Written questions

1,057 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Chinese owned companies have benefited from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

8 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Banks: Hong Kong

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with representatives of (a) NatWest and (b) other UK based banks that recently cast votes in the patriots only legislative council elections in Hong Kong.

7 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horticulture: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the ornamental horticulture sector on seasonal worker recruitment.

7 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Horticulture: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department’s Workplace Academy programme for recruitment in to the ornamental horticulture sector.

7 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Horticulture: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to test the effectiveness of the Find a job website in recruiting local people into seasonal worker roles in the ornamental horticulture sector.

7 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horticulture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what procedures or studies her Department has put in place to monitor the availability of people with EU Settled Status to work in seasonal worker roles in (a) ornamental horticulture

7 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Seasonal Workers: Horticulture

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what procedures or studies his Department has put in place to monitor and communicate the availability of people with EU Settled Status in returning to seasonal worker roles in the hor

31 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee session on 25 January 2022, Q12, when he plans to publish the upcoming long-term workforce plan.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Tobacco: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce tobacco-related health inequalities in the forthcoming levelling up White Paper.

31 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tobacco: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of introducing a polluter pays levy on the tobacco industry.

18 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Arboriculture and Horticulture: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support the training provision for careers in the ornamental horticulture, landscaping and arboricultural sectors.

18 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to consult on the introduction of a statutory tree planting target.

18 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to expand its existing tree nursery production scheme.

18 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horticulture: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the ornamental horticulture and landscaping industry’s potential to support the UK’s environmental targets.

18 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Act 1983

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his policy to (a) bring forward legislative proposals to reform the Mental Health Act (1983) during the 2021-22 session of Parliament and (b) ensure that the needs of children and you

10 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

In-FACT

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department has not met with representatives of INFACT to discuss proposals to support children and adults harmed by sodium valproate.

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: British Nationals Abroad

What steps she is taking to support British pensioners overseas during winter 2021-22.

1 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2021 to Question HL3390 on Obesity: Surgery, what specific metrics will be recorded in the proposed National Obesity Audit.

1 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) GP surgeries, (b) NHS Trusts and (c) community settings have agreed to take part in the National Obesity Audit.

30 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primodos: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to implement a compensation framework for people who have experienced harm as a result of Primodos.

17 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the capacity of community pharmacies to provide all services they are contracted to provide.

17 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework and (b) sustainability of pharmacies.

17 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the sustainability of (a) pharmacists and (b) the wider community pharmacy workforce.

29 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to include data on operations cancelled or postponed for non-clinical reasons by NHS Trusts according to specialty when the publication of the Cancelled Elective Opera

29 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when data collection for the Cancelled Elective Operations dataset will be resumed for inclusion in planned publication of the quarter 3 2021-22 data set in 2022.

29 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

INTERPOL: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the candidacy of Emirati Major General Nasser Ahmed al-Raisi for the Interpol presidency, to be elected on 23-25 November 2021, in

21 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Recreation Spaces

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) implications for his policies of the Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Group’s action plan, Unlocking Green Growth: A plan for the ornamental horticulture an

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

Horticulture

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Group’s action plan, Unlocking Green Growth: A plan for the ornamental hort

21 Oct 2021 · Department for International Trade

Horticulture: Overseas Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of (a) the implications for her policies of the Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Group’s action plan entitled Unlocking Green Growth: A plan for the ornamental horticult

21 Oct 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Horticulture

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the (a) Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Group’s action plan entitled Unlocking Green Growth: A plan for the orname

Source: official written-questions record.