Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to monitor whether disabled people who return to work remain in employment.

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

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the funding provided to local authorities.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Remote Working: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of working from home on mental health.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people whose allowances have been altered by measures announced in the Autumn Statement receive adequate financial support.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made on the potential impact of changes announced in the Autumn Statement of eligibility for allowances on recipients' ability to pay private sector rents.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of reconstituting her Department's Medicines Supply Team.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take to help ensure community pharmacists receive comprehensive clinical supervision to ensure patient safety.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Shingles: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to make people aged between 65 and 70 eligible for the shingles vaccination.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Money Lenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to advise claimants on the financial risks associated with unauthorised money lenders.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Physical Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to instruct schools to provide children with at least two hours of physical activity per week.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ring-fence future public funding for the (a) art, (b) culture and (c) heritage sectors.

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

Local Government Finance: York

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the funding his Department has provided to City of York Council through the local government funding settlement.

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

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is taking steps to help local authorities increase the number of (a) affordable and (b) social housing.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Bicycles: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help support businesses that manufacture (a) cycle and (b) e-cycles.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Family Hubs: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to help ensure that family hubs provide therapeutic interventions to pregnant mothers who are at risk of having their baby removed.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Health: Bacterial Diseases and Sepsis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to increase awareness of the potential impact of oral hygiene on levels of prevalence of (a) sepsis and (b) blood borne bacterial infections that can originat

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neurology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ensure that all patients with a neurological condition receive support to help (a) manage their condition and (b) prevent their condition from progressing.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Neurology

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that claimants with (a) fluctuating and (b) progressive neurological conditions are able to request to have their entitlements to benefits reviewed throughout their condi

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tomography

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress her Department has made on establishing imaging networks across the NHS.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to increase central funding for clinical radiology trainee posts.

5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 21 of his Department's publication entitled Female Offender Strategy Delivery Plan 2022–25, published in January 2023, what is his planned timetable for the publication of the Young Women's

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of local authority spending on youth services.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Neighbourhood Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of simplifying neighbourhood plans.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps is he taking to ensure that local authority planning departments have an adequate skilled workforce.

19 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to develop a sepsis strategy.

19 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of processes for the management of sepsis in other countries.

19 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to review historic cases of sepsis to help (a) identify, (b) treat and (c) prevent mortality arising from sepsis.

19 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infectious Diseases: Lasers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has provided funding for the procurement of into laser treatments for the prevention of (a) sepsis and (b) bacterial infections for people with wounds.

19 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ensure all Trusts with secondary care services have a clinical lead for sepsis.

19 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure protocols for diagnosing sepsis are applied across the healthcare sector.

Source: official written-questions record.