Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Jul 2023 · Treasury

Credit: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his planned timescale is for implementing regulations on buy-now pay-later providers.

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Voucher Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a minimum time period after which gift cards can expire.

13 Jul 2023 · Home Office

Recreation Spaces: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to mitigate the risk of wildfires starting in urban green spaces.

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Education

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support families caring for disabled children.

13 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to stop hospitals sending results letters with advertisements for private healthcare included.

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Noise

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing noise limits on motor vehicles.

13 Jul 2023 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many additional Stamp Duty Land Tax refunds have taken longer than 35 days to process in the last 12 months.

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support individuals on student loan plans (a) 2 and (b) 4.

29 Jun 2023 · Cabinet Office

Emergencies: Mobile Phones

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the Emergency alert test on 23 April 2023; and whether a value-for-money analysis was carried out.

14 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Mortgages: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of mortgage lenders passing on costs through early repayment fees on consumers.

14 Jun 2023 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to extend compensation payments to the children of people affected by the infected blood scandal who died before they were able to receive payment.

14 Jun 2023 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to extend infected blood compensation payments to the children of people affected who died before they were able to receive payment.

14 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Electronic Cigarettes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of underage young people vaping.

14 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Motor Vehicles: Ownership

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of requiring that scrapyards check the ownership of a vehicle before processing it.

14 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that teachers are trained to identify signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as early as possible.

14 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people are able to access face to face appointments with GPs.

14 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to improve diabetes care in the Major Conditions Strategy.

14 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prevent trophy hunters bringing hunt souvenirs into the United Kingdom through Northern Ireland.

14 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Genetically Modified Organisms

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prevent pollen or seeds from trials of genetically modified crops from spreading to the surrounding environment.

14 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Cost of Living Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people on housing benefits to claim Cost of Living payments.

14 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Travellers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2023 to Question 173047 on Travellers, whether she plans to review the Equality Impact Assessment for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

14 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Committee of Privileges: Legal Costs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department approved the cost of legal advice provided to the former Rt hon. Member for Uxbridge for the investigation into his conduct by the Committee of Privileges.

9 May 2023 · Home Office

Border Controls: Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing documentation to people who have been stopped under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act so that they may potentially claim fr

9 May 2023 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing interest on student loans.

9 May 2023 · Home Office

Telephone Tapping

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal data processing of telephone conversations without consent.

9 May 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the recording regulations in the Data Protection Act 1998 to ensure that consent is obtained from all

9 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Genetics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS England publication entitled Accelerating genomic medicine in the NHS, published on 12 October 2022, what steps his Department has taken to embed that strategy.

9 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Phenytoin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Competition and Markets Authority finding in 2022 that Pfizer and Flynn charged the NHS unfairly high prices for phenytoin sodium capsules for over four years, what steps his

9 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve early diagnosis rates for (a) children, (b) teenagers and (c) young adults with sarcoma cancers.

9 May 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including measures to help tackle fake online reviews in the Online Safety Bill.

Source: official written-questions record.