Written questions

2,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Jun 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Streaming: Classification Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department (a) has made and (b) plans to make an assessment of how many video-on-demand platforms apply the BBFC age ratings framework; and what discussions he has had with r

16 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kickstart Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the 8.6 per cent claimant rate in Kingston upon Hull North constituency compared with the national average claimant rate of 6 per cent, what assessment her Department has made of the e

16 Jun 2021 · Department for International Trade

Livestock: Australia

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the legality of (a) barren battery cages, (b) sow stalls, (c) hormone-fed beef, (d) hot branding and (e) mulesing in Australia on (i) food and

16 Jun 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Australia

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that the UK's (a) farming standards are upheld and (b) farmers are not undercut by imports of animal products produced with lower standards in Austral

16 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to tackle (a) pre- and (b) post- covid-19 inequalities and intersectional issues affecting adolescents and young women accessing sexual and reproductive health services; and i

15 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of not putting India on the red list until 23 April 2021 on the covid-19 infection rate in the UK.

11 Jun 2021 · Department for Education

Financial Services: Islam

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to implement sharia-compliant alternative finance product, first proposed by the Government in 2014.

11 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Relationships and Sex Education: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department is taking to ensure children and young people in Northern Ireland are taught about all pregnancy options, including abortion, as part of comprehensive relationships and sex educ

11 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of anti-abortion protests outside clinics in Northern Ireland on the accessibility of abortion services to women requiring abortion care.

10 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether an Equality Impact Assessment has been carried out on the Department of Health's decision not to commission abortion services in Northern Ireland.

10 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of the mental health impact on pregnant women in Northern Ireland during the covid-19 pandemic of a lack of access to abortion services in Northern Ireland.

10 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the commissioning of abortion services in Northern Ireland, whether he has plans to allocate long-term funding for the maintenance of a central access point for abortion care.

10 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what timeframe he plans to agree with the Minister of Health in Northern Ireland on the introduction of a fully funded and commissioned abortion service; and what steps he is taking to ensure that servic

10 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the commissioning of abortion services in Northern Ireland, what urgent steps he is taking to ensure that those services are fully (a) funded and (b) staffed.

9 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department holds estimates of the number of women who have procured clandestine abortions since the establishment of a legal framework for abortion in Northern Ireland on 31 March 2020.

9 Jun 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many women have travelled to the British mainland to receive abortion care since the establishment of a legal framework for abortion in Northern Ireland on 31 March 2020.

9 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the right to make late applications to the EU Settlement Scheme extended to children includes a right for their primary carers to also make a late application without giving further reasonable grou

9 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to amend Appendix EU to allow children to apply late to the EU Settlement Scheme.

4 Jun 2021 · Department for Education

Pupils: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to invest in improving the (a) emotional well-being and (b) mental health of school children as part of the schools recovery plan.

4 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS and Social Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2021 to Question 153166 on NHS and Social Services: Staff, what his Department's workforce priorities are for NHS and social care staff.

4 Jun 2021 · Department for Education

Children: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is he taking to help disabled children recover lost progress in managing their conditions as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

4 Jun 2021 · Department for Education

Children: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allocating funding to the provision of additional therapies for disabled children.

4 Jun 2021 · Department for Education

Respite Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of funding additional respite care for the families of disabled children to help alleviate exhaustion and social isolation.

26 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Guatemala: Non-governmental Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on (a) civil society and (b) human rights of the proposed adoption of legislation on Non-Governmental Organisations in Guatemala; an

26 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 2925 on Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of turning the universal credit advance from a loan to a

25 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the problem of claimants of universal credit (a) having their application for that benefit delayed and (b) being unable to make that claim as a result of th

25 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 2925 on Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse, whether her Department has made an assessment of the ease of access to information that universal credit claim

25 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Debts

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 2925, whether his Department has made an assessment on how an urgent universal credit payment in the form of a loan affects (a) people who are already i

25 May 2021 · Department for Transport

Aviation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he made underpinning the decision to allow flights from India to land at UK airports after India was put on the covid-19 red list.

24 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the £20 uplift in Universal Credit on levels of child poverty in (a) the Kingston upon Hull North constituency and (b) England.

Source: official written-questions record.