Written questions

2,061 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2020 to Question 13518 on Unemployment: Ethnic Groups, what estimate he has made of the average wage of workers from BAME backgrounds.

3 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to abolish tuition fees for (a) student nurses, (b) midwives and (c) allied health professionals.

3 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much pension credit was unclaimed in (a) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency, (b) the North East of England and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.

3 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent GP clinical staff there were in (a) Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group area and (b) the North East in 2018-2019.

2 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide: Males

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2020 to Question 11501 on Suicide: Males, if he will make it his policy to include representatives from the LGBTQ+ communities in the ONS working group.

2 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of interns each Government Department accepted to the (a) Summer Diversity Internship Programme and (b) Civil Service graduate fast stream in each year since 2015 were (a) female, (b

2 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) psychological and (b) financial support available to the families of prisoners serving IPP sentences.

2 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of Local Housing Rates on the availability of private sector rented accommodation to homeless people.

2 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee's seventh report of Session 2017-19, Social care funding: time to end a national scandal, published on 4 July 2019, HL Paper 392, if

2 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Clubs: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of youth club closures on the rate of crime committed by young people.

26 Feb 2020 · Northern Ireland Office

Parades: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the work of the Parades Commission of Northern Ireland on normalising public processions.

25 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Incontinence: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of paediatric continence services for children throughout (a) England, (b) the North East and (c) Sunderland.

25 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Cycleways: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to build cycle paths in (a) the North East and (b) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency.

25 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in (a) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency, (b) the North East and (c) England have placed disruptive children in isolation booths in the 2019-2020 academic year.

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

Sleeping Rough

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to repeal the provisions relating to rough sleeping under the Vagrancy Act 1824.

25 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant?to the Answer of 29 January 2020 to Question 7623 on NHS: Computer Software, whether the table used in the previous answers represents the (a) number of accounts made or (b) number of acti

24 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Senior Civil Servants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many senior?civil?servants appointed to positions in his private office had previously been (a) political appointees in the Cabinet Office and (b) employed by a political party since 2015.

24 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average hourly pay is of employees identified as (a) male, (b) female and (c) other gender identity at each grade in the Prime Minister's Office.

24 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant?to the Answer of 11 February 2020 to Question 12283 on Dementia: Diagnosis, if he will make it his policy to instruct CCGs to allocate funding for dementia sufferers.

21 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report of the Independent Review of Adult Screening Programmes in England, published by Sir Mike Richards in October 2019, what plans he has to develop the IT system supportin

21 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide: Males

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant?to the Answer of 6 February 2020 to Question 11501 on Suicide: Males, if he will make it policy to include representatives from BAME communities in the ONS working group.

21 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant?to the Answer of 29 January 2020 to question 7622 on Social Services, when he plans to publish a Green Paper on adult social care.

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

Camping Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of replicating the provisions of Scotland’s wild camping laws in English law.

21 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Unpaid Work

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what university each intern on the Summer Diversity Internship Programme attended in each year since 2015.

21 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average hourly pay is of (a) White or White British and (b) black, Asian or other minority ethnic group employees at each grade in the Prime Minister's Office.

21 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Flexible Working

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil servants are employed on flexible working arrangements.

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

Flood Control: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant?to the Answer of 6 February 2020 to Question 11503 on Flood Control: North East, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of flood defences in the North East since (a) Stor

21 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Houghton and Sunderland South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent clinical staff there were in each GP practice in Houghton and Sunderland South constituency in 2018-19.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to Answer Named Day Question 11504 on Loneliness tabled by the Hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South on 3 February 2020.

13 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Leamside Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the oral contribution of the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South of 5 February 2020, Official Report column 395, if (a) he or (b) a Minister will visit the Leamside line to discuss its pro

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