Written questions
3,020 written questions tabled, most recent first.
24 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Epilepsy
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2018 to Question 162165 on Personal Independence Payment: Epilepsy, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that initial assessments are accurate.
24 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Anxiety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of universal credit with a diagnosis of anxiety (a) did not receive an award after their initial assessment and (b) received an award after tribunal.
24 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the results of the arrears segmentation trial run by the Child Maintenance Group between April 2013 and April 2014; and what assessment she has made of how the results of that trial
24 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care
Learning Disability: Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the removal of nursing student bursaries on the number of people entering a career in learning disabilities nursing.
23 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the results of the reclassification of arrears trial run by the Child Maintenance Group; and what plans she has to change the processes used to collect Child Maintenance arrears as a
23 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care
Learning Disability: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS nurses receive adequate training on learning disabilities.
23 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care
Asthma
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of preventable deaths from (a) asthma and (b) complications arising from asthma attacks.
23 Oct 2018 · Department for Education
Pupil Premium: Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department are taking to extend access to pupil premium plus funding for adopted children who are (a) home educated, (b) educated at independent schools and (c) adopted from overseas.
22 Oct 2018 · Department for Education
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the changes to the eligibility criteria for free school meals on the number of families living in poverty.
22 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Depressive Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimants of universal credit with a diagnosis of depression (a) not receive an award after their initial assessment and (b) received an award after tribunal.
22 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of reductions in the number of (a) prison officers and (b) experienced prison officers on the level of violence in prisons.
22 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Lone Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the Social Metrics Commission, A new measure of poverty in the UK, published in September 2018, what steps her Department is taking to support single parent families that
19 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Metrics Commission’s new measure of poverty, if will she undertake an assessment of the effect of all government policies on poverty in the UK.
18 Oct 2018 · Department for International Trade
Foreign Investment in UK: North of England
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent steps have been taken to attract international investment in the Northern Powerhouse.
18 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the new devolution framework will require legislation.
18 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the aim is of the new devolution framework.
18 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whom his Department has consulted in preparing its new devolution framework.
18 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish his new devolution framework.
17 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies on reducing the number of households living in poverty of the Social Metrics Commissions report, A new measure of poverty in the UK, pub
17 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the new measure of poverty recommended by the Social Metrics Commission: a new measure of poverty, published in September 2018; and i
17 Oct 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 2018 NAO report on the financial sustainability of local authorities published by the NAO in March 2018, what plans he has to (a) promote a sustainable means of f
17 Oct 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make it mandatory for (a) utility companies and (b) the private sector to contribute financially to flood protection when their infras
24 Jul 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Industry: Sheffield City Region
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason his Department did not choose to work with the Sheffield City Region on a local industrial strategy.
24 Jul 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria his Department used to decide which areas would be chosen to work with the Government to develop their local industrial strategies.
23 Jul 2018 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Tax Yields
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much tax revenue accrued to the public purse from small and medium-sized enterprises in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15, (c) 2015-16, (d) 2016-17 and (e) 2017-18.
23 Jul 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit: Self-employed
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason self-employed individuals are not eligible for injuries disablement benefit.
23 Jul 2018 · Home Office
Tools: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether specialist tools for the purpose of DIY are exempted from Article 17 of the Offensive Weapons Bill in relation to online purchase.
23 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Cancer Strategy in relation to breast cancer.
19 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the provision of systematic screening for Lynch Syndrome for people diagnosed with bowel cancer in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire.
19 Jul 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Digital Technology: South Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2018 to Question 158755 on Digital Technology: South Yorkshire, how much of that British Business Bank funding has been allocated to South Yorkshi
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