Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
3 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by the Kings Fund entitled How does the NHS compare to the health care systems of other countries, published on 26 J
30 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Mortgages: Profits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that mortgage lenders do not make excessive profits.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Concessions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to conduct a pilot programme of free bus travel for under 25 year olds.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: North Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the potential merits of the North Yorkshire Mayor having responsibility for North Yorkshire buses.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Concessions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing free bus travel to people aged under 25.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will incentivise universities to generate more higher apprenticeships.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage more people to take up higher apprenticeships.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the reasons that employers (a) offer and (b) do not offer apprenticeships.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to incentivise employers in the (a) public and (b) private sector to take on apprentices.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) local authorities and (b) local enterprise partnerships on providing strategic oversight for local apprenticeships.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices: Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the National Minimum Wage apprenticeship rate on the take up of apprenticeships.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Apprentices and Young People: Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made a recent assessment of the implications for her policies of removing the (a) National Minimum Wage youth rate and (b) apprenticeship rate.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of families subject to the two-child benefit cap that are in absolute poverty.
29 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will commission an independent assessment on the level of Universal Credit.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide cancer patients with care navigators.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Professions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide clinicians with access to high quality training in advanced cancer treatments and care.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve local clinical leadership in cancer care.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to fund childhood cancer research programmes.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with protected characteristics are represented in clinical cancer clinical trials.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken for research into cancer treatments to reach clinical trials.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve patient access to clinical trials of cancer treatments.
29 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve equipment for radiotherapy services.
28 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Disability and Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department has issued to bus drivers on carrying passengers who are (a) frail and (b) use mobility aids.
28 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve the provision of information at bus stops for visually impaired people.
28 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to help support local authorities to (a) maintain and (b) extend bus routes.
28 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of further extending the bus fare cap.
28 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what further steps he plans to take to increase the rate of social housing building, in the context of levels of demand for that housing.
28 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of existing levels of funding for the Housing Support Fund.
28 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Private Rented Housing: Evictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that people in private rented accommodation are not evicted from their properties due to increases in rents.
28 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Packaging
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on measures to tackle the illicit vaping trade.
Source: official written-questions record.