Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to provide financial support for charities, in the context of the cost of living crisis.

20 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to encourage male victims to report incidences of domestic abuse.

20 Mar 2023 · Women and Equalities

Women: Employment

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department are taking to reduce incidences of workplace misogyny.

20 Mar 2023 · Northern Ireland Office

Gender Based Violence: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Department of Justice on steps to (a) reduce violence against women and girls and (b) encourage women and girls to report incidences of violence.

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of environmental sustainability requirements on the ability of the NHS to meet its procurement needs for medical devices.

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to include environmental sustainability as a separate criterion in NHS procurement decisions; and if he will make a statement.

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department of the implications for its policies of the policy of weighting 10 per cent of all NHS procurement decisions on social value; and if he will make a statement.

15 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vacancies her Department had in (a) September 2022 and (b) March 2023.

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sleep

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's 2019 consultation on Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s, whether he plans to publish national guidance on sleep.

15 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mubarak Bala

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterpart in Nigeria on Mubarak Bala.

15 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Abduction

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Nigeria on the kidnapping of Christians in Kaduna State.

15 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iraq: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on freedom of religion or be

15 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Hazara

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of potentials threats posed to Hazara Muslims in Afghanistan.

15 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the extent of freedom of religious belief in Afghanistan.

15 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Coal

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of support for energy bills for households that use coal as their main source of energy.

15 Mar 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps she is taking to help ensure that small and medium-sized businesses remain viable in the context of the increases in the cost of living .

15 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Sizewell C Power Station: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of using green bonds to finance the Government’s stake in the Sizewell C project.

15 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Sizewell C Power Station: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make assessment of the potential merits of classifying nuclear energy as sustainable to help support private financing for Sizewell C.

15 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Electricity Generation: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an investment allowance to the Electricity Generator Levy comparable with that under The Energy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy.

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the consultation outcome on Proposed update to the 2023 statutory scheme to control the costs of branded health service medicines, what steps he taking to help secure an agreement

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of the delay in the Organ and Tissue Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill on organ donation and transplantation in Northern Ireland.

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include a statutory duty to provide early intervention strategies to (a) detect and (b) address mental health issues for (i) children and (ii) young people in (A) primary and (B

15 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the mental health 10 year plan; and whether that plan will include measures to support people living with long-term conditions such as diabetes.

14 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Motor Neurone Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) males and (b) females have been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in each of the last three years.

14 Mar 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to maintain boilers in housing provided by his Department.

14 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to help support disabled people with the cost of energy.

13 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that businesses in Northern Ireland are able to participate in future contracts for difference auctions during the suspension of the Northern

13 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Life Sciences: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report False economy? How NHS medicine procurement threatens the UK’s Life Sciences growth engine, published by WPI in Februa

13 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps the Government has taken to respond to violations of freedom of religion or belief by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

13 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Concussion: Dementia

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has supported research into the potential link between concussions and dementia.

Source: official written-questions record.