Written questions

793 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office

Defibrillators

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the cost of a defibrillator has prevented the government from mandating their access in all government managed buildings and infrastructure.

28 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office

Defibrillators

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to mandate defibrillators to be located in all government managed buildings and infrastructure.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to require schools to have defibrillators on their premises.

28 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest; and whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing access to defibrill

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Gambling: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of whether gambling advertising is a predictor of at risk and problem gambling in secondary school children.

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of offering sporting bodies sports betting rights, where gambling companies can be charged a fee for the right to use sporting

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the extent to which exposure to gambling advertising is a predictor of (a) at risk and (b) problem gambling among secondary school children.

23 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential causal relationship between gambling advertising and harm caused by gambling.

18 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Open Prisons: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the 500 new prison places for women will be open provision.

18 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women’s prison cells will be brought back into use through the £21 million in funding allocated to refurbishing the women’s prison estate, in each of the next five years.

18 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish its one-year on report on the national concordat on women in contact, or at risk of contact with the criminal justice system.

10 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gamstop

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement that GAMSTOP, an industry-funded organisation, will be operating a single customer view trial, if she will take steps to ensure that the upcoming Gambl

10 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the White Paper on the gambling review.

8 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many female patients aged between 40 and 60 received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy in each of the last three years; and how many prescriptions were made to women of those ages i

8 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy prescriptions in each of the last three years; and how many prescriptions for that treatment were made in each of the last t

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of whether players can sell items won in video game loot boxes for real-world money.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the value of loot box grey markets where players can trade items between accounts.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

National Lottery

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many national lottery participants there are each year on average; and how much on average is lost by the highest spending players.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

National Lottery: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ban the National Lottery from using its brand to promote online instant-win games that may lead to problem gambling.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the total value of microtransactions from loot boxes in video games in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to (a) assess whether loot boxes are harmful to children and (b) gather further data in this area.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will classify loot boxes as a form of gambling in the upcoming review of the Gambling Act 2005.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to publish the response to its 2020 consultation on loot boxes in video games.

20 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2021 to Question 88799, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the Gambling Commission investigating a total of eight deaths by suicide whe

20 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hormone Replacement Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of women who are experiencing the menopause that were receiving a prescription for hormone replacement therapy in (a) each of the last three years and (b

11 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to submit the Sinopharm vaccine to the MHRA and JCVI for consideration as an alternative to currently available vaccines, for those who are unable to receive their fir

7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, (a) how many customer suicides have been reported by gambling operators for the past three years, (b) which operators have reported these and (c) how many of these suicides have been in

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the financial services sector to help prevent harmful gambling.

3 Dec 2021 · Treasury

Bank Services: Gambling

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the Payment Services Directive to ensure that it helps prevent gambling harm.

3 Dec 2021 · Treasury

Financial Services: Gambling

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the financial services sector to help prevent harmful gambling.

Source: official written-questions record.