly or indirectl

AMBER (30/100) 28 Oct 2026 Jim Shannon to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to secure sustainable replacement funding for disabled support services following the loss of the European Social fund.

AMBER (72/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Clement-Jones to Home Office

To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they have issued to police forces on meeting the international transfer provisions of Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, in respect of their use of Micros

RED (10/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Clement-Jones to Home Office

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Home Office has carried out or commissioned any assessment of transfers of personal data outside the United Kingdom arising from police forces' use of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 against the requirements o

AMBER (65/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Beamish to Ministry of Defence

To ask His Majesty's Government how many vehicles are provided to the Ministry of Defence under its ministerial car contract.

GREEN (80/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Beamish to Ministry of Defence

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they consider whether vehicles are manufactured in the UK when awarding the contract for Ministry of Defence ministerial cars.

AMBER (68/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Beamish to Ministry of Defence

To ask His Majesty's Government which company holds the current contract for the supply of ministerial cars to the Ministry of Defence and how long they have held the contract.

AMBER (72/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Beamish to Ministry of Defence

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Coaker on 27 October (HL4032), when they will provide the information requested.

GREEN (85/100) 28 Oct 2026 Jim Shannon to Department for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support employment by increasing skills levels in the engineering, construction and trades based sectors.

GREEN (88/100) 28 Oct 2026 Lord Taylor of Warwick to Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure financing business development is affordable for small UK firms.

GREEN (78/100) 28 Oct 2026 The Earl of Clancarty to Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Smart Fund proposal to use funds from sales of electronic devices which copy, store, and share creative content to pay creators and performers whose work is accessed, distributed, and s

AMBER (40/100) 28 Oct 2026 Baroness Finn to Cabinet Office

To ask His Majesty's Government what measurable outcomes were achieved as a result of the two meetings held by the Council of the Nations and Regions since 2024.

RED (12/100) 28 Oct 2026 Mike Wood to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the salaries of Cabinet Office staff based in no10 north are (a) London or (b) National pay ranges, and whether transferred staff from London keep their London range.

RED (15/100) 28 Oct 2026 Clive Lewis to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will publish the membership, terms of reference, and proposed reporting timelines of the cross-government task and finish group examining the issue of large domestic political donations announced at Commo

RED (15/100) 28 Oct 2026 Mike Wood to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 October 2026, to Question 20910, on Angling: Licensing, whether the Cabinet Office itself holds the information on communication, marketing and advertising spending control approvals

RED (15/100) DEFERRED 28 Oct 2026 Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

AMBER (30/100) 28 Oct 2026 The Earl of Clancarty to Treasury

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

AMBER (27/100) 28 Oct 2026 Ben Obese-Jecty to Treasury

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by when he plans to establish the new Innovative Defence Finance Taskforce.

AMBER (62/100) 28 Oct 2026 Ben Obese-Jecty to Treasury

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2026 to Question 32183 on Defence: Finance, whether he plans to publish the Defence Finance and Investment Strategy prior to the establishment of the Innovative Defence Finance Ta

AMBER (70/100) 28 Oct 2026 Baroness Redfern to Department of Health and Social Care

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefits of introducing a new patient-centred dental system that prioritises prevention and ensures that NHS dentistry is available to all those who need it.

AMBER (55/100) 28 Oct 2026 Baroness Verma to Treasury

To ask His Majesty's Government what the total receipts from the Apprenticeship Levy were, what was the total expenditure on apprenticeship training, in each of the last five financial years; and what plans they have to increase the proportion of Apprenti

GREEN (82/100) 27 Oct 2026 Dr Al Pinkerton to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to raise the EU's Made in Europe initiative as an agenda item at the forthcoming UK-EU Summit.

AMBER (30/100) 27 Oct 2026 Stuart Anderson to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what post-incident review framework is triggered when an incident impacts multiple critical national infrastructure sectors simultaneously.

AMBER (74/100) 27 Oct 2026 Greg Smith to Department for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2026 to Question 35233 on Road Works: Utilities, what estimate her Department has made of the number of occasions on which the same section of highway has been excavated by

RED (22/100) 27 Oct 2026 Mike Wood to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Office guidance Privacy information relating to honours nominations, updated 6 October 2026, for what purposes information concerning the political opinions of an honours nominee ma

NOT A QUESTION 27 Oct 2026 Mike Wood to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the publication of Agenda: Trade Specialised Committee on Level Playing Field for Open and Fair Competition and Sustainable Development under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: sixth meeting,

AMBER (30/100) 27 Oct 2026 Shivani Raja to Department for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason her Department determined that external consultancy support was required under contract RRSG0009.

AMBER (35/100) 27 Oct 2026 Dr Simon Opher to Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the need for a child health workforce strategy, in the context of the recommendations in the Health and Social Care Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 20

AMBER (62/100) 27 Oct 2026 Shivani Raja to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps her Department has taken to monitor compliance by executive agencies and arm's-length bodies with the rules on purchasing Government-branded merchandise; and whether her Department holds information o

AMBER (52/100) 27 Oct 2026 Lord Scriven to Department of Health and Social Care

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

AMBER (68/100) DATA NOT HELD 27 Oct 2026 Mike Wood to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what amount proportion of the increase in the National Insurance bill in 2025 was due to (a) increases in Civil Service salaries and (b) increases in the rate of National Insurance for employers.

RED (18/100) 27 Oct 2026 Mike Wood to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 22 September 2026, to Question HL3240, on Josh Simmons, on what date did the Cabinet Office obtain a copy of the Labour Together / APCO Worldwide report.

AMBER (30/100) 27 Oct 2026 Dr Al Pinkerton to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to raise barriers facing touring artists as an agenda item at the forthcoming UK-EU Summit.

GREEN (76/100) 27 Oct 2026 Alex Burghart to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to her written ministerial statement of 27 October 2026 on the National School of Government and Public Services, who has been appointed to lead the National School.

AMBER (42/100) 26 Oct 2026 Stuart Anderson to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what her timeline is for publishing the findings of the review into the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

RED (8/100) 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her French counterpart on the removal of people to France under the former UK-France One In, One Out pilot arrangement following its formal conclusion.

GREEN (80/100) 26 Oct 2026 James McMurdock to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has been made of the extent to which the Be Ready campaign duplicates existing emergency preparedness communications delivered by local authorities, emergency services, utility providers and othe

AMBER (50/100) 26 Oct 2026 Adam Jogee to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to a) protect and b) promote community cohesion in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire.

AMBER (30/100) 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any human rights impact assessments were undertaken in relation to the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme before, during or after its operation.

AMBER (55/100) 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an evaluation of the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme; and whether she will publish the findings.

AMBER (66/100) 26 Oct 2026 Stuart Anderson to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the UK Resilience Academy is scaling its training capacity for local responders and civil servants.

AMBER (42/100) 26 Oct 2026 Bob Blackman to Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in consultation with the Department of Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what investment and support her Department is providing for the development of AI-enabled decision-support tools to a

GREEN (85/100) 26 Oct 2026 Lord Gascoigne to Women and Equalities

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Office for Equality and Opportunity on 18 September (HC28997), what plans they have for the Office for Equality and Opportunity's Class Unit to asse

AMBER (46/100) 26 Oct 2026 Baroness Barran to Department for Education

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath on 21 October (HL Deb col 679), when they expect to launch and publish the public consultation on V Levels; and whether that consultation will set out how universitie

AMBER (48/100) 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public was of the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme; and whether she will publish a breakdown of those costs.