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.