Written questions
821 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure greater accessibility to healthcare (a) information and (b) communication for people with sensory impairments.
18 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the accessibility of healthcare (a) information and (b) communication for deaf patients using British Sign Language.
18 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to revise the Accessible Information Standard to improve accessibility to healthcare for deaf people.
18 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to publish the sixth stage of the Accessible Information Standard.
11 Nov 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: LGBTQ+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support LGBT people seeking asylum.
11 Nov 2024 · Home Office
Politics and Government: Georgia
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to section 80AA(1) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing Georgia from the list of safe states for the p
10 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Cats: Animal Breeding
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to tackle (a) unethical cat breeding and (b) kitten farming.
9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish a call to evidence for the NHS 10-Year Plan.
18 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport
Motorcycles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of regulations on motorcycles towing trailers; and whether she plans to (a) review and (b) amend those regulations.
14 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sickle Cell Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department has taken to improve awareness of sickle cell disease among healthcare professionals.
14 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that NHS medical staff are made aware of a patient's personalised care plan.
14 May 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Cats and Dogs: Electronic Training Aids
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals to ban the use of electronic shock collars on (a) cats and (b) dogs.
26 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including material on (a) diagnosing and (b) detecting cardiovascular diseases in women's health hubs.
26 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase awareness of the symptoms of heart valve disease in women.
26 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase the availability of heart valve surgery for (a) women and (b) ethnic minorities.
13 Mar 2024 · Treasury
National Insurance: State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance Contributions on determining eligibility criteria for the state pension.
13 Mar 2024 · Treasury
National Insurance: State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance Contributions on funding for state pensions.
13 Mar 2024 · Treasury
National Insurance: Pensioners
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance Contributions on pensioners' finances.
29 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensions: Consumer Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse of the Pensions Dashboards programme has been as of 29 January 2024.
6 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Yemen: Food Insecurity
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with the UN World Food Programme on the decision to pause food distribution in northern Yemen; and whether his Department is taking steps to
6 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November to Question 881 on Bowel Cancer: Screening, what her planned timetable is for publishing a decision on lowering the screening age for bowel cancer from 60 to 5
5 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November to Question 881 on Bowel Cancer: Screening, when the last review of the national bowel cancer screening programme was completed; and what her planned timetable
22 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure women who use wheelchairs have access to mammograms.
8 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the national bowel screening programme, when he plans to next review that programme; and whether he has plans to raise the acceptable and achievable bowel screening target thresho
8 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Yorkshire and the Humber
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of rates of breast screening participation in Yorkshire.
7 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for pension credit were received in the financial years (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23.
7 Nov 2023 · Treasury
Sanitary Protection: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that the cost saving arising from the removal of VAT on period products is passed onto consumers.
23 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport
Driving Licences: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the Driving licensing review - call for evidence on opportunities for changes to the driver licensing regime.
23 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Chimneys: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has taken steps to raise awareness of the NVQ in chimney sweeping among the construction and insurance industries.
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to chapter 2 of the report entitled, Tipping Point: The Future of Dementia, published by Alzheimer’s Research UK in September 2023, whether he has considered the potential merits of
Source: official written-questions record.