Written questions
1,066 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment: Eligibility
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the (a) potential merits and (b) cost of expanding eligibility for winter fuel payments to those reaching state pension age in winter 2023-24.
13 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Companies: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what checks Companies House carry out to ensure that businesses are not being registered fraudulently under incorrect addresses.
13 Dec 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support the mental health of children from (a) families seeking asylum and (b) refugee families in educational settings.
13 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Community Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to directly consult with (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees to understand where more integration support may be required.
13 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Community Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to help asylum seekers to integrate into their local communities.
13 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Refugees: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the risk of homelessness for new refugees; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the move-on period before the withdr
13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Occupied Territories: Visas
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how visa applicants from the Occupied Palestinian Territories can contact HM Embassy Cairo for approval for exit at Rafah to facilitate (a) visa application interviews and (b) bio
20 Nov 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Letting Agents: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Answer of 26 October 2023 to Question 203866 on Letting Agents: Regulation, what his planned timescale is to respond to the recommendations from Lord Best's wor
14 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether classified documents retained by his Department under a Lord Chancellor’s Instruction citing a national security exemption are among the files available to be searched when his Department receives a quest
14 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether classified documents retained by his Department under a Lord Chancellor’s Instruction citing a national security exemption are among the files available to be searched when his Department receives a Freed
14 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether classified documents retained by his department under a Lord Chancellor’s Instruction citing a national security exemption are among the files available to be searched when his Department receives a Data
7 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bipolar Disorder: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that implementation of the suicide prevention strategy will take into account the needs of people with bipolar.
7 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bipolar Disorder: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the time taken to diagnose people with bipolar disorder.
7 Nov 2023 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Civil Service cost of living payments to civil servants that retired in the financial year 2022-2023.
23 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Letting Agents: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what progress his Department has made on implementing the reforms in the Regulation of Property Agents: Working Group Report published 18 July 2019.
23 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport
Lower Thames Crossing: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure responsible procurement by National Highways for the Lower Thames Crossing.
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Fit for the Future, published by the Royal College of General Practitioners in May 2023, whether he is taking steps to (a) increase the amount of space availab
13 Oct 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people who are (a) usually eligible for (i) Universal Credit and (ii) other benefits and (b) have received a nil award for those benefits in the qualifying period because they have received non-
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Eating Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make financial support available for patients with (a) avoidant restrictive food intake disorder and (b) other eating disorders to help with the cost of living.
13 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Answer of 22 July 2021 to Question 33338, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing alternative forms of council taxa
13 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has undertaken an Equality Impact Assessment on the potential impact of council taxation on different households across England.
13 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of council tax on households with high and low (a) incomes and (b) value properties.
13 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax: Valuation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of updating the valuations upon which Council Tax bands are set.
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made towards implementing the NHS England Delivery Plan for the Recovery of Urgent and Emergency Care Services.
5 Sep 2023 · Treasury
Terminal Illnesses: Travel Insurance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of diagnosis of terminal and likely terminal health conditions on travel insurance rates offered to consumers.
1 Sep 2023 · Department for Education
Academies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academies were re-brokered in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (b) 2023; and for what reasons each academy was re-brokered.
19 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include proposals to tackle the socioeconomic causes of health inequalities in the Major Conditions Strategy.
18 Jul 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish the next review of the asylum-support allowance.
18 Jul 2023 · Home Office
Refugees: Community Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps with the devolved Administrations to develop a UK-wide strategy for refugee integration.
18 Jul 2023 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of implementing trauma-informed training specific to the experiences of asylum-seekers and refugees for staff in the public sector.
Source: official written-questions record.