Written questions

1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Solar Power: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions she has had with (a) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (b) HM Revenue and Customs on proposals to increase VAT rates on solar panels.

4 Feb 2016 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence her Department has received from the Migration Advisory Committee on whether nurses should remain on the Government's Shortage Occupation List.

4 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Post Offices: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on benefit and tax credit demand from workers who are Royal Mail employees at franchises of former post offices; and what estimate his

28 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contribution his Department is making to the delivery and monitoring of the Preventing Suicide in England strategy with specific reference to people identified as being vulnerable due to social and

28 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the Preventing Suicide in England strategy, published on 10 September 2012, is being monitored for its impact on reducing suicide; and how the commitment to people who had been identified as being especially v

20 Jan 2016 · Leader of the House

Leader of the House of Commons: Official Hospitality

To ask the Leader of the House, what events have taken place in the Leader's Parliamentary Office in 2016; and what the cost to the public purse has been of each such event.

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the organisations awarded funding from the Community Transport Minibus Fund in March 2015 have received (a) a vehicle and (b) that funding.

16 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential effect of replacing student bursaries with loans on the number of British students entering nursing courses in each of the next five years; and what assessment his Depart

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much he expects local authorities to raise through the proposed social care precept arrangements; and what steps he is taking to ensure those funds are ring-fenced for care services.

14 Dec 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Mentally Disordered Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many psychiatric assessments have been requested by judges in each of the last 10 years.

14 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have benefitted from the Government's extension of the Access to Work scheme to cover work experience placements in the last two years; and how the £2 million allocated to that

8 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the judgment in the case of R v Secretary of State [2015] EWHC 3382 (Admin).

25 Nov 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how he plans for the two per cent council tax precept to fund care services to be monitored to ensure funds raised are used for disabled people, older people, and carers seeking social ca

4 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average number of personal independence payment assessments undertaken each week was in September and October 2015.

4 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre Plus: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to update guidance to Jobcentre Plus staff on claimants that report suicidal thoughts; and how such existing guidance is made available to those staff.

4 Nov 2015 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former service personnel are in receipt of Armed Forces Independence Payments.

27 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2015 to Question 12674, what his Department is doing to ensure that people provide sufficient written medical information for their initial Personal Independence Pay

20 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase the accuracy of initial personal independence payment (PIP) decision-making to address the rate of successful appeals of PIP.

20 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Carers and Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the contribution of the Minister of State for Disabled People to the debate on Welfare Reform (Sick and Disabled People) of 27 February 2014, what progress his Department is making on

15 Oct 2015 · Home Office

Cannabis: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research licences are under consideration by her Department relating to medicinal benefits of cannabinoids.

9 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working age people applied for and received disability living allowance, claiming under special rules for people with terminal illness, in each year from 2005 to 2010.

9 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working age disability living allowance recipients notified his Department of a change of circumstance and sought a reassessment under special rules for people with terminal illness in each yea

2 Jul 2015 · Home Office

Abortion: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that police officers and others have the ability to prevent protesters harassing or intimidating women seeking advice on sexual health and abortion.

29 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her Oral Answer of 15 June 2015, Official Report, column 20, when she plans to respond to the Fifth Report of the Education Select Committee, Session 2014-15, HC 145 on Life Lessons: PSHE and SRE in

29 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to make viability studies for planning applications more transparent and open to the public and interested stakeholders.

15 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 11 of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services annual budget survey, published on 4 June 2015, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy of the findings t

15 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services annual budget survey, published on 4 June 2015, if he will make an assessment of the potential cost to the NHS of planned savings in the budg

12 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Local Government Services: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department plans to monitor the costs to local authorities of the Care Act 2014; and if he will make it his policy to provide additional funding to the councils which experience increased demand for their

12 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the National Audit Office in its report on the Care Act first-phase reforms, published in June 2015, on potential underestimation

10 Jun 2015 · Department of Health

Lyme Disease: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to improve the accuracy of tests for Lyme disease.

Source: official written-questions record.