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.