Written questions

2,337 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Mar 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 41 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to further embed and scale people taking action as a core part of ho

4 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Voluntary Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 41 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken with NHS England to strengthen volunteering within the NHS, spreading impact vo

4 Mar 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 37 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what progress has been made on his Department's target of training a further 3,500 people in community o

4 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 33 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken explore further initiatives based on the learnings from the

4 Mar 2019 · Department for International Trade

Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of additional carbon dioxide that has been emitted in each of the last five years as a result of UK Export Finance funding for fossil fuel projects

28 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 224346 on Buildings: Insulation, whether he has made a recent assessment of (a) the combustibility of a range of common ins

28 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 224346 on Buildings: Insulation, whether his Department still plans to conduct a BS 8414 test with a system incorporating H

28 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 224346 on Buildings: Insulation, what criteria the expert panel will use to decide whether further large-scale testing is n

28 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 224346 on Buildings: Insulation, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings on

28 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 224346 on Buildings: Insulation, whether he has made a recent assessment of the dangers of toxic smoke from commonly used i

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials from (a) his Department and (b) the Office for Civil Society have been moved from their normal duties to work on preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 113 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to explore the potential to use flexibilities in the law governing

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 16 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to work with Big Lottery Fund to use £55 million from dormant accoun

27 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 224343 on Buildings: Insulation, for what reasons there has been a period of six months between the bespoke test methodolog

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on consumer energy prices of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 112 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps he has taken to (a) develop new guidance for all commissioners on grantmaking to small and l

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 74 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to work with the Charity Commission and UK Community Foundations to

26 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made any assessment of whether the UK's expected departure from the EU has affected the supply of the drug Epilimchrono (sodium valproate).

26 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made any assessment of the reasons for shortages of the Epilim Chrono (sodium valproate) drug available to people with epilepsy.

25 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Postage Stamps: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the potential change in the price of a second class postage stamp in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.

25 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Postage Stamps: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the potential change in the price of a first class postage stamp in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and with reference to the interim report of the Building Research Establishment for his Dep

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and with reference to the interim report of the Building Research Establishment for his Dep

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and with reference to the interim report of the Building Research Establishment (BRE) for h

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and the interim report of the Building Research Establishment for his Department entitled F

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and the interim report entitled, Fire Performance of Cladding Materials Research – Experime

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and the interim report entitled, Fire Performance of Cladding Materials Research – Experime

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and the interim report entitled, Fire Performance of Cladding Materials Research – Experimen

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation and with reference to the Buildings Research Establishment interim report entitled Fire perf

14 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 115 of the Government's Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, whether his Department applies the terms of the Social Value Act to (a) goods and (b) work

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