Written questions

1,750 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will remove the requirement for people with lifelong conditions to undergo repeat personal independence payment assessments.

16 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with fetal valproate spectrum disorder have been refused the award of (a) personal independence payment and (b) disability living allowance in the last 12 months.

16 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact the Condition Insight Report for Valproate has had on personal independence payment decisions for people with fetal valproate spectrum disorder since its introduction in August 2020.

16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reductions in local authority funding on levelling up.

13 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Leukaemia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will provide further investment, training and resources to the NHS to help ensure that chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients have the tailored support they need for their mental

13 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Leukaemia: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve the mental wellbeing of people with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia who are on active monitoring and not receiving treatment.

13 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Leukaemia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that every leukaemia patient has equal access to a clinical nurse specialist from diagnosis so that chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients on active monitoring have

13 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Leukaemia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the (a) 10-Year Cancer Plan and (b) other strategic documents are fit for purpose for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients on active monitoring whose needs ar

13 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the role that housing plays in health inequalities; and whether he plans to cover that factor in the forthcoming Health Disparities White Paper.

25 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Anti-social Behaviour

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of police responses to reports of antisocial behaviour.

20 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason Disability Living Allowance (DLA) ceases with immediate effect upon the death of a child; what assessment her Department has undertaken on the child mortality rate of child applicants to

19 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of the number of pregnant women prescribed sodium valproate in the latest period for which figures are available.

14 Apr 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mexico: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made representations to her Mexican counterpart on the situation for Protestant Christian families in El Encanto village, Las Margaritas Municipality, Chiapas

14 Apr 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support the Government is providing to disabled Ukrainians who are unable to leave Ukraine.

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hearing Impairment: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of NHS provision of ear (a) irrigation and (b) micro-suction.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sodium Valproate: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential total value of claims of clinical negligence linked to sodium valproate.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sodium Valproate: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether those negatively affected by sodium valproate will be eligible for legal aid when pursuing a claim through NHS Resolution.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the dedicated webpage for those negatively affected by sodium valproate will be published on NHS Resolution's website.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Women's Health Ambassador: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for announcing the appointment of the new Women's Health Ambassador for England.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Women's Health Ambassador

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether minutes will be published for meetings between the Women's Health Ambassador for England and Ministers of his Department.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Women's Health Ambassador: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the post of Women's Health Ambassador will be a time-limited or permanent appointment.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Women's Health Ambassador: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the post of Women's Health Ambassador will be salaried.

31 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Women's Health Ambassador: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Women's Health Ambassador for England will be recruited by open application; and where that post will be advertised.

22 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Missing Persons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department holds data on the total number and proportion of children of compulsory school age in local authorities who were recorded as missing from 2020-22, including the statistical breakdown of t

22 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds evidence of how CAMHS services in each local authority are prioritising the mental health needs of young people who are (a) on a child protection plan, (b) in the care

15 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Influenza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 15 March 2022 to Question 133203 on Dentistry: Influenza, for what reason the decision was made to exclude dental teams; and whether his Department has plans to review that de

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds of Prey: Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the data published by Natural England on 15 December 2021 on the number of satellite tags on hen harriers that have stopped transmitting since November 2

7 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Elections: Campaigns

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 905919, which provisions in the Elections Bill strengthen the controls against ineligible foreign spending on electoral campaigning.

7 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the information noted in the Answer of 4 March 2022 to Question 131221 reaches patients through healthcare professionals.

7 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Elections: Subversion

What steps he is taking to prevent donations from groups or individuals based overseas from unduly influencing elections in the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.