Written questions
2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will consider offering Access to Work applicants an extension to their grant where excessive delays to the renewal process is preventing them engaging a support worker.
15 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has provided to people who need to book a support workers but are experiencing excessive delays with Access to Work when (a) submitting a new application and (b) seeking to
14 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Flexible Working: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to publish the outcome of its Making flexible working the default consultation.
14 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much is spent on average annually on sight loss rehabilitation services in the UK; and whether there are plans to increase that spending in the future.
14 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of sight loss rehabilitation officers in the UK as of 14 March 2022; and whether he has plans to increase that number in the future.
10 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
ME/CFS: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people who have received a diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome will be included in future Government covid-19 guidance for people with neurological conditions
10 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
ME/CFS: Medical Records
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome patients are correctly coded by GPs at the point of diagnosis.
7 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Preventive Medicine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to purchase existing prophylactic treatments for covid-19 in the future.
1 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Immunosuppression: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to COVID-19 Response: Living with COVID-19, published on 21 February 2022, how an immunocompromised person who tests positive for covid-19 can access treatments that may help them to
28 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Immunosuppression
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department plans to issue to employers to support their immunocompromised staff to work safely from their place of work after the existing covid-19 infection control measures are lifte
28 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the next covid-19 booster jab is not being offered to people under the age of 75 with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of severe covid-19.
28 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people eligible to take part in the PANORAMIC study will continue to receive free covid-19 tests once free mass testing has ended.
28 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Preventive Medicine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of prophylactic use of antivirals for people who are immunocompromised.
28 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) friends, (b) family members and (c) carers of immunocompromised people will be able to access free asymptomatic covid-19 tests once mass free testing has ended.
28 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Immunosuppression: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department consulted with charities representing immunosuppressed people on the Government's plan for living with covid-19.
28 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Government: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17th January 2022 to Question 105664 on Government: Procurement, whether the first meeting of the Disability Commissioning Taskforce took place on 26th January 2022 as planned;
28 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Disability Data Working Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2022 to Question 105652 on Disability, whether the first meeting of the Disability Data Working Group went ahead as planned in February 2022; if he will publish
23 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2022 to Question 102716 on HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Disability, whether the test phase went live as planned on 31 January 2022.
23 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2022 to Question 103614 on Disability, when the FCDO Disability Inclusion Board is due to meet next.
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 105660 on Railway Stations: Disability, what further progress has been made towards finalising a public consultation to revise the Design Standards for Acce
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Tourism: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2022 to Question 113206 on Tourism: Disability, on what date the ministerial meeting with Cross-Government Accessibility Ambassadors went ahead; whet
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Government: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2022 to Question 105664 on Government: Procurement, whether the first meeting of the Disability Commissioning Taskforce took place on 26 January 2022 as planned; if
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610 on the satisfaction ratings for disability benefit assessments, what customer satisfaction targets (a) Atos, (b) Capita and (c) Maximus are r
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610 on the satisfaction ratings for disability benefit assessments, whether her Department has ever requested an independent audit of the satisfa
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610 on the satisfaction ratings for disability benefit assessments, how frequently her Department receives a full breakdown of answers to each of
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at what point in the customer journey for the work capability assessment and personal independence payment assessment are disabled and seriously unwell people contacted by the assessor company for their
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610 on the satisfaction ratings for disability benefit assessments, if she will ask Atos to provide a detailed breakdown of the responses of disa
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610, if she will ask Capita to provide a detailed breakdown of the responses of disabled people to questions 10 and 11 in its survey about whethe
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610, if she will ask Maximus UK (Health Assessment Advisory Service Ltd) to provide a detailed breakdown of the responses of disabled people to t
23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
ME/CFS: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who have received a diagnosis of (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis and (b) chronic fatigue syndrome are currently in employment.
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