Written questions

738 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Intensive Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the NHS plans to restart the (a) collection and (b) publication of data on critical care bed capacity across the NHS.

11 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to provide support to single parents that have lost child maintenance payments as a result of the Child Maintenance Service accepting unsupported verbal assurances from the payi

11 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has directed the Child Maintenance Service to introduce greater flexibility in relation to evidence requirements during the covid-19 outbreak.

11 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the statutory basis is for the Child Maintenance Service to accept only verbal evidence, without supporting documentation, in relation to changes to the paying parent’s financial circumstances.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the evidential basis for not following the response of (a) South Korea, (b) Singapore, (c) Taiwan, (d) Hong Kong and other places with experience of coronavirus outbreaks.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the evidential basis for the decision not to require health checks and quarantine in response to the covid-19 outbreak for travellers entering the UK.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the evidential basis for the decision to not cancel mass events at the start of March 2020 in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the evidential basis for the decision to stop testing and tracking the contacts of people who potentially had covid-19 during the early phases of the covid-19 outbreak.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the evidential basis for the decision to close schools in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the evidential basis for the Government decision not to recommend that the public wear face masks in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

11 May 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what additional manufacturing capacity there is in the UK for manufacturing a vaccine for covid-19 once one is developed.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) drugs and (b) therapies for covid-19 are being assessed by his Department.

11 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what processes he has in place for UK embassies, high commissions and consulates to provide his Department with information on how covid-19 is being handled throughout the world.

11 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what analysis his Department has carried out on the response to covid-19 in (a) Austria, (b) Germany, (c) Italy, (d) France, (e) Spain, (f) Sweden, (g) Norway and (h) United States.

11 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what analysis his Department has carried out on the response to covid-19 in (a) South Korea, (b) Taiwan, (c) Singapore, (d) Hong Kong and (e) Australia.

7 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish the model and input parameters used by Imperial College London in their paper entitled Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19

1 May 2020 · Home Office

Surveillance Camera Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for ongoing legal proceedings of a change in office holder for the Surveillance Camera Commissioner.

1 May 2020 · Home Office

Biometrics Commissioner and Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the future of the roles of (a) Surveillance Camera Commissioner and (b) Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material.

1 May 2020 · Home Office

Biometrics Commissioner and Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure appointments to the roles of the (a) Surveillance Camera Commissioner and (b) Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material are done so (a) fairly, op

29 Apr 2020 · Home Office

Biometrics Commissioner and Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she discussed the forthcoming appointments of the (a) Surveillance Camera Commissioner and (b) Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material with the Commissioner for Public App

29 Apr 2020 · Home Office

Biometrics Commissioner and Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her officials on the recruitment process for the roles of the (a) Surveillance Camera Commissioner and (b) Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric

29 Apr 2020 · Home Office

Biometrics Commissioner and Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to enable the appointments of the (a) Surveillance Camera Commissioner and (b) Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material when the current post holders terms

29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Gender

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish statistics on the risk of death posed by covid-19, by gender, after removing co-morbidities.

29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish statistics on the risk of death posed by covid-19, by ethnic group, after removing co-morbidities.

29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish statistics on the risk of death posed by covid-19, by age group, after removing co-morbidities.

29 Apr 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Huawei

To ask the Secretary of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has plans in place for allocating the cost of removing and replacing Huawei equipment in the event that its installation is prohibited.

20 Apr 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Small Businesses: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how financial support provided to small businesses through the Small Business Grant Scheme will be classified for the purposes of applications for universal credit made by the owners of those businesses

10 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance: Suicide

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people that have died by suicide as a result of the 2019 Loan Charge.

10 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Intelligence Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office's ability to effectively oversee the Intelligence Services.

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps he has taken to increase employment in (a) Haltemprice and Howden constituency, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.