Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her medium term plan is for accommodation for asylum seekers.
14 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Calais
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to enable people to (a) claim asylum in the UK in Calais and (b) travel safely to the UK once their application has been made.
14 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to create safe and legal routes for asylum seekers to come to the UK.
14 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will conduct a review of medications which qualify for exemption for payment by patients.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Second Homes: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will develop a database of the number of second homes in every local authority area in England.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure local communities are heard in the planning process.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Derelict Land: Recreation Spaces
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to promote the creation of green spaces on brownfield sites.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning Authorities: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of the numbers of planning officers in local authorities; and what steps he is taking to address shortages of those officers.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning: Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to create a duty in the planning system to establish nature networks and protect biodiversity.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to encourage innovative forms of public engagement in the planning process.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to encourage the inclusion in local plans of (a) cycling, (b) walking and (c) rights of way plans.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Permitted Development Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the effects on housing of variations in the interpretation of permitted development rights by planning authorities.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Land Use: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will commission a review of (a) the disposal of public land and (b) its potential use for social housing.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he would make an assessment of the seriousness of housing shortages in York; and if he will meet local Members to discuss innovative solutions.
13 Dec 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will commission a pilot short term holiday let licensing scheme.
13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set targets for the (a) reduction and (b) end of the use of sodium valproate other than in exceptional circumstances.
13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to replace sodium valproate therapy.
13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that women's (a) concerns and (b) healthcare are prioritised in the NHS.
13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Incontinence: Physiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of pelvic physiotherapy as a treatment for urinary stress incontinence.
13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Physiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of pelvic physiotherapy in both ante natal care and post partum.
13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve data management to help the carrying out of longitudinal studies on the impact of medical and surgical interventions.
13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sodium Valproate: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the data available on patients who have been prescribed sodium valproate,; and if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of a register o
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer about funding NHS staff pay.
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the role of (a) inflation and (b) other factors in the decision by NHS staff to strike.
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Industrial Disputes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that representatives of HM Treasury participate in his discussions with the health unions.
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has held discussions about contingency planning for the potential impact of wider NHS strikes.
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that all category (a) one and (b) two emergency calls are responded to during the ambulance strikes.
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make concessions on the level of pay for low paid workers in the NHS.
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative estimate of (a) the cost to the NHS of planned industrial action and (b) the cost of granting the pay increase demanded by NHS staff.
12 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his red lines are in his negotiations with the unions on NHS pay; and whether he would be willing to increase his pay offer within those red lines.
Source: official written-questions record.