Written questions

4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to what extent have the NHSE guidelines on improving multidisciplinary meetings for cancer treatment been rolled out across the whole NHS.

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Fuels: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the 5 pence fuel duty reduction has been passed on to consumers.

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Business: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report entitled The management of tax expenditures, published by the NAO on 14 February 2020, Session 2019-20, HC46, if he will make an assessment of the reasons that costs exceeded forecasts b

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report entitled The management of tax expenditures, published by the NAO on 14 February 2020, Session 2019-20, HC46, whether data on tax revenue lost through abuse and error for all tax expendi

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Research: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report entitled The management of tax expenditures, published by the NAO on 14 February 2020, Session 2019-20, HC46, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business,

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Research: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report entitled The management of tax expenditures, published by the NAO on 14 February 2020, Session 2019-20, HC46, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for medium and small-scale comp

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Research: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report entitled The management of tax expenditures, published by the NAO on 14 February 2020, Session 2019-20, HC46, if he will make an assessment of the reasons that R&D expenditure credit was

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Economic and Social Research Council: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason he vetoed the appointment of Professor Jonathan Michie as a chair of the Economic and Social Research Council.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Euratom and Horizon Europe: Grants

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timeline is for (a) UKRI to guarantee funding for successful UK Horizon Euratom grant applications and (b) providing the second wave of successful UK Horizon Euratom gran

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovate UK: Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason Innovate UK has decided not to exercise its right to join the board of the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Advanced Research and Invention Agency: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what salary offer was made to Dr Peter Highnam to join the Advanced Research and Invention Agency as its CEO.

19 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Tomography

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he made of the impact of the number of CT scanners and MRI units per capita on cancer survival rates in (a) the UK, (b) Germany and (c) other comparable European countri

19 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of Cancer Research’s publication entitled Ten year cancer plan for England.

19 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the shortage of specialist cancer staff in the NHS workforce.

19 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to pages 44 and 45 of the report by The King's Fund entitled The Covid 19 vaccination programme: Trials, tribulations and successes, which states that Foundry pulled together some 35

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Regional Planning and Development: Publicity

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on advertising for the Levelling Up White Paper; and from which budget funding for that purpose is taken from.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what return the Government has received on the provision of its grant-funding to the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre as part of the completed sale of that organisation

14 Apr 2022 · Department for International Trade

Trade: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what (a) working groups or (b) structured dialogues have been launched following the trade discussions in Baltimore; and how those groups or dialogues compare with the 10 US-EU Trade and Technology Co

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Nigeria: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information the Simplification of Rules Taskforce office used to reach the decision that Nigeria was not to be included in the Majority English Speaking Countries list.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Visas: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the basis is for granting an exception to applicants from (a) Barbados, (b) Jamaica and (c) Trinidad and Tobago from a requirement to take International English Language Testing System exams for

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Horizon Europe: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding has been granted for the first wave of successful UK Horizon applicants as of 28 March 2022; and what funding has been committed for those who were successful in

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

T-levels: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that work placements for T-levels are available in every town in the UK.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Vocational Guidance: STEM Subjects

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that young people in every region of the UK have access to STEM-specific careers provision.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

STEM Subjects: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase the number of apprenticeships in STEM professions.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

English Language: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding will be provided to local authorities or colleges to help ensure that sufficient English language classes are available locally for people who arrived in the UK from Afghanistan in 2021.

28 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department (a) is still using NHS Foundry to map vaccine uptake and (b) has plans to deploy that software elsewhere in the NHS.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

British Airways: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on British Airways' use of VeriFLY and its (a) data sharing policies and (b) implications for British citizens fl

24 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase capacity in the context of increased refugee applications; whether she has plans to recruit more staff to handle those applications; what assessment she

24 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

South Africa: Just Energy Transition Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the The Joint Statement: International Just Energy Transition Partnership Joint Statement, published on 2 November 2021, which announced an initial commitme

24 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Just Energy Transition Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to The Joint Statement: International Just Energy Transition Partnership with South Africa of 2 November 2021, what plans the Government has for other Just Ene

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