Written questions
1,333 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Community Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department are taking to support the growth of community energy schemes.
17 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Standing Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of taking legislative steps to reduce energy standing charges.
17 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve breast cancer screening rates in (a) the UK and (b) Ealing Central and Acton constituency.
17 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Hearing Impairment: Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the number of qualified teachers for deaf children in schools.
8 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Cost of Living: Visual Impairment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps his Department is taking to help ensure that increases in the cost of living do not disproportionately impact (a) blind and (b) partially sighted people.
8 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all fruit provided to children in state schools through the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme has Fairtrade accreditation.
8 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cervical Cancer: Ealing Central and Acton
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve diagnosis times for cervical cancer in Ealing Central and Acton constituency.
8 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Long Covid: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing additional funding for UK-based bioscientific research into (a) the causes and (b) treatment of Long Covid.
7 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Yevgeny Prigozhin
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to restrict the provision of legal services to Russia in the context of the case of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
7 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
EU Law: Parliamentary Scrutiny
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional time for parliamentary scrutiny before automatically revoking certain retained EU law.
6 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Saudi Arabia: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ban the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia.
3 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing further financial support for hospices, in the context of (a) the cost-of-living crisis and (b) rising energy bills.
3 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Immigration: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including those with no recourse to public funds in cost-of-living support schemes.
3 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Immigration: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support people with no recourse to public funds, in the context of the cost-of-living crisis.
2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of GPs in (a) Ealing Central and Acton constituency and (b) London.
1 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Mileage Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of a review of mileage rates in the context of increases in the cost of living.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Long Covid: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to further research into (a) the nature of long covid and (b) the impact of long covid on people’s health.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Neonicotinoids
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the (a) impact of the use of thiamethoxam on the UK’s bee population and (b) potential merits of banning the use of thiamethoxam.
31 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Schools: Ealing Central and Acton
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 37614 on Schools: Buildings, which schools in Ealing Central and Acton constituency had at least one construction element in (a) condition grade C and (b) cond
31 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the appropriateness of the use of hotel accommodation for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; and if she will take steps to review that assessment in the context of
31 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of an inquiry into safeguarding measures in relation to asylum accommodation in the context of reports of 200 missing asylum-seeking children
30 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to increase the provision of audio-visual announcements on local bus services for blind and partially sighted people.
30 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the need for a ministerial portfolio for eradicating the use of animals in laboratory experiments.
24 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to provide (a) universal affordable access to bicycles and (b) grants for e-bike purchase.
24 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Bicycles: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of restarting the Fix Your Bike voucher scheme.
24 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Cycling: Lighting
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free bicycle lights to cyclists under the age of 18 in England.
23 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diabetes: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report of the Diabetes and Mental Health Expert Working Group in England entitled An integrated care model for mental health in diabetes, published 20 December 2022, whether h
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Travel: Concessions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the (a) scope of and (b) eligibility for (i) free and (ii) discounted student travel in the context of the cost of living crisis.
18 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Anti-corruption Champion
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to recruit an Anti-Corruption Champion.
17 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to accelerate the decision-making process for asylum applications from people from Syria.
Source: official written-questions record.