Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

31 Jan 2023 · Northern Ireland Office

Renewable Energy: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Contracts for Difference scheme to Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

31 Jan 2023 · Treasury

Employment Agencies: PAYE

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of HMRC's processes for collecting PAYE tax from agencies.

31 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce new funding aimed at increasing access to support for victims of domestic abuse.

31 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Travellers: Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of policing for the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities.

31 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure (a) accessible and (b) culturally sensitive support is available for survivors of domestic abuse.

31 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Military Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to increase the production of arms in the UK to help provide greater support to Ukraine.

31 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Armed Conflict

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 attacks on Kherson in January 2023.

31 Jan 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with energy companies on smart meters manufactured by companies based in China.

31 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Drugs: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is tacking to tackle gangs offering free e-cigarettes to groom vulnerable children into drug dealing.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to fund research into new treatment for the most dangerous types of prostate cancers.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) condition of and (b) quality of care in care homes.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes and Hospitals: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to give (a) care home residents and (b) hospital patients the right to have visitors.

31 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussion she has had with the Department for Education in Northern Ireland on suspensions in high schools.

31 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Physical Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Education and Training Inspectorate's thematic evaluation of physical education provision in primary schools, published October 2022, what discussions he has had with the Education and Tra

30 Jan 2023 · Northern Ireland Office

Cycling and Walking: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to support the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure to spend 10 per cent of the transport budget on active travel.

30 Jan 2023 · Northern Ireland Office

Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to help ensure the implementation of the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the NHS can benefit for advances in artificial intelligence.

30 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of pothole injury compensation from April 2021 to April 2022.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to encourage more blood donations across the UK.

30 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to provide (a) short term aid, (b) flood defences and (c) other preventative measures to countries affected by flooding.

27 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Discount Scheme: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Energy Bills Discount Scheme will include businesses delivering animal health and welfare standards in livestock production.

26 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Liver Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of surveillance measures for liver cancer in the UK.

26 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle racism towards Gypsy, Roma, and Travellers in schools.

26 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Scarlet Fever and Streptococcus: Antibiotics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the supply of antibiotics to help tackle (a) Strep A and (b) Scarlet Fever.

26 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eyesight: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to help improve eye health in the UK.

26 Jan 2023 · Department for International Trade

Overseas Trade: Taiwan

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she is taking steps to increase trade with Taiwan.

26 Jan 2023 · Cabinet Office

Heatstroke: Death

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died of heat stroke in the UK in the last ten years.

25 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help secure international agreements to support (a) access to and investment in R&D and (b) cost effective procurement of medicines for the NHS.

25 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical treatments: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the UK’s competitiveness as destination for clinical trials and R&D for development of new medicines; and if he will make assessment for the potent

25 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number clinical trials of new medicines taking place in the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.