Written questions

2,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received on adopting a model similar to the Scottish scheme for the reformed English support scheme for those affected by contaminated blood.

17 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will waive the requirement for bereaved partners of people infected with NHS-supplied contaminated blood to prove that they were cohabiting with their former partner at the time of death.

9 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish all documents produced by NHS Improvement on accident and emergency waiting times in January 2017.

9 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that the current scheme administrators are given further government financial support in the event that the new Infected Blood Scheme Administrator is not in position by April 2017.

9 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to disallow the current infected blood scheme administrators from bidding in the tender to be the new Infected Blood Scheme Administrator.

9 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has received a request for further funding from the (a) Macfarlane Trust and (b) Caxton Foundation infected blood scheme administrators beyond the 2017-18 fiscal year.

8 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Assembly Government on holding a public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal.

8 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Phil Morley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timescale is for NHS Protect's investigation into the conduct of Phil Morley while he was Chief Executive of the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

7 Feb 2017 · Home Office

Slavery: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2015 to Question 48815, how many convictions for slavery and human trafficking there have been under each of the new offences following the passage of the Modern S

7 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2017 to Question 60941, on blood: contamination, how many such applications have been received from bereaved people since 27 January 2017; and how many of those applications ha

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of applications for early years teacher training programmes.

30 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Kingston upon Hull

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants there were in each of the Jobcentre Plus branches in Hull City Council broken down by gender for the most recent month for which figures are available.

26 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in the Pensions Act 2011 on trends in the level of (a) the overall claimant count, (b) the employment support allowance claimant count and (c) unempl

26 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department's proposals to end disability benefit re-assessments for people who have severe lifelong conditions will include people who are blind.

24 Jan 2017 · Department for International Trade

Banks: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many bank loans UK Export Finance protected by the NUTS 1 region in each year since 2009-10.

24 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to allow people temporarily living abroad to claim pension credit for longer.

24 Jan 2017 · Home Office

Homicide: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve police training on tackling femicide.

24 Jan 2017 · Home Office

Homicide: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle femicide.

24 Jan 2017 · Home Office

British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Government's policy is on removing British protected person status where to do so would result in a person becoming stateless.

24 Jan 2017 · Home Office

Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will (a) collect comparative data on the sex, age, relationship, race and ethnicity of the perpetrator and victim of homicide, (b) collect data on any previous convictions relating t

24 Jan 2017 · Home Office

British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the Government has removed British protected person status, where that person's nationality or citizenship has not been previously established, in each year since 2009-10.

24 Jan 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Defence School of Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many trainees have been admitted to training courses at the Defence School of Transport, Leconfield in the fiscal year (a) before and (b) since Babock International took over the contract for the running of t

24 Jan 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Defence School of Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Babock International's contract to run the Defence School of Transport, Leconfield has led to the permanent sale of his Department's land to that company.

24 Jan 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Defence School of Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost and length is of Babock International's contract to run the Defence School of Transport, Leconfield; and what that company's plans are for the running of the Defence School of Transport.

23 Jan 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Local Growth Deals

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Northern Powerhouse Growth Deal allocations announced on 23 January 2017, if he will publish similar information relating to each Growth Deal allocation made

23 Jan 2017 · Department for Transport

Public Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department has given to the four British bids to build Hyperloop lines in the UK; and what steps his Department has taken to assess the potential merits of Hyperloop lines.

23 Jan 2017 · Home Office

Homicide: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide regular funding to Women's Aid for a femicide census report in England and Wales.

20 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2016 to Question 57149, whether people in the Work-Related Activity Group (WRAG) of Employment Support Allowance (a) will continue to receive £102.15 a week or (b)

20 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the primary beneficiaries who receive non-discretionary support for (a) HIV, (b) Stage 1 hepatitis C and (c) Stage 2 hepatitis C as a result of the contaminated blood sca

20 Jan 2017 · Department for Transport

Railways: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of contracts with train operating companies have contained clauses which allow those companies to claim back any revenue lost as a result of industrial action in each of the last si

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