Written questions
9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that education is adequately funded.
17 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bills Rebate: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the £600 payment to Northern Ireland households for energy costs (a) can be split between gas, oil and electric bills or (b) must be used for a single form of energy.
17 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Costs
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to help support small and medium-sized enterprises in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the rest of the UK with increased costs.
17 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Ukraine: Guided Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his Ukrainian counterpart on the use of long range missiles in Ukraine.
17 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nab-paclitaxel
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the breast cancer drug Abraxane will be made available on the NHS.
17 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices: Degrees
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to increase uptake of degree apprenticeships among young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
17 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Young People: Employment and Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with her Cabinet colleagues on the adequacy of employment and training programmes for young people not in education, employment or training.
17 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Young People: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing work-based vocational training for young people between the ages of 14 and 16.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Health and Science: T-levels
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposals to remove funding for applied general qualifications that overlap with Health and Science T-Levels on the health and social care workforce.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Schools: Teaching Methods
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of promoting more project-based learning in schools.
16 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Homicide and Rape: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of sentencing guidelines for (a) rape and (b) murder; and what steps he is taking to ensure that these crimes receive the most severe punishments.
16 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Anosmia
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to support further research on the relationship between covid-19 and the loss of the sense of smell.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bills Rebate: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of strikes in the healthcare sector on the timing of the £600 payment to households in Northern Ireland.
16 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the potential link between weight gain and dementia in middle-aged people.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme: Charities
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policies to extend the energy price cap relief scheme for (a) the Scouts and (b) other charities.
11 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Religious Freedom: Christianity
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of data collected by Aid to the Church in Need, published on 3 January 202, which states that 100 priests and
11 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Religious Freedom: Christianity
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of potential trends in the level of persecution of Christians based on their faith in 2023.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ECO+: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the allocated percentage of ECO+ funding was targeted at the low-income eligibility group; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of targeting
11 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ukraine: Cereals
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential steps that could be taken to increase the safety of grain export from Ukraine.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to tackle benefit fraud.
11 Jan 2023 · Cabinet Office
Cybersecurity
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress has been made on the UK's cyber security strategy since COP27; and if he will make a statement.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms: Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage farmers to increase their use of solar panels; and whether she is providing specific funding designed to achieve that aim.
11 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of physical violence in prisons in the UK.
11 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Drugs: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what further steps she is taking to tackle illegal drugs gangs in the UK.
11 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Fraud: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government offers financial support for victims of fraud.
11 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of genetic testing for heart (a) troubles and (b) disease.
11 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Self-harm: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of 18 have been referred for counselling on the NHS due to self harm in the last 5 years.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to support pre-apprenticeship programmes following the decision to close the national traineeship programme.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Vocational Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve vocational and technical skills among school leavers.
10 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people in the UK who suffer from Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Source: official written-questions record.