Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Sep 2023 · Department for Education
Universities: Student Wastage
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of students who started their university course (a) under and (b) over 25 years of age did not complete their university course in each of the last five years.
8 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Immigration: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have travelled to the UK from Afghanistan every month not through official schemes since the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan citizens resettlement schemes o
8 Sep 2023 · Department for Education
Exercise: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will discuss with The Daily Mile the implications for her policies of their pilot projects engaging parents in schools.
7 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to ensure that people from Hazara communities are able to access the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.
7 Sep 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Refugees: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the UNHCR on the reunification of families in safe countries.
7 Sep 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help de-escalate the risk of violence in Afghanistan.
7 Sep 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Hazara
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the situation of the Hazara community in Afghanistan.
7 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Overseas Students: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of making non-student visas available to women and girls from Afghanistan who wish to study in the UK and are unable to travel here on a student visa.
7 Sep 2023 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a hosting scheme for overseas university students for when they first arrive in the UK.
7 Sep 2023 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that universities are able to accommodate all overseas students who have (a) applied for and (b) have received confirmation of residential accommodation.
7 Sep 2023 · Department for Education
Education: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to support (a) higher and (b) further education institutions with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in their buildings.
7 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring care homes to provide (a) residents and (b) family members of residents of care homes with access to a second opinion on clinical
7 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the new residential developments provide for a healthy space for the mental, physical and social health of the population.
6 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to implement the policies on mental health in the Major Conditions Strategy published in August 2023.
6 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a social model for mental health for supporting people with mental health challenges.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of space within residential accommodation to provide for a safe and healthy living environment.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) light and (b) noise issues are addressed in (i) planning and (ii) building regulations.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
High Rise Flats: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of (a) dense and (b) high rise residential buildings on the (i) mental and (ii) physical health of their residents.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Buildings: Heating
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps is he taking to amend (a) planning and (b) housing regulations to help prevent overheating in new (i) housing and (ii) buildings.
6 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Temperature: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue new guidance on reducing sickness levels among vulnerable groups during high temperatures.
6 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diagnosis and Medical Treatments: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the concerns of parents and carers are (a) acknowledged and (b) addressed during their child's (i) diagnosis and (ii) treatment.
6 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sepsis: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of allowing patients the right to request an urgent second opinion from other clinicians on the number of sepsis-related mortalities there would
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps to adjust the tapering of Universal Credit to enable workers to work more hours.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Stress
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people who have experienced work-related stress are helped to re-engage with work without delay.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Sick Leave: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help ensure that sickness absences caused by bullying at work are tackled in good time.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Occupational Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department's consultation, Occupational Health: Working Better, updated on 9 August 2023, encourages the development of facilities to allow working people to eng
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Exercise: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that his Department's consultation, Occupational Health: Working Better, updated on 9 August 2023, encourages working people to engage in the daily mile.
6 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Exercise: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) make an assessment of the potential merits of engaging older people in a daily active mile and (b) take steps to provide opportunities for such activity.
6 Sep 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has taken recent steps to help ensure that children from nursery to school leaving age engage in a daily active mile.
5 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of clinical supervision on levels of safe clinical practice.
Source: official written-questions record.