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.