Written questions

1,507 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department's biomass strategy will set out policies for using (a) waste wood and (b) other renewable baseload power generators to increase energy security.

13 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

M23: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how may traffic officer vehicles have been involved in accidents in a live lane on smart motorway sections of the M23 in the last six months.

13 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether system redundancy allows National Highway’s CHARM system to continue operation seamlessly in the event of a systems failure.

8 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the (a) sum and (b) proportion of (i) Official Development Assistance spending and (ii) British International Investments that

7 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the safeguarding implications of humanitarian actors distributing aid through male-only teams.

7 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to take steps to help prevent the male-only delivery of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.

7 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to ringfence official development assistance spending on projects for women and girls in upcoming spending plans.

6 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Periods: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has assessed the potential merits of collecting data on ethnicity and age for those presenting with menstrual health conditions.

6 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iran: Poisoning

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of reports of the mass poisoning of school girls in Iran; and if he will make a statement.

6 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether system redundancy to ensure continued operation in the event of a system failure was included in the original design specification for the National Highways’ CHARM system.

3 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the meeting of Jordanian, Egyptian, Israeli, Palestinian and US officials on 26 February 2023; and if he

28 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding (a) the UK and (b) all other donors pledged at the International Ministerial Conference on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative 2022.

27 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to join up the budgets and commissioning for sexual and reproductive health and women’s health.

27 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Periods: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to update the NHS website to include up-to-date information on menstrual health conditions using plain English.

27 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Periods: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the information and resources on menstrual health conditions provided to primary healthcare professionals to help diagnosis and referrals to spec

27 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

West Bank: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to increase UK aid to healthcare providers in the West Bank in response to increases in violence by Israeli (a) forces and (b) settlers in that r

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) resources and (b) training her Department makes available to schools on addressing misogyny.

22 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Maternity Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what flagship countries his Department has identified for implementation of the Ending Preventable Deaths Approach Paper; and what progress his Department has made on impleme

22 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Maternity Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether following the publication of the document entitled Ending preventable deaths of mothers, babies and children by 2030 on 14 December 2021 his Department identified a c

8 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria and Turkey: Earthquakes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for enabling humanitarian aid to reach north west Syria of recent reports that (a) the Bab al Hawa border crossing from Turkey

8 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria and Turkey: Earthquakes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with his international counterparts to ensure the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey to north west Syria is fully operational following damage su

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lloyds Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of the recent announcement by Lloyds Pharmacy that it will close 237 branches on (a) former patients and (b) nearby pharmacies.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the levels of capacity and potential creation of efficiencies within the community pharmacy sector since 2019 in the context of the community pharmacy contractual fra

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help community pharmacies increase their capacity.

31 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of Official Development Assistance will be spent on projects specifically targeted at supporting people with disabilities in (a) this and (b) the next financi

30 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help secure school places for children without guardians.

26 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many registered sex offenders who are UK nationals made requests for consular assistance following their arrest for child sex offences between 2017 and 2022.

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Children: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that all local authorities make arrangements to identify children missing education, including children of new migrant families.

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

National Highways: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is the policy of National Highways to provide advanced notice to motorists of any planned outages of its Dynac system.

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

National Highways: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether National Highways is planning any outages of its Dynac system.

Source: official written-questions record.