Written questions

4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the financial impact on families who register with private dentists due to the unavailability of NHS dentists in their areas.

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of gaps in the availability of NHS dental care on children’s dental health in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency and (b) England.

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to publish an assessment of the areas of the country with lowest levels of access to NHS dentistry.

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Newcastle upon Tyne Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of patients in Newcastle Upon Tyne Central constituency who are not registered with an NHS dentist; and what steps he is taking to improve access to NHS de

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many smear tests provided by the NHS were performed in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency and (b) the North East in each year since 2015.

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Newcastle upon Tyne Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of care homes were rated as good by the Care Quality Commission in Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency as of 11 January 2023.

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Newcastle upon Tyne Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of GP surgeries were rated as good by the Care Quality Commission in Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency as of 11 January 2023.

17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2022 to Question 98767 on Healthy Start Scheme, when data on uptake of the Healthy Start scheme since 1 April 2022 will be published; for what reason data for u

17 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Social Media: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will take steps to help prevent the coding of social media algorithms which create and increase racially prejudiced stereotypes.

17 Jan 2023 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: ICT

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether providers of IT cloud infrastructure to Government bodies are required to report on their investment in R&D in the UK.

17 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Companies: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the ease by which companies and organisations can switch from legacy IT infrastructure to cloud-based services and providers; and whethe

17 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Help to Grow Schemes: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 118995 on Help to Grow Schemes: North East, whether data on Help To Grow schemes will be published by March 2023.

17 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps is she taking to ensure the adequate enforcement of the requirement in the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to use scientifically satisfactory non-animal methods wherever pos

17 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential of New Approach Methodologies to progress research into (a) Alzheimer’s disease and (b) Parkinson’s disease.

17 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: India

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to increase and improve R&D collaborations with Indian (a) companies and (b) universities.

17 Jan 2023 · Cabinet Office

Foreign Investment in UK: India

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much direct foreign investment from India was invested in the UK in each year since 1 January 2018.

16 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Advanced Research and Invention Agency and Rosalind Franklin Institute: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons (a) ARIA can and (b) Rosaline Franklin Institute cannot carry forward funding across financial years.

16 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Science: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Scientific Institutes his Department funds; and if he will list them.

16 Jan 2023 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress has been made on implementing the actions agreed at the U.S./UK Dialogues on Future of Atlantic Trade, which took place in Baltimore in March 2022.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation and Research: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the speech by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation on 11 January 2023 entitled Science Superpower: the UK’s Global Science Strategy beyond Horizon E

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Horizon Europe

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the keynote speech made by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Onward UK on 11 January 2023, when the Government plans to publish details of an

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pension, with reference to the keynote speech made by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Onward UK on 11 January 2023, whether his Department will publish the reforms to pensions intended to unl

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation and Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the keynote speech made by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Onward UK on 11 January 2023, when he plans to establish a unit in his Department

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation and Research: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the keynote speech made by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Onward UK on 11 January 2023, which post-Brexit freedoms in procurement and regul

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation and Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the keynote speech made by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Onward UK on 11 Jan 2023, what steps he plans to take to make clusters referenced

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation and Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the keynote speech made by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Onward UK on 11 January 2023, where the 30 clusters of unique R&D strength ar

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation and Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the keynote speech made by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Onward UK on 11 January 2023, whether his Department plans to announce a stretch

11 Jan 2023 · Treasury

Research: Business

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 110697 on Research: Business, if he will publish the calculations for his Department's estimation that the total level of research and development-related busin

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Newcastle upon Tyne Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of trends in the levels of bidding for properties in the private rental sector in the last 12 mont

10 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support is available to help schools in (a) the North East and (b) Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency with rising energy costs; and whether such support will be available after 1 April 2023

Source: official written-questions record.