Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Codes of Practice

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of making the Cabinet Siting and Pole Siting Code of Practice mandatory.

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of availability of adjustments available to dyslexic users of job centres.

5 Feb 2024 · Cabinet Office

Sikhs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report by the Office for National Statistics entitled Equalities data audit, final report, published on 25 October 2018, how many and what proportion of the datasets audited as part of that

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS 111: Dental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many calls NHS 111 received about dental (a) pain and (b) other problems in each of the last five years.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the gross annual budget was for NHS dental services before deductions for (a) underspends and (b) underperformance for each year from 2010-11 to the latest year for which data is available.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Electronic Cigarettes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vaping products were registered with the Environment Agency; how much was received by Government in UK WEEE Regulations Compliance Fees for vaping products; and if he will mak

30 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much expenditure was reclaimed (a) nationally and (b) per region by NHS England from primary care dental practices that did not meet contractual targets in (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021

29 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Council Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the total costs incurred by local authorities relating to legal cases on the fitness for habitation of council properties in each of the last five year

25 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Falun Gong

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterparts in China on the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners.

24 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of issuing carers' permits to support carers to (a) keep in contact with and (b) accompany patients in care settings.

24 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will issue guidance to care settings on how to (a) support and (b) maintain contact between Parkinsons’ patients and their family members and carers.

23 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support disabled people who own assistance dogs which are (a) XL Bullies or (b) dogs which may be misidentified as XL Bullies.

23 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has held recent discussions with vehicle manufacturers on the adequacy of onboard security measures to prevent vehicle thefts.

23 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will provide guidance to local authorities on the maximum number of telegraph poles that can be erected in local areas per number of households.

23 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Utilities: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the powers available to Local Authorities to hold utility companies to account for defects left behind after excavation work on grassed are

23 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Road Works

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's news story entitled New street works regime to clamp down on pothole pain, published on 31 March 2023, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the new

23 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of prostate cancer deaths.

18 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Deportation: India

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether an Indian Research and Analysis Wing agent was expelled from London in 2023.

17 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

India: Deportation

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether an Indian Police Service officer was expelled from London in 2023.

11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

MMR Vaccine: Disinformation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help tackle MMR vaccine disinformation; and what estimate she has made of the number of measles cases by (a) region, (b) local authority, (c) socioeconomic group and (d)

10 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Telecommunications: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will provide guidance to local authorities on the maximum number of telegraph poles that can be erected in local areas per number of households.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Refugees

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his Pakistani counterpart on (a) the principle of non-refoulement and (b) its other obligations under international human rights law in

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the impact of the return to practice programme on the number of registered nurses.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made assessment of the impact of the increase in return to practice payments for nursing in general practice on the number of registered nurses working in general practice since the

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to publish a response to the consultation entitled Introducing further advertising restrictions on TV and online for products high in fat, salt or sugar: secondary legislation, publi

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Permitted Development Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on requirements to (a) consult residents on and (b) notify residents of the use of permitted development powers for the installa

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Telecommunications: Permitted Development Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of using permitted development powers for the installation of (a) fibre optic and (b) 5G (i) poles and (ii) other infrastruc

5 Jan 2024 · Cabinet Office

Concrete: Research

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will (a) form a national team of academics and industrialists to assess the implications for his policies of the conclusions of public-funded research that has been undertaken on RAAC and (b) request that

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the number of road casualty deaths and serious injuries in each core city.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the viability of alternative schemes to the Highways PFI contract for Birmingham.

Source: official written-questions record.