Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that all people with a chronic mental health condition have a multi-disciplinary care plan in place.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there is a specific process for working between the US and UK in order to have US accrued benefits recognised by the State Pension Scheme.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department provides advice and guidance for people who are trying to reconcile their pension when part of their contributions were made in the US under the agreement between that country and

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

Foster Care: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides additional support to foster carers who are supporting children and young people who have experienced trauma.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

Foster Care: Care Leavers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the value of the payments available for staying put arrangements.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to increase the number of foster carers (a) nationally and (b) in areas where there is a shortage of foster carers.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Culture Recovery Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department issued guidance on the optimal distribution of funds between different levels of employees in the event that the Culture Recovery Fund was used to provide pay upli

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Culture Recovery Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether it was possible for the Culture Recovery Fund to be used to top up furloughed staff in order that they received full remuneration.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Culture Recovery Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether there were any restrictions on the way the Culture Recovery Fund could be used in a pay award.

27 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Managed Service Companies

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ask HMRC to examine individual cases where there is a dispute as to whether a service is provided by a managed service provider.

24 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Pay: Poverty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to ask the pay review bodies to prioritise tackling poverty and low wages in their recommendations.

23 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment he has made of the impact of percentage increases in pay for (a) low earning and (b) other public sector staff; and if he will make it his policy to prioritise the largest public sector p

23 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out his proposal for the level of public sector pay ahead of summer 2022.

23 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Care Workers: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to provide a pay increase to care workers that would help tackle (a) retention and (b) recruitment needs in the sector.

23 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that his public sector pay remits focus on poverty reduction.

23 Jun 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 make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating new funding to support retrofitting housing stock with renewable energy, home insulation or heating transition.

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

Housing: Natural Gas

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has taken steps to prohibit the installation of gas in all new housing developments.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Housing: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to measure the extent of retrofitting residential accommodation in local authority areas (a) in total and (b) among social housing stock.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Leisure: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to introduce cheaper entry for young people to (a) heritage, (b) sport and (c) arts venues and activities during the 2022 summer holidays.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make additional funding available for youth services to work with young people during the 2022 summer holidays.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure the sufficiency of youth work services to support and keep young people safe during the 2022 summer holidays.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she had with leaders of local authorities on the provision of activities for children and young people during the 2022 summer holidays.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to put in place provisions for community activities for children and young people during the 2022 summer holidays.

23 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Exercise: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that all children take part in daily exercise during the 2022 summer holidays.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that children have access to healthy meals during the school summer holidays when free school meals are not provided.

23 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure additional mental health provision for young people during the upcoming school summer holidays.

23 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Cooperatives and Social Enterprises

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of a co-operative business incubator for growing the social business sector.

23 Jun 2022 · Treasury

Cooperatives and Social Enterprises

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is taking steps to encourage the establishment of more social businesses and cooperatives.

23 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

New Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of incubator hubs for (a) new businesses and (b) the shared business community.

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

Empty Property: Auctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of opportunity for local small and medium size enterprises to engage in high street auctions to occupy empty high street units.

Source: official written-questions record.