Written questions

3,797 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British National (Overseas): Mandatory Provident Fund

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his international counterparts on the withholding of mandatory provident funds in Hong Kong from British National (Overseas) passport ho

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to announce his plans for the household support fund for financial year 2024-25.

18 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts: First Time Buyers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the penalty charge to 20% for people (a) with Lifetime ISAs and (b) whose first property costs more than £450,000.

18 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts: First Time Buyers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Lifetime ISAs for helping first-time buyers in London.

14 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Physician Associates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to require physician associates working in the NHS to state their job title during telephone and in-person appointments.

14 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of regulating (a) anaesthesia and (b) physician associates through the General Medical Council on public perception of those roles.

14 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with the Health and Care Professions Council on the regulation of NHS (a) physician and (b) anaesthesia associates.

14 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of regulating NHS (a) physician and (b) anaesthesia associates through the Health and Care Professions Council.

14 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to recruit more General Practitioners in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

13 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on the formal process by which asylum seekers (a) are notified that they should leave hotels and (b) move to other Home Office-funded accommodation.

13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Taliban

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to use official engagement with the Taliban to engage with the Afghan people.

13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Civil Society

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he has taken to facilitate regular engagement with Afghan civil society.

12 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of levels of youth unemployment in Hornsey & Wood Green constituency in each of the last 5 years.

12 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce youth unemployment in Hornsey and Wood Green consitutency.

8 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sri Lanka: Water Supply

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterpart in Sri Lanka on water quality in the north of that country.

7 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a pilot scheme of mandatory autism training in education settings.

30 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 26 January 2023 to Question 128715 on Health: Disadvantages, what plans she has to expand the Major Conditions Strategy to address ethnic and gender disparities.

30 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Out of Area Treatment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 21 April 2023 to Question 180599 on Orthopaedics: Out of Area Treatment, what plans her Department has to support patients who are ineligible for (a) NHS non-emergen

30 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Major conditions strategy: case for change and our strategic framework published on 21 August 2023, what steps she is taking to ensure NHS no

30 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Major conditions strategy: case for change and our strategic framework published on 14 August 2023, what plans her Department has to align NH

28 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussion he has had with car insurance providers on (a) changes in the price of car insurance renewals in the last 12 months and (b) the potential impact of such changes on consumers.

27 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Standing Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has had discussions with Ofgem on increases to the energy standing charge.

27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Cold Weather Payments: Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cold weather payments were made to pensioners in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency in (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23; and what the total value of those payments were.

27 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

North Korea: Satellites

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions he has had with regional partners on North Korea's satellite launch capabilities.

27 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) availability and (b) supply levels of covid-19 vaccine.

23 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Muslims

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the rights of the Muslim population of that country.

23 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Belt and Road Initiative: China Investment Corporation

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of China Investment Corporation’s involvement in the Belt and Road Initiative.

22 Nov 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's polices of the British Red Cross' report entitled Fearing, fleeing, facing the future: how people

21 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a national vaccination strategy.

20 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Law Reporting: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of making (a) full transcripts and (b) audio recordings of hearings in the Crown Court free for victims of crime.

Source: official written-questions record.