Written questions

1,298 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Mar 2015 · Department of Health

Care Workers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on the affordability of care of the requirement for people with carers to pay pension contributions for those carers.

6 Mar 2015 · Department for Education

Social Workers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has provided to (a) the Frontline programme and (b) other social work training courses in each of the last five years.

6 Mar 2015 · Department for Education

Social Workers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Frontline programme's requirement that local authorities limit the caseloads of programme participants on the effectiveness of that programme; if she will take

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many umbrella payroll companies have been investigated by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate in each of the last five years.

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many complaints the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate has received about umbrella payroll companies in each of the last five years.

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many umbrella payroll companies have been subject to enforcement action by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate in each of the last five years.

15 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Food Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what resources from the UK's allocatons of EU Structural Funds have been used to support food banks.

15 Jan 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual offences: Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reoffending rate was for sex offenders whose original conviction was for sexual offences against children in the most recent period for which figures are available.

15 Jan 2015 · Home Office

Violent and Sex Offender Register

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered sex offenders there are in the UK; how many people on the Violent and Sex Offenders Register have committed sexual offences against children; and what the reoffending rate is for p

15 Jan 2015 · Department of Health

Social Services: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that recipients of social care are able to access complaints advocacy, equivalent to the measures for health complaints advocacy established under the Healt

13 Jan 2015 · Department of Health

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to make it a statutory requirement for care providers to make clients aware of the Local Government Ombudsman complaints procedure.

13 Jan 2015 · Department of Health

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to introduce a statutory requirement for care providers to publish an annual report on their internal complaints procedures.

7 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the inclusion of French Overseas Departments in the calculation of average temperature for France for the purposes of determining eligibility for winter fuel payments to UK citi

12 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Funeral Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2014 to Question 216782, what steps his Department is taking to improve the administration process for funeral payments.

12 Dec 2014 · Department of Health

Disability Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage health authorities to reclaim and re-use disability adaptations and equipment that are no longer required by clients.

12 Dec 2014 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Disability Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to encourage local authorities to reclaim and re-use disability adaptations and equipment that are no longer required by clients.

9 Dec 2014 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of (a) homelessness and (b) rough sleeping.

8 Dec 2014 · Department of Health

NHS: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the quality of Patient Advice and Liaison Service and NHS Complaints Advocacy arrangements.

8 Dec 2014 · Department of Health

NHS: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on complaints advocacy in (a) adult social care and (b) the NHS in each local authority in each of the last three years.

8 Dec 2014 · Department of Health

Social Services: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to address regional variations in the quality of complaints advocacy in adult social care.

8 Dec 2014 · Department of Health

Social Services: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which national body is responsible for national oversight of social care complaints data.

2 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has determined the technology and security specifications required for new remote video links to ensure they are compatible with any future roll-out of pre-recording evidence; and when he p

6 Nov 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance have had a recorded mental health problem in each year since 2010.

6 Nov 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people subject to jobseeker's allowance sanctions have had a recorded mental health problem in each year since 2010.

3 Nov 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was made available through the Social Fund in each year since 2010.

3 Nov 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Budgeting Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications made for Budgeting Loan have been made in each year since 2010; and how many such applications were rejected.

30 Oct 2014 · Department of Health

Health Services: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was to the NHS of providing treatment to visitors from (a) the European Economic Area and (b) other non-permanent residents in 2013-14.

30 Oct 2014 · Department of Health

Health Services: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the amount (a) recoverable and (b) recovered for the cost of medical treatment of foreign visitors by the UK through its reciprocal arrangements with non-EU countries was in 2013-14.

30 Oct 2014 · Department of Health

Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the amount (a) recoverable and (b) recovered by the UK through the European Health Insurance Card scheme was in 2013-14.

28 Oct 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Bahrain

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to use the UK's membership of the UN Human Rights Council to introduce a resolution condemning human rights violations in Bahrain.

Source: official written-questions record.