Written questions

959 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Fast Food: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will revise planning system guidance so that the clustering of fast food and junk food outlets near to school premises is discouraged.

30 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Swimming

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will review the elements of the early years and primary curricula that include baby and child swimming; and if he will make teaching swimming part of early years and primary professional training with reg

18 Apr 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Antisocial Behaviour and Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will encourage other NHS trusts to emulate the joint working agreement on tackling violence and antisocial behaviour in the NHS introduced by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Tr

18 Apr 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is assessing the potential merits of allowing dispensing doctors to sell over-the-counter medicines in rural areas.

18 Apr 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that rural GP practices have access to high-speed broadband to support their full participation in the Electronic Prescription Service.

18 Apr 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the Electronic Prescription Service to be made available in dispensing GP practices.

29 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Mathematics: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the advanced maths premium to cover all pupils studying level 3 maths.

26 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 127294, on cancer, and with reference to paragraph 7 in the Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View report, published in May 2017, what v

26 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 127294, on cancer, and with reference to paragraph 7 of the Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View report, published in March 2017 on su

26 Mar 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government provides (a) financial or (b) technical support to the Sudan Call group of opposition organisations in Sudan.

26 Mar 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sidgi Kaballo

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he had had with the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Ghandour, on the detention without charge of Sidgi Kaballo.

26 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Schools: Vocational Guidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether its is planned to measure and report on the progress of schools against the Gatsby Foundation’s eight benchmarks for good careers advice.

26 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Schools: Vocational Guidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Ofsted plans to refer to the Gatsby Foundation’s eight benchmarks for good careers advice when inspecting schools and colleges.

22 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Vocational Guidance: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release, Careers guidance for modern country announced on 4 December 2018, how the £5 million allocated to boosting careers support in the areas of the country most in n

22 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Vocational Guidance: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Careers Strategy: making the most of everyone’s skills and talents, published in December 2017, what plans his Department has for the future funding of careers hubs after the £5 million ha

22 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Vocational Guidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) careers advice and (a) guidance his Department has made available for pupils with SEND.

28 Feb 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has received reports that Sudanese nationals returning from Belgium to Sudan were (a) detained, (b) interrogated and (c) tortured in Sudan.

27 Feb 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Amal Habani

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on whether the journalist Amal Habani was hospitalised after being beaten by Sudanese security officials.

27 Feb 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Salih Mahmoud Osman

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he holds on the arrest and detention of Salih Mahmoud, vice chair of the Darfur Bar Association.

27 Feb 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on whether the Government of Sudan has released political detainees on the condition that they do not organise protests in the future.

27 Feb 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what report he has received on whether all 80 of the detainees included in the Government of Sudan’s announcement of 18 February 2018 have been released.

22 Feb 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of proposals to remove appeal rights in the draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill on levels of investmen

22 Feb 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the proportionality and compatibility with international human rights conventions of the response from the Government of Sudan towards demonstra

21 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the NHS has the capacity to offer people with suspected pancreatic cancer an FDG-PET/CT scan, as recommended in the recent NICE guideline, Pancrea

20 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the priorities for research set out in NICE's Guidelines for Pancreatic Cancer in adults: diagnosis and management in England, published in Februa

20 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the total sleep-in back pay for which care providers in (a) Scunthorpe constituency, (b) the North East Lincolnshire Council area and (c) the North

20 Feb 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what role his Department plans to play in the adoption of the updated Nutrient Profile Model due for issue during 2018.

20 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Employment: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 22 December 2017 to Question 120167, what employment-related statistics for students with learning difficulties the Government collects.

7 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 22 of Next Steps On The NHS Five Year Forward View, published in March 2017, what the evidential basis is for the statements that (a) an estimated 7000+ more people surviving

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Price Caps

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons the draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill proposes he rather than Ofgem or the Competition and Markets Authority makes the final decision on extend

Source: official written-questions record.