Written questions

1,470 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Rebate

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his planned timetable is for the online application portal to be available for people without a direct relationship with their energy supplier to apply for a £400 payment thr

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to provide support to students in higher education who are living away from home for their energy bills.

19 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to her oral Statement on 19 December 2022, on Migration and Economic Development, Official Report, whether her Department's policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda applies to (a) a family

15 Dec 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the gambling white paper.

15 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lung Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce a national lung screening programme as recommended by the UK National Screening Committee.

15 Dec 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Salah Hamouri

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to the Government of Israel on the threatened revocation of Salah Hammouri’s residency in Jerusalem.

12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Home Care Services: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to support home care workers using their own vehicles to visit clients with fuel costs.

8 Dec 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to issue Ukrainian refugees with a letter confirming their entitlement to local housing payments.

8 Dec 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Eritrea: Journalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the welfare of Dawit Isaak and other journalists who were arrested in Eritrea in 2001.

5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Wind Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the total (a) potential amount of renewable electricity that could be generated by wind turbines in the UK and (b) actual amount of renewa

5 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps with Cabinet colleagues to review the charging of overseas student fees to British National (Overseas) visa holders from Hong Kong who have moved to the UK.

5 Dec 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iran: Protest

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Iran on the arrest, detention, killing and sentencing to death of those people taking part in recent protests.

1 Dec 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Harem Rafat Fatah

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the reported detention of Harem Rafat Fatah in the Kurdish region of Iraq.

28 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tigray: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Tigray.

23 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the increase in the State pension on pensioners who receive a small amount of pension credit.

17 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

GCE A-level and GCSE: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether students will be given information on what will be in their (a) GCSE and (b) A-level exams in England in summer 2023.

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing Associations: Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of introducing rent caps of (a) 3 per cent, (b) 5 per cent and (c) seven per cent on the ability of housing associations to

7 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Locums

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to regulate the charges levied by agencies for the supply of locum GPs.

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Fast Food: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the proposed location of fast food establishments near to schools constitutes reasonable grounds for refusing planning permission.

25 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Rebate: Huntington's Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take into account the additional energy costs faced by people with Huntington’s Disease in his review of the energy support scheme in April 2023.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Huntington's Disease: Government Assistance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will increase financial support to people living with Huntington's disease during winter 2022.

25 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Huntington's Disease: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much Government funding is being spent on research to help tackle the symptoms of Huntington’s disease.

25 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will ask mental health trusts to ensure that their eligibility criteria include patients with organic brain disorders, such as Huntington’s disease, to help those people access mental health

25 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Huntington's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will ask NICE to develop specific national guidelines on Huntington’s disease to help ensure patients with that disease have a coordinated care pathway.

25 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Huntington’s Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether people at risk of Huntington’s disease are able to serve in the armed forces without the need to provide a negative predictive test upon recruitment.

21 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Rebate: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how tenants in a multi-occupied property who each pay for their energy by putting coins in a meter, which are then collected by the landlord, will receive their £400 energy rebate

19 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Muscular Dystrophy: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 September 2022 to Question 51448, on Muscular Dystrophy: Research (a) whether the NIHR plans to fund research into the cause and potential treatments for Distal Myopath

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Levelling Up Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he will publish the second round of successful bids from local authorities to the Levelling-up Fund.

18 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many (a) buildings (a) above and (b) below 18 metres with (i) unsafe ACM cladding (ii) unsafe cladding of a different type and (iii) other fire safety defects are awaiting remedi

17 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Safety Fund: Leeds

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to make a decision on the application to the Building Safety Fund in respect of the Basilica on King Charles Street in Leeds.

Source: official written-questions record.