Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that patients with chronic respiratory conditions receive (a) timely and (b) accurate (i) assessments and (ii) treatment.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial support his Department is providing to NHS trusts to help clear backlogs of asthma assessments.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in England are awaiting spirometry asthma assessments; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for those assessments.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Respiratory Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to provide GP practices with increased funding to improve (a) spirometry testing capacity and (b) care for patients with respiratory conditions.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Diseases: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with respiratory conditions receive timely and accurate assessments.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Diseases: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in the UK have been affected by the reduction of spirometry testing in primary care; and what steps his Department is taking to address that issue.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Visual Impairment: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to support pilots of cataract and glaucoma joint procedures in independent sector treatment centre settings.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Visual Impairment: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of commissioning independent sector treatment centres to perform combined cataract and glaucoma procedures.

9 May 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charitable Donations

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's policies of trends in the level of donations to charities over the last five years.

9 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Competition

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who have switched energy provider in the last six months.

9 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hypertension: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many children have high blood pressure.

9 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Politics and Government

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 situation in Sudan.

9 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Price Guarantee

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Energy Price Guarantee.

5 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department issues on the criteria to be used by his Department and NHS England when deciding (a) which diagnostic tests would be provided within Community Diagnostic Centres and (

5 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department and NHS England decided which specific procedures, methodologies and equipment would be carried out and used to complete the checks scans and tests delivered by the Community Dia

5 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of each type of diagnostic test has been provided in each Community Diagnostic Centre in each month since January 2020.

5 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to assess the efficacy of diagnostic tests carried out within community diagnostic hubs; and what assessment his Department of the impact of improved medical technolog

3 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cereals: Consumption

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on whether the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition will agree a definition for wholegrain in 2023. .

3 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cereals: Consumption

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to help increase and promote the consumption of wholegrains.

3 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Diets and Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to promote healthy food and diets.

27 Apr 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Life Sciences: Investment

What steps her Department is taking to support investment in the life sciences industry.

26 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iraq and Syria: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the number of prisoners in Iraq and Syria who are likely to join Islamic State.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Remote Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the Government's most recent guidance is on working from home.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Holiday Leave: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help ensure that all eligible workers are paid holiday pay.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Transport

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his timeframe is for the DVLA to meet its service delivery standards for issuing driving licences across the UK.

26 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Artificial Sweeteners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential link between artificial sweeteners and cancer.

26 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mobocertinib

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the drug Mobocertinib will be available on the NHS.

25 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on patient safety of limiting the procurement of single-use medical devices due to the weighting on net zero within NHS procurement d

25 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Police: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with police forces to help address complaints about police services that have not received a proper response.

25 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Coronavirus: Government Assistance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to recover public funds received improperly during the covid-19 pandemic.

Source: official written-questions record.