Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Alzheimer’s Society research showing that 43 per cent of care homes are not fully confident in their supply of personal protective equipment, what plans he has to ensure the s

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Social Distancing: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance he has provided to (a) businesses and (b) service providers on making social distancing measures in place during the covid-19 outbreak accessible for blind and parti

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she has taken to ensure that blind and partially sighted people can be guided safely during the covid-19 outbreak.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Distancing: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance on social distancing is available for blind and partially sighted people.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the outcome of review into how the benefits system supports people who are terminally ill, announced in July 2019.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will conduct a review into the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on disabled people’s health outcomes.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will match his funding for care homes with emergency funding for homecare and supported living providers to help those settings meet extra costs associated with responding to the covid-19 out

1 Jun 2020 · Home Office

Stop and Search: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to police officers regarding the use of PPE during stop and search operations during the covid-19 outbreak.

1 Jun 2020 · Home Office

Stop and Search: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the merits of officers using PPE during stop and search operations during the covid-19 outbreak.

1 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May to Question 43706 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that (a) employment support allowance and (b) personal independence payment t

20 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the rise in monthly increase in deaths of people with (a) autism and (b) learning difficulties during the covid-19 outbreak.

20 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new personal independence payment claims carried out over the phone have been rejected since 1 March 2020.

20 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims for personal independence payment have been rejected since 1 March 2020.

20 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mitigation her Department has put in place to ensure that hospital stays during the covid-19 outbreak period do not affect a person's benefits.

20 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Severe Disability Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a Severe Disability Premium have made a claim for universal credit despite the existence of the Severe Disability Premium gateway in the each of the past three months.

20 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Severe Disability Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of claimants who are in receipt of Severe Disability Premium making a claim for universal in error despite the exist

18 May 2020 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether attendance will be compulsory for pupils who are eligible to return to school from 1 June 2020.

15 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Underpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the under-payment errors in benefits.

15 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claimants have been refused a three month extension of their award on the basis that it was made by the First Tier Tribunal since 23 March 2020.

15 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the press release entitled Coronavirus update - benefit reviews and reassessments suspended, published by her Department on 23 March 2020, for what reasons applications for extensions

15 May 2020 · Home Office

Refugees: Greece

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied refugee children the UK has resettled from the Greek islands in each year since 2016.

15 May 2020 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of unaccompanied child migrants that have crossed the English channel from France and subsequently been granted asylum in the UK in each year

15 May 2020 · Home Office

Refugees: Greece

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to facilitate the resettlement of unaccompanied refugee minors from the Greek islands.

13 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people are (a) in receipt of universal credit, (b) have received the coronavirus uplift to universal credit and (c) are in receipt of (i) Employment and Support Allowance, (ii) Housing

13 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have made new claims for universal credit since 23 March 2020.

13 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to ensure that disabled people have received support to work from home through (a) Access to Work and (b) other measures since 23 March 2020.

12 May 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps the Government has taken to ensure that banks provide loans under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.

6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to publish the outcome of its review on how the benefits system supports people nearing the end of their life and living with severe health conditions.

6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that benefits helplines are fully accessible to people with physical and learning disabilities.

5 May 2020 · Department for Education

Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that disabled students in (a) further and (b) higher education are able to access (i) home learning and (ii) educational support during the covid-19 outbreak.

Source: official written-questions record.