Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing use of empty residential units held as investments for housing people on local authority social housing waiting l

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to abolish or cap ground rents for people currently paying that charge.

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Leasehold: Property Management Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of trends in the level of management costs paid by leaseholders.

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Leasehold: Property Management Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that freeholders and management companies of leasehold properties have accessible means by which leaseholders can contact them.

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Foreign Companies: Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to introduce a publicly available register for residential property that has foreign ownership.

23 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help secure continuous routes for food and medical supplies into Ukraine.

23 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Baltic States: Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps the Government is taking to promote the de-escalation of Russian military presence on the border with the Baltic States.

23 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to protect the democratic rights and self-determination of people living in Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine.

23 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has a strategic framework for the application of sanctions against hostile states relating to the (a) types of sanctions deployable and (b) escalation plan for th

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: River Ouse

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of flood predicting equipment at River Ouse level at Viking Recorder; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure information about a

23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on provision of free covid-19 testing for teachers and support staff working with children with underlying health conditions after 1 April 2022.

23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has for the reintroduction of (a) free covid-19 testing and (b) social distancing guidance in the event that the number of hospital admissions due to covid-19 increase.

23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the chief (a) medical officer and (b) scientific officer have made of the potential risks of ending (i) mandatory self-isolation periods, (ii) the provision of NHS testing for covid

23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a specific three-digit mental health support line, available 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a specific three-digit mental health support line from which callers can (a) speak directly to a person who is a trained mental

22 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make funding available to support businesses that have not been able to claim insurance following flood damage in winter 2021-22.

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide additional support to people in vulnerable health groups who may not be confident to go out in public after all covid-19 restrictions and testing are lifted.

22 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what additional diplomatic steps she will take to prevent further Russian incursion into Ukraine.

22 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans her Department has to ensure that humanitarian support is provided to Ukranian people in the event that Russia closes the Ukranian border.

22 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Foreign Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether Russia has developed an (a) economic, (b) diplomatic or (c) industrial relationship with countries other than those that are part of N

22 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the development of the relationship between Russia and China on the stability of independent states.

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling access to NHS covid-19 testing for a further three months.

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to protect (a) people and (b) employers if levels of covid-19 (a) infection and (b) mortality rise.

22 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in light of her decision to end the free provision of covid-19 lateral flow tests, what support she will provide to employers to help ensure that they can fulfil their obligations under the Health and S

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing free covid-19 testing for people who are (a) elderly, (b) clinically vulnerable and (c) immunosuppressed.

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to support employers, including health and care employers, with the cost of covid-19 testing after the suspension of NHS covid-19 testing from April 2022.

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how people on low incomes will be able to access tests for covid-19 after NHS testing ends on 1 April 2022.

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help prevent people from contracting long covid when asymptomatic testing for covid-19 is no longer available.

22 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been recorded as having (a) PCR and (b) lateral flow tests for covid-19 in each of the last three months.

22 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office

Coronavirus: Surveys

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are participating in the ONS covid-19 Infection Survey; and what the rate of attrition in participation in that survey is.

Source: official written-questions record.