Written questions

959 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Scunthorpe

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2019 to Question 226666 on Air Pollution: Scunthorpe, if he will provide that same information for Scunthorpe in the North Lincolnshire local authorit

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Scunthorpe

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to protect outdoor workers from ambient air pollution in Scunthorpe; which locations have been found to have fine-particle air pollution levels that

18 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Further Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated to schools and colleges through the large programme uplift in each year since its introduction.

13 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Air Pollution: Children

To ask the Secretary State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of toxic air on children’s health.

13 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2019 to Question 217578 on Breast Cancer: Screening, when the updated National Genomic Test Directory for cancer is due to be published.

11 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217094, what estimate he has made of the cost to the UK Steel industry of preparing for the UK leaving the EU without a deal

11 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 215178, if he will list the (a) 17 cancers where no staging data is available and (b) 67 cancers where some of the specific tumour morphologies

6 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January to Question 203875, when NHS England plans to make a decision on which tumour profiling tests will be available to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions in early

6 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the forthcoming NHS workforce implementation plan ensures that there are sufficient numbers of staff to diagnose and treat cancer.

5 Feb 2019 · Treasury

Iron and Steel: Research

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has made to support the Steel Industry once it loses access to the Research Fund for Coal and Steel as part of the UK's withdrawal from the EU.

5 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support the UK steel industry in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

5 Feb 2019 · Cabinet Office

Recall of Parliament

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the additional cost to Government Departments of the House of Commons sitting through what was originally intended to be the February recess.

5 Feb 2019 · House of Commons Commission

Recall of Parliament

To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what estimate the Commission has made of the additional cost to the House of Commons of sitting through what was originally intended to be the Februa

4 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether EU nationals that have resided in the UK for (a) under and (b) over 10 years will be able to travel outside of the UK on a two week vacation without that affecting their (i) right to return an

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department have made of the effect of delays to the introduction of the faecal immunochemical test to the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme on (a) the diagnosis rates of Bowel Ca

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to introduce the faecal immunochemical test for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's announcement of 10 August 2018 that the age for bowel cancer screening in England will be lowered from 60 to 50, what the timetable is for implementing the lower

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for which cancers is staging data not currently available; how he will measure progress to speeding up diagnosis for those cancers; and if he will make a statement.

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to set targets for individual cancer types as part of the aim set out in the NHS Long Term Plan to diagnose 75 per cent of cancers at stages one or two by 2028.

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people that will be diagnosed with cancer at stages one or two by 2028 if the 75 per cent early diagnosis target is met.

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to benchmark progress against the target for increasing the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stages one or two from half to three-quarters by 2028, as announced in the NHS

28 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment: Auctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to undertake an assessment of the potential effect on the capabilities of the armed forces of sensitive military technologies in use by those forces being sold at auction to hostile agents; and i

28 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment: Auctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that sensitive military technologies in use by the armed forces cannot be purchased on the open market from UK-based auctioneers; and whether he plans to undertake a review to pr

25 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Fire and Rescue Services: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department took to ensure that the changes made to firefighters’ pensions in 2015 were compliant with equality legislation when those changes were implemented; and how his Department en

23 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee’s recommendations of October 2018 on the draft Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018, when the Government plans to review explici

23 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has received advice from the Information Commissioner on whether implicit consent in universal credit would violate data protection laws.

22 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development

India: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what is the criteria is for providing aid to India.

22 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan, whether it is his policy that all women with secondary breast cancer will have access to a dedicated clinical nurse specialist with the skills, time and re

22 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the funding required to ensure that all women with secondary breast cancer have access to (a) a clinical nurse specialist and (b) the required expertise and support.

22 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Discretionary Housing Payments: City of Westminster

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to Answer of 5 November to Question 907432 on Housing Benefit, how much discretionary housing payment was (a) awarded to and (b) spent by Westminster City Council in each of the last three year

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