Written questions

1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many remotely operated minefield breaching systems his Department has provided to Ukraine (a) since 1 February 2022 and (b) before 1 June 2023.

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, Defence how many Aardvark AMCS Mk4 mine flail vehicles (a) are in storage, (b) are in use and (c) were donated to Ukraine between February 2022 and June 2023.

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Python Minefield Breaching Systems (a) are in storage, (b) are in use and (c) were donated to Ukraine between February 2022 and June 2023.

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Armoured Fighting Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Trojan platforms were donated to Ukraine between February 2022 and June 2023.

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the (a) vehicle-mounted and (b) on-the person (i) mine clearing and (ii) explosive ordnance disposal equipment donated to Ukraine was for (A) clearance in unoccupied territory and(B) breaching

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Minefield Breaching Systems were donated to Ukraine between February 2022 and June 2023.

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Tanks: Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any tanks other than Challenger 2 are in storage.

24 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Challenger Tanks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason his Department donated 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine; and for what reason his Department did not donate all Challenger 2 tanks not due to be upgraded to Challenger 3.

19 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the paper in Epidemiology and Infection 2023; 151: e160, entitled Haemolytic uraemic syndrome in children England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland: A prospective cohort study

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paediatrics: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waiting times for children and young people to access community paediatric services.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Simon Blagden

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether Simon Blagden's role at Fujitsu UK was taken in account as part of the appointment process for his roles at (a) Building Digital UK, (b) UK Health Security Agency and (c) the Trade Advisory Gro

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Simon Blagden

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether Simon Blagden's status as a Conservative Party donor was taken into account as part of the appointment process for his roles at (a) Building Digital UK, (b) UK Health Security Agency and (c) th

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the safety of imported food under the Border Target Operating Model.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps (a) her Department, (b) the Food Standards Agency and (c) the UK Health Security Agency have taken to help ensure that unsafe food is not placed on the market by companies that were invo

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

E. coli

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable for publishing the report on the E.coli O157 outbreak that started in August 2022.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in average waiting times to access (a) community paediatric services, (b) occupational therapy and (c) speech and langu

5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection in category A prisons are categorized as C category prisoners.

5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection are in category A prisons.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is his planned timetable for announcing local housing allowance rates for 2025; and if he will launch a consultation on the level of those rates.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Further Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding has been made available to further education colleges since their reclassification as public sector organisations in November 2022.

11 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 4331 on Unemployment: Chronic Illnesses, what assessment he has made of the impact of NHS waiting lists on long-term sickness in the labour market.

11 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Administration

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there is (a) a minimum, (b) a maximum and (c) an optimal number of universal credit cases overseen by each case manager.

11 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vacancies there were in his Department for the most recent date for which figures are available.

11 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children live in households where at least one adult is in work which are affected by the benefit cap.

1 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of NHS spending on branded drugs under the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access and growth.

29 Nov 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Care workers: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to provide additional funding to local authorities to cover the cost of increasing the national living wage for social care staff.

29 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of people that are both economically inactive due to a health condition and on an NHS waiting list.

29 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of applying the triple lock to the uprating of social security benefits in financial year 2024-25.

29 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of how many and what proportion of children were living in poverty in 2010 based on his Department's households below average income data.

29 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ending the two-child limit on the number of children living in poverty; and if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse

Source: official written-questions record.