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.