Written questions

587 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Sep 2015 · Department of Health

Cancer Drugs Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the prioritisation process for treatments on the National Cancer Drugs Fund list will take place in 2015-16.

4 Sep 2015 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many foreign service personnel on exchanges served in Northern Ireland under Operation Banner.

16 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Combined Authorities: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether devolution of health commissioning to combined authorities will have any effect on the Government's plan for real terms increases in NHS spending in each year of the current Parliament.

15 Jul 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer from the Prime Minister of 24 June 2015, Official Report, columns 885-6, when he expects numbers of deaths of people declared fit to work and related standardised mortality ratios

15 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS England paid to cover clinical negligence claims, excluding legal costs, in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each year since 2009-10.

14 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether (a) NHS England and (b) Health Education England made any representations to HM Treasury prior to the Summer Budget 2015 announcement on public sector pay.

14 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Re-employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have been made redundant and subsequently re-employed by NHS organisations on a (a) permanent and (b) fixed-term contract basis since May 2010.

14 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

General Practitioners: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of GP practices participating in the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund were already offering evening or weekend opening hours prior to their participation in that fund.

14 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Health Services: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what formula determined the level of NHS funding for devolution to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

14 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will publish the analysis and assumptions which underlie its policy of securing £22 billion of efficiency savings in the NHS.

8 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Dementia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to publish a new national dementia strategy in the current Parliament.

6 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Dementia

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason dementia is no longer listed as a priority area in his official ministerial responsibilities.

6 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Ministers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Ministers have become dementia friends; and on what date they became a dementia friend.

1 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with HM Revenue and Customs officials on improving waiting times for members of the public calling that Department's self-assessment helpline.

1 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls to the HM Revenue and Customs self-assessment helpline were (a) abandoned by callers and (b) answered after a period of (i) 15, (ii) 30 and (iii) 45 minutes in the latest year for which data are availa

1 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Self-assessment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time taken was for HM Revenue and Customs to send out self assessment tax forms and online assessment password details in the last 12 months.

1 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of calls to the HM Revenue and Customs self assessment helpline were abandoned without answer in each of the last three years; and what the median waiting time was for such abandoned calls.

1 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of waiting times for members of the public calling the HM Revenue and Customs self assessment helpline.

19 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Help to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of properties bought under the help to buy scheme in each (a) constituency and (b) local authority area are now rented.

19 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Help to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of properties bought under the help to buy scheme that have since been sold to private sector landlords.

18 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the pilot schemes aimed at in-work claimants.

12 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Public Health: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of recently announced changes to public health funding on public health initiatives on (a) exercise, (b) obesity, (c) smoking cessation and (d) sexual health.

11 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the implications for his Department's policies are of the ruling in the case of Ms C and Mr W v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others of 8 June 2015.

11 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Prescription Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in England who have been prescribed benzodiazepines and z drugs for longer than four weeks in each year since 2010.

11 Jun 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Burma: Rohingya

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the human rights of the Rohingya people in Burma are protected.

11 Jun 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Burma: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the situation in Rakine State, Burma.

11 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the number of people in England involuntarily addicted to prescribed drugs in each year since 2010.

11 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

NHS Trusts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of financial deficits of NHS trusts on safety and quality of care.

11 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Economic Growth

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of economic inequalities on growth.

28 May 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Seals

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of seals killed off the coast of the UK in each year since 2010.

Source: official written-questions record.