Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Foster Care: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to place child asylum seekers in need of foster care into homes rather than temporary accommodation; and what support her Department is providing to foster parents receiving those child
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to encourage energy providers to reduce direct debit payments from customers with accounts in credit.
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure energy companies notify customers before increasing direct debit payments.
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Parking: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of parking companies charging for parking using mobile technology on people who do not have access to this technology; and w
9 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the impact on low-income households of the prices charged by energy companies to customers with pre-payment meters; and if he will take steps to e
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2022 to Question 74764, what data his Department holds on how many and what proportion of applicants for Universal Credit declared a disability when making their cla
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Deductions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants whose payments were reduced due to a sanction were (a) assessed to have limited capability to work and (b) in receipt if a disabled child eleme
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Deductions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households with one or more claimants of Universal Credit who were (a) assessed to have limited capability for work and (b) in receipt of a disabled child element had a deduction made to their
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on considering the potential merits of establishing a public inquiry into the adequacy of mental health services provided (a) by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Primary Education: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary schools in England employ a (a) play and (b) creative arts therapist; and how many and what proportion of Ofsted reports completed in 2022 for primary schools in (a) York
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Debt Collection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to prevent debt collectors and bailiffs from making demands on people who are (a) behind with their energy payments and (b) in fuel poverty.
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Debt Collection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of households that have been visited by (a) debt collectors and (b) bailiffs due to the non-payment of energy bills in the last 12 months
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Draft Mental Health Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of how effectively the measures in the draft Mental Health Bill would facilitate early intervention measures where mental health concerns are raised in relation to child
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Coal: Cumbria
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2022 to Question 92266 on Climate Change Convention, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of opening a new coal mine in Cumb
6 Jan 2023 · Cabinet Office
Disability and Unemployed People
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 13 December 2022 to Question 102902 on Unemployment: Energy and Question 102903 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, how many (a) disabled people were in receipt of disability bene
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
School Rebuilding Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce the (a) level and (b) purpose of the funding awarded to each school selected for funding through the school rebuilding programme and in particular to (i) All Saints, York and (ii) Tang
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statement made by Daren Mochrie of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives in oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on 20 December 2022 that NHS E
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statement made by Daren Mochrie of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives in oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on 20 December 2022 that NHS E
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescription Drugs: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will conduct a review of the types of prescription drugs which are (a) exempt and (b) are not exempt from payment for people with long term medical conditions.
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Incontinence: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prepare and implement an NHS workforce plan to ensure effective incontinence management for patients, including adequate provision of pelvic physiotherapy for all patients
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Equipment: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department does not keep a centralised record of implanted medical devices which would allow the effective future identification of all affected patients in case of faults or ri
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will discuss a long term pay plan with NHS unions.
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Swimming: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps she has taken with her Cabinet colleagues to ensure that all children of (a) primary and (b) secondary school age receive tuition in (i) swimming, (ii) swimming life-sa
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Prescribing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to encourage NHS partner organisations including (a) businesses and (b) voluntary, community and social enterprises to participate in social prescribing programmes.
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to increase the budget available for the NHS pay settlement for 2023-24 in order to allow the NHS Pay Review Body to recommend
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Sleep Apnoea
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to what extra financial support people with sleep apnoea who are receiving Personal Independence Payment are entitled to assist with their winter fuel bills; and if he will make an assessment of the ade
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Sleep Apnoea
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps he has taken to encourage people with sleep apnoea to apply for the Personal Independence Payment.
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department's proposals for a new registration scheme for short term holiday lets will include a requirement for minimum (a) environmental and (b) safety standards equivalent
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's proposals for a new registration scheme for short term holiday lets, what assessment she has made of the extent to which this scheme would add to the i
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's plans to consult on a change to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 to enable local areas to better control changes of use to sh
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