Written questions
4,009 written questions tabled, most recent first.
1 Jun 2022 · Department for Education
Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) number of children in care provided by (i) private companies and (ii) local authorities and (b) average cost differential between those two provisions.
17 May 2022 · Treasury
Safe Hands Plans: Insolvency
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting up an emergency fund to support the customers of the failed Safe Hands Funeral Plans who may fall into funeral poverty as a result of that company's c
16 May 2022 · Home Office
Home Office: World Economic Forum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has participated in any events or meetings organised by the World Economic Forum in the last year.
16 May 2022 · Treasury
World Economic Forum
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the details of any events any events organised by the World Economic Forum that he has participated in during the last year.
16 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: World Economic Forum
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has participated in any events organised by the World Economic Forum in the last year.
16 May 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: World Economic Forum
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has participated in any events organised by the World Economic Forum in the last year.
16 May 2022 · Prime Minister
Prime Minister: World Economic Forum
To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has participated in any events organised by the World Economic Forum in the last year.
21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the educational backgrounds of doctors.
21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Junior Doctors: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of junior doctors who started their training in each of the last five years.
21 Apr 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Bahrain: Political Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps she is taking to help encourage the release of numerous political prisoners in Bahrain.
20 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Yorkshire and the Humber
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP surgeries there were in the Yorkshire and Humber region in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of parents in receipt of child maintenance who have (a) contacted the Child Maintenance Service about late payment and (b) successfully received full
14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of parents who are required to pay child maintenance but are failing to meet that requirement.
14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on delivering dementia moonshot.
15 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Cost of Living
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Resolution Foundation of 14 March 2022 that rising food and energy prices mean inflation could reach over ten per cent for the
15 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of auto-enrolling everyone in the UK on the universal credit system.
15 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Low Incomes: Children
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the New Economics Foundation of 14 March 2022 that by April 2022, more than one in two children will be in households with incomes
15 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Low Incomes
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the New Economics Foundation of 14 March 2022 that by April 2022, more than one in three households will have incomes below the min
15 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Low Incomes
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the New Economics Foundation of 14 March 2022, that by April 2022, 5.2 million people will be living below the minimum income stand
15 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Profitability
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the report entitled Profiting amid the energy crisis: the distribution networks at the heart of the UK's gas and electricity system, published on 14 March 2022,
15 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Investment Income
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the report entitled Profiting amid the energy crisis: the distribution networks at the heart of the UK's gas and electricity system, published on 14 March 2022,
15 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the costs of electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks to consumers.
15 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Energy: Corporation Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential revenues available to the Exchequer through increasing corporation tax for North Sea oil and gas companies and energy transmission and distribution companies.
15 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Energy: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of potential revenues available to the Exchequer through an increase in dividend taxation for North Sea oil and gas companies and energy transmission and distribution companies.
15 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to increase the value in real terms of social security income.
15 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Public Sector: Pay
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to increase pay in real terms for public sector workers.
10 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that covid-19 lateral flow tests are available to care homes free of charge.
2 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Pontefract Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Northern Rail on ending the extended use of temporary timetables on (a) the Pontefract Line and (b) all other services between Leeds and Pontefract for which that operato
2 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Pontefract Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what level of service Northern Rail is required to provide on the Pontefract Line between Leeds and Pontefract as part of its franchise agreement.
22 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Dyspraxia
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much financial support her Department has provided to job seekers with dyspraxia in each year of the last ten years.
Source: official written-questions record.