Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Packaging
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to require all vape devices to be sold in plain colour.
28 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Packaging
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to introduce plain packaging for vaping devices.
28 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ban the use of vaping devices in vehicles that contain children.
28 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ban vaping in all public indoor spaces.
28 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Advertising
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ban all vape advertising.
28 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Adrenaline Auto-injectors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing charges for the renewal of a faulty EpiPen.
27 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Per Capita Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative estimate of the funding for healthcare per person in (a) the UK and (b) other similar countries.
27 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce excess deaths.
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to introduce different registration processes for short-term holiday lets of (a) whole properties and (b) individual rooms.
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance: Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the local housing allowance in areas with high private rental costs.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bootham Park Hospital
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to sell the Bootham Park Hospital site for use as a community asset.
26 Jun 2023 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Buildings and Land
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to place conditions on the disposal of land and buildings by (a) NHS Property Services and (b) other Departments to require that the social value of its subsequent u
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bootham Park Hospital
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) undertake a local consultation on the future of and (b) make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a community auction on the Bootham Park Hospital site.
26 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Migrant Workers: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason prospective NHS staff from overseas have had delays securing visas to work in the UK.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential impact of delays in international NHS doctors having their visas processed.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to reduce waiting times for GP appointments for people with suspected cancer symptoms.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the policies of the New Zealand government on tackling inequalities in the prevention and treatment of cancer.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to change NHS practices to reflect any lessons learned from countries with higher cancer survival rates.
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has he made of the potential merits of increasing the (a) State Pension and (b) Pensions Credit for people living in rented accommodation.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the average frequency with which children visit dentists in (a) York Central constituency and (b) the UK.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing Dental Reference Officers.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on secondary dental healthcare for children in the 2022-23 financial year; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing funding for primary
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for health policies of the quality of food provided by foodbanks; and whether he plans to provide vouchers for people using foodbanks
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of working with the Imagination Library to increase services for people from the gypsy, Roma and traveller communities.
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of working with the Imagination Library to increase services for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the inclusion of advice on financial difficulties in the new suicide prevention strategy.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neurology: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on neurological services in York in each financial year since 2020-21.
26 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neurology: York Central
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the cost to the public purse of emergency admissions to hospitals for people with neurological conditions in (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 in York Central Constituency.
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Commonhold
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to replace leasehold for property owners with commonhold.
26 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Unions: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to clause 234E(1)(b) of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, if she will outline what reasonable steps she would expect a trade union to take in order to ensure that all members of
Source: official written-questions record.