Written questions

3,020 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Individual Savings Accounts

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a voluntary system in which serving military personnel have a proportion of their pay directly transferred to a Lifetime ISA.

20 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Financial Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial advice serving military personnel receive.

20 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of an independent inquiry on the treatment of ex-service personnel with mental health issues.

20 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to put NHS-funded counsellors in every school to ensure easy access to mental health services for children.

13 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the briefing published by the Children's Commissioner entitled Children’s Mental Healthcare in England published November 2018, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiti

13 Dec 2018 · Department for Transport

Railways: Sheffield City Region

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve rail (a) capacity and (b) services in Sheffield City Region.

13 Dec 2018 · Department for Transport

Railways: Sheffield City Region

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the forthcoming rise in rail fares will deliver tangible benefits to the rail passengers of the Sheffield City Region.

12 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold: South Yorkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many leasehold properties there are in South Yorkshire.

12 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to include existing leaseholders in its analysis of the consultation on implementing reforms to the leasehold system.

12 Dec 2018 · Department for Education

Universities: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Sutton Trust's report of 7 December 2018 entitled Access to Advantage, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of that report's finding that eight schools were responsible

12 Dec 2018 · Department for Education

Universities: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Sutton Trust's report of 7 December 2018, Access to Advantage, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of that report's finding that independent school pupils are seven tim

11 Dec 2018 · Department for Education

Universities: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings of the Sutton Trust's report of 7 December 2018, Access to Advantage, what steps his Department is taking to tackle regional inequalities in gaining a place at an Oxbridge univers

11 Dec 2018 · Department for Education

Universities: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings of the Sutton Trust's report of 7 December 2018, Access to Advantage, what steps his Department is taking to increase the proportion of state school pupils applying to study at Ox

10 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement by the Children's Commissioner's Children's Mental, published November 2018, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of referrals of child

10 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: South Yorkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to 2018 Budget, how much of the increase in funding allocated to the NHS over the next five years will be allocated to South Yorkshire.

6 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle trophy hunting across the world.

6 Dec 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department is making on the roll-out of smart meters to every home by 2020.

6 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the number of patients in England who are currently receiving treatment for secondary breast cancer.

5 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people who have faced charges as a result of claiming for free prescriptions to which they were not entitled to were on universal credit or any other form of welfare payment in e

4 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have faced charges as a result of claiming for free prescriptions to which they were not entitled; and how much money has been accrued to the public purse as a result of those charg

4 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make Autism and Learning Disability Training mandatory for all healthcare professionals.

4 Dec 2018 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if her Department will publish the loans made by (a) the UK Aid Agency and (b) British Companies in relation to the UK's International Development Programme.

30 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans for blood glucose testing strips and needles to remain available by prescription.

30 Nov 2018 · Home Office

British Nationality: Fathers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will bring forward legislative changes to the British Nationality Act 1981 to ensure that biological fathers are recognised for nationality purposes in cases where the biological mother is not a

29 Nov 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Warm Home Discount Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to (a) extend and (b) promote the warm home discount scheme.

27 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: South Yorkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the 23 November 2018 Government news release on new search teams to disrupt and deter violence in prisons, whether those teams will be placed in prisons in South Yorkshire.

27 Nov 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants of personal independence payment with Postural Tachyacardia Syndrome (a) did not receive an award after their first assessment and (b) received an award at trib

23 Nov 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Common Agricultural Policy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential economic effect on coastal communities of the UK's withdrawal from the Common Fisheries Policy.

23 Nov 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Common Agricultural Policy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential economic effect on rural communities of the UK's withdrawal from the Common Agricultural Policy.

22 Nov 2018 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on people with disabilities.

Source: official written-questions record.