Written questions
4,009 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Jan 2021 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Private Education
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of current Permanent Secretaries attended private schools.
6 Jan 2021 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to increase the number of people from (a) working class and (b) disadvantaged backgrounds (i) applying for and (ii) securing places on the Civil S
6 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to reduce fuel poverty in winter 2020-21.
6 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hospitality Industry: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to provide additional support to the hospitality sector affected by covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
6 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Rolls Royce: Offshoring
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent jobs at Rolls Royce in Barnoldswick being offshored.
15 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Regional Planning and Development
What recent progress his Department has made on the Government's levelling-up agenda.
3 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband: Hemsworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the average broadband speed is in the Hemsworth constituency.
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the average broadband speed is in England.
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Football: Dementia
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what his policy is on the role of (a) Government and (b) professional football governing bodies in examining the potential link between football and risk of dementia.
2 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Sleeping Rough: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many ex-military personnel were sleeping rough as at (a) 1 January 2020 and (b) 1 December 2020.
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils classed as SEND were attending school as at 1 December 2020.
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many child protection referrals were made to Children's Services in each month of 2020.
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Education
Pupils: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils classed as vulnerable were attending school as at 1 December 2020.
2 Dec 2020 · Treasury
Business Rates: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the business rates holiday for retail and hospitality businesses beyond March 2021.
2 Dec 2020 · Treasury
Public Houses: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the sum of £1,000 was decided on as a measure of one-off financial support for wet pubs that are unable to open due to covid-19 restrictions.
2 Dec 2020 · Treasury
Public Houses: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse is of introducing one-off payments of £1,000 to all wet pubs that are unable to open due to covid-19 restrictions.
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policy on universal credit of recent Trussell Trust research which found that individuals using food banks are more likely to owe money to the
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of recent Legatum Institute research which found that 700,000 people in the UK including 120,000 children have been pushed into povert
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward an anti-poverty strategy.
2 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will bring forward proposals to tackle fuel poverty.
2 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on and (b) assessment he has made of the potential merits of a more localised approach to tiered restrictions within specific regions within
2 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish (a) advice and (b) guidance provided by the (i) Chief Medical Officer and (ii) Public Health England on the introduction of lateral flow testing as a precautionary measure to ena
2 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional support the Government will provide to local authorities in Tier 3 to allow for the (a) establishment and (b) staffing of extra covid-19 testing sites.
2 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the Government's operational plans for the roll-out of mass testing throughout areas that are placed into Tier 3 covid-19 restrictions.
2 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities to help ensure a take-up of mass covid-19 testing in low income Tier 3 areas throughout England.
2 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether outsourced hospital workers will receive the same level of priority for covid-19 vaccinations as NHS workers.
1 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings of the Royal British Legion in its report entitled Making the benefits system fit for service, improving support for v
1 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average annual cost to the public purse of managing NHS hospital car parking.
26 Nov 2020 · Treasury
Development Aid
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue that will accrue to the public purse from reducing overseas aid expenditure from 0.7 per cent to 0.5 per cent of gross national income in each year up to 2025.
26 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport
Public Transport: Social Distancing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has in place to ensure that public transport networks can cope safely and in adherence to social distancing measures with a potential increase in passengers on services between 23 and 27 December
Source: official written-questions record.