Written questions

543 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 May 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department monitors implementation of price caps for agency staff.

26 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

Visual Impairment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make additional funding available to expand access to habilitation training for young people with sight loss.

26 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will carry out a cost-benefit analysis on the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis as a preventative measure for HIV.

26 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to promote habilitation training.

26 Apr 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Antibiotics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to ban the routine preventive use of antibiotics in farming.

26 Apr 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Beverage Containers: Deposit Return Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the merits of introducing a deposit return system for single-use drinks containers in England.

26 Apr 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Equal Pay: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2016 to Question 33501, on equal pay tribunals, how many individual equal pay claims have been brought against employers by (a) men and (b) women in each year between 2010 and 2

26 Apr 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Equal Pay: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2016 to Question 33501, on equal pay tribunals, how many (a) men and (b) women were involved in the two large multiple claims referred to in that answer; and against whom those

14 Apr 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures and checks her Department has put in place to ensure that the new supplier of language analysis testing are fully qualified to conduct those tests.

14 Apr 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from professional linguists on the effectiveness of language analysis testing.

14 Apr 2016 · Department for Education

National Curriculum Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to reduce teacher workload and maintain pupil well-being when new Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 assessments are introduced.

13 Apr 2016 · Department for International Development

World Humanitarian Summit

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether a decision has been reached on the composition of the UK delegation to the World Humanitarian Summit in May.

13 Apr 2016 · Home Office

Teachers: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the Shortage Occupation List to ensure that the £35,000 earnings threshold for tier 2 visa holders does not lead to the loss of highly skilled teachers of subjects other than mathem

12 Apr 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Equal Pay: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March to Question 31122, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the (a) decrease in the number of women and (b) increase in the number of men bringing equal pay tr

12 Apr 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ethiopia: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the scale of human rights abuses against the Oromo people in Ethiopia; and what representations he has made to his Ethiopian counterpart on that

8 Apr 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Equality (Language Analysis - Palestinian, Syrian and Kuwaiti Testing) Authorisation (No. 2) 2013, whether any further nationalities have been added to the list of exceptions.

8 Apr 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Middle East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Equality (Language Analysis - Palestinian, Syrian and Kuwaiti Testing) Authorisation (No. 2) 2013, whether the Government plans to revise the existing three exceptions.

8 Apr 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of language analysis testing of asylum applicants; and if she will carry out a review of her Department's policy on such testing.

8 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) trusts that have breached the national price caps for NHS agency staff and (b) times those price caps have been breached since their introduction.

8 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of changes in the number of nursing, medical and other shifts that have not been filled since the introduction of national price caps for NHS agency staff.

8 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of changes in the level of expenditure on agency, bank or locum staff since the introduction of national price caps for NHS agency staff.

8 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

Psychiatry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future levels of bursaries and salary support for trainee child and adolescent psychotherapists.

8 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what regional variation there has been in the proportion of shifts which have not been filled since the introduction of national price caps for NHS agency staff.

8 Apr 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Directors: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the oral contribution by the Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise on 28 October 2015, Official Report, column 476, if his Department will extend the remit of th

22 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Epilepsy: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the findings in the Epilepsy Society's report, Premature mortality and avoidable deaths in epilepsy, published in March 2016, on the proportion of sudden and unexpected epilepsy-related deaths th

15 Mar 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Equal Pay: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men brought equal pay tribunal cases against their employers in each year since 2010.

15 Mar 2016 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for production of the new violence against women and girls strategy.

15 Mar 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Fireworks

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to further regulate the use of fireworks.

15 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2016 to Question 28048, when the Equality Impact Assessment will be published.

15 Mar 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Maryam Rajavi

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will invite Maryam Rajavi to visit Parliament and the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.