Written questions

2,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on his Department's ability to meet immunisation targets.

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of the long term health consequences of covid-19 on the NHS.

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) public bodies and (b) companies are carrying out covid-19 tests on behalf of the Government; and what the (a) sensitivity, (b) specificity and (c) cost is of those tests so delivered by t

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Infectious Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) consultants in communicable disease control and (b) community infection control nurses are working in those roles in each local authority area for the most recent period for which such

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish, by local authority area, the number and proportion of close contacts of those who have been, or are suspected as having been, infected or contaminated with covid-19 who (a) are

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish, by local authority area, the number of (a) personnel carrying out covid-19 contact tracing in England and (b) close contacts (i) identified and (ii) traced by those personnel.

28 Aug 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of retrofitting schools to become zero carbon schools on school budgets.

28 Aug 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Carbon Emissions: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of retrofitting schools to become zero carbon schools on (a) carbon emissions and (b) behaviour change.

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the efficacy of National Pharmacy Association advice to pharmacists responding to customer complaints that no admission of error should be made to customers; and whet

24 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to increase the range of (a) extra care housing and (b) housing with care to alleviate pressure on the care home sector.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to make additional funding available to the care sector to cover the additional on-going costs of personal protective equipment required for covid-19 infection control.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity of the care sector to meet the costs of the additional personal protection equipment required for covid-19 infection control in the (a) short, (b) medium

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the on-going additional costs to the care sector of the need for personal protective equipment during the covid-19 outbreak in the (a) short, (b) medium and (c) long-

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of confidence that care homes employing agency staff on an emergency basis can have that those staff will have had a covid-19 test in the last seven days.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of agency care staff who are able to access weekly covid-19 testing.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity for effective covid-19 infection control in supported living settings while access to testing is limited to symptomatic staff and residents.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Supported Housing: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the availability of covid-19 testing in supported living settings.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Supported Housing: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the access to covid-19 testing for (a) residents and (b) staff in supported living settings.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on disabled people.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the National Strategy for Disabled People.

22 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Special Guardianship Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have been under a special guardianship order (a) where there were no care proceedings and (b) where there have been care proceedings in each year since 2010.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were in relative or friend foster care placements as of 31 March 2019 by local authority.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in relative or friend foster care placements as of 31 March 2019 by (a) ethnicity and (b) age of the child.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Total Allowable Catches

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Total Allowable Catches set at the Agrifish Council in December 2019.

22 Jul 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Government financial support for (a) people with no recourse to public funds and (b) local authorities providing support to those peop

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

Roads: Kent

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to carry out further testing of Operation Brock following the (a) announcement to remove the Operation Brock barrier of 10 January 2020 and

21 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contact Tracing: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2020 to Question 64266 on Contact Tracing: Computer Software, which companies have been subcontracted by Serco to deliver contact tracing services; what the (a) val

21 Jul 2020 · Cabinet Office

Public First: Contracts

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts the Government has awarded to Public First Ltd in each year since 2016.

21 Jul 2020 · Cabinet Office

Public First

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the nature is of the on-site resources provided by Public First Ltd to support Number 10 communications.

21 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of new housing units created through permitted development rights.

Source: official written-questions record.