Written questions
3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his department plans to publish updated data on the take up of Healthy Start by (a) local authority areas, and (b) ethnicity groups.
28 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Bereavement Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to uprate the value of the Bereavement Support payment which was introduced at its current level in 2017; and if he will make a statement.
28 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Immigration: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November to Question 93420, which casework areas will need to be transited to Atlas in order to provide further information about the number of people given Leave to Remai
28 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Students: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to launch Alternative Student Finance for Muslim students.
24 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to take forward the National Disability Strategy, following the court defeat suffered by the Government in January 2022.
22 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Immigration: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of21 November to Question 87716 on Immigration: ICT, when she expects the Atlas caseworking system to provide further information on numbers of applicants having the No Recourse
22 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthy Start Scheme: Ethnic Groups and Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish updated data on the levels of uptake of the Healthy Start Scheme in (a) London boroughs and (b) different ethnicity groups.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his written statement of 17 November 2022 on Social Security Update, HCWS374, for what reasons he has set the benefit cap at the new level.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she plans to implement the (a) review of the use of cages, (b) introduction of animal welfare labelling for food and (c) other commitments of her Department's Action Plan for Anima
16 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Timber
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of how much Brazilian hardwood Network Rail has used for railway sleepers in each of the last five years.
15 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Immigration: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the Atlas casework system to become operational.
15 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
New Businesses: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s report entitled Ethnic Diversity in Business: Removing barriers impeding business success, published on 12 May 2022
14 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Leasehold: Insulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help Help to Buy leaseholders find a surveyor to make a cladding-affected valuation of their property.
14 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Leasehold: Insulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Help to Buy leaseholders paid the £425 administration fee following the commitment by Homes England that the RICS president would find a surveyor to make a cladding-affected
14 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Business: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with venture capital industry representatives on tackling funding gaps for minority ethnic-owned businesses; and if he will make a statement.
11 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office
Business: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to convene a Government taskforce to increase the number of ethnic minority-led businesses in public procurement.
11 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office
Business: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential barriers to minority ethnic owned businesses accessing Government contracts.
11 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2022 to Question 70949 on Israel: Palestinians, what response his Department has received to its representations on Palestinians killed a
11 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to increase the number of regular pathways for people to migrate to the UK from (a) Ukraine, (b) Afghanistan and (c) Hong Kong.
11 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Climate Change: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to triple adaptation finance by 2025.
8 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Rwanda
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the estimated cost to the public purse will be of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda in the (a) 2022-23 financial year and (b) next five years of the partnership.
8 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Afghans who were settled under Pathway One of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme are eligible for family reunion rights.
8 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
East Africa: Food Insecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support east Africa in tackling the spread of hunger.
8 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
East Africa: Food Insecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of levels of hunger in east Africa; and if he will make a statement.
7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Financial Services: Primary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential disparities in the (a) access to and (b) quality of financial education between primary schools.
7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Financial Services: Primary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including financial education in the primary school national curriculum.
7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Financial Services: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve young people’s understanding of buy-now-pay-later schemes.
7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Financial Services: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve young people’s understanding of financial products.
7 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will respond to correspondence of 19 June 2022 from the Rt Hon. Member for East Ham, case reference ST98097.
2 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the Rt hon. Member for East Ham of 19 August 2022, reference ST97604.
Source: official written-questions record.