Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Care Leavers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is she taking to help ensure that each local authority is providing sufficient, good quality housing and care support for care leavers and other care experienced young people.

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Strokes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has officials in his Department with responsibility for developing (a) policies and (b) guidance on stroke (i) prevention and (ii) treatment.

28 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Mortgages: Interest Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure the affordability of mortgages; and what steps he is taking to ensure that current mortgage holders are protected from losing their properties if they cannot afford their full repay

28 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has taken steps to construct a programme of community activities for asylum seekers whilst they are awaiting the outcome of an asylum application and unable to work.

28 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help incentivise businesses to invest into local communities to help tackle poverty.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

New Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help support business owners to launch new social businesses.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Business: Social Enterprises

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of (a) social and (b) for-profit business working together on society and the environment; and if she will make a statement.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Social Enterprises

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to increase the size of the social enterprise sector; and if she will make a statement.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Social Enterprises: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Government has provided to Social Enterprises in each of the last five years.

24 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neurology: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to increase the number of (a) diagnostic and (b) interventionist neuro radiologists in the NHS.

23 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mechanical Thrombectomy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) provide funding and (b) establish a national network for the provision of mechanical thrombectomy.

23 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Strokes: Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of placing skilled and specialist medical staff on ambulance calls to assess patients who have suffered from strokes prior to them arriving at

23 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Strokes: Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits for (a) survivability and (b) preventing future disability of designating strokes as Category 1 for the purpose of ambulance response times.

23 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to (a) identify and (b) implement best practice from other countries on improving ambulance response times.

23 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Affordable Housing and Social Rented Housing: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State at Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on funding the greater supply of (a) affordable and (b) social housing.

23 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Mortgages

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact on the economy of someone losing their home due to being able to afford the cost of mortgage payments.

23 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department will make additional funds available to local authorities which use up their Housing Support Fund allocation.

23 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the difference between Local Housing Allowance rates and the level of private rents in each region of the UK; an

23 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have arrived in the UK from Afghanistan in each of the last four months.

23 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential challenges of the Community Sponsorship scheme for refugees.

23 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Homes for Ukraine scheme; and if she will use the findings of that assessment to inform her future policies on the hosting of

23 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people arrived in the UK from Ukraine in each of the last four weeks.

23 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Childcare: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to provide additional support to the childcare sector to help Ukrainian parents to work.

23 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) uplifting the funds available to host families under the Homes for Ukraine scheme or (b) creating a hardship fund, so famil

23 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support is available to Ukrainian refugees who have been giving notice on their accommodation for (a) Homes for Ukraine Scheme and (b) the Family Scheme.

23 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Education: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to ensure that all asylum seekers can access courses in (a) further and (b) higher education.

22 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Neighbourhood Policing: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment has she made of the impact of community mental health staff shortages on community policing capability.

22 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Neighbourhood Policing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help create high quality policing teams that build strong relationships with the local communities they serve.

22 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Police: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of her Department's programmes to recruit (a) police and (b) community support officers on trends in the level of urban crime.

22 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Police: Night-time Economy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that areas with a significant night time economy have adequate levels of policing.

Source: official written-questions record.