Written questions

1,750 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Jan 2020 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Disability

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that employers meet their obligations to provide reasonable adjustments to the workplace to ensure that people with hidden or invisible condition are able to (a) a

29 Jan 2020 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Disability

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government has taken to ensure that people with disabilities receive help and support to identify and challenge discriminatory workplace behaviours and practices.

29 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what specialist training Work Coaches receive to help people with hidden and fluctuating health conditions (a) find and (b) stay in work.

29 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Dstl: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many experiments were conducted on animals by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory on behalf of his Department in each of the last 10 years.

28 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is providing to UK nationals in Wuhan who are unable to access medication.

24 Jan 2020 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of uninsured drivers.

23 Jan 2020 · Women and Equalities

Offshore Industry: Discrimination

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent offshore employment providers recruiting in the UK from discriminating against an applicant on the grounds of a protected characteristic.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Educational Exchanges

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether he has plans to allocate funding for a programme to replace Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning when that programme ends in 2021.

21 Jan 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Iran

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the return of rejected asylum seekers to Iran.

21 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescription Drugs: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will include treatment for patients who have become dependent on prescription drugs in the new cross-government addiction strategy.

21 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tranquillisers: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to create specialist withdrawal services to help patients who are dependent, providing information on prescribed (a) benzodiazepine and (b) z drug tranquillisers.

20 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons no points have been allocated to ongoing management for epilepsy medication in the General Medical Services contract Quality and Outcomes Framework.

20 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons epilepsy is allocated one point in the General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) Directions 2019; and what steps GPs take to ensure that women of chi

13 Jan 2020 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend the application and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 for seafarers.

23 Oct 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Investment Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's announcement of a new £500 million youth investment fund, what the (a) capital and (b) revenue expenditure of that investment fund wil

23 Oct 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Voluntary Work: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Government has allocated for the National Citizens Service for 2020-21.

23 Oct 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

National Citizen Service Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the NCS Trust's annual report and accounts 2019 will be published.

23 Oct 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the total annual capital expenditure for local authority youth services was in each year since 2010 by local authority.

22 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 618 on Elections: Proof of Identity, what the Government's deadline is for settling all accounts with piloting autho

17 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office

Police and Crime Commissioners: Elections

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the additional cost of delivering the local and Police and Crime Commissioner elections in May 2020 as a result of the May bank holiday chang

15 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the evaluation of Voter ID Pilots 2019, published in July 2019, if he will publish the cost data from all pilot authorities.

2 Sep 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Young People: Public Participation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement of 27 February 2019 that new youth voice projects will be launched to encourage young people to participate in making national policy, what policies wi

2 Sep 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2019 to Question 260670 on Youth Services and with reference to her Department's announcement on 10 July 2019 that a public consultation would be held f

2 Sep 2019 · Home Office

Crime Prevention: Publicity

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department consulted with (a) young people and (b) members of the DCMS Youth Steering Group before launching the #knifefree chicken boxes campaign on 14 August 2019.

2 Sep 2019 · Women and Equalities

EnAble Fund for Elected Office

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many candidates have been supported through the EnAble Fund for Elected Office; how much of the £250,000 budget has been allocated; and what the average grant allocated is since the introduction of the sch

2 Sep 2019 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government plans to publish the draft Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019.

2 Sep 2019 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Electoral Register

To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the Commission's most recent estimate is for the number of eligible people who are (a) not on the electoral register and (b) n

3 Jul 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to co-ordinate cross-government policy on disabled children.

21 Jun 2019 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

VE Day: Anniversaries

To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2019 to Question 265547 on VE Day: Anniversaries, whether the Electoral Commission was consulted

19 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Television Licences: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of providing free TV licences to people over the age of 75 for qualifying residents in (a) Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency, (b) Lancaster

Source: official written-questions record.