Questions Asked 18 December 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Artificial Intelligence: Mental Health
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that a third of UK citizens have used AI chatbots for emotional support or social interaction and the implications for safeguarding and mental health policy frameworks.
HM Treasury
Artificial Intelligence: Banking
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the adoption of agentic AI systems by banks is aligned with existing financial services consumer protections and regulatory standards.
HM Treasury
Inflation and Economic Growth
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of recent economic analysis concerning the UK’s inflation outlook and associated risks to economic growth; and how this is being factored into fiscal and economic planning.
Questions Asked 17 December 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Data Protection: Post Office
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s finding not to fine the Post Office £1 million for a data breach involving Horizon victims’ data.
Cabinet Office
Artificial Intelligence: Public Authorities
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that AI-based systems used by public authorities comply with legal standards and protect citizens’ rights.
Department for Education
Erasmus+ Programme
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support UK universities and employers in maximising the benefits of the UK’s return to the Erasmus+ student exchange programme, particularly in relation to skills and labour mobility.
Questions Asked 16 December 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Political Misinformation
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the scale and impact of AI-generated political misinformation on online platforms; and what steps they are taking to safeguard democratic processes.
Department for Business and Trade
US–UK Technology Cooperation
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the reported suspension of the US-UK Technology Prosperity Deal; and what impact this has on US-UK collaboration on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies.
Department for Work and Pensions
Unemployment: Young People
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the rise in the UK unemployment rate to 5.1 per cent between August and October 2025; and what steps they are taking to support employment opportunities for young people.
Questions Asked 15 December 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Winter Pressures
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of pressures facing the NHS from a surge in flu cases and staff shortages this winter, in the context of maintaining safe patient care standards.
Ministry of Justice
Artificial Intelligence: Courts
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the use of artificial intelligence tools within the courts of England and Wales, and what guidance or safeguards are in place to ensure judicial independence, accuracy and transparency.
Department of Health and Social Care
Industrial Action: NHS
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to mitigate the impact of resident doctors’ industrial action on NHS capacity and patient safety during the winter period.
Questions Asked 11 December 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Google DeepMind
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure robust governance, safety evaluation and transparency in their announced partnership with Google DeepMind, including the planned automated science laboratory and access to its AI models for public services.
Department for Business and Trade
Artificial Intelligence: Recruitment
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the risk that the use of AI tools by employers to research job candidates may introduce misinformation and increase the likelihood of unlawful discrimination in recruitment.
Department of Health and Social Care
Artificial Intelligence: Health Misinformation
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to address the use of AI deepfake videos impersonating doctors to spread health misinformation on social media platforms.
Questions Asked 10 December 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Online Fraud
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to address reports of search engines using artificial intelligence being manipulated to direct consumers to fraudulent customer service phone numbers.
Home Office
Live Facial Recognition
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that any use of live facial recognition cameras by law enforcement bodies is subject to clear safeguards to protect privacy and human rights.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Artificial Intelligence: Copyright
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the copyright and transparency implications of major booksellers selling fiction generated by artificial intelligence systems.
Questions Asked 09 December 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Artificial Intelligence: NHS Data
To ask His Majesty’s Government what safeguards and governance arrangements are in place for NHS patient data when accessed or processed by artificial intelligence systems.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Bills
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on household energy bills of the £28 billion electricity and gas infrastructure investment approved by Ofgem over the next five years.
HM Treasury
Blockchain and Mortgages
To ask His Majesty’s Government how they intend to ensure consumer protection and regulatory compliance in blockchain and AI-enabled tokenised deposit models in the home-buying and mortgage markets.
Questions Asked 08 December 2025
HM Treasury
Individual Savings Accounts
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to define ‘cash-like investments’ in stocks and shares Individual Savings Accounts, and how charges on cash holdings in those accounts will be applied.
Department for Business and Trade
Taxation and Employment
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of tax and regulatory changes for businesses on employment levels.
Department for Transport
Artificial Intelligence: Rail Safety
To ask His Majesty’s Government, following the cancellation of trains in response to an AI-generated image appearing to show damage to a bridge in Lancaster, what steps they are taking to respond to and prevent the suspension of rail services as a result of AI-generated images.
Questions Asked 04 December 2025
HM Treasury
OECD Economic Outlook
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Economic Outlook for the United Kingdom, published on 2 December.
Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer Screening
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the draft prostate cancer screening recommendation by the National Screening Committee.
Home Office
Ransomware Payments
To ask His Majesty’s Government what consideration they are giving to exemptions to the proposed ban on ransomware payments for operators of critical national infrastructure.
Questions Asked 03 December 2025
HM Treasury
Public Spending Forecasts
To ask His Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the level of (1) welfare spending, (2) tax receipt growth, and (3) day-to-day public services spending, in 2029–30.
HM Treasury
Treasury Bills
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of expanding the Treasury bill market on refinancing risk exposure.
HM Treasury
Taxation: Investment Income
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of increasing taxes on dividend income, savings income and salary sacrifice pension contributions on tax receipts and the number of taxpayers in each tax band.
Questions Asked 02 December 2025
HM Treasury
Business Investment
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the estimate by the Office for Budget Responsibility that business investment may decline in 2026.
HM Treasury
Financial Stability and Equity Markets
To ask His Majesty’s Government, with regard to the report by the Office for Budget Responsibility, Economic and fiscal outlook, published on 26 November, what assessment they have made of the risks of elevated global equity valuations driven in part by AI technology stocks to the economy.
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Artificial Intelligence: Planning System
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the use of artificial intelligence to generate planning objections to energy infrastructure proposals, and the implications for the operation of the planning system.
Questions Asked 01 December 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Health Data Research Service
To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they have had discussions with commercial users about pricing arrangements for access to datasets through the Health Data Research Service.
Department for Business and Trade
Business Rates Relief
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of changes to retail, hospitality and leisure relief announced in the Budget 2025 on small businesses.
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax
To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they have made an assessment of the impact of the introduction of the high level council tax surcharge on the number of valuation challenges to the Valuations Office Agency.
Questions Asked 27 November 2025
HM Treasury
Income Tax Thresholds
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the extension of the income tax threshold freeze on the number of people paying income tax, in particular the number of higher rate and additional rate taxpayers.
HM Treasury
Salary Sacrifice Pensions
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the £2,000 cap on national insurance-free salary sacrifice pension contributions on costs for (1) employees, and (2) employers.
Department of Health and Social Care
Artificial Intelligence: Mental Health Tools
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to assess the clinical safety and cost effectiveness of AI mental health tools funded and used by the NHS.
Questions Asked 26 November 2025
Department for Business and Trade
Artificial Intelligence: Productivity
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage professional services firms to adopt artificial intelligence productivity tools.
Department of Health and Social Care
Community Diagnostics
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of expanding community-based diagnostic and treatment services to reduce pressure on hospital capacity.
Department for Work and Pensions
Pensioner Living Standards
To ask His Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the number of pensioners whose incomes will be below the minimum retirement living standard in 2040.
Department for Work and Pensions
Artificial Intelligence and Employment
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of employers adopting AI systems on the labour market, and what steps they are taking to ensure workers are equipped with the skills required by the labour market.
Department for Business and Trade
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of rising input costs, labour costs and taxes on small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.
Questions Asked 25 November 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
AI Growth Zones
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to support job creation and infrastructure development in the AI Growth Zone in South Wales.
HM Treasury
Banking Technology
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of legacy IT infrastructure on the ability of UK banks to adopt new financial technology and AI systems.
Questions Asked 24 November 2025
Department for Business and Trade
Small Retailers: Business Confidence To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the findings in the SumUp UK Business Confidence Report 2025, and the implications of those findings for policies relating to the cost pressures faced by small and independent retailers.
HM Treasury
Fintech Sector: Business Confidence To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the confidence of financial technology company founders in the UK economy.
Questions Asked 20 November 2025
HM Treasury
Fintech: Business Growth To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage UK fintech founders to retain and expand their companies in the UK, including through targeted tax and regulatory incentives.
HM Treasury
Inflation and Cost of Living To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that UK inflation slowed to 3.6 per cent in October, and what are the implications for policies aimed at reducing cost-of-living pressures for households and businesses.
Questions Asked 19 November 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Children’s Products: Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they plan to review the regulatory requirements applying to AI-enabled toys for children.
Department for Education
Children: Artificial Intelligence Safety To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that children are using artificial intelligence chatbots for mental health advice, in particular with regard to online safety and child protection.
Department of Health and Social Care
Disability: Assistive Technologies To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to develop accessibility standards for AI-enabled assistive communication technologies used by people with disabilities.
Questions Asked 18 November 2025
Department for Business and Trade
Workplaces: Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to develop a regulatory framework to ensure that workplace use of artificial intelligence tools complies with UK employment and data-protection law.
Department for Work and Pensions
Labour Market: Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of artificial intelligence tools on employment levels, considering the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development Labour Market Outlook report published 10 November which stated 17% of UK employers expect to reduce their workforce due to artificial intelligence tools in the coming year.
HM Treasury
Consumers: AI Financial Advice To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment have they made of the risk to consumers using AI chatbots for financial advice, following the consumer study findings from Which? stating such tools provided inaccurate financial advice.
Questions Asked 17 November 2025
HM Treasury
Tax and Residency To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to review tax and residency rules, following reports of UK technology founders relocating overseas.
HM Treasury
Financial Services: AI Regulation To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of international policy cooperation on regulating artificial intelligence in financial services; and whether they plan to develop further UK policy in this area.
HM Treasury
Financial Services: Data Quality To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve data quality standards in financial services to ensure the reliable use of artificial intelligence in regulatory compliance.
Questions Asked 12 November 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Compliance To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to monitor the compliance of artificial intelligence systems deployed in the UK with standards on privacy, transparency and non-discrimination.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
AI Start-ups To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support the development of UK-based autonomous and agentic artificial intelligence start-ups, particularly in regard to partnerships and infrastructure.
Home Office
Child Protection: Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to work with technology companies and child safety agencies on regulatory frameworks for detecting child protection risks in artificial intelligence systems.
Questions Asked 11 November 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care Workforce To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to expand training, support and retention initiatives for healthcare professionals delivering palliative and end-of-life care.
HM Treasury
Financial Stability: AI Valuations To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the risks to financial stability arising from increased equity valuations linked to artificial-intelligence companies.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Cybersecurity To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025 finding that over 40 per cent of UK businesses experienced a breach or attack in the past 12 months.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the decision of the High Court in Getty Images v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) on copyright and innovation policy, in particular in relation to the use of copyrighted materials to train AI models.
Questions Asked 10 November 2025
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning System: Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the use of artificial intelligence to generate objections to planning applications.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Video Games: Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking with industry partners to develop innovation funding and training programmes for the use of generative artificial intelligence in the video games sector.
Questions Asked 05 November 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Video Games
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support collaboration between artificial intelligence researchers and video game developers to increase innovation and high-skilled employment.
HM Treasury
Artificial Intelligence: Financial Stability
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the use of artificial intelligence by financial services for financial decision-making processes, such as underwriting and credit pricing, on UK financial stability.
HM Treasury
Artificial Intelligence: Personal Finance
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the level of consumer protection for those using AI tools for personal finance purposes, in particular in regard to protection from data misuse, inaccurate advice and fraud.
Questions Asked 04 November 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Artificial Intelligence: Wearable Devices
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the potential use of wearable health device data and artificial intelligence to support early detection of heart damage in NHS patients.
Department for Business and Trade
Robotics and Automation
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the potential for robotics and automation to offset the projected reduction in the labour force caused by population aging.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Artificial Intelligence: News Media
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the use of artificial intelligence in news production and distribution complies with regulated media standards.
Questions Asked 03 November 2025
HM Treasury
Artificial Intelligence: Financial Cybersecurity
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to strengthen data privacy and cybersecurity standards for artificial intelligence tools used in financial services.
Department for Business and Trade
Fintech Investment
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to promote fintech investment and skills development in regions outside London.
HM Treasury
Artificial Intelligence: Scam Detection
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that AI-powered scam-detection tools used by UK financial institutions comply with data-protection and cybersecurity regulations.
Questions Asked 31 October 2025
Ministry of Defence
Defence Procurement
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that Ministry of Defence contractors that use alternative finance providers, including fintech lenders, meet procurement and financial resilience requirements.
Department for Business and Trade
Artificial Intelligence: SME Training
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support access to training in artificial intelligence tools for employees of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Questions Asked 30 October 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Alan Turing Institute
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Alan Turing Institute’s new cyber-defence programme does not impact funding of its non-defence AI research.
Questions Asked 29 October 2025
Department for Business and Trade
Fintech Sector
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support the fintech sector, following reports that British firms secured half of the top 10 European fintech investment deals in the third quarter of 2025.
Department for Business and Trade
Digital Markets Regulation
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to enforce the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 to prevent anti-competitive practices by major digital platforms.
HM Treasury
Tokenised Investment Funds
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that asset managers issuing tokenised investment funds implement robust cybersecurity measures.
Questions Asked 28 October 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Hospice Care Access
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure equitable access to hospice and palliative care services for regions in England.
Department of Health and Social Care
Hospice Funding
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure hospices are adequately funded.
Cabinet Office
Artificial Intelligence: Civil Service
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to monitor the accuracy and effectiveness of AI systems used by the Civil Service.
Questions Asked 27 October 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
AI Regulatory Sandbox
To ask His Majesty’s Government what cybersecurity safeguards and oversight mechanisms are in place to protect online data and systems during regulatory-relaxation periods under the UK’s “AI sandbox” testing framework.
Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care Services
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure the NHS provides sufficient and timely palliative care services for terminally ill patients, including increasing staff, beds, and funding, to meet national demand.
Department of Health and Social Care
Assisted Dying Bill
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Assisted Dying Bill does not inadvertently encourage assisted dying as a cost-saving measure in the healthcare system.
Questions Asked 23 October 2025
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
AI Data Centres: Planning
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reduce planning restrictions on the construction of AI data centres.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
AI Data Centres: Energy
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that construction of AI data centres is compatible with energy infrastructure capacity and statutory environmental targets.
HM Treasury
Borrowing Costs
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to incorporate the recent fall in government borrowing costs into fiscal planning.
HM Treasury
National Insurance: LLPs
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the impact of charging National Insurance to limited liability partnerships on the number of such firms relocating abroad or restructuring as companies.
Questions Asked 22 October 2025
Home Office
Artificial Intelligence: National Security To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the warnings by the Director General of MI5 concerning autonomous artificial intelligence risks, and what role the Home Office and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are taking to mitigate autonomous AI threats to national security.
HM Treasury
Financial Stability To ask His Majesty’s Government what contingency plans are in place for UK financial stability, in light of the Bank of England’s warning that markets are at risk of a sharp correction tied to artificial intelligence valuations and geopolitical uncertainty.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and HM Treasury are taking to support artificial intelligence infrastructure development, including data and development talent, as part of the red tape reduction pledges.
Questions Asked 21 October 2025
Department for Education
University Tuition Fees To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of linking university tuition fees to inflation on access to higher education and student debt levels.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Regulation To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to implement the newly published blueprint for artificial intelligence regulation, including the creation of AI Growth Labs and sector-specific regulatory sandboxes.
Questions Asked 20 October 2025
HM Treasury
Public Debt To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the UK’s fiscal framework remains sustainable, in view of the International Monetary Fund’s warning that UK public debt may exceed 100 per cent of GDP by 2029.
Home Office
Skilled Workers: Visas To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the UK remains competitive in global technology talent, in the light of proposed changes to settlement rules for high-skilled visa holders.
HM Treasury
Sterling 20 Initiative To ask His Majesty’s Government what is the potential of the Sterling 20 investment initiative to support infrastructure and high-growth sectors, and what role the Treasury will play in overseeing its deployment.
Questions Asked 16 October 2025
HM Treasury
Cryptoassets: Regulation To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to strengthen the United Kingdom’s regulatory framework for cryptoassets to address risks arising from inconsistent international regulation.
Department for Transport
Autonomous Vehicles To ask His Majesty’s Government what regulatory oversight they are developing for autonomous vehicle artificial intelligence, in the light of Waymo’s plan to launch driverless taxis in London next year.
HM Treasury
Financial Regulation To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the Bank of England’s updated remuneration rules on financial regulation and market stability.
HM Treasury
Tokenised Funds To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to enable the adoption of tokenised funds using public blockchains while safeguarding against financial crime and systemic risk.
Department for Business and Trade
Artificial Intelligence: Workplace Use To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in workplaces, including chatbots and content-generation systems, is limited to technologies compliant with cybersecurity and data protection regulations.
Questions Asked 15 October 2025
Office for National Statistics
Official Statistics To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to enhance data accuracy and accountability in the Office for National Statistics.
Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Medicines To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the long-term fiscal implications of the updated NHS commercial framework for new medicines.
HM Treasury
City of London To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of their partnership with the World Bank on the position of the City of London as a global financial centre.
Questions Asked 14 October 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Cybersecurity To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to update cybersecurity policies to reduce cyberattacks on companies and organisations.
Questions Asked 13 October 2025
HM Treasury
Financial Technology: Regulation To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to update financial technology regulations.
HM Treasury
Financial Technology: Consumer Protection To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that financial technology regulatory reforms, including access for non-bank payment providers to payment infrastructure, maintain consumer protection and market transparency.
HM Treasury
UK–India Financial Cooperation To ask His Majesty’s Government, following the UK–India investment agreements announced on 9 October, what cybersecurity policies are in place to protect cross-border digital financial transactions and financial technology cooperation between the United Kingdom and India.
Questions Asked 18 September 2025
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Artificial Intelligence: Energy Infrastructure To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure energy and planning infrastructure can support large-scale artificial intelligence compute deployments without undermining commitments to clean energy and lowering energy costs.
Department for Work and Pensions
Employment To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to strengthen employment opportunities in sectors experiencing the sharpest decline in job opportunities.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence Growth Zone To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Artificial Intelligence Growth Zone in north-east England delivers over 5,000 skilled jobs and attracts the forecasted £30 billion in private investment.
Questions Asked 17 September 2025
HM Treasury
Inflation To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to reduce inflation.
HM Treasury
Cryptoassets: Consumer Protection To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure consumer protection under the Financial Conduct Authority’s plans to exempt cryptoasset providers from some traditional financial rules.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence Capacity To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the role of multinational companies in the United Kingdom’s artificial intelligence capacity, and what steps they are taking to balance the role of those companies with the development of UK-owned AI capacity.
Questions Asked 16 September 2025
HM Treasury
Government Borrowing To ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Bank of England regarding proposals to slow the bond-selling plan to help reduce record UK government borrowing costs.
HM Treasury
Government Borrowing To ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Bank of England regarding proposals to slow the bond-selling plan to help reduce UK government borrowing costs.
Department for Business and Trade
Artificial Intelligence: Employment Rights To ask His Majesty’s Government, with reference to clause 21 of the Employment Rights Bill, what steps they will take to ensure employers are legally accountable for content generated by artificial intelligence systems, including harassment.
Questions Asked 15 September 2025
HM Treasury
Digital Services Tax To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of reducing or removing the digital services tax.
Department for Business and Trade
Employee Monitoring To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the use of employee monitoring tools.
HM Treasury
VAT: Energy Bills To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of abolishing five per cent VAT on domestic energy bills, in particular on the cost of living for households.
Questions Asked 11 September 2025
Department for Transport
Railways: Cybersecurity To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to strengthen cybersecurity across the railway sector.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Bills To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that one million households are now falling behind with their energy bills.
HM Treasury
Property Taxation To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of potential reform of the property taxation system and the ability of any reform to make housing more affordable.
Cabinet Office
Economic Coordination To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the Prime Minister’s “Budget Board” will be able to improve economic coordination ahead of the November Budget.
Questions Asked 10 September 2025
Department for Business and Trade
Merger: Employment To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the proposed merger of Anglo American and Teck Resources for jobs in the United Kingdom.
HM Treasury
Consumer Confidence To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports of dropping consumer confidence among people aged over 65.
Questions Asked 9 September 2025
HM Treasury
Financial Technology To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure fair access in the fintech sector following the selection of a provider, Etrading Software, for the United Kingdom’s first consolidated bond trading tape.
Ministry of Defence
Defence Industrial Strategy To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the new Defence Industrial Strategy on supply chains and local economic growth.
Department for Education
Artificial Intelligence: Workforce To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to develop workforce and education strategies in response to the growth of AI-native businesses with minimal staff.
Questions Asked 8 September 2025
Department for Business and Trade
Artificial Intelligence: Employment To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of job losses as a result of artificial intelligence replacing content moderation and safety roles at tech firms in the United Kingdom.
Department for Education
Graduate Employment To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to protect graduate and entry-level jobs.
HM Treasury
Financial Technology To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that support for the growth of financial technology companies promotes innovation while safeguarding financial stability and fairness.
Questions Asked 4 September 2025
Cabinet Office
Artificial Intelligence: Civil Service To ask His Majesty’s Government what measures they plan to take to ensure the safety of agentic artificial intelligence that is used by the Civil Service.
Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health: Young People To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of video games designed to support the mental health of young people.
HM Treasury
Property Taxation To ask His Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to replacing stamp duty and council tax with a single property tax based on property value.
Department for Business and Trade
Artificial Intelligence: Workplace Ethics To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure the fair and ethical use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, including the protection of workers’ rights and support for retraining.
Cabinet Office
Development Review To ask His Majesty’s Government when they plan to publish the report on the outcome of the Development Review.
Questions Asked 3 September 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Stroke: Artificial Intelligence To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure equal regional access to artificial intelligence diagnostic software for stroke patients.
Questions Asked 2 September 2025
HM Treasury
Government Borrowing To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the rise in long-term borrowing costs, and what steps they are taking to mitigate further growth of those costs.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Artificial Intelligence: Images To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they plan to introduce restrictions on the publication of AI-generated images of historic events.
HM Revenue & Customs
Capital Gains Tax To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to update HM Revenue & Customs technology to avoid the miscalculation of capital gains tax in the future.
Questions Asked 1 September 2025
Department of Health and Social Care
Artificial Intelligence: Diagnostics To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to deploy artificial intelligence diagnostic tools to aid healthcare professionals.
HM Treasury
Stablecoins To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the use of stablecoins, and whether they plan to integrate stablecoins into the United Kingdom economy.
HM Treasury
Cost of Living To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the increase in the cost of living over the past four years, and what steps they are taking to ensure those costs are manageable.
Questions Asked 23 July 2025
Cabinet Office
Google Cloud: Data Protection To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Google’s “Data Boundary” solution; and what steps they are taking to protect the privacy of their data held on Google Cloud.
Cabinet Office
Public Transparency To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of public transparency measures concerning data access and supervision during the partnership with Google; and how they will report this to Parliament.
Cabinet Office
Civil Service Training To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that training provided to civil servants through the Google partnership includes guidance on artificial intelligence bias, data ethics and accountability.