Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Mental Health: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of poverty on mental health in the context of the rising cost of living.
17 May 2022 · Cabinet Office
Death
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have had (a) poverty, (b) hypothermia and (c) hunger recognised as a contributing factor to their death through either (i) physical and (ii) mental health in the latest period for which that data
17 May 2022 · Treasury
Social Rented Housing: Credit Rating
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to help ensure that a person's credit rating is not negatively affected in the event that they are unable to afford to pay for their social housing.
17 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Private Rented Housing: Evictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 cannot be triggered in the event that a tenant cannot afford to pay their rent.
17 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what support is available to people who are unable to afford their council tax.
17 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities on the steps being taken in the event that residents do not pay their council tax prior to the escalation of that matter thr
17 May 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Charges: Arrears
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to help ensure that people who fall into arrears with their water payments have support to pay their bills; and if he will make it his policy to make additio
17 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people on an energy meter do not experience periods with no energy provision.
17 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that people who fall into arrears in paying for their energy have a one-to-one visit from the local authority services for the purposes of (a) disc
17 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether energy providers are under any obligations to (a) support the energy needs of customers and (b) take steps to enable those needs to be met.
17 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it mandatory for energy providers to make an assessment an assessment of a consumer's situation and ability to pay their bills before they are disconnected.
17 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with representatives of energy companies on steps being taken to help ensure that people are not disconnected from their provider on the basis that
17 May 2022 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to introduce free school meals for children who have parents or carers seeking asylum in the UK.
17 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps will he take to ensure local people in York are consulted as part of the process of deciding the types of housing tenure that will apply to the houses planned f
16 May 2022 · Cabinet Office
House of Lords: York
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of moving the House of Lords to York.
16 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mother and Baby Units
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason mothers in a mother and baby assessment unit are not (a) pre-warned of the (i) removal of their baby and (ii) reasons for that removal and (b) given the means by which the issues of
16 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mother and Baby Units
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that sufficient places are available in mother and baby units in (a) York, (b) Yorkshire and (c) England.
16 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mother and Baby Units
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that babies remain with their birth mothers in supported environments when those mothers require additional support to care for their babies after a period in an a
16 May 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Electrification
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that a safe level of clearance above overhead line equipment can be combined with maximum flexibility to enable infrastructure development near to electrified railway lines, such
16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that all residential units constructed on the York Central development site will be used to meet local housing need.
16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that houses built to fulfil number commitments included in Local Plans are used for residential accommodation and not for investments, holiday lets or
16 May 2022 · Cabinet Office
House of Lords: York
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to publish proposals on moving the House of Lords to York.
16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Plans: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring Local Plans to make provision for local energy generation.
16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Plans: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Local Plan process in York will include preparation of an up-to-date local transport plan.
16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, at what stage in the planning process the tenure of new housing is agreed; and whether the tenure of new residential housing can be agreed after outline planning has been granted.
16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Second Homes: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to (a) make all second homes eligible for increases in Council Tax or (b) introduce a cap on the number of days a second home must be occupied before bec
16 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she will take to help ensure local planning authorities can identify when a residential property has undergone a change of use to become a short term holiday let property.
16 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold a consultation on the potential licensing of short-term holiday let properties.
16 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason there is a five-week wait for new applicants to receive Universal Credit; and if she will make it her policy to reduce this waiting time.
16 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce the five-week wait time for new Universal Credit claimants in the context of rising pressures on household budgets.
Source: official written-questions record.