Written questions

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Apr 2020 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of local authority Serious Case Reviews into child deaths have involved families with no recourse to public funds in each of the last five years.

21 Apr 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish a response to her Department’s consultation on statutory sick pay.

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Optical Fibres: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Part 2, regulation 7 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Telecommunications Infrastructure Relief) (England) Regulations 2018, (S.I., 2018, No. 425), which companies have (a) applied for and (b) received a

20 Apr 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Bangladesh and Pakistan: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals registered an interest with his Department by 9 April 2020 to return to the UK due to the covid-19 outbreak from (a) Pakistan and (b) Bangladesh; and if he will make

20 Apr 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

India: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals registered an interest with his Department by 9 April 2020 to return to the UK due to the covid-19 outbreak from the Indian states of (a) Gujarat, (b) Punjab, and (c

20 Apr 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Parental Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people started receiving (a) statutory paternity pay and (b) shared parental pay in each quarter since April 2015.

20 Apr 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Allowance and Maternity Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people started receiving (a) statutory maternity pay and (b) maternity allowance in each quarter since April 2016.

24 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to support people with no recourse to public funds who need to self-isolate as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

24 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have leave to remain in the UK and are permitted to work but have no recourse to public funds.

23 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to support people whose leave to remain in the UK will expire during the period of travel bans due to the covid-19 outbreak.

18 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Self-employed: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of 17 March 2020, Official Report column 953, that self-employed people who self-isolate can apply for employment and support allowan

9 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2020 to Question 23566 on Local Housing Allowance, if she will publish her Department's equality impact assessment on its decision to uplift local housing allowance by

9 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of charging for maternity services on the willingness of pregnant women without indefinite leave to remain to access NHS services.

9 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Independent Serious Case Panel

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Independent Serious Case panel; and if she will make a statement.

2 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has carried out an equality impact assessment on its decision to uplift local housing allowance by 1.7 per cent.

28 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what improvements have been identified in the Internal Process Reviews undertaken in the last 12 months.

28 Feb 2020 · Home Office

Home Office: Legal Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department’s (a) budget and (b) expenditure was on immigration litigation in each of the last five years.

28 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Barts Health NHS Trust: Private Finance Initiative

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to relieve the private finance initiative obligations of Barts Healthcare NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.

26 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help people affected by the abolition of the Pharmacy First scheme.

26 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was (a) invoiced and (b) collected in charges for maternity care in 2018-19.

26 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to bring forward legislation for a long-term NHS plan.

26 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women not entitled to NHS healthcare were charged for the cost of maternity care in 2018-19.

24 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Care Leavers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost of extending the exemption from the local housing allowance shared accommodation rate to care leavers up to the age of 25.

24 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Care Leavers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of care leavers aged between 22 and 25 who are living in one bedroomed accommodation and are entitled to the shared accommodation rate of local housing allowance

24 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentile of local rents the maximum local housing allowance rate is for each (a) home size and (b) broad rental market area.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to introduce a national measure of children’s well-being; and if he will make a statement.

21 Feb 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent from the public purse on defending (a) appeals and (b) judicial reviews in cases where applicants were refused leave to remain on grounds of cheating in a Toeic Engl

21 Feb 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are banned from the UK as a result of accusations of cheating by ETS in relation to its Toeic test in the period 2011-14.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Offensive Weapons: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Safeguarding and Vulnerability to the Offensive Weapons Bill Committee on 11 September 2018, Column 280, what policy proposals

12 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chronic Illnesses: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the outcome of her Department’s review of the Special Rules for Terminal Illness and Severe Conditions.

Source: official written-questions record.