Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2020 to Question 72774 on Universal Credit, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of providing information on the number of payments of financial redress he

9 Sep 2020 · 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 4 June 2020 to Question 52243 on Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illness, when her Department plans to publish the outcome of the review into how the benefits system support

1 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to work with disabled people, their families and social care providers to develop an action plan to reintroduce safe and flexible community care and support services.

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to mortgage lenders in relation to the scope of recent buildings safety advice provided by the Independent Expert Advisory Panel.

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to review the budget allocated to the Aluminium Composite Material Remediation fund.

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of buildings guidance issued by the Independent Expert Advisory Panel on the sale of leasehold properties in buildings (a) u

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average timeframe is for processing an application to the Aluminium Composite Material remediation fund.

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of applications to the Aluminium Composite Material remediation fund from local authorities have been successful.

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on remediation works to remove Aluminium Composite Material from (a) public and (b) social b

28 Aug 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Uyghurs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the detention of Uighur Muslims in camps in Xinjiang, China; and what plans he has to seek international support for an impartial invest

28 Aug 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People to the Work and Pensions Committee on 29 October 2014, Qq275-6, what estimate she has made of the contribution to the public p

28 Aug 2020 · Home Office

Police: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional (a) funding and (b) resources have been allocated to (i) the Metropolitan Police, (ii) each other police force and (iii) British Transport Police to enable them to enforce the wearing

28 Aug 2020 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much printed material has been distributed to public transport providers operating in (a) the UK, (b) London and (c) Lewisham constituency in relation to the requirement to wear face coverings on public tra

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what printed material his Department has produced to advise passengers that they must wear a face covering on public transport.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to monitor the effect of the ending of the shielding programme on levels of employment among disabled and vulnerable people.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Businesses: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance and support he has provided to businesses to ensure that (a) they are covid-safe and (b) staff who are shielding can return to work safely on 1 August 2020.

22 Jul 2020 · Treasury

Employment: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial support will be made available to shielding people who are unable to work from home and whose places of work cannot be made covid-19-safe by 1 August 2020.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ventilators: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ring-fencing ventilator supply budgets to help ensure the adequacy of supplies for the treatment of children requiring long-term ventilation

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the (a) number and (b) types of applications to the Access to Work scheme since March 2020 as a result of the imposition of covid-19 lockdown restric

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has issued to employers on reasonable adjustments for disabled people in the event that employees are working from home as a result of the Government's covid-19 guidance dur

21 Jul 2020 · Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office

Employment: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the number of disabled people working from home as a result of the covid-19 outbreak or in response to the Government

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of whether there is a need to increase funding for the Access to Work scheme in response to the increase in the volume of applications to that scheme as a result

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who applied to the Access to Work scheme in the last 12 months (a) classified themselves as disabled or with a long-term health condition, (b) were in full-time employment at the time of

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the average length of time taken by her Department to process an Access to Work scheme application from a disabled person; and what the longest average le

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to respond to increases in the volume of claims for the Access to Work grant scheme as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on what the average length of time is for a worker applying for reasonable adjustments to receive a response to that request in the last 12 months.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people applied for reasonable adjustments from their employer in the last 12 months; and what number and proportion of those applying for reasonable adjustments were (a) granted those adjustmen

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how her Department monitors whether disabled workers receive the reasonable adjustments that they are entitled to under the Equality Act 2010 as distinct from the adjustments that her Department funds t

15 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ventilators: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure an adequate supply of (a) bacterial filters, (b) circuits and (c) other ventilator consumables for the treatment of children requiring ventilation.

15 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ventilators: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of ventilator stock for long term ventilated children.

Source: official written-questions record.