Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

BSL Health Access: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to renew funding for BSL Health Access.

17 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Occupational Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2021 to Question 166493 on Employment: Surveys, if she will provide further clarification as to what her Department means by shortly.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2021 to Question 166429, if her Department will remove the three-year award duration for claims made under the Special Rules for Terminal Illness.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the delay to the publication of her Department’s review of the Special Rules for Terminal Illness.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2021 to Question 161811 on Personal Independent Payment, whether the guidance used to (a) produce the estimates and (b) process the backdated payments following the jud

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2021 to Question 161811 on Personal Independent Payment, whether her Department has written to all individuals affected by the judgement to (a) inform them whether they

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2021 to Question 161811 on Personal Independent Payment, whether her Department carried out an equality impact assessment before drafting the renewed guidance following

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Health and Work programme announced in the Improving Lives: the future of work, health and disability White Paper in supporting indivi

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who have found employment as a result of the Personal Support Package announced in the Improving Lives: the future of work, health and disab

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have received support from the Personal Support Package announced in the Improving Lives: the future of work, health and disability White Paper.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress her Department has made on the commitments set out in the Improving Lives: the Work, Health, Disability Green Paper.

16 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department was informed by the expert advisory group that an extra 1.7 million people would need to be added to the clinically extremely vulnerable list.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times (a) she and (b) the Minister for Disabled People has attended the Reasonable Adjustment Forum over the last 12 months.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the Reasonable Adjustment Forum has met over the last 12 months.

10 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to publish its response to the 2019 Health is everyone’s business consultation.

10 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Occupational Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to publish in full the survey entitled, Sickness absence and health in the workplace: understanding employer behaviour and practice employers relating to workplace health follo

10 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Sick Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data the Government holds on the number and proportion of (a) employers who have paid and (b) employees who have received (i) statutory sick pay and (ii) occupational sick pay in the most recent pe

10 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the prevalence of digital exclusion among disabled people.

10 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the level of digital exclusion experienced by disabled people accessing (a) universal credit, (b) personal independence payments, (c) attendance allo

2 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy that a deceased claimant's next of kin are entitled to their backdated personal independence payments following the MH and RJ decisions.

2 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the reasons for the disparity between the equality impact assessment estimated 16 per cent of claimants due a backdated personal independence payment following

2 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure her Department contacts each person due a backdated personal independent payment.

25 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending pupil premium funding to all children from families with no recourse to public funds.

22 Feb 2021 · Cabinet Office

Voting Behaviour: Disability

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data his Department holds on voter turnout levels among disabled people.

22 Feb 2021 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding his Department has provided to local authorities specifically to ensure upcoming elections are accessible in the context of covid-19 restrictions.

22 Feb 2021 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Disability

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to improve electoral registration levels among disabled people.

22 Feb 2021 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Disability

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to ensure voting is accessible for disabled people, including the accessibility of (a) polling stations and (b) forms.

22 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

What steps he is taking to ensure that all residential buildings with unsafe cladding are remediated.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department has made with the Independent Assessment Service and Capita on finding a suitable method of audio recording ahead of the reintroduction of face-to-face assessments.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to launch the pilot of its integrated assessment service in autumn 2021.

Source: official written-questions record.