Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 Apr 2023 · Home Office
LGBT+ People: Kenya
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing routes for the resettlement of LGBTI people from Kenya in the UK; and whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure the safe
14 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Kenya: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the safety of LGBTI people in Kenya; and whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure the safety of those people.
14 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Carers: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his policy to invest up to £25 million to work with the sector to kick start a change in the services provided to support unpaid carers as set out in the People at the Heart of C
14 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to ensure effective (a) recruitment and (b) retention in the social care sector.
14 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Diagnostic Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of all NHS diagnostic activity took place in Community Diagnostic Centres in each month of the last financial year for which figures are available.
14 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Diagnostic Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release entitled Government turbocharges efforts to tackle COVID-19 backlogs, published on 7 December 2022, whether he is using additional metrics, as well as the stated
14 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the two child limit on benefit recipients; and if he will review the cap.
14 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of energy costs on hospices; and what steps is he taking to support hospices with rising energy costs.
14 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Barbecues: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to help prevent the sale of disposable barbecues in order to protect rural landscapes and wildlife.
14 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Poultry: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to ban the use of cages for farmed hens.
14 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Chronic Illnesses: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of increased prescription costs from 1 April 2023 on people living with long-term condition such as cystic fibrosis.
14 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he last reviewed the prescription charge exemption list; and if he will review that list in 2023 in the context of the recent increase in prescription charges.
30 Mar 2023 · Home Office
Home Office: Electronic Government
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses digital workforce tools, including information on staff complements and pay grades, to plan workforce requirements in UK Visas and Immigration to help determine its process
30 Mar 2023 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department were working on asylum claims in each of the last 12 months.
30 Mar 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Detention Centres and Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the level of fire risk for asylum seekers who are to be relocated to (a) boats or (b) detention centres.
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Asylum: Food Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the level of food poverty among (a) local authorities and (b) communities accommodating asylum seekers.
30 Mar 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that people in temporary asylum accommodation have access to (a) communal leisure and (b) children's play space.
30 Mar 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing people to register to house people awaiting an asylum decision.
30 Mar 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of housing asylum seekers on local communities.
30 Mar 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help asylum seekers housed in hotels who have built a relationship with the local community to (a) remain within that community and (b) keep children at the local school.
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Ethics
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she is taking steps to encourage businesses to update their Corporate Social Responsibility polices.
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Business: Voluntary Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to encourage businesses to launch corporate volunteering programmes.
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with businesses on offering surplus food stocks to food banks.
30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the triage of patients by the ambulance service.
30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) serious incident and (b) coroner reports relating to mortality due to ambulance delays there were in each Ambulance Trust in the last year; and what steps he is taking to tackle such d
30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of (a) coroner and (b) serious incidence reports that have cited (i) ambulance delays to see a patient and (ii) waits outside of hospital in an ambulance as factors in
30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Yorkshire and the Humber
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patient safety incident reports, reported on by Yorkshire Ambulance Service, were made by (a) GPs and (b) other non-Yorkshire Ambulance Service clinicians which related to delayed Yorkshir
30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the serious incidences reported by Yorkshire Ambulance Service in each of the last two years; what information his Department hol
30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Coroners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to review (a) the trends in the level of and (b) reasons for coroner requests for information to his Department relating to ambulance delays (i) nationally, (
29 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bootham Park Hospital
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with NHS Property Services on the future use of Bootham Park Hospital.
Source: official written-questions record.