Written questions
3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Aug 2024 · Home Office
Young Futures Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for publishing details of the locations of youth hubs.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neurology: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on supporting employment opportunities for people with functional neurological disorders.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Defibrillators
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) assess provision gaps for open access defibrillators.
30 Aug 2024 · Treasury
VAT: Disability Aids and Medical Equipment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of removing Value Added Tax for (a) wheelchairs and (b) defibrillators on access to those devices.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Gynaecology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that women in need of urgent gynaecologist appointments can be seen in person.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussion with NHS England about improving early detection of Ductal Carcinoma in situ in women.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which external stakeholders she met with ahead of revoking the second commencement regulations made under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Dental Council
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what powers he has to change the leadership of the General Dental Council.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many orthodontists were paid more than £1 million by the NHS in each of the last five years.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to maintain free prescriptions for pensioners not in receipt of (a) pension credit and (b) other benefits.
30 Aug 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Public Lavatories
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will have discussions with councils on maintaining free public toilets in (a) towns and (b) villages.
30 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her policy to change the automatic release point to 40% for certain standard determinate sentences on reoffending rates.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of staff diversity networks in her Department in each of the last five years.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Great British Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of setting up GB Energy.
30 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Peterborough: Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Peterborough (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.
30 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Lincoln: Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Lincoln (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's policy is on ministerial clearance of contracts relating to external equality, diversity and inclusion providers.
30 Jul 2024 · Treasury
Office for Value for Money
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the projected cost to the public purse of setting up the Office for Value for Money.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people will no longer be able to access winter fuel payments.
30 Jul 2024 · Treasury
Cash Dispensing: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that people are able to access cashpoints in rural areas.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish the updated UK Food Security Report.
25 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Migration and Economic Development Partnership
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has held discussions with his Rwandan counterpart on the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership.
25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education
Children: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will take steps to regulate smartphone use for children.
25 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping: South Holland and the Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many instances of fly tipping were recorded in South Holland and the Deepings constituency in (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024 to date.
25 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of staff diversity networks in her Department in each of the last five years.
24 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Lincolnshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much HS2 funding has been reallocated for rail upgrades in (a) South Holland and The Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
24 Jul 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Rwanda
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with her Rwandan counterpart since 5 July.
24 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of staff diversity networks in his Department in each of the last five years.
23 Jul 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of SEND delivery in rural areas.
23 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for breaching covid-19 restrictions since January 2022.
Source: official written-questions record.