Written questions

3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department provides (a) mandatory or (b) voluntary (i) lectures, (ii) reading lists and (iii) other training on Critical Race Theory for employees in her Department.

1 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

EU Law: Business

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of what the cost to businesses was of complying with EU regulations under each Government Department between 2001 and 2015; and how much and what propo

1 Dec 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place in the House of Commons Library the latest version of the document previously produced by her Department that included the bar chart entitled Current assessment of bu

30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Dental Council: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care in its Performance review 2020/21 of the Genera

29 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the review of research on Orthodontic treatment for crowded teeth in children by Sarah Turner and others, publi

29 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which EU regulations were identified in Departmental submissions made to his Department between 2001 and 2015 as incurring significant costs to businesses that were not able to be

29 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of regulatory costs to businesses which arose from their compliance with regulations that originated from the EU prior to the UK's wi

29 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Civil Service: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November to Question 75765 on Civil Service: EU Law, whether his Department uses the expression out of scope in relation to regulations that were previ

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Government Departments: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will list the documents audited by his Department between 2001 and 2015, submitted by other Government departments, that included a bar chart entitled current assessment of

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Government Departments: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will list the (a) directorates and (b) task forces in his Department which (i) initiated and (ii) conducted regulatory impact assessments of submissions by Government Depart

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Government Departments: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will list the regulatory impact assessments collated by his Department across Government between 2001 and 2015, to which Government Departments contributed individual assess

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2022 to Question 75766 on Regulation, whether (a) director generals and (b) directors in his Department conducted regulatory impact assessments of

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 1 November 2022 to Question 75766, which section within her Department was responsible for supplying on request from the Cabinet Office an estimate of t

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 1 November 2022 to Question 75766, if she will list those occasions where the Department has been tasked with delivering an audit of regulatory burdens

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November to Question 75765 on Civil Service: EU Law, what steps his Department have taken to identify EU-sourced regulations now removable post-Brexit

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November to Question 75765 on Civil Service: EU Law, how many documents held by his Department relating to past attempts at deregulation contain both t

3 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will list those departmental documents predating the Brexit referendum that contained an assessment of business burdens arising from DEFRA regulations and showing the percentile

1 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase the number of NHS dental training positions in the United Kingdom (a) at existing dental training schools and (b) by founding new schools.

1 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking on (a) funding and (b) staffing to reduce the NHS dentistry backlog resulting from the covid-19 pandemic.

1 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of NHS dentists working in clinical commissioning group areas with the lowest number of NHS dentists per 100,000 population.

1 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure the retention of NHS dentists in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

1 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place in the House of Commons Library an analysis of the breakdown of regulatory burdens relevant to her Department including (a) listing items identified as out of scope d

1 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Civil Service: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment has been made of the potential use of the civil service working expression out of scope as a reference search mechanism for identifying EU-sourced red tape that wa

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Attendance Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of Attendance Allowance for supporting people of state pension age or over who have (a) Parkinson's disease and (b) other long-term conditions.

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Attendance Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanism her Department uses to determine Attendance Allowance rates for people of state pension age or over who have long-term conditions such as Parkinson’s.

18 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Cost of Living: Parkinson's Disease

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the cost of living crisis on the financial wellbeing of people with Parkinson’s.

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department’s plans to produce a (a) Great British Railways White Paper and (b) new Transport Bill in this session of Parliament to implement the proposals in that White Paper.

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals on rail retail reform.

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to announce (a) tender bidding, (b) the preferred bidder shortlist and (c) the preferred bidder selection for the new Consolidated Online Retail Solution for rail passenger ticketing.

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the establishment of a new single Consolidated Online Retail Solution (CORS) for rail passengers requires the formal establishment of (a) Great British Railways or (b) a new Transport Bill.

Source: official written-questions record.