Written questions

561 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Attendance Allowance and Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to change the application processes for personal independence payment and attendance allowance to allow third parties to help claimants.

23 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to digitise the application processes for (a) personal independence payments, (b) attendance allowance and (c) other benefits.

23 Jan 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Overseas Territories: Marine Protected Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Governments of the UK Overseas Territories on creating fully enforced Marine Protected Areas in their waters.

20 Dec 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gaming Machines: Gower

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the effect of fixed-odds betting terminals on gambling addiction rates in Gower constituency in the last three years.

20 Dec 2017 · Department of Health

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2017 to Question 112909 on in vitro fertilisation, whether his Department plans to extend the 10-year holding period for a healthy woman to freeze her eggs.

20 Dec 2017 · Cabinet Office

Young People: Gower

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many 18 to 25 year olds in Gower constituency were recorded (a) in the latest census estimate and (b) on the electoral register.

20 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Gower

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Gower constituency had personal independence payments overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in each of the last five

20 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of children were living in poverty in Gower in each year for which data is available.

20 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Gower, (b) Wales and (c) the UK are not eligible for the new state pension due to having less than 10 years of national insurance contributions.

20 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Older Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been helped to (a) remain in and (b) return to work by the Fuller Working Lives initiative in (i) the UK, (ii) Wales and (iii) Gower constituency.

20 Dec 2017 · HM Treasury

Tax Avoidance: EU Law

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question 116884, on tax avoidance: EU law, how much extra tax will be collected as a result of the implementation of the EU’s Tax Avoidance Directive in 2019.

20 Dec 2017 · Women and Equalities

Gender Recognition

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2017 to Question 117778, on gender recognition, what steps her Department has taken to ensure the correct application of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in the workplace.

13 Dec 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Overseas Territories: Marine Protected Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in the Governments of UK Overseas Territories on creating fully enforced Marine Protected Areas in their waters.

6 Dec 2017 · Women and Equalities

Gender Recognition

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the implementation of the Gender Recognition Act in the workplace.

30 Nov 2017 · HM Treasury

Tax Avoidance: EU Law

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK will benefit from the implementation of the EU's Tax Avoidance Directive in 2019.

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Credit Rating

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made on the effect of a hard credit check for on the ability of consumers to switch energy suppliers.

28 Nov 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Protected Areas: British Overseas Territories

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in the Governments of UK Overseas Territories on creating fully enforced Marine Protected Areas in their waters.

23 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues and others had about the appropriateness of at-home visits to terminally ill universal credit claimants; and if he will make a statement.

22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pension, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) other stakeholders on benefits appropriate to universal credit claimants who are unable to return to work owing to ill health or terminal d

22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) other stakeholders on the steps terminally ill claimants take to claim universal credit; and if he will make a statement.

22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussion he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) other stakeholders on the proof of illness required from universal credit claimants; and if he will make a statement.

22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussion he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) others on reinstating implicit consent for terminally ill claimants of universal credit; and if he will make a statement.

22 Nov 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to review the value of redundancy payments to civil servants.

14 Nov 2017 · Department of Health

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of replacing the 10-year statutory time limit for the storage of frozen eggs and semen with a system of five-yearly reviews; and if he will make a st

14 Nov 2017 · Department of Health

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women have submitted their oocytes for freezing (a) as a result of medical treatment affecting their fertility and (b) for other reasons, in each of the last five years.

14 Nov 2017 · Department of Health

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average age is of women who have submitted their oocytes for freezing in each of the last five years.

14 Nov 2017 · Department of Health

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many human eggs were frozen in each of the last five years by centres registered by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority by (a) the slow-cooling method and (b) the process of vitrification.

31 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of people who have de-transitioned in each year since 2010.

24 Oct 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2017 to Question 107602, on packaging, how many local authorities provide roadside collection of plastic wrap; how many tonnes of plastic wrap has

18 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Caribbean: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with UK mobile telephone operators about waiving mobile roaming charges for military personnel deployed to the Caribbean following the recent hurricanes that have affected the r

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