Written questions
593 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Sep 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent preparations his Department has made to ensure the supply of medicines will be maintained from the EU to the UK in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
2 Sep 2019 · Home Office
Avon and Somerset Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's recent announcement to recruit 20,000 more police officers, (a) how many of those police officers her Department plans to deploy to Avon and Somerset and (b) what th
2 Sep 2019 · Home Office
Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's recent announcement to recruit 20,000 more police officers, what criteria she will use to determine the number of new police to be deployed in each area of the count
2 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Bottles: Deposit Return Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environmental Audit Committee report, Plastic bottles: Turning back the plastic tide, published on 22 December 2017, HC 339, what steps she is taking to encourage
2 Sep 2019 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to set National Minimum Standards for taxi and private hire vehicle licensing including a requirement for all taxi and private hire vehicle drivers to undert
25 Jul 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Climate Change: Clothing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environmental Audit Committee report, Fixing Fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability, published on 19 February, HC 1952, if she will make an assessment o
15 Jul 2019 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the equity of means-testing for child benefit in relation to couples in which one parent is entitled to child benefit and the other is not.
11 Jul 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universities Superannuation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of claims that the Universities Superannuation Scheme exaggerated its budget deficit in November 2017.
8 Jul 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban bullying in the workplace.
3 Jul 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Facial Palsy: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the way that facial palsy treatment is (a) assessed and (b) funded.
20 Jun 2019 · Department for International Development
Uganda: Overseas Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the UK spends in Official Development Assistance in Uganda; and to what projects that funding is allocated.
20 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to review the Government's decision to calculate child maintenance liabilities as a proportion of gross rather than net parental income; and if she will make a statement.
20 Jun 2019 · Women and Equalities
Civil Partnerships: Heterosexuality
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to use the powers in section 2(1) of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 to amend the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to enable two persons who are not of the sam
18 Jun 2019 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office has plans to provide EU citizens with physical documentation confirming their settled status after the UK leaves the EU.
3 Jun 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescription Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescriptions of (a) individual benzodiazepine drugs and (b) individual antidepressants were dispensed in the community in 2018.
23 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Debts: Judgements
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many judgments in cases related to debt courts have made in each of the last 10 years broken down by (a) the age group of defendants and (b) the specific debt-related offence.
10 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason Carers' Allowance is not paid to people that have reached state pensionable age.
10 Apr 2019 · Home Office
Visas: Carers and Home Care Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has for individuals who employ (a) carers and (b) other types of domestic help to have sponsorship and guarantor rights under the Tier 2 regulations.
10 Apr 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Cars: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many individual voluntary agreements were issued in relation to car finance agreements in each of the last 10 years.
27 Mar 2019 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to review the immigration exemption at schedule 2, paragraph 4 of the Data Protection Act 2018.
20 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to prioritise patients with (a) terminal cancer and (b) cancer for the receipt of drugs in the event of medicine shortages due to the UK leaving the EU (i) without an agreement and
18 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Babylon Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he holds information on the amount of revenue allocated from the NHS GP funding formula which Babylon Healthcare has spent on primary healthcare in each of the last five years; and if he wi
18 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Terminal Illnesses: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has in place to ensure that people accessing secondary health care for terminal illnesses who are (a) reliant on life-extending and (b) dependent on drugs do not have thei
18 Mar 2019 · Department for Education
Primary Education: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish his plans for the baseline assessment testing of four year olds to be undertaken within six weeks of such children joining a reception class.
5 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average annual cost to a GP's surgery is of providing NHS GP funding formula funded primary care to someone between the ages of 20 to 49 years old.
5 Mar 2019 · Home Office
Vetting: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to process DBS checks for potential care workers.
26 Feb 2019 · Department for Education
Teachers: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government will meet the costs of changes associated with employer contributions to the Teachers' Pensions Schemes for maintained nursery schools.
26 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce a central employment forum for people on the Autistic Spectrum, to match skill sets and employer needs.
19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national registration and accreditation system for care workers.
13 Feb 2019 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: ICT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many citizens have registered a voice recognition password to access HMRC services; and what legal provisions apply to the collation of that voice recognition data by HMRC.
Source: official written-questions record.