Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes in the level of bus services on (a) economic inequality and (b) old people.

15 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to use the Government's tree planting programme to tackle (a) flooding and (b) upper catchment management of rivers.

15 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on his targets on tree planting in (a) England and (b) Yorkshire; and what steps he is taking to measure progress on extending the canopy of the White Rose Fo

14 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Clinical Trials: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will develop the workforce recruitment and retention strategy to allow clinicians to be involved in clinical research.

14 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will (a) make an assessment of the effectiveness of clinical research practices in Singapore and (b) use that assessment to improve clinical research in the UK.

14 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to (a) monitor and (b) report on the performance of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.

14 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of funding provided to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

14 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has received representations from the scientific community on the efficiency of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

14 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase the capacity of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

14 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to take steps to help increase productivity in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

14 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Banks: Closures

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of bank closures on (a) local communities and (b) elderly people's access to banking services.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Businesses: Grants

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure (a) maximum value for money and (b) equal regional distribution when awarding grant funding to businesses.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Flooding

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure water companies provide compensation for (a) businesses and (b) residential properties flooded with sewage in the water.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) sewage and (b) other contaminants in the river system on the food chain.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects sewage releases into (a) the River Foss, (b) the River Ouse and (c) their tributaries to stop.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to provide public health warnings over the risk to (a) people and (b) animals of entering rivers into which sewage has been released.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what criteria he grades the cleanliness of rivers.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to move water companies that do not restrict sewage spills under an operator of last resort.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of infrastructure in preventing sewage releases into rivers.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewers: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that new (a) residential and (b) commercial developments do not overload local sewers.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewers: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) current and (b) future (i) capacity and (ii) performance of sewage and drainage infrastructure in (A) England and (B) York.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to encourage clusters of small employers to take on an apprentice jointly.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage people to undertake a higher level apprenticeship on completion of an apprenticeship.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices: English Language and Mathematics

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to help enable apprentices to gain proficiency in maths and English in the first year of their apprenticeship.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to encourage young people to undertake a foundation apprenticeship on leaving school.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Vocational Guidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with career advice services to help ensure that young people leaving school can move into a (a) job and (b) apprenticeship.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Adult Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support people who are on Universal Credit to access free adult education.

13 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners and Pharmacy: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is she taking to ensure the compatibility of IT systems used by GPs and pharmacies.

13 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure GPs are trained to engage with Pharmacy First.

13 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to audit Pharmacy First; and whether she plans to consult the pharmacy professions on its future.

Source: official written-questions record.