Written questions

1,507 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to extend bursaries available to healthcare students to (a) medicine and (b) dentistry students.

2 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Police Management of Registered Sex Offenders Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the independent review into the police management of registered sex offenders.

1 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November to Question 93553 on Motorways: Safety, of the 10% of vehicles stopped in live lanes on all-lane running motorways not detected within 60 seconds, in how many instances det

29 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her letter of 18 November 2022 to all hon. and Rt hon. Members on Use of Hotels for Asylum Seekers, what goods or services are (a) supplied and (b) procured by her Department from th

29 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her letter of 18 November 2022 to all hon. and Rt hon. Members on Use of Hotels for Asylum Seekers, if she will place in the Library a copy of a sample factsheet and briefing pack on

28 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Conference 2022, who his Department invited to that conference; and for reason parliamentary sp

24 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will enable recycling all glass food and drink packaging at the kerbside via the new system of Extended Producer Responsibility and consistent household collections as outlined

23 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Violent and Sex Offender Register

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how sex offenders have breached their notification requirements in the past year.

22 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Pet Foods: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of removing VAT on pet food for 12 months to help support pet owners who are adversely affected by the rise in inflation.

22 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of incidents in which a vehicle became stranded in a live lane of an all-lane running motorway did detection take more than (a) five and (b) ten minutes in 2022.

16 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Indo-Pacific Region

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which countries his Department includes in its definition of the Indo-Pacific region.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how long it takes on average to (a) detect and (b) respond to a vehicle stranded in a live lane on all lane running motorways in England.

14 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Qatar: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Qatari counterpart on the importance of freedom of expression.

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to avoid regional variations in patient access to (a) radioligand therapy and (b) other specialised radiotherapy services, once specialised commissioning responsibility is d

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radioligand Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2022 to Question 33936 on Radioligand Therapy, whether NHS England will undertake an expansion programme for radioligand therapy to help meet anticipated demand in

8 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the Royal College of Radiologists entitled RCR Clinical oncology census report 2021, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the level of the clinic

2 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Visual Impairment: Cost of Living

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what targeted support his Department provides to ensure blind and partially sighted people can meet the rising cost of living.

2 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessments she has made of the potential merits of the proposals to expand the graduate visas to include International Medical Graduates such as GPs who have completed their training in the UK.

31 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents occurred in which (a) Stopped Vehicle Detection systems and (b) overhead warning gantries were offline as a result of technical failures across the smart motorway network in the last 12 month

31 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how long in total hours (a) Stopped Vehicle Detection systems and (b) overhead warning gantries have been offline as a result of technical failures across the smart motorway network in the last 12 months.

21 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Democracy and Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department plans to publish the Human Rights and Democracy: 2021 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office report.

19 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diego Garcia: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether migrants currently accommodated on Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory and who are assessed to be at risk should they return to their country of origin will

19 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diego Garcia: Human Trafficking

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the risks of human trafficking faced by migrants currently accommodated on Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory.

19 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will introduce (a) comprehensive user guidance on the existing search functionality and (b) a new advanced search functionality facility on the UK's Development Tracker

19 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Occupied Territories: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2022 to Question 59761 on Occupied Territories: Refugees, if he will publish the search terms that will identify that information on DevT

17 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bangladesh: Rohingya

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the leverage of the UK to support the (a) legal status, (b) education, (c) work opportunities and other long-term issues for

14 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Horn of Africa: Development Aid and Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of (a) humanitarian and (b) development aid funding allocated to the Horn of Africa for this financial year has been programmed.

14 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Horn of Africa

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which countries his Department includes in its definition of the Horn of Africa.

14 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Africa: Development Aid and Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the (a) humanitarian and (b) development aid budgets are for (i) Somalia, (ii) South Sudan, (iii) Ethiopia and (iv) Kenya in this financial year.

12 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Rotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle health inequality in Rotherham constituency.

Source: official written-questions record.