Written questions

1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, If she will collect information on potential links between the fitness for work test and (a) suicides, (b) other deaths and (c) harm.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential health impacts of means-testing the winter fuel payment.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fuel Poverty: Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of changes to the winter fuel payment on the number of people living in fuel poverty.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for Pension Credit took longer than six weeks to process in the last 12 months.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Take-up

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the steps her Department has taken to increase take-up of Pensions Credit since January 2019.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish an (a) impact statement and (b) equalities impact assessment of means-testing the winter fuel payment.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Donkeys and Horses: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle the smuggling of (a) horses, (b) ponies and (c) donkeys.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to continue the nationwide rollout of the Mandatory In-Work Progression offer.

26 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for children and young people’s access to (a) community paediatric services, (b) occupational therapy and (c) speech and language therapy

19 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces' Pay Review Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of when the independent report entitled Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body: Fifty-Third Report 2024 will be published.

19 Jul 2024 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the civil service pay remit guidance for the 2024-25 financial year.

15 May 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to support disabled people who use medical equipment in their homes with their energy costs.

15 May 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Home Discount Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding eligibility for the Warm Home Discount in the next scheme year.

15 May 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Social Tariffs

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a social tariff in the energy market.

15 May 2024 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Equalities and Human Rights Commission on tackling discrimination against seafarers working in UK waters.

15 May 2024 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department last made an assessment of the level of compliance amongst employers in the shipping industry with the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011.

15 May 2024 · Department for Transport

Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to enforce the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011 since those regulations were introduced.

15 May 2024 · Department for Transport

Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has had recent discussions with (a) maritime trade unions and (b) the UK Chamber of Shipping on the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011: post implementation

10 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase (a) awareness and (b) optimum management of prosthetic infection in all healthcare settings.

10 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase (a) awareness and (b) optimum management of prosthetic infection in primary care.

10 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer and Joint Replacements: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the holistic care approach for cancer (a) care and (b) delivery to (i) prosthetic infection and (ii) other clinical condition

10 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of psychological support for post-surgical orthopaedic infections.

10 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that best practice guidelines for prosthetic infection are implemented across elective surgery clinical care pathways.

10 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle post-operative infections in the context of (a) an ageing population and (b) trends in the number of joint replacement operations.

10 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of adopting the (a) Infection & Orthopaedic Management (INFORM), (b) British Orthopaedic Association and (c) other guidel

10 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to estimate the additional costs disabled people incur as a result of their conditions or impairments.

8 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of his Department's report entitled Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper, published on 20 July 2021 on the finances of people

8 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number and proportion of disabled people facing one-off extra costs related to their disability.

29 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an estimate of (a) the number of UK citizens living overseas who are eligible to register to vote and (b) projected levels of such registrations in the next six m

29 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential impact of the level of statutory sick pay on health outcomes.

Source: official written-questions record.