Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
16 Apr 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Clothing: Restart Grant Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Restart Grant scheme, whether bridal shops, that exclusively provide personal 1-2-1 dress fittings, should be categorised as (a) strand one non-essential ret
14 Apr 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Additional Restrictions Grant
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether local authorities are permitted to award Additional Restrictions Grant funding to companies that began trading after 5 January 2021.
12 Apr 2021 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Askham Grange: Pregnancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in each ethnic group were known to be pregnant while on remand or serving a sentence in HMP Askham Grange in each quarter from 31 March 2015 to 30 September 2020.
12 Apr 2021 · Department for Education
Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will support extending the provision of the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme in schools so that every child has the opportunity to participate in that scheme.
12 Apr 2021 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Correspondence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that HMRC are able to comply with their guidelines on clearing (a) 80 per cent of customer post within 15 days of receipt and (b) customer post within 40 days of receipt.
12 Apr 2021 · Department for Education
Adult Education: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support colleges to offer an increased capacity for adult skills as part of a covid-19 recovery package.
12 Apr 2021 · Department for Education
Adult Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the disruption to higher education as a result of the covid-19 outbreak, what plans his Department has to review the Education and Skills Funding Agency's proposals to clawback adult skills fu
12 Apr 2021 · Department for Education
Adult Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Education and Skills Funding Agency 2020 to 2021 end of year reconciliation for adult education budget and advanced learner loans bursary grant funded providers, if he will (a) remove or (
12 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Older People: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he took to join other UN member states in calling for a convention on the rights of older persons at the Eleventh Session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing
12 Apr 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Busking
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether busking is permitted under covid-19 rules.
12 Apr 2021 · Women and Equalities
Pay
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to require employers to display the salary range when advertising employment opportunities.
12 Apr 2021 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Location
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what framework the Government uses to determine which civil service jobs are relocated to which locations.
12 Apr 2021 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: York
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Cabinet Office jobs he plans to relocate to York; and by when those jobs will be so relocated.
12 Apr 2021 · Women and Equalities
Equal Pay
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the report of the Behavioural Insights Team, Reducing the gender pay gap and improving gender equality in organisations: Evidence-based actions for employers, whether it is Government policy
24 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether holiday apartments that are accessed via a publicly shared hallway within a residential block of flats are permitted to reopen as covid-19 restrictions are lifted on businesses o
22 Mar 2021 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the deadline for the EU Settled Status Scheme beyond June 2021 in response to covid-19 restrictions.
19 Mar 2021 · Home Office
Paramedical Staff: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to enable paramedic advanced practitioners working in hospital settings to prescribe medication they can administer in the community.
19 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason isolated apartments used for holiday accommodation with a shared lobby area not permitted to open on 12 April.
18 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport
Driving Instruction: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the DVLA plans to allow driving instructors to resume their lessons as covid-19 restrictions are eased.
9 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport
Network Rail: Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that Network Rail provides safe lighting around their assets in York.
8 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out a timetable for the re-introduction of close contact care home visits in England.
8 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rented Housing: Pets
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the changes outlined in the recently revised Model Tenancy Agreement, what constitutes a good reason for landlords to decline a pet ownership request from a ten
8 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rented Housing: Pets
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government plans to take to assess the efficacy of its revised Model Tenancy Agreement in supporting pet ownership in rental properties.
8 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Test and Trace Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps people who are required to self isolate should take to claim their self isolation payment when they have engaged with NHS Track and Trace but have not been given a Test and Trace identif
8 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Test and Trace Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received the self isolation payment in (a) York, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber Region and (c) the UK since that payment was introduced.
8 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Test and Trace Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been declined for the self isolation payment in (a) York, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber Region and (c) the UK since the payment was introduced.
4 Mar 2021 · Cabinet Office
Members: Telephone Services
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will set up a helpline for MPs to seek guidance on constituency queries related to the reopening of the economy.
2 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Pedestrian Areas: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to extend the granting of pavement licences beyond the current expiry date of 30 September 2021.
23 Feb 2021 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy that employers may ask furloughed staff to loan the business a proportion of their furlough payment.
23 Feb 2021 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps an employee is able to take when their employer has asked them to loan the business part of their furlough payment.
Source: official written-questions record.