Written questions

673 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Domestic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on reviewing the Overseas Domestic Worker visa; and what steps she plans to take to ensure that relevant civil society actors can participate in that revie

21 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the waiting times faced by people awaiting the outcome of earning disputes in relation to universal credit as of 21 February 2022.

7 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the (a) scale of the backlog of child maintenance cases and (b) likely timeframe for clearing those cases.

2 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Working Tax Credit: Overpayments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support people who are having difficulty in paying back overpayments of working tax credits in the context of rising living costs.

2 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Custody: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the accommodation needs of women on remand who may not have access to housing support under the probation service.

2 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of nondependent rent deductions on universal credit claimants.

18 Jan 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Birmingham Erdington

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people in Birmingham Erdington constituency who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after

18 Jan 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Birmingham Yardley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment support allowance in Birmingham Yardle

12 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on women of the policy of forced adoption during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

12 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to progress the delivery of HPV vaccination, following the Minister's response to HC Deb, 25 March 2021, who stated that missed school aged vaccinations would be delivered n

12 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is his assessment of the impact of the covid-19 (a) outbreak and (b) vaccine rollout on the delivery of HPV vaccines in schools for 2021-22.

25 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Prostitution

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions military personnel have been found to have engaged in the sexual exploitation of women and men in the last five years; and what disciplinary action resulted.

25 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Prostitution

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current code of conduct is with respect to serving military personnel engaging in the sexual exploitation of prostituted women and men in the UK and abroad.

18 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an estimate of the funding required to meet the needs of (a) adult and (b) child victims of domestic abuse annually in England and Wales.

18 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding the Government has allocated for the provision of community-based domestic abuse services for (a) adult victims, (b) child victims and (c) perpetrators of domestic abuse in 2020-21.

18 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Neighbourhood Policing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government plans to consult on a statutory duty on public bodies to commission specialist community based (a) domestic abuse and (b) sexual violence provision as set out by the Lord Chancellor in a le

18 Oct 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to deliver a new deal for renters.

18 Oct 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of social house building rates.

15 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the threshold for weekly earnings to be eligible for Carers Allowance.

15 Oct 2021 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he is taking to process the backlog of applications at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

15 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if the Government will make it its policy to introduce specific targets for climate finance that support gender equality and women and organisations at the frontlines of the

15 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Psychiatric Hospitals: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what inspection regime is planned of sites where patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 are housed where they are not inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

15 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Abortion: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made for the risk of women turning to illegal online abortion medication at home if he remove the temporary approval given during the covid-19 outbreak to women and girls to

20 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to bring into force all the provisions under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing

15 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Migrants: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle the fear of reporting to the police faced by victims of domestic abuse with insecure immigration status, including through the establishment of a firewall.

15 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish an update on her Department's review into data-sharing practices between the police and immigration enforcement and measures to establish a firewall.

7 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Immunosuppression: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his plans are to ensure the future protection for immunocompromised or immunosuppressed groups who are potentially at greater risk from covid-19 than the general population after the rollout o

7 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Immunosuppression: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish communications on the potential continued risk to immunocompromised and immunosuppressed groups who may not receive the same level of protection from the covid-19 vaccines as the

1 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to reduce the number of people with sarcoma who are diagnosed at stages three and four.

26 May 2021 · Home Office

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to set up a redress scheme to ensure that all eligible survivors of trafficking and slavery who were denied subsistence payments are able to receive the back-dated payments.

Source: official written-questions record.