Written questions

3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Older Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives working in the NHS were aged (a) 70 to 74, (b) 75 and (c) over the age of 75 years in each of the last five years.

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS maternity units have not appointed a retention midwife.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Freehold: Service Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward legislation to ban estate maintenance charges for new build freehold homes.

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was paid from the public purse to (a) NHS trusts and (b) student midwives for clinical placements provided to student midwives in the last five years.

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department has taken to help ensure that there are sufficient clinical placements of the correct standard for the planned increase in student midwife numbers.

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of attrition levels on undergraduate midwifery courses; what the main contributing factors for attrition on those courses are; and what steps her Department (a

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the planned rise in student midwife numbers on (a) universities and (b) staff to student ratios.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what training police staff receive to equip them with the skills to respond to reports of dangerous dog attacks from XL bullies.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Levelling Up Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2023 to Question 7031 on Levelling Up Fund: Easington, whether his Department collects information on the (a) effectiveness of and (b) impact of

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Rolling Stock: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department’s (a) process and (b) strategy is for procurement of rolling stock.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Rolling Stock: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consent his Department provided for train operating companies to agree short-term lease options with rolling stock leasing companies in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Great Western Railway: Rolling Stock

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he provided consent for Great Western Railway to agree a contract extension with Hitachi for maintenance of Class 802 Intercity Express Trains until 2028.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Train Operating Companies: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the decision to not close ticket offices on the budgets of train operators.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

West Midlands Trains: Rolling Stock

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2023 to Question 4396 on West Midlands Trains: Rolling Stock, how much funding his Department plans to provide through the West Midlands Trains National Rail Contract for de

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Levelling Up Fund: Easington

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2023 to Question 6182 on Levelling Up Fund: County Durham, if he will make an assessment of the (a) effectiveness of and (b) impact of levelling

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Freight

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment has been made of the adequacy of (a) employment and (b) welfare standards for seafarers employed in transporting freight on (i) coastal and (ii) short sea shipping services.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Freight: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many applications his Department received for (a) mode shift revenue support and (b) waterborne freight grant in each financial year from 2014-15 to 2022-23; and what proportion of those applications were s

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Freight: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the 2023-24 budget for (a) mode shift revenue support and (b) waterborne freight grant had been allocated as of 14 December 2023.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Freight: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the total value of mode shift revenue support granted to operators of intermodal freight transport services (a) to and (b) from ports in each financial year from 2014-15 to 2022-23.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Freight: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the total value of waterborne freight grants made to operators of (a) coastal and (b) short sea shipping services in each financial year from 2014-15 to 2022-23.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Freight: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Table 1 of the Mode shift grants review call for evidence, published on 4 December 2023, if he will list the operators that received grants through the Mode shift revenue support scheme for in

14 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders were removed from the country through a prison transfer agreement each year since 2010; and if he will list which countries were they removed to.

14 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders were categorised as non-criminal prisoners in each of the last years.

14 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's transparency release Home Office Procurement card spend over £500: 2003, published in March 2023, what the purpose was of the visit by a Vietnamese delegation; and h

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an equality impact assessment of the Driver Services Recovery Programme.

12 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Marines: Military Exercises

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many training exercises of four days or more were carried out by (a) 42 Commando, (b) 40 Commando and (c) 45 Commando Royal Marines in each year since 2015.

12 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homelessness: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information the Government holds on how many people have died while homeless in each of the last five years.

12 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholism: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many alcohol-specific deaths there were in each of the last five years, broken down by region.

12 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Psychiatric Patients: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died (a) while accommodated in acute mental health care facilities and (b) while detailed under the provisions of the Mental Health Act (1983) in each of the last five years.

12 Dec 2023 · Cabinet Office

Fentanyl: Death

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died from fentanyl overdose in each of the last five years, broken down by region.

Source: official written-questions record.