Written questions

1,903 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Business Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of business (a) awareness of and (b) satisfaction with the Office of the Small Business Commissioner.

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Business Commissioner: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many complaints have been (a) received and (b) resolved by the Office of the Small Business Commissioner in each year since it was founded.

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

British Business Bank: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the (a) outturn and (b) target for each of the Key Performance Indicators of the British Business Bank has been in each year since it was founded.

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of business’s (a) awareness of and (b) satisfaction with the Business Support Helpline (England).

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many webchats the Business Support Helpline (England) has conducted in each year since the LiveChat! Facility was added.

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many calls were made to the Business Support Helpline (England) in each of the last 12 years.

9 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

GLS Group: Universal Service Obligation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with International Distribution Services on the reasons for ending the cross-subsidy arrangements from GLS group used to fund the Universal Service

6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Financial Services: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of increased socio-economic diversity in the (a) financial and (b) professional services industry on the wider economy.

6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Financial Services: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help increase socio-economic diversity in the leadership of (a) financial and (b) professional service companies.

6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Financial Services: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to implement the recommendations of the report by the Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce entitled Breaking the Class Barrier: Recommendation

6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the take-up of free health checks by over-40s in each local authority area in each of the last four years for which data is available.

6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for Children and Adolescent Mental Health services assessments in Feltham and Heston constituency.

20 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Functional Neurological Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to encourage health boards to establish specific agreements to treat functional neurological disorders.

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help raise awareness in schools of safety in and around bodies of water.

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Lakes: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in the context of the Babbs Mill tragedy in December and the death at Bedford Lakes in August, what steps he is taking to help ensure safety in and around lakes.

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Directors: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of any potential barriers to increasing diversity on the boards of businesses.

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of any potential barriers discouraging SMEs from investing in net zero.

20 Dec 2022 · Department for International Trade

Small Businesses: Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made of any potential barriers that small businesses face when exporting overseas.

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the role of SMEs in meeting the UK's net zero targets.

19 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is available for mothers of children and infants with rare diseases.

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Help to Grow Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department had with relevant stakeholders prior to the decision to close the Help to Grow: Digital Programme in February 2023.

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Help to Grow Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses have (a) expressed interest in, (b) enrolled in and (c) completed the Help to Grow Management scheme in (i) each English region, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales and

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Help to Grow Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many SMEs have received discounts on digital products through the Help to Grow: Digital programme since March 2021.

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Help to Grow Schemes: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the cost to the public purse has been of the Help to Grow: Digital programme since March 2021.

13 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of additional costs incurred by households with disabled children due to rising energy prices.

7 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Consumer Goods: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the Product Safety review to which the Government committed in Spring 2022.

6 Dec 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of Universal Credit Official Error overpayments from 1 January 2018 to 6 December 2022, broken down by region.

6 Dec 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Hounslow

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 1 December to Question 95843, what was the total number of Universal Credit Official Error overpayments in Hounslow from 1 January 2018 to 6 December 2022.

6 Dec 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question UIN 95843, how many Universal Credit Official Error overpayments there were from 1 January 2018 to 6 December 2022.

6 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what she plans to publish the fraud strategy.

Source: official written-questions record.