Written questions

1,066 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jun 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Mefloquine

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department first knew of the possible psychotic side effects of Lariam form of mefloquine.

3 Jun 2016 · Department of Health

Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to address the shortages of acute adult psychiatric beds in England.

3 Jun 2016 · Department of Health

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has responded to the report of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care.

3 Jun 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what account is taken of medical conditions when deciding whether to apply benefit sanctions.

3 Jun 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial support is available to a welfare recipient with a medical condition once a sanction has been imposed.

3 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Workplace Pensions

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people had their trivial commutation of their occupational pension request granted since the announcement of recent changes to pension regulations; and how many such requests have been refused due to the val

3 Jun 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability living allowance claimants have been sanctioned due to inability to attend a personal independence payments assessment since the introduction of such payments.

3 Jun 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants have been sanctioned since 2010 in each region in each year since 2010.

3 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Secured Loans

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made since the Law Commission's consultation and proposals regarding logbook loans; and what steps the Government has taken to review the Bills of Sale Act 1878.

3 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Extradition

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many extraditions have been approved since 1990 in respect of which written assurances have been received that the death penalty will not be imposed.

3 Jun 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of cases of stress and anxiety related to (a) benefit sanctions and (b) conditionality of benefits.

3 Jun 2016 · Department of Health

Mefloquine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions GPs have issued for Lariam in each year since 2010.

3 Jun 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Mefloquine

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what stocks of Lariam his Department currently holds.

3 Jun 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Mefloquine

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) financial and (b) non-financial support is offered to current and former army personnel affected by mental health problems related to the use of Lariam.

3 Jun 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether it is his policy to require social housing providers to ensure that a proportion of their properties are adapted for disabled residents.

26 May 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the Government is taking to reach an agreement with political parties in Northern Ireland on how to deal with the legacy of Northern Ireland's past.

24 May 2016 · Department for International Development

Ethiopia: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding the Government provides to the Protection of Basic Services Programme in Ethiopia.

24 May 2016 · Department for International Development

Ethiopia: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what conditions are applied under the terms of agreement with the Ethiopian government on the provision of UK aid; and what process is used to assess the Ethiopian government's compliance with s

24 May 2016 · Department for International Development

Ethiopia: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what guarantees she has received that UK development aid for Ethiopia is not used for military or security purposes or the so-called villagisation dispersal programme; and what safeguards are in

24 May 2016 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted of the (a) nutritional values and (b) texture, taste and smell of hospital food prepared using a cook-chill or cook-freeze system.

24 May 2016 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that outsourced hospital food providers and the places they source their ingredients are monitored regularly to ensure the highest hygiene standards.

24 May 2016 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted on the effect on levels of food waste in hospitals of changing provision of food from in-house kitchen preparation to a cook-chill or cook-freeze system.

24 May 2016 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to promote onsite preparation and cooking of fresh food in hospitals.

24 May 2016 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure (a) outsourcing of the preparation and cooking of hospital food and (b) the use of cook-chill systems by contractors meet the nutritional standards set within NHS outs

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ethiopia: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of progress in addressing the UK's concerns over human rights abuses in Ethiopia since his meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros in January 2016.

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ethiopia: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the capacity of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission to investigate the handling of recent protests in Oromia, Ethiopia.

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ethiopia: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prevent human rights abuses against the Oromo people in Ethiopia; and what recent representations he has made to his Ethiopian counterpart on that i

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ethiopia: Military Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what military support has been provided to the government of Ethiopia in the last five years; what such support he plans to provide in the next five years; and whether the UK currently pr

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Rwanda: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the imprisonment of Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire in Rwanda; and if he will make a statement.

24 May 2016 · HM Treasury

Investment Allowance and Cluster Area Allowance (Investment Expenditure) Regulations 2016

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals bringing leasing expenditure into the scope of the investment allowance and cluster area allowance.

Source: official written-questions record.