Written questions
1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.
3 Jun 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has changed the Access to Work policy affecting disabled people who derive some of their income as part-time or full-time professional foster carers.
3 Jun 2016 · Home Office
Migrants: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 26 May 2016, Official Report, column 682, how many women she was referring to when she stated that very few pregnant women were detained for immigration purposes.
26 May 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Community Engagement Forum
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department is monitoring the effectiveness of the Community Engagement Forum; how frequently that forum has met; and how many Muslims that forum has engaged.
26 May 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Help to Buy Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to improve access to the Help to Buy scheme.
24 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Cluster Munitions: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether any cluster bombs have been exported under licence from the UK to Saudi Arabia or Yemen since 1989.
23 May 2016 · Women and Equalities
Migrants: Detainees
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Home Affairs on the number of pregnant women who have been detained for immigration purposes since central recording statistics on such cases began
23 May 2016 · Department for Transport
Public Transport: Guide Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to make public transport more accessible for people with guide dogs.
23 May 2016 · Department of Health
HIV/AIDS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for the Specialised Services Committee of NHS England announcing its position on commissioning pre-exposure drug prophyaxis for HIV for the at-risk population.
20 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 3 May 2016 to Question 35165, on Personal Independence Payments, what changes his Department has put in place to take account of the finding that 75 per cent of successfu
20 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 3 May 2016 to Question 35165, on Personal Independence Payments, what proportion of overturns resulted from (a) oral and (b) documentary evidence submitted to the Tribuna
20 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 3 May 2016 to Question 35165, on Personal Independence Payments, what steps his Department is taking better to understand why sufficient documentary evidence is not being
20 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment appeals his Department conceded prior to their being heard at the First-Tier Tribunal in the last 12 months.
20 May 2016 · Department of Health
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee's counter-proposal to the Government's plans for the future of community pharmacy, published in April 2016.
20 May 2016 · Department of Health
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of his proposals for the future of community pharmacy on care for vulnerable patients.
20 May 2016 · Department of Health
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of his proposals for the future of community pharmacy on care for elderly people.
10 May 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Housing Associations
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the Housing and Planning Bill on housing associations that manage properties on behalf of councils.
27 Apr 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure the sustainability of tenant management organisations.
25 Apr 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Sexual Offences: Universities
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to improve the university complaints procedures for victims of sexual assault.
25 Apr 2016 · Department of Health
Mental Health Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures he has put in place to monitor how the £1.25 billion allocated to children and adolescent mental health services in the March 2015 Budget is spent; and if he will take steps to ring-fence the remaind
22 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claimants have had their claim re-assessed more than six months before the end of their initial award period in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
22 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People on 13 April 2016, Official Report, column 151WH, on personal independence payments, what the sta
20 Apr 2016 · Home Office
Students: Victim Support Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to improve support resources available to students who have been victims of sexual assault.
20 Apr 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Universities: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to increase the available support for LGBT students affected by sexual assault whilst at university.
20 Apr 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Universities: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that support staff at universities are given adequate training in supporting students who are victims of sexual assault to ensure that that support is given
18 Apr 2016 · Department for Education
GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that GCSE students are able to study expressive arts subjects alongside those subjects included in the English Baccalaurate; and whether studying such subjects will
18 Apr 2016 · Department for Education
Primary Education: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on assessment of children in their reception year.
11 Apr 2016 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to ensure the safety of users of private hire vehicles.
11 Apr 2016 · Home Office
Knives: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent young people obtaining knives online.
8 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to change (a) the points awarded to individual descriptors under the personal independent payments (PIP) and (b) other elements of the PIP assessment process system.
24 Mar 2016 · Wales Office
Universal Credit: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the effect of recent changes to universal credit on families in Wales.
Source: official written-questions record.