Written questions
5,143 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional steps the Government is taking to protect the health of individuals who live with or care for those with weakened immune systems.
18 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS employees working in non-clinical settings are able to work from home where operationally possible.
18 Mar 2020 · Treasury
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will cease charging (a) distilleries and (b) breweries duty on the alcohol that they produce in the event that they switch production and utilise that alcohol to make sanitiser.
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2020 to Question 28736 on Universal Credit: Housing, whether her Department has (a) never made or (b) not recently made that assessment.
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that written guidance is provided to jobcentre staff on claimants who (a) are self-isolating or (b) have a vulnerable member of their household, and therefore not able t
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to (a) lift all sanctions and deductions from people’s awards if they are self-isolating and (b) provide people who are sanctioned and self-isolating with automatic immedi
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to introduce a temporary uplift in (a) the universal credit standard allowance, (b) jobseeker’s allowance, (c) employment support allowance and (d) income support to help
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make her policy for work-search requirements and work preparation activities to be automatically suspended for universal credit claimants in the event that schools close or children have to
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to ensure that universal credit advances are non-repayable during the covid-19 outbreak.
17 Mar 2020 · Treasury
Insurance: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that people that are working from home as a result of Government guidance on covid-19 continue to be insured under their existing home insurance policies in cases where those police
16 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much money from the public purse his Department has spent on contracted companies charging management fees to sub-contracted companies where both companies are owned by the same parent company in the last yea
16 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Business
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to update the section of its website entitled Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance for employees, employers and businesses to reflect changes to advice since the Government'
16 Mar 2020 · Home Office
Home Office: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to Question 25184 on shoplifting, tabled on 3 March 2020 by the hon. Member for Slough.
16 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office
Special Advisers: Redundancy Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2020 to Question 25183 on Ministerial Policy Advisors: Dismissal, if he will publish the payments that specialist advisers received on termination of their employment which (a)
16 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister: Special Advisers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2020 to Question 23469, whether any of the Prime Minister's special advisers had developed vetting level security clearance as of 2 March 2020.
16 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of GP appointments made in (a) 2019 and (b) 2015.
16 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence
Clyde Naval Base
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2020 to Question 26968, what the (a) overall budget, (b) current spend and (c) percentage of completion is of each of the 14 projects at HM Naval Base Clyde.
16 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2020 to Question 26984, what steps he is taking to (a) improve the status of each major project not categorised as green and (b) move more projects into the green category.
16 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2020 to Question 26984, for what reason none of his Department's major projects has been categorised as green by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority; and what recent asses
16 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2020 to Questions 27006, 27012, and 27014, on Department for Work and Pensions: Disability, whether the review her Department is undertaking will assess (a) the reason
13 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office
Health: Databases
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what sample size the Office for National Statistics uses to produce well-being data for (a) adults and (b) children.
13 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients who have been medically fit to be discharged have subsequently become medically unfit for discharge due to the delay in the discharging process, in the last 12 months; and what s
13 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in hospital beds are medically fit to be discharged from hospital care but are unable to be discharged for other reasons; and what steps he is taking to reduce that number.
13 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office
Health: Databases
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the ONS data on the well-being of adults, if he will make it his policy to collect data on the well-being of children at the same (a) level and (b) frequency and (c) data size as for adults.
12 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2020 to Question 26982, how many times the scope of an ongoing project listed in his Department's Major Projects Portfolio changed.
12 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2020 to Question 26982, for what reasons his Department does not hold information on the costs and scope of its major projects portfolio; where that information is held; and wha
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of a lower universal credit withdrawal rate on (a) the well-being of claimants, (b) the rate of claimants entering employment, (c) the public purse
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number recipients of universal credit who have (a) taken out loans and (b) fallen into debt or arrears in the two month period from the date of their initial applicatio
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of (a) universal credit and (b) the roll-out of that benefit.
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the findings in the report by the Tussell Trust, entitled Five weeks too long, published in September 2019, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the fin
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