Written questions
1,940 written questions tabled, most recent first.
31 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to keep the (a) triple lock on pensions, (b) winter fuel payment, (c) the older person's bus pass and (d) all other pensioner benefits.
31 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to raise the rates of (a) income tax, (b) national insurance and (c) VAT.
31 Oct 2022 · Department for International Trade
Trade Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of UK international trade is covered by free trade agreements.
27 Oct 2022 · Home Office
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan refugees are awaiting housing resettlement following their entry into the UK through Government schemes.
27 Oct 2022 · Home Office
Immigration: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many BNO Visa holders from Hong Kong live in each London borough.
27 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the number of Ukrainians housed under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme in each London borough.
24 Oct 2022 · Department for Education
Social Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of public spending cuts on child social care.
24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance response time was in each response time category in each region in each of the last five years.
24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Visitors and Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) FTE nurses and (b) health visitors there were in the NHS workforce, by region, in each of the last five years.
24 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job vacancies there are in England (a) in total and (b) by region.
24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS nurse vacancies there have been in the UK, by region, in each of the last five years.
24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS vacancies there are in London (a) in total and (b) by (i) NHS Trust and (ii) clinical commissioning group.
20 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2022 to Question 59947 on General Practitioners: Greater London, how many NHS GPs there were by (a) clinical commissioning group and (b) NHS Trust in London in
19 Oct 2022 · Department for Education
Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were in local authority care in each of the last five years.
19 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Incentives: Businesses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he can provide a monthly breakdown of average weekly earnings of bonus pay across businesses in SIC 2007 section K, L, M, and N in each of the last four years.
18 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Midwives
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the number of (a) private and (b) NHS midwives working in each clinical commissioning group area in each of the last 5 years.
18 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Private Rented Housing: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what discussions his Department has held with stakeholders in the student accommodation sector on the proposals in the White Paper: A fairer private rented sector.
18 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference HC Deb 17 October 2022, col 396 on the freeze to alcohol duty rates from February 2023; whether the draught relief will be applied to containers of 20 litres and above.
18 Oct 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the total number of farms in England in each of the last five years.
18 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what percentage of people in England were in fuel poverty in each of the last five years.
18 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Standard of Living
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of when living standards will return to 2008 levels in real terms.
17 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Immunosuppression
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people who are immunosuppressed still receive notifications to remind them of their covid-19 booster vaccine eligibility.
17 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time for an ambulance in each of the last five years.
14 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing UK contributions to Global Fund programmes that help tackle (a) AIDS, (b) tuberculosis, and (c) malaria.
13 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Learning Disability: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the number of children that have been registered as having a learning disability in each of the last five years.
11 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Electricity: Standing Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the comparative effect of the standing charge for electricity on low income households compared to other households.
11 Oct 2022 · Home Office
Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that UK companies are transparent about the actions they are taking to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains.
11 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Financial Services: Incentives
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of the potential effect of lifting the cap on bankers' bonuses on inflation rates.
11 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Public Houses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which businesses have used the Standard Industrial Classification code 56302 in each region of the UK in each of the last 10 years.
11 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the merits of contributing to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Source: official written-questions record.