Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to help ensure that children who are living in low income families engage with the Holiday Activities Fund to prevent household food hunger.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children living in (a) relative poverty and (b) absolute poverty benefitted from their full entitlement under the Holiday Activities Fund.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Renewable Energy: Rented Housing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of measures announced in the Spring Statement on energy diversification VAT reductions on investment by social and private landlords in greener energy sources.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Energy: Housing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of how the measures announced in the Spring Statement on providing energy diversification will support households that cannot afford heat pumps, wind turbines and solar panels.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Employees' Contributions: Tax Thresholds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposed lifting of the National Insurance Contribution threshold on the finances of the highest earners.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Private Rented Housing: Evictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to bring forward proposals to end the use of Section 21 eviction notices in the context of increases in housing costs in the private rented sector.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what additional support she will provide to local authorities to ensure that people do not go without food, heating and accommodation in the event that local authorities exhaust the Housing Support Fund
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will increase support to tackle housing poverty in York and other areas where Broad Rental Market Areas covers a wide geographical area.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a mid-year review of social security payments.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the rationale is for his Department's policy not to increase social security in the Spring Statement.
23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce infection rates in areas experiencing comparatively high occupancy rates of hospital beds from people with covid-19 and (b) provide additional support to those
23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of mechanical and pharmaceutical interventions available to people who are experiencing covid-19 on mortality rates.
23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that people who fall seriously ill with covid-19 are offered the highest level of therapeutic interventions to prevent mortality.
23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory System: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people diagnosed with covid-19 who suffered from respiratory distress received anti-viral treatment in the last two years.
23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people who have died from covid-19 received anti-viral treatments.
23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the proportion of people who have died from covid-19 in the last 12 months who were unvaccinated.
22 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Income Support
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce a minimum income guarantee for all people in receipt of state benefits and ensure that it is linked to inflation.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Plans: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he expects the publication of the new local plan for York.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he will take to help ensure improved local authority (a) processes and (b) housebuilding in areas where social housing development is low.
22 Mar 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 provide each local authority with an assessment of the specific housing challenges in that area to help better inform decisions on local housing development programmes.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling: Lobbying
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the amount spent by gambling companies on lobbying MPs in the last 2 years.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Debts and Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people in (a) poverty and (b) debt; and what steps she is taking to reduce this figure.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that gambling companies that breach safety restrictions designed to protect potentially vulnerable people have their licences suspended.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling: Advertising
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to monitor the ways that gambling companies advertise to (a) potentially vulnerable people and (b) all other people.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that gambling companies produce (a) accurate and (b) accessible data on the number of people who engage with their various platforms.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling: Lobbying
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of lobbying by the gambling industry on MPs ahead of the publication of the Gambling Review.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Adoption: Self-employed
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to include a consultation for self-employed people as part of any new legislation on statutory adoption pay.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Adoption: Self-employed
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of self-employed people seeking to adopt.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Adoption Leave: Self-employed
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason his policies permit employed adoptive parents entitlement to statutory adoption leave but not self-employed adoptive parents.
22 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Refugees: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to produce additional guidance on how best to host a refugee family for people who volunteer to host refugees from Ukraine.
Source: official written-questions record.