Written questions
1,525 written questions tabled, most recent first.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's contract entitled Medical Assessments: Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, procurement reference, CF-0724900D0O000000rwimUAA, whether Crawford & Company are required t
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Business Services Authority: Crawford & Company
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what services the NHSBSA paid Crawford & Co; and what the budget for expenditure on the services of Crawford & Co is for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for 2025-26.
19 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Natural England: Annual Reports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason Natural England's annual report and accounts for 2023/24 have not yet been presented to Parliament; and what his planned timetable is for its publication.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
GP Surgeries: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the application by the South Coast Medical Group for the establishment of a surgery in Burton as a Branch of The Grove Surgery was made; and when a decision will be given.
5 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Arms Length Bodies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Arm's-Length Bodies there were (a) on 4 July 2024 and (b) as of 5 March 2025; and how many of the latter have an annual operating expenditure in excess of £5 million.
26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to covid-19 vaccinations have been subject to a request for mandatory reversal; how many and what proportion of such requests (a)
26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training medical assessors of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to covid-19 vaccinations receive; what qualifications are needed to become such an assessor; what conti
26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) medical assessors are in post; and how many assessors have left since the roll-out of the VDPS to covid-19 vaccinations.
10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what tribunal decisions have been used by the NHS Business Services Authority to assess claims relating to Covid-19 vaccinations under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has indemnified Astrazeneca in relation to covid-19 vaccine damage claims.
5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 20 of his Department's Opening Statement to Module 4 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, published 15 January 2025, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) de
24 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office
Tattooing: Employment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) employed and (ii) self-employed tattoo artists there are.
24 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Tattooing: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce an apprenticeship standard for tattoo artists.
23 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Influenza: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people received a flu vaccine between 1 September and 31 December in each year since 2021.
23 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 20 of his Department's written opening statement to Module 4 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry of 20 December 2024, INQ000474799, on what evidential basis his Department said t
23 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 20 of his Department's written opening statement to Module 4 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry of 20 December 2024, INQ000474799, on what evidential basis his Department said t
23 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) claims and (b) mandatory reversal claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme on Covid-19 vaccinations have been outstanding for more than (i) six months, (ii) 12 months and (iii) 18 m
23 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2024 to Question 10667 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, what discussions he has had with Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK, and other representatives of those wh
8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to Covid-19 vaccinations have been (a) made and (b) successful for (i) Vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia an
8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Viral Diseases: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to stop the spread of the HMPV virus from China.
11 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Blue Badge Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy that local authorities issuing Blue Badges within her Department's guideline timescale of 12 weeks will be able to recover the full costs of delivering that service.
11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Smoking: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the probability of young people switching from vaping to smoking tobacco products as a result of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Smoking: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment of the probability of an increase in youth smoking rates of illegal tobacco products as a result of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
10 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Continuing Care: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there is a maximum time within which applications for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding to NHS Dorset must be actioned; and whether redress is available to applicants whose applications hav
10 Dec 2024 · Treasury
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech entitled Keir Starmer's speech on fixing the foundations of our country: 27 August 2024, whether she plans to increase compensation for people impacted by the regulatory
27 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme on Covid-19 vaccinations have been (a) received, (b) successful, (c) unsuccessful as a result of the claim not meeting the 60 per cent disabilit
27 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the vials of (a) Pfizer and (b) Moderna covid-19 vaccines supplied to patients in the United Kingdom contained (i) variable and (ii) excessive levels of residual plasmid DNA.
25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2024 to Question 14442 on Access to Work Programme, what measurements her Department takes of the time scales for processing applications to monitor whether targets
15 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Access to Work assessments have been outstanding for more than two months; what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for such applications; and if she will make it her p
13 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech at COP29 in Baku on 12 November 2024, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the revised emissions targe
Source: official written-questions record.