Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the current average length of time an individual must wait to receive the outcome of their Work Capability Assessment.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time is that a person must wait to receive the outcome of their Personal Independence Payment assessment.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the current average length of time an individual must wait to attend a Personal Independence Payment assessment.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time is that a person must wait to attend a Work Capability Assessment.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are waiting to attend a Personal Independence Payment assessment.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are currently waiting in the backlog of applicants who need to attend a Work Capability Assessment.

19 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter dated 22 September 2021 from the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford, regarding a constituent who was recently evacuated from Afghanistan with their family.

19 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 9 July 2020 on Health Transformation Programme update, what assessment her Department has made of their experience of delivering services during the covid-19 o

19 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to ensure that disabled people participate in decisions on the award of contracts under the Health Transformation Programme.

19 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the results of the Health Transformation Programme pilot, including information provided by disabled people on whether that system has improved their experience.

19 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to ensure that disabled people have been able to co-produce the Health Transformation Programme.

8 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Maternity Allowance: Fathers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will include in the forthcoming Employment Bill an extension of maternity allowance for fathers who are ineligible for paternity leave and pay or other statutory support.

8 Nov 2021 · COP26

UN Climate Conference 2021: Access

To ask the President of COP26, what steps he has taken to help prevent a recurrence of the accessibility challenges encountered by Israel’s energy minister when attempting to access the Scottish Event Campus on 1 November 2021.

8 Nov 2021 · COP26

UN Climate Conference 2021: Hearing Impairment

To ask the President of COP26, for what reason sign language and subtitles have only been available for the opening ceremony of COP26 and not for every session.

8 Nov 2021 · COP26

UN Climate Conference 2021: Access

To ask the President of COP26, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to all areas of the Scottish Event Campus.

3 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Exercise

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to put in place a new reporting system to enable myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome patients to report harms resulting from graded exercise therapy following th

3 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Exercise

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that medical practitioners cease to recommend graded exercise therapy to myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome patients following the publicat

3 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Exercise

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the benefits and dis-benefits of graded exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome patients.

3 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in South East London CCG were waiting 52 weeks or more for (a) hip and (b) knee replacement surgery in each month from February 2020 to July 2021.

3 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in South East London CCG were waiting 18 weeks or more for (a) hip and (b) knee replacement surgery in each month from February 2020 to July 2021.

1 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of vaccinating children in year 7 who are 11 years old against covid-19 in the context of their 12 year old peers in the same school

28 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Shaping future support: the health and disability green paper, published on 20 July 2021, if she will take steps to introduce audio recording of disability benefit assessments by d

28 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 9 July 2020 on Health Transformation Programme update (HCWS353), who is currently undertaking benefit eligibility assessments for disabled and seriously people

28 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 9 July 2020 on Health Transformation Programme update (HCWS353), what criteria is used for selecting someone to take part in the Health Transformation Programm

28 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 9 July 2020 on Health Transformation Programme update (HCWS353), how many people have been selected to take part in the north London Health Transformation Prog

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Warm Home Discount Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure all claimants of the Warm Home Discount who have been forced to reapply as a result of their energy provider ceasing trading in recent months are

23 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Autism and Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has taken steps to introduce mandatory basic training for those working in private healthcare with people with (a) learning disabilities and (b) autism.

23 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services and Social Services: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to protect patients from (a) private health and (b) social care companies that have been found guilty of neglecting patients.

23 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide high quality care within communities for vulnerable people.

20 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what resources his Department plans to provide to clinically extremely vulnerable people to improve their awareness of rates of covid-19 in their community; and what steps his Department is taking

Source: official written-questions record.