Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the time it will take to reduce the number of outstanding asylum claims by 50 per cent from the level as of 1 September 2022.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Social Workers: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to reduce the number of agency social workers working in the care system.
20 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the dental workforce are able to (a) access training and (b) gain practice in administering a variety of treatments and using clinical competencies.
20 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers by 2023: and how many additional officers have been recruited in the city of York since January 2020 to date.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Housing: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide grants to help households in social housing and domestic properties upgrade to achieve a band C Energy Performance Certificate.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the maximum output of renewable energy that (a) current and (b) planned future infrastructure is capable of achieving; and when this maximum output
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has taken recent steps to implement the recommendations of the report by the Climate Assembly UK entitled The path to net zero, published on 10 September 2020.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to implement the guidance entitled How to run a citizens’ assembly: A handbook for local authorities based on the Innovation in Democracy Programme, p
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the guidance entitled The Innovation in Democracy Programme, published on 30 May 2019, what recent steps her Department has taken to implement models of deliberative de
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing new deliberative democracy processes (a) in local communities and (b) for national policy issues.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that foodbanks have access to sufficient food to meet demand.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks: Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of foodbanks which (a) do not have enough food to meet demand as on 12 September 2022 and (b) will run out of food in the next three months.
20 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Temperature: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to promote safety in the sun.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Urban Areas: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making funds available for the purposes of investing in high streets with amenities and space for children and young people.
20 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the potential timeframe for establishing a new teaching hospital in York.
20 Sep 2022 · Treasury
Cooperatives and Mutual Societies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of cooperatives and mutuals in his industrial plan for the country.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of regulating short-term holiday lets to help support the sustainability of rural tourism and communities.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference the BBC Radio 4 File on Four programme on private children's residential care companies on 3 July 2022, what steps he is taking to strike off private companies that fail to meet the legal standar
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Transport
Public Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce a funding pilot aimed at increasing the number of people who shift from using cars to public transport.
20 Sep 2022 · Treasury
Pay
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of labour on levels of pay.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Community Development: Warm Spaces
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to create warm hubs in local communities where people can access a warmth, a warm meal and the ability to socialise to avoid isolation.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Public Sector: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he will take to help ensure that all public services run by (a) local authority or (b) contracted by a local authority will have sufficient funding to meet their energy co
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Care Homes: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2022 to Question 45908 on Care Homes: Energy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding provided to local authorities to support re
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing emergency relief funding through the Housing Support Fund for local authorities ahead of winter 2022.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Energy Bills Rebate
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people (a) York and (b) in England have yet to claim the £150 relief for energy bills through the Council Tax scheme due to them not paying by direct debit.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who are eligible for pension credit but have not yet claimed it in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) York and (c) York Central constituency.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Urban Areas: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he will take to ensure that urban centres are fully accessible to people with disabilities.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation and Second Homes: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will introduce a registration scheme for (a) second homes and (b) short term holiday lets.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he will take steps to enable local authorities to license short term holiday lets.
8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to build a greater proportion of social and affordable housing.
Source: official written-questions record.