Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Young People: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing young adults who are not engaging with school to attend placements with employers.

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Adult Education: English Language and Mathematics

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided for adult (a) literacy and (b) numeracy education in further education colleges in each of the last 10 years.

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Adult Education: English Language and Mathematics

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will help provide free adult (a) literacy and (b) numeracy education.

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Adult Education: English Language and Mathematics

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support adults to reach GCSE level English and Maths.

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Developing Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the news stories entitled Changes to student visa route will reduce net migration, published on 23 May 2023, and Home Secretary unveils plan to cut net migration, published on 4 December 2023,

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with relevant stakeholders to help support postgraduate international students find employment in the UK on completion of their studies.

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Universities: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the most significant challenge to the financial health of universities.

18 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Universities: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to (a) monitor and (b) assess the financial health of universities.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) review and (b) issue guidance on (i) pay levels and (ii) other employment terms for (A) physician associates, (B) anaesthesia associates and (C) doctors in training.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to regulate all professions working in mental health.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to ensure a clear delineation of responsibilities between different health professionals.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Allied Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to take steps to regulate additional Medical Allied Professionals.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has he made of trends in the level of risk of surface water flooding; and what steps his Department is taking to help tackle these risks.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department invested in upper catchment management schemes in each of the last five years.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost of flooding was to (a) businesses, (b) home owners and (c) the insurance industry in each of the last five years for which information is available.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Property: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many properties which have property level resilience measures installed have been flooded.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Property: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many properties have had property level resilience measures installed in each of the last five years.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the expected lifespan is of flood resilience schemes.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has invested in flood resilience in each of the last five years.

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of flooding in each of the last five years.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus : Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to ensure people diagnosed as medically vulnerable can access covid-19 vaccination regardless of the medication they are taking.

17 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Mental Health Services: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to provide women and girls with trauma-informed preventative care through the criminal justice system.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure women have accessible provision to (a) drug and alcohol and (b) mental health services.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that mental health services are accessible to women in all regions.

17 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Women: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State the Home Department, if his Department will (a) develop a definition of trauma-informed in relation to the delivery of public services to (i) women and (ii) girls and (b) publish a toolkit explaining the implications of that

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory duty for combined authorities to form working groups on tackling disadvantage.

16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community pharmacies have closed in the last year for which data is available.

16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has she made of the potential impact of local pharmacy closures on those pharmacies which remain open.

16 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Eligibility

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria determining whether individuals should receive social security benefits.

16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that newly qualified independent prescribers have clinical supervision.

Source: official written-questions record.