Written questions
1,438 written questions tabled, most recent first.
4 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Broadband: Engineers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to provide support to broadband engineers working on upgrading the broadband network who fear abuse as a result of 5G conspiracy theories.
4 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for local authorities to provide emergency accommodation for people with nowhere safe to stay in the next twelve mon
3 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Email
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will provide an email facility to allow support information for (a) children's disability living allowance, (b) mandatory reconsideration and (c) other benefits applications to be subm
3 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is offering to people without access to the internet to book covid-19 tests.
3 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an email address is a pre-requisite for booking a covid-19 test.
3 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria a person needs to meet in order to book a covid-19 test.
18 May 2020 · Department for Education
Teachers: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to support teachers in providing face-to-face and online support to students in different year groups and classes during the proposed phased re-opening of schools.
18 May 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that children's services have adequate resources to support vulnerable children effectively (a) during and (b) after the covid-19 outbreak.
18 May 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that early intervention children's services are adequately funded.
18 May 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for children's services in light of the finding of the report published by Barnardo's, the Children's Society, Action for Children, the NSPCC and th
13 May 2020 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Agency Workers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether an agency worker that was not a live assignment but was on the payroll of an agency on 19 March 2020 qualifies for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
6 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Death Certificates: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that guidance on the completion of death certificates advises medical practitioners to take into account (a) the former occupation of deceased patients with suspec
6 May 2020 · Cabinet Office
Industrial Diseases: Death Certificates
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many death certificates refer to industrial disease in (a) each year since 2010, (b) March and April 2019, and (c) March and April 2020.
6 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Industrial Diseases: Death Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of relaxing legislation on the completion of death certificates on the number of referrals of potential cases of death by industrial disease to coro
6 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Industrial Diseases: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that industrial chest disease is examined as a potential cause of death in the event that a retired miner dies of suspected covid-19.
5 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated to water quality monitoring since 2010.
5 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: EU Law
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the timetable is for the publication of the Water Framework Directive water body classifications.
5 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many samples of England's designated bathing waters have been taken to monitor water quality (a) since 2010 and (b) in each month of 2020.
5 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to resume sampling of rivers, groundwater and bathing waters to measure water quality.
5 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency's water quality monitoring programme, what number of (a) samples have been taken and (b) sampling points there have been in (i) each year since
4 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have chosen their own alternatives to the free school meal voucher system.
4 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free school meal vouchers have been issued since schools were closed in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
4 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the timely provision to families with children on free school meals of vouchers to spend in a supermarket of their choice.
4 May 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the capacity of Edenred to meet the demand for free school meals while schools are closed during the covid-19 outbreak.
1 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the the level of emergency food parcels provided by food banks in the weeks of March 2020 with same period in 2019.
1 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Death Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to undertake a review of death certificates issued during the covid-19 outbreak to ensure the virus is correctly identified as a cause of death in cases where covid-19
1 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Death Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure that covid-19 is recorded on the death certificates of people that died as a result of that disease.
1 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Death Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued to NHS trusts on recording covid-19 on death certificates.
28 Apr 2020 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department holds data on the number of applications by region made to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme after the eligibility date was extended to 19 March 2020.
28 Apr 2020 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications have been made to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in each region of the UK.
Source: official written-questions record.