Written questions
1,768 written questions tabled, most recent first.
1 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether workplaces will be required to carry out a specific covid-19 risk assessment before re-opening after the covid-19 outbreak.
1 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include trade union officials on the list of workers that may be tested for covid-19.
1 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Protective Clothing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to mandate local authorities to provide protect equipment to (a) care workers employed by private companies that receive public money and (b) other care workers in (i) Ca
1 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that the Edenred school voucher system includes the Co-op stores.
1 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many codes requested by schools to Edenred to generate e-gift cards for the fortnight commencing 20 April 2020 have not been issued.
1 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that schools that do not use the Edenred system will be reimbursed in full for each meal provided.
1 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that parents who do not have email addresses can access free school meals.
1 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to require Edenred to set a maximum wait time to log in and use the school voucher system to generate vouchers.
29 Apr 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when Ofsted inspections are planned to re-start.
29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Contact Tracing: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the covid-19 tracing app will be compatible with other internationally comparable covid-19 digital solutions to enable data to be shared across borders.
29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Contact Tracing: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the identity of people notified of potential exposure to covid-19 via the contact tracing app will be available automatically to the relevant authorities for contact tracing.
29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Contact Tracing: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had platform providers to enable the covid-19 contact tracing app to collect data while a phone is locked.
29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Contact Tracing: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) distance away from and (b) length of time spent near another app user will the covid-19 tracing app be set to report a potential covid-19 interaction.
29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Contact Tracing: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with developers working on the NHS covid-19 app on creating a decentralised and anonymised contact tracing system built on (a) DP-3T and (b) other similar systems.
29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Contact Tracing: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether data from the covid-19 contact tracing app will be uploaded to a central database; who will have access to that data; and what safeguards will be put in place for that data.
28 Apr 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Postal Services: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he had with representatives of Royal Mail on the decision to stop delivery of letters on Saturday and the effect of that decision on Royal Mail's statutory obliga
28 Apr 2020 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of re-introducing a target of six months for the completion of asylum applications to the UK.
28 Apr 2020 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce delays to substantive interviews for asylum seekers during the covid-19 outbreak; and whether (a) video conferencing and (b) other alternative processes are being as
28 Apr 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
District Councils
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of joint working between councils in two-tier local authority areas.
24 Apr 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Poverty: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the ability of charity sector to meet the needs of people in food (a) poverty and (b) insecurity during the covid-19 outbreak.
20 Apr 2020 · Cabinet Office
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Police and Crime Commissioner: Elections
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timescale is for holding elections for the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner.
20 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has requested that (a) Public Health England, (b) county councils and (c) other public sector organisations (i) collect and (ii) publish data on residents in care homes with
20 Apr 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Trees
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether tree watering by councils should be considered an essential service during the covid-19.
20 Apr 2020 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to extend the furlough scheme so that workers who usually receive tips receive 80 per cent of their monthly net tip earnings averages over the last three years.
20 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support the Government is providing to dental practices that are part NHS and part private to ensure those practices continue to operate.
20 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the sex of participants is not collected by the NHS survey hosted at www.nhs.uk/coronavirus-status-checker/.
20 Apr 2020 · Treasury
Self-employment Income Support Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Government's Self-employment Income Support Scheme, if he will take steps to ensure that a loss of earnings for self-employed women as a result of receiving maternity allowance is taken into ac
20 Apr 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the covid-19 outbreak, how many vouchers have been issued under the national voucher scheme to families whose children are eligible for free school meals; and what proportion of those vouchers
20 Apr 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to amend the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme to remove the requirement for the lender to ask for personal guarantees.
20 Apr 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Business Improvement Districts: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to grant Business Improvement Districts' levy payers 100 percent levy relief during the covid-19 outbreak.
Source: official written-questions record.