Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lisdexamfetamine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure supplies of lisdexamfetamine capsules.

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies on the treatment of lobular breast cancer of the Institute of Cancer Research's Lobular Moonshot Project.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Landlords: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many landlords have been convicted for encashing a deposit placed in a government-approved tenancy deposit scheme before the end of a tenancy agreement in the last two years.

16 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will discuss attacks on employees in the retail sector at the next meeting of the National Retail Crime Steering Group.

16 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether initial asylum decisions have been made for claims made before 28 June 2022.

16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Global Combat Air Programme: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to meet the Global Combat Air Programme’s trilateral partners to discuss delivery of the next stage of the programme.

8 Feb 2024 · Treasury

Credit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people who have bought buy-now pay-later interest-free products in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Voluntary Work: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what events will be held in Northern Ireland to launch the Big Help Out in 2024.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Cost of Living Payments: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Northern Ireland will receive the cost of living payment as a result of being in receipt of low-income benefits in February 2024.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Airports: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he last met representatives of (a) Belfast International, (b) Belfast City and (c) Londonderry airport.

7 Feb 2024 · Northern Ireland Office

Police: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what account the UK Government Financial Package to Northern Ireland takes of shortfalls in the policing budget.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to quality assure average times taken to make decisions on Access to Work assessments to National Statistics publication standard.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Government response: British Industry Supercharger Network Charging Compensation Scheme, updated by her Department on 11 October 2023, when she plans to bring forward legislative

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people have been prosecuted for selling unsafe battery-charged (a) e-bikes and (b) e-scooters in the last 12 months.

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure an adequate supply of labour in the food supply chain.

6 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Piracy: Red Sea

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the Oral Statement of the Secretary of State for Defence of 5 February 2024 on Situation in the Red Sea, Official Report, column 22, whether the Secretary of Sta

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Sales: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will publish a response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s research entitled Summary of consumer research and unit pricing analysis, published on 30 January 2024.

5 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Defence

NATO Countries: Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold discussions with his NATO counterparts on increasing defence spending, in the context of further potential international conflict.

5 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Falkland Islands: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) availability and (b) readiness of the Armed Forces in relation to the security of the Falkland Islands.

5 Feb 2024 · Treasury

Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people paid the higher rate of income tax in each year since 2018.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Streptococcus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she expects to receive the Group B Streptococcus cluster randomised trial results.

1 Feb 2024 · Attorney General

Crown Prosecution Service: Women

To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of female civil servants in the Crown Prosecution Service were employed on temporary contracts in each of the last three years.

1 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish an update to the national road traffic projections.

1 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many home EV charging points have been installed in each of the last two years.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Motorways: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made implementing stopped vehicle detection technology on motorways.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to active travel in the 2024-25 financial year.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the Director General of the BBC on the value for money of challenging freedom of information requests on Martin Bashir.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when she next plans to hold discussions with Ofgem on estimated trends in the level of energy costs in the next 12 months.

30 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Middle East: UN Agencies

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make representations to the UN on the potential steps it can take to ensure it has the confidence of donor nations in relation to the operations of its relief and works

30 Jan 2024 · Treasury

No-interest Loans Scheme: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his latest estimate is of when the pilot No Interest Loan Scheme run by Fair4AllFinance will be launched in Northern Ireland.

Source: official written-questions record.