Written questions

4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what regulations govern routine (a) health visits and (b) school nursing services for children of (i) failed asylum seekers and (ii) undocumented migrants.

19 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Treasury: Scientific Advisers

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that its activities are informed by proactive and independent scientific advice; and if he will make a statement.

19 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Electronic Commerce

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of protecting customers who wish to use payment initiation services under the revised Payment Services Directive in the event that a product they order

19 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Bank Services: Internet

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for the implementation of the Open Banking Standard.

19 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office

Royal Parks: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what safeguards in relation to the maintenance of assets were imposed on the Royal Parks when it altered its status to become a charity in 2016.

18 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate the Government has made of the number of people who are in receipt of social care.

18 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

Health Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of (a) upfront charging for NHS services and (b) assessments on patient paperwork on (i) access to services, (ii) health outcomes and (iii) patient waiting tim

18 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Payments: EU Law

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the implementation of the Second Payment Services Directive.

18 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Bank Services: Internet

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for the implementation of the standardised Open Banking application programming interface.

17 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Coinage

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to each new coin introduced into circulation in the last 30 years, what has been the period between its introduction and its predecessor being no longer legal tender.

16 Oct 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Construction: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to promote (a) gender and (b) racial diversity in the construction industry.

16 Oct 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect on productivity of local council business support programmes.

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Bank Services

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to allow (a) bank customers and (b) customers of open banking services greater control over their banking data.

16 Oct 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria the Government used to decide (a) how much should be allocated to different sectors through the industrial strategy and (b) which sectors should be granted a sector

11 Oct 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Tech City UK and Tech North: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2017 to Question 9257, whether her Department collects information on the gender balance among STEM subject staff at Tech City and Tech North.

9 Oct 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department provides to small businesses for the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies.

9 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybercrime: USA

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adopting in the UK a programme similar to the US Department of Defense trial bug bounty programme organised through the US Digital Service on the HackerOne

14 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to protect critical national infrastructure from distributed denial of service attacks.

14 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons the mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks is not included in the Government's cyber essentials scheme.

14 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to improve public and private sector organisations' protection against distributed denial of service attacks.

14 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Mobility

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on his Department's policies of the findings of the Social Mobility Commission report, Time for change: an assessment of Government policies on soci

14 Sep 2017 · Home Office

Home Office: Scientific Advisers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that her policies are informed by independent scientific advice.

14 Sep 2017 · Home Office

Metals: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to prevent metal thefts from (a) communications and transport networks and (b) heritage sites.

14 Sep 2017 · Home Office

Metals: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the enforcement of rules to prevent metal recycling operators from making cash payments for scrap metal.

14 Sep 2017 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government has made of the amount which accrues to the public purse of telephone calls made to the UK Border Agency.

14 Sep 2017 · Department of Health

Genomics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8799, on genetics: screening, in what locations other than Cambridge NHS genome testing will take place.

14 Sep 2017 · Department of Health

Health Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) general medical services and (b) personal medical services contracts have been cancelled by the contractor in each of the last 10 years.

14 Sep 2017 · Department of Health

Care Homes: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the quality of care homes since the publication of the report of the Care Quality Commission, The state of adult social care services 2014 to 2017, on 6 July 2017; and if he will mak

14 Sep 2017 · Department of Health

Health Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many alternative provider medical services contracts were issued in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years; how many of those contracts have been (a) tendered or (b) retendered; and how many tenders di

14 Sep 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Africa: World War I

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2017 to Question 4381, what events his Department is supporting in Africa to commemorate contribution of African soldiers to the First World War.

Source: official written-questions record.