Written questions

3,693 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has contracted work to a business that has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive within the last three years.

27 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Redundancy Pay: Insolvency Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which companies had employees that received redundancy payments from the Insolvency Service in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022; and how many employees received payments in each instance.

27 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Redundancy Pay: Insolvency Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many statutory redundancy payments were processed by the Insolvency Service in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.

27 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Insolvency: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the total cost to the public purse was of statutory redundancy payments processed by the Insolvency Service in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.

27 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hormone Replacement Therapy: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry on shortages of HRT medication; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate supply of that medication.

27 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Voter Authority Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the average processing time is for Voter Authority Certificate applications.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Bills Rebate: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how unclaimed Energy Bill Support Scheme vouchers will be used.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Bills Rebate: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has had recent discussions with energy suppliers on (a) the proportion of Energy Bill Support Scheme vouchers that have not been claimed and (b) legislative proposals t

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deposit Return Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to implement a deposit return scheme.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Low Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2022 to Question 78760 on Low Pay, when the Government will respond to the Supporting progression out of low pay: a call to action report recommendations.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Owner Occupation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2022 to Question 59850 on Mortgages, what the outcome was of his Department's monitoring on levels of home ownership.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to the consultation on preventing charges for DIY waste at household waste recycling centres.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Ninth Report of the Committee of Public Accounts published on 22 June 2022, HC 255, and the Treasury Minute published on 14 October 2022, HC 255, what progress his Department has m

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling Act 2005 Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Gambling Review White Paper will be published.

24 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the consultation on Aligning the upper age for NHS prescription charge exemptions with the State Pension age.

24 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the clearance time for War Pension and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme claims in each month since May 2022.

24 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December to Question 108255 on Fraud, what progress her Department has made on producing a strategy on tackling fraud.

24 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Identity Cards

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November to Question 78753 on Veterans: Identity Cards, what progress his Department has made on the (a) new digital service for veterans and (b) delivery of Veterans’ Recognition Card

24 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

UK Menopause Task Force

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the Menopause Taskforce has not met since before July 2022.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the School Sport and Activity Action Plan will be published.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Hospices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on the impact of the cost of energy on the financial viability of hospices.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of recent rises in the cost of living on people receiving a pension whose pensionable service before April 1997 is not linked to inflation due to the terms of t

24 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the waiting time was for family court hearings to be listed in the latest period for which data is available.

22 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last three years.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last three years.

22 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last 3 years.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last 3 years.

22 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last three years.

22 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last three years.

21 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Zero Hours Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Table 17 of the EMP17: People in employment on zero hours contracts data released on 14 February 2023, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the increas

Source: official written-questions record.