Written questions
4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Records: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on the sharing of personal health data with organisations outside the NHS (a) with and (b) without a person's permission.
15 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the relationship between child poverty, diet and wellbeing.
15 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nutrition: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of children who regularly eat five portions of fruit and vegetables every day in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency and (b) the North East.
15 Dec 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Russia: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he is taking steps to engage with Russian LGBTQ+ (a) activists and (b) civil society, in the context of the new law banning LGBT propaganda among adults in that count
15 Dec 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Qatar: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to promote LGBTQ+ rights during the FIFA Men’s World Cup in Qatar.
15 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has commissioned research into the reasons for which some asylum seekers cross the channel rather than claim asylum in France.
14 Dec 2022 · Women and Equalities
Employment: Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings of the Speaking Up report published by the Sutton Trust in November 2022; and if she will take steps to (a) assess the preval
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason bus companies are not obliged to give compensation for delayed and cancelled services in the same way as rail companies.
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport
Bus Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the length of funding application windows for Bus companies; and what assessment he has made of the impact of that length on the abilit
14 Dec 2022 · Treasury
Research: Business
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the 2021 business enterprise research and development statistics published on 22 November 2022 by the Office for National Statistics, what assessment he has made of the reasons for differences in i
14 Dec 2022 · Treasury
Poverty: Children
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Statement, CP 751, published on 17 November, what reason the Statement did not use the phrase child poverty and what provisions in the Autumn Statement are designed to reduce child pover
14 Dec 2022 · Treasury
Research: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2022 to Question 74675 on Research: Tax Allowances, whether he plans to increase staff capacity on the R&D Anti Abuse Unit team.
14 Dec 2022 · Treasury
Research: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2022 to Question 90808 on Research: Tax Allowances, what estimate he has made of the annual financial impact of the lower SME R&D tax relief rate on genuine R&D intensiv
14 Dec 2022 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with small business organisations on the impact on start ups and scale ups of the changes to Research and Development tax credits.
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Universities: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of the freezing of tuition fees for domestic students on the funding available from universities for scientific research.
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Mobile Broadband: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the press release published 13 December 2022 on 5G and 6G technology, what the criteria were that her Department used to allocate £28 million to the three universities
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Education
Food: Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made of the potential merits of including sensory food play as part of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
14 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nutrition: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage healthy eating among children in Newcastle Central constituency.
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Personal Records: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps her Department has taken to provide legal protections to UK citizens personal data that may be intercepted by large, US companies.
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Telecommunications: Laboratories
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the press release published 13 December 2022 on 5G and 6G technology, when the government expects the new West Midlands Telecom lab to be completed and operational.
14 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release published 14 December 2022 on global science partnership with Japan, whether it is still the Government’s policy to double dementia research; and whether the fun
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Science: Japan
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the press release published 14 December 2022 on global science partnership with Japan, whether that announcement is part of the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mis
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Science: Japan
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the press release published 14 December 2022 on global science partnership with Japan, which budget this funding has been allocated from.
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Research: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to Answer 6 December 2022 to Question 97528 on Research: Finance and with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, page 6 stating that 40 per cent increase in R&D p
14 Dec 2022 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 5 December to Question 99832 on Small Businesses: Tax Allowances, whether an impact assessment has been made on the introduction of potential restrictions on overseas spending within R&D ta
14 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Research: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to Answer of 7 December to Question101725 on Research: Investment, when the ONS and his Department will (a) complete and (b) release granular regional data on R&D in
7 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Post Office: Fujitsu
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to make Fujitsu accountable for the monies lost to the public purse as part of the Horizon Post Office scandal.
7 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, from which budget funds for the Group Litigation Compensation scheme will be taken from.
7 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which legal firm will administer the Group Litigation Order compensation scheme for postmasters who helped expose the Post Office Horizon scandal; and whether that firm has previo
7 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Horizon scandal compensation schemes at restoring affected postmasters to the financial position they would otherwise be in
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