Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
3 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensioners: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will establish a taskforce to help tackle pensioner poverty.
3 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of maternity services to asylum seekers; and if he will take steps to help ensure that asylum seekers understand how to access emergen
3 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Capital Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process his Department is using to (a) assess the resilience of and (b) schedule future capital projects on the NHS estate.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the time it will take to ensure all eligible individuals receive Pension Credit.
2 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 ensure that all people eligible for pension credit are able to claim it.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensioners: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to develop a strategy to end pensioner poverty.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to establish a Fuel Poverty Strategy to end fuel poverty.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that people (a) who use a prepayment meter and (b) in fuel poverty are able to heat their homes in Winter 2024-2025.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to ensure that people on a prepayment meter pay no more for energy than those on a contract.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to enable people on a prepayment meter to move onto an energy contract.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Disability and Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to prioritise his Department's housing retrofit programme to target (a) older and (b) disabled people.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to ensure that energy companies have a legal responsibility to ensure that homes belonging to people in receipt of the State Pension are (a) warm and (b) damp-fr
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Death: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of estimates of the number of deaths in cold housing.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help ensure (a) people just above the Pension Credit threshold and (b) other older people can meet their energy costs,.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing a Winter Fuel Payment for older people (a) based on Council Tax Band and (b) as a payment liable to tax.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Occupational Health: Business
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a requirement for large businesses to offer their employees access to occupational health services.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Occupational Health: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to use occupational health to help reduce levels of economic inactivity.
2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what criteria he selected the ages for RSV vaccine roll out.
2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, what steps he plans to take to increase the NHS participation rate for dentists.
2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to recruit additional (a) academic and (b) non-academic dental school staff before September 2026.
2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, when he plans to announce which schools will provide (a) new and (b) additional dental training places from September 2026.
2 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she is taking steps to help planning authorities prioritise reducing health inequalities.
30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of the Government's pay offer to non-Pay Review Body staff on (a) recruitment and (b) retention in those organisations.
30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Junior Doctors: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the pay differential between junior doctors and Agenda for Change staff following his Department's recent pay offer to junior doctors.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Education
All Saints Roman Catholic School York: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether All Saints School in York will receive funding for (a) repairs and (b) development.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport
Transport: North Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which (a) road and (b) rail projects have been cancelled in North Yorkshire.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with elderly medical care specialists on the potential impact of stopping winter fuel payments on the health needs of the elderly.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support people who cannot afford their energy bills in winter 2024-25.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Children and Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of households that are impacted by the two child benefit cap and the ending of their Winter Fuel Allowance.
30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposed changes to the eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment on levels of equality.
Source: official written-questions record.