Written questions

236 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to provide Descovy as a HIV prevention drug.

14 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: HIV/AIDS

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to offer support to local organisations who provide prevention, testing and care services for HIV and AIDS in the Global South.

14 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: HIV/AIDS

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to provide (a) financial and (b) other support to help other countries reduce cases of HIV and AIDS.

14 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Uganda: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to take steps to support LGBTQ+ communities in Uganda providing HIV prevention, testing and care services.

14 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bilateral Aid: HIV/AIDS

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's guidance is for HIV and AIDS organisations applying for bilateral funding under the International Development Strategy.

14 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Duty Free Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has conducted research on the potential economic impact of duty-free shopping in other countries for arriving passengers; and if he will make an assessment of the potential economic impact of

14 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Retail Trade: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the withdrawal of tax-free shopping for passengers travelling to non-EU destinations on spending by non-EU international visitors since 1 January 2021; and wh

9 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Embassy Washington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the refurbishment of the residence at the UK embassy in Washington DC will be completed by June 2023.

7 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Embassies: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans his Department has to hold Pride receptions in June in embassies and posts to celebrate LGBTQ+ people.

7 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Embassies: World AIDS Day

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has plans to hold World AIDS Day receptions in embassies and posts on 1 December.

20 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Peru: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the government of Peru on the use of force during recent protests in Peru.

20 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Peru: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recent protests in Peru.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on potential joint working to reach zero HIV transmissions by 2030.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on potential joint working to help reach zero HIV transmissions by 2030.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing an HIV testing week.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the (a) Welsh, (b) Scottish and (c) Northern Irish governments on taking steps to introduce a UK-wide HIV testing week.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for public health campaigns on HIV for heterosexual (a) women and (b) men in each year since 2018.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for public health campaigns on HIV aimed at the black community in each year since 2018.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for public health campaigns on HIV for women in each year since 2018.

24 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much from the public purse the Government spent on HIV research and development in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.

10 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Clinics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that contracts awarded to HIV clinics require those clinics to conduct annual audits of (a) the number of people in the local area requiring HIV care and (b) the cap

9 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will expand HIV opt-out testing to local authority areas where there are between two and five per 1,000 people living with HIV.

9 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Monkeypox

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to provide additional funding for sexual health services to help recover services that have been affected by the monkeypox outbreak.

9 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to involve people living with HIV in the (a) development, (b) linkage with community-based services and (c) further implementation of quality-of-life measurement

29 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress his Department has made on integrating the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's policy marker on nutrition into its portfolio.

1 Nov 2022 · Scotland Office

Offshore Industry: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department is taking to promote the importance of oil and gas jobs to Scotland.

20 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Horn of Africa: Malnutrition

To ask the Minister for International Development, with reference to Save the Children’s press release entitled new figures reveal more than half of children in Somalia now facing malnutrition, published on 14 September 2022, what recent assessment she ha

20 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Malnutrition

To ask the Minister for International Development, what plans she has to join the USAID, European donors, and private philanthropies in supporting the provision of child wasting treatments as announced at the UN General Assembly.

20 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

East Africa: Malnutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential long-term impact of ongoing hunger crises in East Africa on levels of malnutrition in that region.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to make fostemsavir available for the treatment of people with multi-drug resistant HIV.

Source: official written-questions record.