Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to help improve workplace (a) investigations and (b) enforcement in companies where there is a culture of bullying at work.
11 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to work with employers where there is a high prevalence of bullying cases.
11 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to create a statutory definition of bullying at work.
11 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an estimate of the number of working days that have been potentially lost due to bullying in the workplace in each of the last five years.
11 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an estimate of the potential lost income to the economy as a result of bullying in the workplace in the last five years.
11 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying and Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what guidance her Department provides workers on the legal protections available to them in cases of workplace (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination.
11 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps she has taken to reduce bullying in the workplace.
11 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cycling: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing people from lower socio-economic backgrounds free access to bicycles; and if he will take steps to pilot such a scheme to assess i
11 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Active Travel: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he made of the potential merits of active travel for wheelchair users; and if his Department will provide funding to Active Travel England for initiatives to help improve the
11 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of IV fluid interventions on patients with Postural tachycardia syndrome; and if he will take steps to support this treatment a
11 Jul 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Ammunition: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that British-made munitions which are exported are not used against civilians in any jurisdiction.
11 Jul 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nuclear Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce the risk of the use of nuclear weapons and (b) fulfil the UK's obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
11 Jul 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Landmines
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help support the development of safe means for defusing (a) landmines and (b) unexploded munitions.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Climate Change: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to (a) measure and (b) mitigate the impact of climate change on the rural economy.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) sum and (b) percentage of her Department's spending is committed to drought mitigation.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to incentivise water companies to invest in drought mitigation.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to support investment in rural water infrastructure.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Droughts
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to prevent drought (a) nationally and (b) in Yorkshire.
10 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities about key worker housing for NHS staff.
10 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on childcare provision for NHS staff.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Affordable Housing: Key Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on developing affordable housing for key workers.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Education
Pupils: Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the amount of physical activity undertaken by young people at school.
10 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bootham Park Hospital and NHS Property Services: Key Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will discuss the potential development of key worker housing for NHS staff at Bootham Park hospital with NHS Property Services.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Land: Public Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making it his policy to give local authorities first refusal on all sales of public land.
10 Jul 2023 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Land
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the average time it takes each Government Department to dispose of land; and whether he is taking steps to help reduce this.
10 Jul 2023 · Cabinet Office
Land: Public Sector
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to co-ordinate the use of public land for development.
10 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Prescribing: Swimming
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of including swimming in social prescribing.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Transport
Cycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential effect of the provision of bicycles through active travel schemes on people's physical fitness.
10 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Chronic Illnesses: Active Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the potential merits of integrating the work of Active Travel England with the Major Conditions Strategy.
10 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Prescribing: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effectiveness of social prescribing in improving (a) physical and (b) mental health.
Source: official written-questions record.