Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
7 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that new build properties are not developed specifically for the short-term holiday lets.
7 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to make it his Department's policy that all short-term holiday lets should require a change in use class.
7 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to give local authorities powers to refuse parking permits for vehicles used by short-term holiday let guests.
7 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on short term holiday let registration and licensing.
7 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Domestic Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether short-term holiday lets have an obligation to arrange rubbish and recycling deliveries.
7 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department plans to take to give local authorities flexibility to determine what information they collate for their registration scheme on short-term holiday lets.
7 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to prevent short-term holiday lets from automatically changing use class to C5.
6 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) funding for palliative care services and (b) the commissioning of palliative care services by integrated care boards.
6 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all people with terminal diagnoses have access to palliative care services.
6 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the availability of access to palliative care by (a) geography, (b) socioeconomic status and (c) each protected characteristic.
6 Jun 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to ensure that households on prepayment meters are prioritised for the roll out of (a) heat pumps and (b) other low cost energy sources.
6 Jun 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Geothermal Energy: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of geothermal energy production in comparison to (a) nuclear energy, (b) hydrogen energy and (c) renewable energy production.
6 Jun 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Geothermal Energy: North Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the suitability of (a) York and (b) North Yorkshire as a location for geothermal energy production.
6 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Euthanasia
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department holds data on the (a) number and (b) reasons of people who have requested assisted dying from a medical practitioner.
6 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions has he had with BUPA on the closure of NHS dental services; and if he will hold discussions with BUPA on extending NHS dental contracts.
6 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reasons for NHS dental services in York and the surrounding area not taking on more units of dental activity; and what steps he is taking to deliver dental servic
6 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Offences against Children: Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to allow children impacted by abuse to pre-record their evidence for trial as soon as possible after the incident has occurred, in the context of timeliness of access to psychological servic
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provided funding for (a) staff resources and (b) other costs to the (i) Royal Pharmaceutical Society, (ii) Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland and (iii) Association of
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's open consultation entitled Major conditions strategy: call for evidence, published on 17 May 2023, what his expected timescale is for bringing forward recommendat
5 Jun 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Hospitality Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to create a grant scheme for the hospitality sector to help cover rising energy bills.
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Patients: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has taken recent steps to (a) review the level of satisfaction and (b) seek views on how better to resolve the disputes of patients using the complaints systems in the NHS.
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and UK Health Security Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the (a) implications for his policies of retaining both and (b) potential merits of merging the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and the UK Health Secu
5 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Plans: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has had recent discussions with the City of York Council on their Local Plan
5 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
DfT OLR Holdings: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to roll out demand-based pricing at each of the train services being run by the Operator of Last Resort.
5 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Mortgages: First Time Buyers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to encourage the provision of discounted mortgage products for first time buyers in the context of increased interest rates.
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with universities located in (a) Hull and (b) York on the possible establishment of a (i) satellite and (ii) full dental school in York or Hull.
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to enable full flexible commissioning of dental services by Integrated Care Boards; and what the evidential basis is for his Department's policy in this area.
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to redesign the framework for NHS dentistry to focus on outputs.
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any provision exists within the present NHS dentistry contract for extra payments to be made for each Unit of Dental Activity in areas where those Units cost more to deliver because of high
5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fluoride: Drinking Water
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is talking to (a) enable and (b) promote to the public the potential benefits of water supply fluoridation.
Source: official written-questions record.