Written questions

1,113 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Lifelong Learning Entitlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the lifelong loan entitlement to offer maintenance loans for remote learners.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the School Food Standards.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with local authorities on the future of the Holiday Activities and Food programme after March 2025.

27 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Bank Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will have discussions with the banking sector on (a) delays in applications for community group bank accounts and (b) reports of community bank accounts being replaced with business accounts.

27 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Bank Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle (a) delays experienced by community groups for applications for community group bank accounts and (b) fee-less community bank accounts being closed and replaced wit

26 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

China: Foreign Relations

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister raised Myanmar with President Xi Jinping of China during their meeting on 18 November.

31 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department is taking steps to help support the transition from animal testing to new approach methodologies.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Carers: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support unpaid carers in paid work.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carers: Earnings Rules

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the carer element of Universal Credit for unpaid carers, in the context of recent trends in the cost of living.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance: Earnings Rules

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of linking the Carer's Allowance earning limit to increase in the national living wage.

16 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Mental Health Bill will (a) protect and (b) enhance the rights of (i) children and (ii) young people who are (A) detained in and (B) admitted informally t

16 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to embed a Whole Education Approach to mental health and wellbeing in all education settings.

16 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase funding for children's mental health to (a) reduce waiting times for and (b) increase access to support.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Elections: Proportional Representation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a system of proportional representation for Parliamentary elections.

2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Tomography

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) it remains his policy to double the number of cancer scanners in the NHS and (b) that includes doubling the number of positron emission tomography scanners.

2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alzheimer's Disease: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the decision by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on 22 August 2024 to licence lecanemab for patients with early stage Alzheimer's disease, what discussions

30 Aug 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will introduce Magnitsky-style sanctions against Chinese officials involved in human rights abuses in Tibet.

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adding medications for (a) chronic kidney disease and (b) recipients of kidney transplants to the NHS prescription charge exemption list.

30 Aug 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 1 February 2024 on Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy Scheme Update, HCWS233, whether he plans to investigate the reasons for the inconsistent application of ARAP

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of sales of weight loss injections by online pharmacies.

30 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to support international partners with ceasefire discussions on Gaza.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for SEND services in schools.

30 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) capacity of (i) hospitals and (ii) primary health care centres and (b) availability of (A) medicine and (B) basi

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Commission on Human Medicines: Pregnancy Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission an independent review of the Report of the Commission on Human Medicines’ Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests, published on 15 November 2017.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primodos

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support those impacted by Primodos.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of funding for the planned extension of Dental Foundation Training places after 2031.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding he plans to provide to expand dental school estates to accommodate the increased number of dental students from September 2026.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the cost of training for new dental academic staff to support the expansion of dental school places in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan is fully funded.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the plans to increase dental training places by 40% by 2031-32 outlined in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan are fully funded.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the plans to increase dental training places by 40% by 2031-32 outlined in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan are fully funded.

Source: official written-questions record.