Written questions

692 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock Worrying

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) allowing farmers to shoot dogs that attack sheep and (b) allowing dog owners to train dogs not to attack sheep using electron

10 Jun 2022 · Cabinet Office

Mortality Rates

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Excess deaths in England and Wales: March 2020 to December 2021 published by the Office for National Statistics on 22 March 2022, if the Government will publish data on death by data occurrence

10 Jun 2022 · Cabinet Office

Mortality Rates: Males

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Excess deaths in England and Wales: March 2020 to December 2021 published by the Office for National Statistics on 22 March 2022, what the cause of death was for excess deaths in males ages 15

8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to implement the recommendations of the report of the Expert Panel on Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children Cases, published in June 2020, on t

8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to require the provision of independent therapeutic support for children during private proceedings.

8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the barriers to the voice of children in private law cases.

8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Child Arrangements Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made in implementing reforms to the Child Arrangements Programme as recommended in the report of the Expert Panel on Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children C

8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to establish protocols to limit the contact abuse perpetrators can have with their victims following private law proceedings.

8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the courts consideration of the welfare of children during private law children proceedings in the context of (a) safety measures (b) therapy services and (c)

1 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to ensure adequate scrutiny of potential side effects of covid-19 vaccines.

17 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, made on 2 December 2021, whether he plans to repeal powers to restrict multibuy promotions such as buy one get one f

13 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the income generated from desktop review fees submitted by companies applying to the Coronavirus Test Devices Approval (CTDA) process has been reinvested to ensure that the newly introduced

12 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the (a) Government, and (b) UK Health Security Agency are taking to ensure the Coronavirus Test Devices Approval process is held to the same operational standards of (i) transparency an

12 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether companies that paid the mandatory desktop review fee to submit an individual application to the Coronavirus Test Devices Approval process will be reimbursed if no outcome is given by the UK

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Locums: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide an estimate of the cost of NHS GPs being paid locum rates in the latest week for which figures are available.

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Agency Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on temporary NHS bank and agency nurses in each of the last three years.

14 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Office

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to ONS data on excess deaths, published on 22 March 2022, what the time interval was between receiving a covid-19 vaccination and death for each 15 to 19 year old male who died between 1 May and 2

14 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Office

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the ONS data on excess deaths, published on 22 March 2022, how many and what proportion of the 402 males who died between 1 May and 24 December 2021 had received a covid-19 vaccination; and how

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mortality Rates: Males

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to investigate excess deaths among males aged 15 to 19 in response to the ONS' finding that there had been a statistically significant increase in that number fr

14 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Office

Mortality Rates

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to ONS data on excess deaths in males aged 15 to 19 which accounts for registered deaths, published on 22 March 2022, how many deaths of males aged 15 to 19 have been reported to the regional coro

28 Mar 2022 · Cabinet Office

Death

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many excess deaths there were in week 17 to week 51 of 2021, compared with the 2015-2019 baseline.

22 Mar 2022 · Cabinet Office

Death

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many excess deaths there were in week 17 to week 51 of 2021, compared with the 2015-2019 baseline.

28 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of crime committed online.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Hydrogen: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on investment in the north west of a commitment to develop a hydrogen village in that region.

2 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to compensate care workers who have lost their jobs as a result of the Government policy on mandatory vaccinations during the covid-19 outbreak.

2 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help enable care workers who lost their jobs as a result of the mandatory vaccination policy, to return to the care sector.

12 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

GCE A-level and GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether students will be required to sit (a) GCSE and (b) A-Level examinations in summer 2022.

15 Oct 2021 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much power HS2 trains will need to run across each of the phases.

6 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Doctors: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many temporary registered doctors there have been since March 2020; and how many of those doctors have been used by the NHS.

3 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Interpreters

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Afghan translators were used by the UK in Afghanistan over the last 20 years.

Source: official written-questions record.