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.