Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the number of people available to foster children in the care system.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Adoption: Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help encourage more people to become adopters of children in the care system.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle longer waiting times for adoption experienced by (a) disabled children, (b) Black, Asian and ethnic minority children, (c) older children and (d) children with other prot
7 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fast Food: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce a ban on fast food outlets near schools.
7 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Anti-social Behaviour
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to identify good practice in interagency working between local authorities, the police and the voluntary sector in tackling anti-social behaviour.
7 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community health services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to pilot the community delivery of secondary care services.
7 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to monitor the effectiveness of services being delivered in the community instead of in secondary care;, and how he plans to take account of such monitoring in his response
7 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding he plans to provide for community mental health hubs in the next three financial years.
7 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of capacity in (a) the ambulance service and (b) emergency departments on trends in the level of excess deaths in (i) York and (ii) the UK.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to ban price surging in the taxi trade.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to introduce (a) enhanced and (b) consistent standards for taxi licensing across all local authorities.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to end cross-border hiring practices by licensed taxis.
7 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Leasehold: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that annual increases in fees paid by leaseholders to management are capped in line with inflation.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Young Futures Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress she has made in establishing a network of youth hubs; and what steps she is taking to support existing youth provision to work with youth hubs.
7 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has on the negotiations for a new NHS dentistry contract.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Environment on reducing particulate matter in the air.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diabetes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will implement a strategy to reduce levels of (a) diabetes and (b) complications as a result of diabetes.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that health checks are available at all stages of life.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place more mental health services in primary care.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to expand the scope of the Pharmacy First scheme to include the (a) management of long-term conditions and (b) provision of public health advice.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to review the dental contract.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of local Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments.
12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand community pharmacy provision in York.
6 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Arms Trade: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what capacity his Department has for monitoring the end-user destination of arms exported under the Open General license regime; and what assessment he has made of the compatibility of those licenses w
6 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Arms Trade: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether it is possible to introduce restrictions under the Open General export licensing regime to prevent export of arms to countries deemed at risk of using them for purposes that would violate inter
5 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people eligible for Pension Credit to claim it.
5 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Older People: Advocacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Commissioner for Older People.
5 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Housing: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with Directors of Public Health on the risks posed to elderly people of not being able to heat their home to minimum temperature thresholds for health in winter 2024-
5 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Influenza: Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to target people living in fuel poverty for the flu vaccine.
5 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Fuel Poverty: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he (a) is having and (b) plans to have discussions with local authorities on steps that can be taken to ensure older people are able to (i) heat their homes and (ii) access other warm
Source: official written-questions record.