Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Contact Tracing and Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of returning covid-19 testing and contact tracing to local public health teams to lead.

14 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) hospital and (b) ITU admissions for patients with covid-19; and what assessment he has made of the prevalence of covid-19 in the community base

14 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: York

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of senior mental health leads that have been trained in York from the £9.5 million fund announced on 10 May 2021; and at which schools those posts are based.

14 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the £79 million NHS England allocated for children and young people’s mental health support on 5 March 2021; and what that £79 million has funded, inclu

13 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to fund the current unmet needs in the social care sector.

13 Sep 2021 · Treasury

Health and Social Care Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason he decided to fund the Health and Social Care Levy through a rise in National Insurance contributions.

13 Sep 2021 · Treasury

Health and Social Care Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he made of the suitability of different forms of taxation to pay for a Health and Social Care Levy prior to his decision to base that levy on National Insurance contributions.

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish details of the Afghanistan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.

13 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on adapting the disused public estate for the purposes of providing resettlement homes for refugees.

13 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to procure more resettlement hotels to move refugees on from quarantine hotel facilities.

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to assess whether parts of the estate of (a) his Department and (b) Network Rail could be repurposed to home refugees from Afghanistan.

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Universities: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has taken steps to release housing from universities to house refugees from Afghanistan.

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to identify buildings on the schools estate which could be repurposed to house refugees from Afghanistan.

13 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will put training in place to assist refugees from Afghanistan to work in the social care sector.

13 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what preparations are being made to enable refugees from Afghanistan with medical or other health professional qualifications to work in the NHS.

13 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to identify property from his Department's estate that could be used to resettle refugees from Afghanistan.

13 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Local Government: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to support the renovation or repurposing of local authority owned buildings to assist in the resettlement of refugees.

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of building bespoke housing for refugees on his Department's unused estate as an alternative to selling that land as part of the Better Defence Estate Program

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to prepare properties or repurpose accommodation on his Department's estate to ensure it is fit for habitation by refugees from Afghanistan.

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to release property from his Department's estate to house refugees from Afghanistan.

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the penalties that have been served under the Vagrancy Act 1824 in the last five years.

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people have been prosecuted under the Vagrancy Act 1824 in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and (c) York in each of the last 10 years; and what steps he is taking to reduce th

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress he has made on repealing the Vagrancy Act 1824; and what the timeframe is for the repeal of that Act.

10 Sep 2021 · Leader of the House

Palace of Westminster: Coronavirus

To ask the Leader of the House, if he will reassess the requirement to wear face coverings in (a) the House of Chamber, (b) voting lobbies, (c) Members' lobby and (d) Westminster Hall during the covid-19 outbreak.

10 Sep 2021 · House of Commons Commission

House of Commons: Carbon Dioxide

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will publish the (a) available data on carbon dioxide levels in locations in the House of Commons and (b) risk assessment of the effect of levels of car

10 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Loneliness

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress he has made on delivering the Loneliness Strategy.

10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the length of the covid-19 outbreak on plans to reduce the NHS backlog.

10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on increasing carer's allowance in respect of forthcoming proposals for social care.

10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for new training initiatives to support recruitment and retention of social care staff.

10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Career Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help ensure long term career development for people employed in social care; and what assessment he has made of the correlation between career development and

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