Written questions
3,020 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the average waiting time for a (a) face-to-face and (b) telephone GP appointments in the UK.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of new GPs needed to fill NHS shortages in that profession.
22 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) recruit and (b) retain more GPs.
22 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Termination of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP’s have left the profession in (a) South Yorkshire, (b) England and (c) the UK in each of the last five years.
22 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential viability of ensuring all GP surgeries have a (a) queue and (b) hold function as part of their booking system for GP appointments.
22 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Naturalisation: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of naturalisation applications received by her Department were decided within six months in England in each of the last five years.
22 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral evidence given by the Home Secretary on 27 October 2021 to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee, what aspect of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme can
18 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Iron and Steel: South Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support the sustainability of the steel sector in South Yorkshire.
15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Electric Vehicles: South Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure (a) students (b) mechanics in South Yorkshire have access to the (i) skills and (ii) training needed to service electric vehicles.
15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Care Homes: Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure health and social care students who are under the age of 18 and unable to receive a second dose of the covid-19 vaccine are able to complete their work placements in care homes
15 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Covid Pass: New Zealand
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to extend the pilot scheme launched on 30 September 2020 in England for residents vaccinated abroad to request that their vaccines are uploaded to the national database to include
15 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Covid Pass: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure UK citizens who have received their Covid-19 vaccinations in New Zealand are able to receive an NHS Covid Pass.
15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Care Homes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues in the Department for Education on the potential impact of the new requirement for care home workers to be fully vaccinated against covid-19 on hea
12 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues in the Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing on the potential impact of extending the allocation of 30 hours free childcare for chil
12 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the financial viability of extending the allocation of 30 hours free childcare beyond the children of working parents and to children on Early Years Pupil Premium.
12 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Higher Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues in the Department for Education on the potential effect of (a) tuition fees and (b) student loans on regional education outcomes.
12 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how can Afghan nationals who have settled in the UK under the (a) Ex-Gratia Scheme and (b) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme apply for relocation of additional family members as a result
12 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Parents: Compassionate Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) women and (b) men receive adequate support from their workplace when experiencing the loss of a child.
9 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to include (a) a legal interest in a property and (b) shared children as a defined personal co
9 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Afghanistan: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has provided to support the 300 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships for Afghan nationals at UK universities under Operation Warm Welcome; and how many of those scholarshi
9 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when each Afghan national who arrived in the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, Operation Pitting and the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme will be awarded Indefinite Leave to Re
9 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Afghanistan: Resettlement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2021 to Question 44193 on Afghanistan: Refugees, how many of the of the 981 locally employed staff that were relocated to the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance
9 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Afghanistan: Resettlement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Government department is responsible for building a credible case for Afghan nationals who (a) were previously employed by the National Directorate of Security and (b) are applying for assistance under Cate
8 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Abortion and Miscarriage: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing funding for the provision of (a) abortions and (b) managed miscarriages.
8 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Miscarriage: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure women experiencing miscarriages are not subject to delays in access to managed miscarriages as a result of (a) public health restrictions and (b) any further publi
8 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to phone calls for vulnerable covid-19 patients and their families at the beginning of their hospitalisation where families are unable to visit.
8 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Home Country Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Afghan nationals with UK visas who served (a) as interpreters and (b) in other locally employed staff roles are in Afghanistan as of 8 November 2021; and what steps
8 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to support (a) Afghan Nationals and (b) the dependents of Afghan nationals who are in Pakistan and are at risk of deportation but are (i) not eligibl
5 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding is available to deliver (a) the bus service improvement plan in England and (b) the bus service improvement plan in the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority area.
4 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Regional Planning and Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the oral Answer of the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury on 2 November 2021, Official Report, column 744, when the second round of Levelling Up Fund bids will ope
Source: official written-questions record.