Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Apr 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Social Media: Antisemitism

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he has taken to establish codes of conduct for social media companies and industry bodies on the treatment of antisemitic content on their platforms.

17 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Antisemitism

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress his Department has made in response to the 2015 recommendation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism on creating a database of symbols slogans a

17 Apr 2018 · Home Office

Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department provided from the Places of worship: security funding scheme to (a) churches, (b) gurdwaras and (c) mosques in the 2017-18 allocation; and whether such funds will be re

16 Apr 2018 · Home Office

Crime Prevention: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's Serious Violence strategy policy paper published on 9 April 2018, from which of her Department's budgets will the funding announced for a Serious Violence strategy b

16 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if his Department will review Approved Document B as a result of his Department's findings, Analysis of fires in buildings of timber framed construction, England, 2009-10 to 2011

13 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Business Improvement Districts

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to improve the transparency of Business Improvement District bodies.

13 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the fire resilience of flats in timber-framed residential buildings.

27 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Abortion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of appointments for abortions in NHS hospital settings for women with complex medical conditions.

27 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Abortion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women have had to wait for longer than two weeks from their initial appointment for an abortion in each year since 2015.

27 Mar 2018 · Women and Equalities

Facial Disfigurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department takes to ensure that those with facial disfigurements are not subject to discrimination on the basis of their appearance and emotional well-being; and if she will make a sta

27 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for early years providers; what steps he plans to take as a result of those discusions; and if he will make statement.

27 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that colleges advertise in a way which is consistent with his Department;s most recent guidance on the early years workforce, specifically that level 3 learners no longer need

26 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of (a) the accuracy of decisions on Fit for Work assessments, and (b) trends in the level of initial decisions overturned by HM Courts and Tribunal Service between October 2

26 Mar 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Work Capability Assessment: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals were heard by HM Courts and Tribunal Service in response to a Fit for Work decision; and how many initial decisions were overturned, in each month in 2017.

26 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Facial Disfigurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that people with facial disfigurements are not refused (a) medical and (b) surgical treatments for their condition on the grounds that such treatment i

26 Mar 2018 · Women and Equalities

Recruitment: Facial disfigurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to ensure employers comply with the provisions in the Equality Act 2010 on discrimination against people with facial disfigurements applying for jobs.

26 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Facial Disfigurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that (a) early years settings, (b) schools and (c) further education colleges take action against discrimination of pupils based on visible facial disfigurements.

26 Mar 2018 · Women and Equalities

Facial Disfigurement: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to promote the protections enshrined in the Equality Act 2010 for people who experience discrimination as a result of facial (a) differences and (b) disfigurement.

26 Mar 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Facial Disfigurement: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of discrimination cases relating to disfigurement brought under the Equality Act 2010 since 2010.

20 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the creation of a central appraisal system to monitor variations in the (a) uptake and (b) access to (i) medical devices and (ii)

20 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing additional funding for real-time continuous glucose monitoring.

20 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of people with Type 1 diabetes who self-fund a real-time continuous glucose monitor in (i) each clinical commissioning group and (ii) England

19 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Non-domestic Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations his Department has received from Early Years providers on the effect of the level of business rates on the financial viability of their companies.

19 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Schools: Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded pupils benefited from a partnership between an independent school and a state-funded school in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.

19 Mar 2018 · Treasury

Pre-school Education: Non-domestic Rates

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to extend business rates relief to early years providers before the next re-evaluation of rates in 2021.

19 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the recommendations of the Nuffield Trust report International comparisons of health and wellbeing in early childh

19 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infant Mortality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to tackle the increase in infant mortality identified by the Office for National Statistics from 2.6 neonatal deaths per 1,000 births in 2015 to 2.7 neonatal deaths pe

19 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s publication, Guidance for Young People 2017 to 2018 reflects the policy of his Department to reinstate functional skills as an e

19 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the article in Nursery World, Colleges cause confusion by stating need for GCSEs, published on 19 March 2018, if he will publish the correspondence between his Department and the Association o

13 Mar 2018 · Department for Transport

Railways: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons the nationwide trial of the 26-30 railcard was limited to 10,000 such railcards; and whether his Department took steps to ensure that government digital systems could cope with the level of dem

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