Written questions
3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Mar 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Disabled Children Partnership’s report, The Longest Lockdown, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a cross-departmental covid-19 catch-up plan
9 Mar 2021 · Treasury
Freeports: Employment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the estimates that his Department uses for the number of new jobs that will be created in each year to 2025 at each of the freeport locations announced in Budget 2021.
9 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Freeports: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on pension rights for (a) new and (b) existing workers employed within a freeport.
9 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Drugs: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the period available to local authorities to apply for the additional drug treatment crime and harm reduction activity grants announ
9 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2021 to Question 158241, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working, when the findings of the Deloitte report were presented to (a) the DVLA, (b) Chief Executive Julie
9 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2021 to Question 158241, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working, whether any of the Deloitte report’s recommendations on options for DVLA staff to work from home h
9 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2021 to Question 158241, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working, without reference to the DVLA’s IT systems, what assessment he has made of what proportion of staf
8 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2021 to Question 158241 on Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working, if he will place a copy of a suitably redacted version of the Deloitte report on options for DVL
8 Mar 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Uber: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 24 February 2021, Official Report, column 939 on the Supreme
8 Mar 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Uber: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 24 February 2021, Official report, col 939, when he plans to communicate his Depa
8 Mar 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Uber: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 24 February 2021, Official report, col 939, on what date ACAS shared its insights
8 Mar 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Uber: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 24 February 2021, Official report, col 939, which stakeholders ACAS conducted its
5 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Treatments: Innovation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have to lead on an engagement exercise on the Innovative Medicines Fund.
5 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide additional funding for research projects investigating the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines for blood cancer patients.
5 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines for the immunocompromised or immunosuppressed, including blood cancer patients.
5 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to vaccinate people who live with people diagnosed as (a) clinically and (b) clinically extremely vulnerable.
5 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which priority group of the covid-19 vaccination programme includes family members and carers of people living with the clinically extremely vulnerable, including those with blood cancer.
25 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2021 to Question 154966, Prison Officers: Pay, if he will place in the Library a copy of the equalities impact assessment that was conducted and considered in reaching the de
24 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Parish and Town Councils: Remote Meetings
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will extend The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulat
24 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Western Sahara: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will raise in the UN Security Council the ongoing instability in the Mahgreb following the renewed hostilities in the Western Sahara.
24 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Western Sahara: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he last made representations to (a) his Moroccan counterpart and (b) the Moroccan Ambassador on the continuing hostilities between Morocco and the Polisario Front result
24 Feb 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Local Restrictions Support Grant
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will ensure that businesses that are unable to operate due to covid-19 lockdown rules but have not been mandated to close are eligible for the Additional Restrictions Suppor
24 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Local Restrictions Support Grant
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will hold discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of including the coach industry within the Additional Restrictions Support Grant.
24 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the Deloitte report on options for DVLA staff to work from home.
23 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Lost Working Days
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Average Working Days Lost was for civil servants in his Department (a) who have declared themselves as having a disability and (b) who have not declared themselves to have a disability in the calendar
23 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Lost Working Days
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Average Working Days Lost was for civil servants in his Department aged (a) 30 and younger, (b) 30 to 50, (c) 50 to 60 and (d) over 60 in the calendar year (i) 2019 and (ii) 2020.
23 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Lost Working Days
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Average Working Days Lost was for civil servants in his Department (a) from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and (b) recording themselves as White in the calendar year (i) 2019 and (ii) 202
23 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Lost Working Days
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Average Working Days Lost was for (a) female and (b) male civil servants in his Department in the calendar year (i) 2019 and (ii) 2020.
19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has received (a) advice and (b) guidance on what constitutes exceptional circumstances for the purpose of considering recommendations by the Prison Service Pay Review Body; and if he will make a statem
19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the decision to reject the Prison Service Pay Review Body’s recommendation 3.
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