Written questions
9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Jan 2015 · Home Office
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 25 February 2014, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA239, how many organisms of which species have been generated following pronucl
20 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Eyesight: Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people underwent laser eye surgery in the last five years.
20 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Prescriptions: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the level of prescription drug-taking among women.
20 Jan 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Colombia
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Amnesty International on human rights in Colombia.
20 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Birds of Prey
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will discuss with the hon. Member for Strangford and Natural England the request for a licence to control buzzards by Mr Rodney McMorris.
20 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pine Martens
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to control the pine marten population.
13 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will have discussions with NICE on the future availability in the NHS of the cancer drugs (a) Eribulin, (b) Avastin, (c) Kadcyla, (d) Afinitor, (e) Tykerb and (f) Perjeta; and if he will make a statement.
13 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Shellfish
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to stop the spread of Pacific oysters; and what discussions she has had with the (a) Northern Ireland Executive and (b) other devolved administrations on that
13 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Game: Birds
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with landowners concerning measures to improve the habitat of the grey partridge.
13 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Retail Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that shops secure the physical safety of their customers during future Black Friday promotions; and if he will make a statement.
7 Jan 2015 · Home Office
Abortion
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests have taken place outside abortion clinics for harassment in the last 12 months.
7 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
IVF
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the experiments to test for heteroplasmy on primordial germ cells created from human embryonic stem cells derived from blastocysts created through maternal spindle transfer and pronuclear transfer where th
7 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Cannabis: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the extent of addiction to skunk cannabis in each of the last five years.
7 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Abortion
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures his Department has in place to monitor the health of women who have undergone termination of pregnancy.
7 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
IVF
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library the journal articles reporting the results of all the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for testing the safety of the maternal spindle tran
6 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Cancer: Obesity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to address the incidence of cancer in (a) women and (b) men who are overweight.
6 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Asthma
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges and the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research about appropriate dosages for treatment of asthma.
6 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Breast Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges about the use of hypnosis in the treatment of breast cancer.
6 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to educate pedestrians about the effect of alcohol on their safety.
6 Jan 2015 · Department of Health
Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) matron and senior nurse posts are filled and (b) such posts are advertised in the UK.
6 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Butterflies: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to protect exotic butterflies; and what recent discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on that issue.
16 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Migraines
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in the UK with migraine; and what the age range of those people is.
16 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Patients: Monitoring
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure the availability in the NHS of sensor badges to monitor the vital signs of patients.
16 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Alzheimer's Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges and the Alzheimer's Society about DNA and memory loss and the prospects for reducing the incidence of Alzheimer's.
16 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to reduce the consumption of alcohol.
16 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Cervical Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote smear tests for young women; and what estimate he has made of the number of young women who died of cancer in the last five years who had not had a smear test.
16 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Gallbladder Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges about the use of MPDL3280A for gall bladder tumours.
16 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Kenya
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Kenyan government about the massacre of bus passengers on 22 November 2014.
16 Dec 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Birds: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take in response to Resolution 11.15 on the use of lead shot adopted by the 11th meeting of the Congress of Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Mig
9 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Laxatives: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to monitor and control the use of laxatives for teenage children.
Source: official written-questions record.