Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Oct 2021 · Treasury

Air Passenger Duty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential effect of (a) reducing air passenger duty and (b) not implementing the fuel escalator on the UK's carbon footprint.

27 Oct 2021 · Treasury

Civil Society: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on increasing funding for civil society organisations ahead of the Autumn Budget 2021.

27 Oct 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government Finance: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he will take to support local authorities to reduce deficits accumulated as a result of covid-19-related expenditure.

27 Oct 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the benefit to civil society organisations of the Autumn Budget 2021, by sector.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Post Offices: York

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he will take to tackle the decline in the number of post offices in York and the impact that decline has had on residents' access to services.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will reintroduce health checks for people at 40 years of age and for each year thereafter.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Preventive Medicine and Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase population screening and prevention.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his officials in his Department have had with commissioners of substance misuse services to assess the adequacy of their funding in meeting demand for those services.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Prescribing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that social prescribing practitioners receive the support they require to find suitable social prescribing placements.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Prescribing: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that social prescribing is fully funded to allow it to adequately support referrals from GPs and others.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that community pharmacy services are being funded for their support to general practice.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to use community pharmacists to provide additional community health services to take pressure off GP practices.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Military Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on contingency support for the NHS from the armed forces in winter 2021-22.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of funding for Integrated Care Systems will be spent on mental health services.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Systems: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he is issuing to Integrated Care Systems on how they distribute their funding across their footprint.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Systems: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department plans to allocate funding to Integrated Care Systems; and whether he plans to introduce a new funding formula to support that allocation.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he is having with directors of public health to ensure that they are well-placed to manage covid-19 in winter 2021-22.

26 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department is not recording cases of long covid.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to (a) support pupils who continue to experience periods of absence from their schools and (b) mitigate the impact that those periods of absence may have on their end of year results

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what further steps he plans to take to increase (a) ventilation and (b) mask wearing in schools in the context of high covid-19 infection rates.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Charity Commission: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what her proposed timeline is for the appointment of the new Chair of the Charity Commission.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Charity Commission: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on (a) the Committee's timetable for discussing the appointment of the Chair

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Rebuilding Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date he plans to announce capital funding for rebuilding schools in the next stage of the School Rebuilding Programme.

25 Oct 2021 · Home Office

Police: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis' advice that if women are stopped by a plain-clothed police officer that they are to remain with tha

25 Oct 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Afghan refugees and (b) families who have arrived in the UK through the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme (i) have been resettled into housing and (ii) remain in bridging ho

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

All Saints Roman Catholic School York

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that pupils at All Saints school in York can learn in safe and appropriate school buildings.

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria proposals for new capital building projects will be required to meet; and what steps he will take to determine the priority for new build schools.

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

Students: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a reduction in student tuition fees.

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

Higher Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for higher education.

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take further steps to ensure that services to improve river safety are adequately supported and funded to meet risk and demand.

Source: official written-questions record.