Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve public awareness of the first signs of dementia symptoms.

10 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Nuclear Power: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the level of nuclear power generation capacity that will be required for the UK to achieve net zero by 2050.

10 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of how the model of collaborative funding for covid-19 research at pace might be used to fund other research areas.

10 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Science: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to support scientific research consortia as a future funding model for domestic R&D.

10 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Cancer: Immunotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to support research into cancer immune therapies.

10 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to develop the UK R&D Roadmap into the forthcoming R&D Plan.

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

Horizon Europe

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent progress he has made on the ratification of the UK’s association with the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.

25 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to fund research into intra-nasal covid-19 vaccines.

25 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: NHS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when gamma knife surgeries will be available on the NHS.

25 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect the habitats of song birds in the UK.

25 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Morquio Syndrome: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with mucopolysaccharidosis in each of the last 5 years.

25 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of direct flights between Heathrow and mainland China.

25 Apr 2022 · Department for International Trade

Beef and Pigmeat: China

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps is he taking to help increase the level of exports of (a) pork and (b) beef from the UK to China.

25 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foxes: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to control the rural fox population.

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take urgent steps to enable care homes, that have remained in continuous lockdown on due to staff infections, access to family and friends.

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Probiotics: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, following the UK's departure from the European Union, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of labelling food that contain probiotic microorganisms as probiotic.

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antibiotics: Drug Resistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help address antibiotics that have become ineffective due to overuse.

21 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Abduction: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of child abductions in the UK in each of the last five years.

21 Apr 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Military Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to provide further military assistance to Ukraine in the context of the Russian invasion of that country.

21 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Gambling

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to help ensure that gambling companies pay back any money incorrectly allocated by his covid-19 furlough policies.

21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will allocate additional funding for electric vehicle charging ports across the UK.

21 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fly-tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to provide additional funding to the devolved administrations for tackling illegal waste dumping using digital means.

21 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with pig farmers on providing financial support for sow births to bacon units.

21 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Motor Vehicles: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle the theft of keyless vehicles.

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in NHS hospitals have contracted sepsis in each of the last three years.

21 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Fraud: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle online financial fraud.

20 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Glaucoma: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to make the Kowa nonmyd WX3D Stereo Fundus Camera available within the NHS to detect the early signs of glaucoma.

20 Apr 2022 · Northern Ireland Office

Motor Sports: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with relevant stakeholders on rescheduling the (a) Ulster Grand Prix and (b) Northwest 200 following cancellation as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

20 Apr 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

EU Countries: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions the Government has had with the EU on steps that can be taken together to reduce energy bills.

20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Casinos: Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that casinos are not able to take advantage of gambling addicts.

Source: official written-questions record.