Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will introduce mandatory training for taxi and minicab drivers to ensure that people with sight loss are not discriminated against when using those services.

19 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Social Services: Power Failures

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that care (a) providers and (b) recipients will be protected from energy blackouts in winter 2022; and i

19 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Hate Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the levels of hate crime directed toward people with disabilities, when his Department's new hate crime strategy will be published.

11 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Lewisham Deptford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of mental health specialists in Lewisham, Deptford constituency.

10 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Visas: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is still her Department's policy that eligibility for a British National (Overseas) visa will be extended to people born to at least one British parent in Hong Kong after 1997 in October 20

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on staffing in each year since 2015; and if she will publish a breakdown of the number of people her Department employs at each grade.

10 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the total cost to the public purse of legal aid funding for Upper Tribunal appeals against a decision made by the social security tribunal in each year since 2015.

10 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of Upper Tribunal appeals made against a decision made by the social security tribunal were funded by legal aid in each year since 2015.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with the Prime Minister on ensuring the needs of disabled people remain at the heart of the Government policy.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Departmental Coordination

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to convene the cross-departmental working group on the National Disability Strategy.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of demoting the Minister for Disabled People to a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason she has demoted the Minister for Disabled People role from a Minister of State position to a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.

10 Oct 2022 · Prime Minister

Disability: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Prime Minister, whether she plans to appoint a Minister for Disabled People.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 September 2022 to Question 45954 on Universal Credit: Disqualification, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of collating the information on the stage a Univers

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of whether myalgic encephalomyelitis should be included in the list of potential long-term complications from covid-19 on the NHS website.

10 Oct 2022 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Communication

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to ensure all Government communication is in an accessible format.

10 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of September 26 to Question 51845, what methods her Department uses to assess levels of satisfaction.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid and ME/CFS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to collect data on the number of cases of myalgic encephalomyelitis that have been triggered by a Covid-19 infection.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the research by the Office for National Statistics entitled Prevalence of ongoing symptoms following coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in the UK, published on 1 September 2022, whe

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the findings of Twomey et al published in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Journal volume on 13 January 2022

22 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2022 to Question 49740 on Members: Correspondence, what assessment she has made of the efficiency of transferring the responsibility for redacting detailed commu

21 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the delays customers are experiencing to the Access to Work Scheme; and what further measures her Department are putting in place to address these delays.

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2022 to Question 45008 on Employment Support Allowance, where the information on the total value of compensation payments made following underpayment of Employment

20 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Home Office: Members

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the MP Account Management Team response to the backlog of MPs' enquiries through individual telephone calls or meetings.

8 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the MP Account Management Team in her Department will be able to accept telephone enquiries for cases which do not relate to urgent passport or Ukraine visa applications.

8 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether issuing bulk response emails, including details of a number of different constituents, to enquiries which have exceeded the 20 working day service standard is GDPR compliant.

8 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford may have to wait until February 2023 for responses to enquiries sent to her Department in spring 2022.

5 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Remand in Custody

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to help ensure that a suspect remanded in custody pending trial for sexual assault will not be released prior to a court hearing; and if he will make statement.

5 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Criminal Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether victims of sexual assault can claim compensation for emotional distress in cases where court hearings have been delayed due to a backlog in cases.

5 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Criminal Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for criminal court hearings involving sexual assault.

Source: official written-questions record.