Written questions

673 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Immunotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the extent of the UK’s access to monoclonal antibody therapies as an alternative to covid-19 vaccines.

25 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide funding for research into covid-19 vaccine efficacy among all types of blood cancer.

25 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to measure the value of covid-19 vaccine boosters for (a) people with blood cancer and (b) other immunocompromised groups.

25 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the teaching of relationships and sex education on (a) contraception, (b) fertility and (c) abortion is based on scientific evidence; and if he will make a statement.

25 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to prevent misogynistic and homophobic relationships and sex education (RSE) resources from being used in schools as RSE is rolled out; and if he will make a statement.

25 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education: Gender

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the appropriateness of the language in RSE teaching resources in terms of references to gender roles.

24 Mar 2021 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Domestic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will take steps to tackle serious exploitation and abuse of migrant domestic workers by restoring the visa that was in place between 1998 to 2012 under which migrant domestic workers

24 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in the last full reporting year what the average sentence was for people convicted of a contact child sex offence.

24 Mar 2021 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people killed in a domestic homicide had no recourse to public funds in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.

24 Mar 2021 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people killed in a domestic homicide were over 50 years of age in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.

24 Mar 2021 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish the outcomes framework it is working towards in assessing the (a) quality and (b) outcome of current domestic abuse training from her work with the College of Policing;

24 Mar 2021 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the thematic review led by Her Majesty's inspectorate into policing responses to violence against women and girls was first commissioned; and if she place the terms of reference for the review in

11 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps family courts take to ensure that children’s wishes are central to decisions made on their lives.

11 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Guardianship

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what oversight there is to ensure court and children’s guardians carry out their role effectively and safely.

11 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Guardianship: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training court and children’s guardians are required to undertake on identifying, understanding and responding to domestic abuse.

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Housing: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure there is adequate access to safe accommodation for adults fleeing sexual exploitation.

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Racial Discrimination and Sexual Offences: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial support her Department provides to specialist services for women who experience racism and who have survived sexual exploitation.

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that girls who are experiencing sexual exploitation continue to receive support when responsibility for their safety and wellbeing transitions from childr

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for statutory agencies to refer women who disclose (a) historical and (b) ongoing sexual exploitation to specialist se

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Human Trafficking: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances there have been of an Independent Child Trafficking Guardian acting as a litigation friend for a child in each of the last five years.

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Human Trafficking: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been referred to the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship service broken since October 2018; and what information her Department holds on the (a) looked after children sta

21 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Supported Housing: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Supported housing: national statement of expectations, published on 20 October 2020, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that exempt accommodation

21 Jan 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking with the Northern Ireland Executive to ensure abortion services in Northern Ireland are compliant with the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019; and if he will mak

21 Jan 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on equality for women across the UK of the lack of (a) funding or (b) commissioning for abortion services in Northern Ireland.

21 Jan 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Abortion: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many women have travelled to England to receive abortion care since the establishment of a legal framework for abortion in Northern Ireland on 31 March 2020.

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that people who have been refused asylum will not become homeless after 21 days of receiving their cessation letter.

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has consulted public health directors on the potential effect on public health of the cessation of people's refugee status in areas where those people are due to receive eviction letters f

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Human Trafficking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to transpose into domestic law EU Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims; and if she will make a statement.

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that victims of modern slavery with EU/EEA nationality living in the UK before December 31 2020 are able to apply for settled status in the event that they do not me

21 Jan 2021 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she takes to assess the (a) potential effectiveness and (b) effectiveness of projects that receive Prevent strategy funding.

Source: official written-questions record.