Written questions

1,687 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting doctors from the immigration health surcharge; and if he will make a statement.

29 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the (a) equity and (b) effectiveness of the immigration health surcharge.

29 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s report: An Inspection of the Home Off

26 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infant Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the (a) dates, (b) attendees and (c) topics of meetings his Department has had with representatives of the formula milk industry in 2018 and 2019 to date.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of initial teacher training on (a) SEND and (b) literacy difficulties.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of support for learners with literacy difficulties; and if he will make a statement.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Literacy and Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to establish new national professional qualifications on SEND and literacy.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to include teaching learners with literacy difficulties in early career framework curricula and training materials.

10 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether those people involved in teaching and diagnosing pupils with dyslexia and specific learning difficulties in the school system have been consulted on the changes to who is able to conduct assessments for

10 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether all potential students with a diagnosis of (a) dyslexia and (b) specific learning difficulties who had their assessment completed by someone without the Assessment Practising Certificate before the end

9 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexually Transmitted Infections

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has undertaken on the reasons for increasing rates of (a) syphilis and (b) gonorrhoea.

9 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexually Transmitted Infections

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to tackle the increase in cases of (a) syphilis and (b) gonorrhoea; and if he will make a statement.

9 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the need for a sexual health action plan; and if he will make a statement.

9 Apr 2019 · 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 (a) minimise food disruption and (b) consider the possible effects food shortages could have on vulnerable groups in the event of the UK leaving

9 Apr 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contingency plans the Government has in place to support vulnerable people in the event food prices rise significantly in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and if

4 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the proposed hardship fund in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal would be administered.

4 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government have taken to establish a hardship fund in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

4 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allocate additional funding to support charities providing direct services to people with ME in the North East.

4 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding the Government has allocated to services used by patients with ME in the North East.

4 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for his Department to (a) bring forward legislative proposals on calorie labelling on menus and (b) publish a response to the public consultation on calorie labelling.

27 Mar 2019 · Department for Education

Children: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department collects in relation to the effectiveness of early years early intervention strategies in (a) Sunderland and (b) the North East.

19 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the expansion of the PrEP Impact Trial outside of London as soon as possible.

18 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to support an increase in the use of metabolic surgery for people with Type 2 diabetes.

18 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the poor uptake of bariatric surgeries in the UK compared with other developed countries.

18 Mar 2019 · Treasury

Sugar: Taxation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to extend financial levies on sugar in food and drink to more food and drink categories.

18 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has assessed the effect on patients of differences in the way that demographic groups receive care for HIV.

5 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for the public consultation on the healthy start welfare food scheme, announced in the paper entitled, Childhood Obesity: A plan for action, published in June 2018.

14 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to ME/CFS for biomedical research in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.

14 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to ME/CFS for (a) biopsychological and (b) biopsychosocial research in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.

14 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

ME/CFS: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many grant applications have been made to the Medical Research Council for ME/CFS related research since 2010; how many of those applications have been awarded funding; and if

Source: official written-questions record.