Written questions

1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sleeping Rough

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with waste collection providers on introducing technology in dustbins to protect rough sleepers and other people who take shelter in bins.

19 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average value was of universal credit payments made to new claimants in each week since the beginning of March 2020.

19 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the average value of advance payments made to new universal credit claimants in each week since 1 March 2020.

19 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the requirement for advanced payments under universal credit to be repaid to her Department, for what reason her Department does not treat those advanced payments as a loan for the pur

18 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to provide a substantive Answer to Named Day Question 41056 on Universal Credit which was tabled on 28 April 2020 and was due for Answer on 5 May 2020.

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of the supply of personal protective equipment to dental practices to enable those practices to reopen.

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risks to dentists of re-opening dental practices during the covid-19 outbreak.

15 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the future of the triple lock on state pensions.

15 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of removing the triple lock on state pensions on pensioners.

15 May 2020 · Home Office

Visas: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will allow temporary UK residents whose leave is due to expire on 31 May 2020 a further automatic extension to their visas as a result of (a) travel restrictions and (b) self-isolation relating

15 May 2020 · Treasury

Nurseries: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing business rate exemptions for nurseries in England.

15 May 2020 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on business rate exemptions for nurseries during the covid-19 outbreak.

14 May 2020 · Treasury

Business: Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with representatives of insurance providers on ensuring that business interruption clauses are upheld for claims made as a result of the covid-19 pandemic

14 May 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme: Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme will be extended to include (a) NHS and (b) private dental practices.

12 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to recommence (a) drug and (b) alcohol cessation support services once covid-19 lockdown restrictions have ended.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent people developing (a) alcohol and (b) drug dependencies during the covid-19 outbreak.

11 May 2020 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to work with the higher education sector to attract international students to (a) creative and (b) specialist universities in the UK in the next academic year.

11 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the High Court's decision of 7 May 2020 on the no recourse to pubic funds policy, how her Department plans to administer backdated benefit payments owed to families who have been wrong

11 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the High Court's decision of 7 May 2020 on the Government's policy on no recourse to public funds, what estimate she has made of the total amount of backdated benefit payments owed to

11 May 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the High Court’s decision of 7 May 2020 on her Department's no recourse to public funds policy.

11 May 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the High Court’s decision of 7 May 2020 on her Department's no recourse to public funds policy.

11 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to (a) extend the role of the Housing Ombudsman and (b) increase other protections for leaseholders.

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding by the Royal College of Physicians that access to personal protective equipment declined over the month of April 2020

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of coronavirus tests for people who live in the same household as an NHS worker.

6 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Golan Heights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of Israeli's compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 497 on the annexation of the Golan Heights.

6 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Jerusalem

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of Israeli's compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolutions 476 and 478 on the annexation of Jerusalem.

5 May 2020 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses to (a) commission and (b) monitor the services which support the Prevent Strategy.

5 May 2020 · Home Office

Prevent Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the deadline for submissions to the independent review of Prevent is 7 July 2020, as announced by her Department.

5 May 2020 · Home Office

Prevent Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the timetable announced by her Department in April 2019 for appointing an Independent Reviewer of Prevent remains in place; and whether the independent review of that strategy will be complete

4 May 2020 · Department for Education

Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions his Department has had with internet providers about ensuring online access is free to education services during the covid-19 lockdown.

Source: official written-questions record.