Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2016 to Question 47528 and the Answer of 17 October 2016 to HL 2020, if he will provide further detail on the consideration of responses to questions seven and 11 an

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made in implementing (a) all the recommendations and (b) the recommendations that seek to achieve fairer energy tariffs for disabled people in the

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Non-domestic Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities receive a 50 per cent discount from the public purse on the costs to them of reduced business rates since the Minister for Childcare's address at the launch of the NDNA Annual Nursery

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Non-domestic Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities have offered reduced business rates to private nurseries since the Minister for Childcare's speech at the launch of the NDNA's Annual Nursery Survey in January 2015.

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Non-domestic Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on forcing local authorities to offer flexible business rates for private nurseries.

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Non-domestic Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to encourage local authorities to offer business rate exemptions to nurseries.

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the recommendations on improving digital accessibility for disabled people of the Extra Costs Commission, ini

17 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

Insurance: Disability

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will request that regulators investigate whether disabled people have access to insurance that fairly reflects risk.

17 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the Extra Costs Commission, initiated by the disability charity Scope in July 2014.

17 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the Extra Costs Commission, initiated by the disability charity Scope in July 2014.

17 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Motability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to take steps to reverse the decline in the number of Motability users.

17 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Home Office: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the recommendations of the Extra Costs Commission, initiated by the disability charity Scope in July 2014.

17 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Harassment: Social Media

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to tackle online abuse and harassment targeted at women on (a) social media networks, (b) Facebook and (c) Twitter.

17 Oct 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Antisemitism: Social Media

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to tackle online abuse and harassment targeted at Jewish people on (a) social media networks, (b) Facebook and (c) Twitter.

17 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will increase funding to maintained nursery schools after 2017-18.

17 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the proposed changes to the (a) funding of each local authority in London and (b) hourly rate that providers will receive in 2017-18 after the introduction of the Early Years National Fundin

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many respondents to the first consultation on reforming housing benefit for supported housing in 2011 responded that a localised pot would support the right of disabled people to live independently.

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work and Health Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish its Work and Health Green Paper; and if he will make a statement.

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps have been taken to prevent taxi drivers charging extra to disabled people.

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when steps have been taken to enact the provisions within section 165 of the Equality Act 2010.

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Cycle to Work Scheme: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to amend the Cycle to Work scheme to incorporate a higher maximum allowance for disabled cyclists requiring specialist cycles.

7 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Hate Crime: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hate crimes were committed against disabled people in each of the last five years.

7 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to ensure that all EU citizens living in the UK will receive proof of their right to remain in the UK before any restrictions on new EU citizens are introduced; and how i

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Internet: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps have been taken to assess the effectiveness of the Equality Act 2010 in improving web accessibility for disabled people.

5 Sep 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who received redundancy payments from the NHS in 2015-16 were subsequently re-employed by the NHS on a (a) consultancy and (b) permanent basis; and what the cost to the NHS was of those redundancy

21 Jul 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who in her Department authorised the decision to trial in London the use of Go Home advertisement vans in 2013; and what information her predecessor had received on that trial before it commenced.

21 Jul 2016 · Department of Health

Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to publish its response to the recommendations in the final report of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, published in May 2016.

21 Jul 2016 · Department of Health

Antibiotics: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to publish its strategy for halving inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions by 2020.

21 Jul 2016 · Department of Health

Antimicrobials: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much additional funding is being made available by his Department to meet the target of a 50 per cent reduction in prescription of antimicrobial drugs.

7 Jul 2016 · HM Treasury

Tax Collection

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to table 7.1 of HM Revenue and Customs' document, Measuring Tax Gaps, 2015 Edition, published in October 2015, what definition his Department uses of the terms (a) technical risks not subject to litiga

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