Written questions

3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will undertake a comparative assessment of the (a) recovery period for and (b) costs of treating cancer with (i) surgery and radiotherapy and (ii) other less invasive treatments.

9 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of allocating funding to the NHS for non-pharmaceutical cancer treatments other than diagnostics equipment, radiotherapy machin

9 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of patients that may benefit from (a) ablation and (b) embolisation techniques that are not provided by the NHS.

9 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS cancer patients have received funding for (a) radio-frequency ablation, (b) microwave ablation (MWA), (c) ethanol ablation, (d) cryosurgery, (e) side effects of ablation therapy, (f) a

9 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase patient access to innovative cancer treatments that are not pharmaceutical and would not qualify for the Cancer Drugs Fund.

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

Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it remains his policy to make sure that no Mansfield miner, or any other miner signed up to the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, is out of pocket; and what his policy is on th

5 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Drugs Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she plans to implement the recommendations of Dame Carol Black's review of drugs; and whether she plans to establish a challenge group to monitor the implementation of those recommendations.

4 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will commission television advertising to promote the Pension Credit: Are You Eligible? public information promotional video.

4 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of eligible pensioners in (a) Easington constituency and (b) the UK not in receipt of pension credit.

4 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will introduce a target for the uptake of pension credit to help ensure that all pensioners eligible to claim pension credit receive it.

4 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fly-tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of penalties for fly-tipping in reducing the occurance of that offence.

4 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the size of the cancer nursing workforce.

3 Mar 2020 · Department for Transport

Railways: Public Opinion

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral evidence of 28 October 2019 to the Transport Committee, Qq42-44, if he will publish the evidence on passenger views of public ownership which has informed the ongoing Williams rail re

3 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the background briefing to the Queen's Speech 2019, how many of the 50,000 additional nurses will be cancer nurse specialists.

3 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to implement a cancer workforce plan to ensure an adequately skilled and sustainable workforce.

28 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost to her Department is of processing a universal credit claim for a single one month assessment period.

27 Feb 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to review the existing surplus sharing arrangements of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.

21 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Interserve: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the operational effect is on his Department of the industrial dispute with Interserve staff.

21 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent from the public purse, in today’s prices, on (a) the National Health Service and (b) NHS maternity services, in England, in each year since 2010.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Crematoriums: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2020 to Question 14705 on Cremation, when the next process guidance review for crematoria will take place.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to (a) help reduce the purchase cost of electric vehicles and (b) improve the electric vehicle infrastructure.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Government’s policy is on the use of wireless electric vehicle charging points.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will allocate research and development funding to reduce the time it takes to fully charge an electric vehicle at a charging point.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) accessibility of electric vehicle infrastructure in areas of high density terrace housing.

21 Feb 2020 · Treasury

Fuels: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to (a) plan for and (b) manage the decline in fuel duty revenues as the UK increases the use of electric vehicles.

12 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to bring forward proposals to require landlords to leave a deposit when they engage the services of a Property Management Company in order that the Property

11 Feb 2020 · Treasury

Housing: County Durham

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to oral Answer of 7 January 2020, Official Report, column 251, on Durham County Council's housing regeneration masterplan, what progress his Department is making on arranging a meeting between the hon. Memb

11 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2020 to Question 12901 on Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls, for what reason the department does not hold information on long wait performance of Ambulance T

10 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Crematoriums: Nitrogen Oxides

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will introduce a requirement for all crematoriums to install DENOx Technology, to reduce the release of toxic nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, within the next 12 months.

10 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Crematoriums: Nitrogen Oxides

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to prohibit the opening of any new crematorium that is not fitted with DENOx Technology used to reduce the release of toxic nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide.

Source: official written-questions record.