Written questions

988 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Jun 2019 · Home Office

Disclosure and Barring Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 1 of the letter from the Cabinet Secretary of 10 April 2019 to the Public Accounts Committee inquiry on Disclosure and Barring Service: progress review, if he will place in the

24 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparative assessment he has made of (a) employment terms and conditions, (b) levels of violence, (c) overcrowding and (d) staffing levels at private and public prisons.

23 Apr 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role his Department played in the appointment of Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammad Alkhalifa to become an Ambassador of Bahrain to the UK.

18 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to require alcohol producers to include warnings on their product labels about the health effects of alcohol and its link to cancers.

18 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the public information campaign in Scotland on increasing awareness of the Chief Medical Officers’ low risk-drinking guidelines of 14 units a w

18 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the oral Answer of 14 March 2019 to Question 909822, Official Report, column 521, whether his Department is planning a public information campaign to raise awareness of the links betwee

11 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of offenders on electronic tagging orders has been in each month since January 2013.

11 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been given electronic tagging orders in each month since January 2013.

11 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2019 to Question 234706 on Offenders: Electronic Tagging, how many offenders have taken part in each of the GPS electronic tagging pilots in each month since the pilots started.

5 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, , pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2019 to Question 234706 on Offenders: Electronic Tagging, if he will place in the Library a copy of the outcome report on his Department’s GPS pilot scheme.

5 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2019 to Question 234706 on Offenders: Electronic Tagging, whether new policy guidelines will be issued to assist decision makers on deciding which offenders will be given GPS ta

5 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2019 to Question 234706 on Offenders: Electronic Tagging, who the decision-makers will be that will apply the necessary reasonableness, proportionality and necessity tests for u

5 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2019 to Question 234706 on Offenders: Electronic Tagging, how many monitoring starts under the existing monitoring scheme there have been in each of the last five years.

5 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the consultation on changes to the collection of child maintenance arrears, launched in December 2017, how many responses her Department received, and how many of those responses oppos

5 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of families affected by her Department's decision to write off child maintenance arrears of (a) £65.01 and £500, and (b) more than £500, and if she will make a s

5 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial assessment she has made of the effect of writing off child maintenance arrears on (a) her Department's budget and (b) families who are entitled to claim child maintenance; and how much mo

5 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to conduct an equality impact assessment in relation to the child maintenance service arrears strategy, and if she will make a statement.

1 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Diseases: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the prescribing practices of Clinical Commissioning Groups follows the appropriate clinical guidelines set by NICE or NHS England on the use of e

29 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dermatitis: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on the treatment of eczema of the availability of emollients on prescription.

29 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the variation between Clinical Commissioning Groups of the availability of emollients on prescription.

25 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Job Satisfaction

What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of morale in the armed forces.

20 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria will be used to determine which offenders are required to wear (a) a new GPS tag and (b) the older type of location tag.

20 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Curfews

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all offenders on the Home Detention Curfew scheme are required to wear a tag 24 hours a day.

20 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Curfews

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average daily number of offenders on Home Detention Curfew has been in each of the last 12 months.

20 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the maximum number of offenders is who can be tagged and monitored at any one time under the new national GPS tagging of offenders scheme.

14 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when it is planned to issue officers at all adult male public sector prisons with PAVA spray; and if he will make a statement.

14 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, at how many prisons officers have been issued with PAVA spray since January 2019.

13 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure patients will be offered more personalised therapeutic options, as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

11 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 211736 on Prison Service: Pay, whether Operational Managers that are not up to date with their Control and Restraint training are entitled to claim the requir

11 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 211736 on Prison Service: Pay, how many Operational Managers were not up to date with their Control and Restraint training in each of the last three years.

Source: official written-questions record.