Written questions

1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jan 2023 · Department for International Trade

Elbit Systems UK: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department holds information on whether any equipment that has been exported by Elbit to Israel has been used by the Israeli armed forces in any Israeli/Palestinian conflicts from inceptio

6 Jan 2023 · Department for International Trade

Elbit Systems UK: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will provide details of the types of equipment that have been exported by Elbit to Israel.

30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the case of Dr S. Shashikanth and the decision not to share patient data with a primary care trust; and if he will ma

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

E. coli

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time is between notification of an outbreak of E Coli 0157 and information being provided to (a) those affected and (b) the general public.

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

E. coli

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the (a) Food Standards Agency and (b) UK Health Security Agency in tackling E. Coli 0157.

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

E. coli

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the outbreak of E. coli 0157 was first identified; and when (a) people affected and (b) the public were notified of this outbreak.

25 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Repossession Orders: Landlords and Mortgages

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what systems he has in place to monitor the rates of (a) landlord possession orders and (b) mortgage possession orders.

25 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Energy Bills Rebate

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to replicate in the 2023 Energy Bills Support Scheme the £400 non-repayable discount administered by energy suppliers and paid to consumers.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of what the potential rate of the basic state pension would have been in financial year 2022-23 had the earnings link not been ended in 1980.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Departmental staff will be among the 600,000 workers subject to the Intensive Work Search regime.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Autumn Statement 2022, published on 17 November 2022, whether his Department plans to recruit additional work coaches to deal with the increased caseload of Universal Credit claima

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Autumn Statement 2022, published on 17 November 2022, whether his Department has informed in-work claimants of Universal Credit that they will be required to meet with work coaches

23 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the concerns raised in the letter sent on 7 November 2022 by Dr Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian, and Dr Arjun Dhillon, chair of the UK Caldicott Guardian Council to integrate

8 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Education: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the widest possible access to education in the UK.

8 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Education: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support lifelong learning and access to education in the UK.

12 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Drax Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports that Drax has paid more than $3 million in fines related to pollution in the US south, and if he will r

11 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Podiatry: Hayes and Harlington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made (a) podiatry vacancy rates in the NHS in Hayes and Harlington constituency and (b) the impact these vacancies will have on patient treatment for diabetic foot complicat

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to increase funding for mental health research.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the comparative level of funding for research into (a) physical and (b) mental health.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Drax Power Station: Timber

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Panorama report, aired on 3 October, on the environmental and financial cost of shipping wood pellets from North America to be burnt at Drax power station, w

20 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Tonnage Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many shipping companies that qualify for tonnage tax operate container lines from UK ports.

20 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Shipping: Inflation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential relationship between the cost of shipping containers on international routes and domestic inflation rates.

20 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Shipping: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to introduce a windfall tax on the profits of container shipping companies operating from the UK.

20 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Shipping: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to assess the extent of (a) domestic tax base erosion and profit shifting and (b) tax avoidance by multinational shipping companies registered in the UK.

12 Jul 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will commission an independent inquiry into any deaths by suicide of (a) asylum-seekers living in Home Office-provided accommodation and (b) unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young adul

11 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

EY: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has asked the Financial Reporting Council to investigate audit firm Ernst & Young in response to the record fine issued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in

11 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

EY: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings he or his Ministers have held with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US in response to its record fine against audit firm Ernst & Young in June 2022 for

11 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Audit: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many fines have been issued by the Financial Reporting Council for audit failures in each of the past five years for which figures are available.

11 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Galliford Try and Kier Group: Audit

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings he or his Ministers have held with the Financial Reporting Council since the fines issued in June 2022 to PWC for their audits of Kier and of Galliford.

11 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Audit: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Strategy, when he will bring forward the audit reform bill referred to in the Queen's Speech on 10 May 2022; and if he will make a statement.

Source: official written-questions record.