Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fuel Poverty: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to take further steps to support people who are in fuel poverty despite existing Government support for energy bills.
5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make a comparative estimate with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the number children in (a) households in fuel poverty and (b) other households who
5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households with children under the age of (a) one and (b) five have been placed on pre-payment meters in each of the last five years.
5 Dec 2022 · 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 a comparative estimate of the number of (a) households that include a disabled person and (b) other households on a pre-payment meter.
5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential correlation between levels of poverty and the use of pre-payment energy meters in the UK.
5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that energy companies are not able to switch people who are unable to pay their energy bills due to poverty onto pre-payment meters.
5 Dec 2022 · 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 it his policy to end the use of warrants to install pre-payment meters.
5 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Magistrates' Courts: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether magistrates are required to assess (a) the age of each customer and their dependents, (b) whether the customer is (i) disabled and (ii) has an underlying health condition and (c) whether the customer is d
5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many warrants have been granted to energy companies (a) nationally, (b) in York and (c) in York, Central constituency to move a customer to a pre-payment meter in each month o
1 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Housing: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has set a time limit for the amount of time a (a) single, (b) family and (c) children asylum seeker or refugee should spend in a hotel prior to be allocated more permanent housi
30 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Minimum Wage: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will introduce a specific minimum wage for care workers.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Better Care Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Better Care Fund.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the level of funding for adult social care.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Better Care Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the amount of funding allocated to the Better Care Fund.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to progress the commitments in his White Paper on People at the Heart of Care: Adult Social Care reform; and if he will make a statement.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Home Secretary on the potential merits of enabling asylum seekers with English language proficiency to work in social care while they await a decision on the
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of taking legislative steps to introduce a minimum hourly rate for social care workers to help tackle shortages in that labour market.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of take up is of nursing apprenticeships; and what steps he is taking to encourage more people to take up nursing through that route.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of apprenticeships for health professions.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on forthcoming industrial action in the NHS; and what steps the Government is taking to help resolve this dispute.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Influenza: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has taken recent steps to ensure that his Department's public communications are targeted to increase engagement with the flu vaccine programme.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Syncytial Virus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help reduce the level of respiratory syncytial virus infections.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the capacity of NHS paediatric care services to deal with an increase in respiratory syncytial virus infections in winter 2022.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to help reduce the level of respiratory syncytial virus infections in (a) children and (b) babies.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the capability of the (a) science and research base and (b) manufacturing sector to respond to future pandemics.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase take up of the covid-19 vaccine.
30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the time it would take the Government to implement an effective testing regime in the event of an epidemic or pandemic.
29 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Housing: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the total amount of housing required by (a) refugees and (b) asylum seekers.
29 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
New Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how he evaluates the economic benefits of business (a) incubators and (b) accelerators.
29 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
New Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what economic benefits he has identified from business (a) incubators and (b) accelerators.
Source: official written-questions record.