Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people who have adopted and (b) prospective adopters who are registered as self employed.

21 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Defence

War Pensions: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects delays in the payment of the war pension scheme to end.

21 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Defence

War Pensions: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he will take to improve the timeliness of payments of the war pension scheme for armed forces veterans.

21 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Defence

War Pensions: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his target is for the average amount of time it takes between an eligible individual applying to the war pension scheme and that applicant receiving their first payment under that scheme.

21 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Defence

War Pensions: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason there are delays in payment of the war pension scheme for new pension claimants.

21 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Defence

War Pensions: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason there are delays in payments of the war pension scheme for all eligible claimants.

21 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to communicate effectively with the public on how best to make use of NHS services.

21 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to communicate effectively with the public on his proposed restructures to the NHS and its effect on services.

21 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has a timescale for publishing the plan for the devolution of North Yorkshire.

21 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish the Levelling Up White Paper.

21 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to move responsibility for the funding and infrastructure support for covid-19 services in the future to (a) integrated care systems or (b) primary care.

21 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of (a) booster buses and (b) pop up clinics in providing hard to reach communities with covid-19 vaccination services.

21 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the public merits of establishing public health hubs in areas of greatest deprivation.

21 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional support he is providing to public health teams to target areas of low covid-19 vaccine take up in areas of greatest deprivation (a) in York and (b) nationally.

21 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the roll out of the covid-19 booster vaccine to people who are housebound (a) nationally and (b) in York.

21 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he will take to assist local Jewish communities engage with their local history, including former synagogues and other significant sites.

21 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Judaism: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he will take to ensure that local authorities seek to celebrate and commemorate the history, recent and historical, of Judaism within their areas.

21 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the steps required to protect effectively sites of Jewish heritage in the planning system.

21 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Steiner Schools Foundation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Steiner school education system.

21 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to launch the competition for Great British Railways; and what the scope is of the consultation.

20 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring that any fox or wild animal killed in trail hunting be reported by a hunt and that that data be made accessible to th

20 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animal trophies from hunting have entered the UK in the last year for which records are available.

20 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Circuses: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of animals that have been used in a circus in the last year for which records are available, by type of animal.

20 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of animals used in animal experimentation in each of the last three years, by type of animal.

20 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: York

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of need for a new hospital in the city of York.

20 Jan 2022 · Department for International Trade

Forced Labour: China

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that no products imported into the UK have been manufactured from forced labour, either from Uyghur Muslim communities or other imprisoned groups, in China.

20 Jan 2022 · Cabinet Office

UK Relations with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department are working on matters to do with (a) the EU and (b) the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

20 Jan 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement has been implemented.

20 Jan 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UK Relations with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the (a) UK's relationship with the EU and (b) UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

20 Jan 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

European Union

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has taken steps to contribute to review of the EU through the Future of Europe process.

Source: official written-questions record.