Written questions

1,037 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments have been (a) completed and (b) cancelled by Maximus Health and Human Services Ltd in (i) total and (ii) each local authority area.

8 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contractual standards have been set for Maximus Health and Human Services Ltd for the number of completed work capability assessments.

9 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Incapacity Benefit: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amount his Department has spent on re-assessing incapacity benefit claimants who successfully appeal against a finding of non-qualification in each year since 2010.

25 Feb 2016 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if it will make it his policy to require bus operators to install audio-visual announcements of bus stops on all public buses.

25 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Meningitis: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to extend the meningitis B vaccination programme to all infants.

25 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the military threat to the UK posed by Russia.

25 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Baltic States

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the UK's military presence in the Baltic region in each of the last three years.

25 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Navy: Baltic Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the role is of the five additional UK Royal Naval vessels situated in the Baltic.

3 Feb 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Trapping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to introduce (a) stricter regulations and (b) a ban on the use of snares.

3 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Children's Centres: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres are due to be closed over the current Parliament.

3 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil society groups have raised with her Department concerns over breaches of the school admissions code since 2010.

3 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Small Businesses: Taxation

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received over the additional burdens to small businesses of the move to quarterly tax returns.

1 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many companies have signed up to the Veterans Guaranteed Interview scheme in each year since its inception.

1 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for mental health (a) assessment and (b) treatment was in each of the last five years.

28 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Iraq Historic Allegations Team

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the government has initiated legal action against any law firms for abuse of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team inquiry.

19 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Capital Punishment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is his policy to take steps towards repeal of the death penalty in states which hold the death penalty.

19 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of whether Rolls Royce will complete the Nuclear Reactor Component of the Successor Programme on schedule; and if he will make a statement.

19 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent representations he has received in favour of Government involvement in any part of the running of departments or divisions of Rolls Royce connected to that company's production of the Nuclear Reactor

13 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Trident Submarines

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contingency plans the Government has in place should Rolls Royce be unable to complete the Nuclear Reactor Component of the Successor Programme on schedule.

5 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

India: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a conclusion to the case of six former British soldiers held in India on weapons charges; and what support his Department offered to each per

5 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Saudi Arabia: Political Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has contacted the Saudi Arabian government on the human rights element in the case of Waleed Abu al-Khair.

5 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to promote local authority sub-contracting to small local businesses.

5 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Sanitary Products: VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking at EU level to make sanitary products exempt from VAT.

8 Dec 2015 · Department for International Development

Refugees: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what preparations the Government is making to provide food and shelter to refugees overseas during the winter.

8 Dec 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Roehampton

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government (a) has made or (b) plans to make any contribution to the cost of (i) the construction and (ii) the running of the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton.

7 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to exempt people with long-term serious conditions from prescription charges for repeated renewals of their medication.

4 Dec 2015 · Ministry of Defence

Navy: Deployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many days on average each class of Royal Naval officer and rating was at sea in each year between 2005 and 2014.

4 Dec 2015 · Ministry of Defence

Navy

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Naval officers and ratings at each rank were employed by the Royal Navy on 31 July 2015.

27 Nov 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Big Lottery Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of planned changes in funding for the Big Lottery Fund on local community, sport and cultural organisations.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to raise the welfare standards of animals in battery cages.

Source: official written-questions record.