Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Learning Disability: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of learning difficulties services; and what steps he is taking to increase services in areas where there is a shortfall.

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Quality Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what changes he plans to make to the CQC's remit to enable it to better deliver change in mental health services.

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Integrated Care Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the ability of large trusts, including those providing mental health services, to deliver the priorities of different ICSs; and if he will encourage co-terminosity wi

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Quality Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) pace and (b) effectiveness of the CQC in securing change to services that require improvement.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks and Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will use alcohol and tobacco duties to support programmes to reduce harm from those products.

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will allocate £2.6 billion to the reform of the children's social care system as recommended by the Independent Review for Children's Social Care.

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) increasing the level of carers allowance and (b) aligning that increase with unemployment benefit.

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing social security in line with the September 2022 rate of inflation.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential economic benefits of maintaining the pension triple lock.

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

Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising the National Living Wage to take people out of in work poverty; and to what level he plans to increase the National

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Food Poverty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he will take to help ensure that households are not reliant on food banks.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Poverty: Children

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he will take to help take children out of relative and absolute poverty.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Economic Situation: UK Relations with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) European Commission and (b) his European counterparts on steps to help improve the UK's economic situation.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of (a) the cost to UK businesses of registering in the EU since the UK left the EU and (b) the cost to the Exchequer of those businesses registering in the EU.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to improve trade with the EU and increase tax revenues as a result.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Economic Growth: Brexit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of the UK leaving the EU on the pace of economic growth.

14 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Economic Situation: Brexit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU (a) on the economy and (b) per household.

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Adult Social Care Discharge Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to formally allocate funding from the £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to social care providers.

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the one year limit for people seeking asylum being eligible to work.

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the employment opportunities open to people seeking asylum.

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to provide (a) adults and (b) young people awaiting the processing of their asylum application with access to (i) leisure and recreational activities, (ii) education and (iii)

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to provide youth services to children and young people living in (a) contingency and (b) initial asylum accommodation.

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the cost to (a) local authorities, (b) schools and (c) health services of hosting each (i) adult and (ii) child in (1) contingency accommodation and (2) initial acc

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of moving children staying in contingency asylum accommodation to another area on (a) those children and (b) their education; and if she will take

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the cost to local authorities of providing (a) initial and (b) contingency accommodation to asylum seekers; and what steps her Department i

11 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons his Department provides local services funding for Initial Asylum accommodation and not Contingency Asylum accommodation.

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Convention on Biological Diversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria she will use to make an assessment of the success of COP15 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of increasing funding for the creation of habitats designed to maintain and grow pop

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has taken recent steps to establish a cross-Government committee to help tackle the loss of biodiversity.

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Biodiversity: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on amending the planning regulations to help (a) safeguard biodiversity and

Source: official written-questions record.