Written questions

2,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the quality of disability benefit assessors' (a) decision making and (b) decision making on appeals relating to whether that benefit can be proceeded with.

18 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to provide disability benefit claimants with dual recording equipment during their benefit assessments.

17 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Macfarlane Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consultations his Department held with beneficiaries of the Macfarlane Trust prior to the closure of that Trust and transfer of that Trust's residual funds and assets to the Terrence Higgins T

17 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will commit to ending new HIV transmissions by 2030.

17 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when all sites selected for the pre-exposure prophylaxis impact trial will be open to participant recruitment.

17 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the number of places available on the pre-exposure prophylaxis impact trial for gay and bisexual men.

10 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will undertake a review of the categories of conditions eligible for medical exemption certificates for NHS prescriptions to ensure that there is provision for mental health condi

5 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to women who are survivors of sexual violence to access cervical screening.

5 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to schemes to increase cervical screening attendance in each of the last eight years.

5 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there has been a recent decline in the level of cervical screening attendance.

5 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve uptake of cervical screening.

23 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Humberside Police: National Police Air Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times Humberside Police force has received support from the National Police Air Service.

23 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Humberside Police: National Police Air Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times Humberside Police force has requested support from the National Police Air Service.

23 Nov 2018 · Home Office

National Police Air Service: Location

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many bases the National Police Air Service has operated from in each of the last five years.

23 Nov 2018 · Home Office

National Police Air Service: Helicopters

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many operational helicopters the National Police Air Service has had in service in each of the last five years for which information is available.

22 Nov 2018 · Department for Transport

Railways: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timetable is for the start of (a) upgrading and (b) building new railway lines as part of the northern Powerhouse Rail programme.

19 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to refer to the role of specialist hospitals in research, innovation and training in future NHS planning.

19 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the recommendations of the Academic Health Science Networks report of 5 November 2018 on Understanding the Performance and Potenti

9 Nov 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Epilepsy

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with epilepsy have qualified for (a) personal independence payments and (b) disability living allowance in each of the last five years.

6 Nov 2018 · Department for Education

Primary Education: National Curriculum Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of SATs testing in primary schools on the mental health and well being of children.

6 Nov 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Cystic Fibrosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with cystic fibrosis have qualified for (a) personal independence payments and (b) disability living allowance in each of the last five years.

25 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Syphilis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of diagnoses of syphilis in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and Humber and (c) Kingston Upon Hull in each of the last eight years.

25 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to sexual health services in each of the last eight years.

19 Oct 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total cost to sixth form colleges of the removal of the teachers pay cap.

19 Oct 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government plans to allocate to non-academised sixth form colleges to assist with the increase of teachers' remuneration.

15 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemophilia: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to commissioning criterion 6b of NHS England’s Criteria for the Prescribing of Enhanced Half-Life Blood Factors, published in September 2016, what assessment he has made of the appro

15 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemophilia: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the timescale for the completion of the tenders for (a) Factor VIII and (b) Factor IX blood products.

15 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemophilia: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the World Federation of Haemophilia’s annual global survey, published in 2016, for what reason (a) Factor VIII and (b) Factor IX consumption per capita is lower in the UK than Ire

15 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemophilia: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the paper entitled, The cost of severe haemophilia in Europe: the CHESS study published in the Orphanet journal of rare diseases in 2017, what assessment his Department has made o

15 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemophilia: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to commissioning criterion 6b of NHS England’s Criteria for the Prescribing of Enhanced Half-Life Blood Factors, published in September 2016; for what reason a maximum conversion rat

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