Written questions
1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.
26 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants who were offered an increased benefits award after lodging an appeal were provided with an interpreter in 2020.
26 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2021 to Question 171674, on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, what training decision makers receive in respect of the Decision makers’ guide, volume 1, chapter
14 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Publicity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library the minutes, action log, or any written record of her Department's internal meetings on the DWP Universal Credit Take Up campaign that have taken place since 1 January 2
23 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 105483, tabled by the Hon. Member for Edmonton on 19 October 2020.
23 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 105481, tabled by the Hon. Member for Edmonton on 19 October 2020.
23 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 102133, tabled by the Hon. Member for Edmonton on 12 October 2020.
18 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what policy guidance departmental staff follow when offering claimants an increased benefits award over the telephone after their appeal has been lodged; and if she will place a copy of that policy in t
18 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to inform benefit claimants who have been offered an increased benefits award after lodging a successful appeal of those claimants' rights associated with that new increa
18 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claimants who accepted an offer made by her Department in 2020 of an increased benefits award after lodging their appeal subsequently then a
18 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claimants offered an increased benefits award by her Department in 2020, after lodging their appeal, which if accepted would have lapsed the
16 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Travel: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to assist people who are unable to pay for the managed quarantined charge within the 12 months allowed by the deferred repayment plan.
16 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Travel: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the maximum monthly payment is for people who are using the deferred repayment plan to pay for the managed quarantine charge.
16 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Travel: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have applied for a deferred repayment plan in relation to the managed quarantine charge.
16 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Travel: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to support British citizens and residents returning from red list travel ban countries who are unable to meet the costs of mandatory hotel quarantine and who are not in rece
12 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
UK Community Renewal Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using the Indices of Multiple Deprivation to prioritise investments through the UK Community Renewal Fund.
12 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
UK Community Renewal Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the measure of household income used for the index of economic resilience for the UK Community Renewal Fund differs from the Income Deprivation Domain used in the Indices of
12 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Levelling Up Fund and UK Community Renewal Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the Government does not plan to publish immediately the methodology used to calculate the index employed to categorise places for the Levelling Up Fund and UK Co
12 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the evidence of the Senior Responsible Owner of Universal Credit at the Department for Work and Pensions at the joint meeting of the Lords Economic Affairs Committee and Commons Work a
11 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2021 to Question 160753, what steps her Department is taking to support people who are unable to undertake a telephone assessment because of their health condition.
11 Mar 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Enfield
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many properties are classified as (a) initial accommodation, (b) hostels and (c) hostel-like accommodation for asylum seekers in the borough of Enfield.
9 Mar 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Xinjiang: Forced Labour
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral statement of 12 January 2021, Official Report, column 160 on Xinjiang: forced labour, whether Magnitsky style sanctions are now being considered ag
1 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for people on universal credit and employment and support allowance who have been told that they have to wait for face-to-face Work Capability Assessments to resume before they can be assessed, due to b
1 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason it is her policy to provide virtual telephone Work Capability Assessments to people on personal independence payment who (a) require interpreters (including BSL), (b) have hearing diffic
1 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in 2020 on (a) universal credit and (b) employment and support allowance were denied a virtual telephone Work Capability Assessment, following a refusal to make a paper-based decision, b
25 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Pedestrian Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to accelerate the installation of tactile paving on train platforms at mainline stations.
25 Feb 2021 · Department for International Trade
Business: Nigeria
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policy of her Department's updated guidance to UK firms operating in Nigeria that Nigeria has a democratic framework which guarantees human rig
25 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the cost of the surplus covid-19 vaccine doses for low income countries will be met by the UK.
25 Feb 2021 · Leader of the House
Leader of the House of Commons: Written Questions
To ask the Leader of the House, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the time taken to answer Questions (a) 102133 tabled on 9 October 2020 and (b) 105481 to 105483 tabled on 19 October 2020.
22 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Saudi Arabia: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of granting UK Export licenses for arms sales to Saudi Arabia on the UK's development goals in Yemen.
22 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Yemen: Humanitarian Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of restricting arms sales to Saudi Arabia on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
Source: official written-questions record.