Written questions

5,143 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of staff employed in job centres that are in receipt of universal credit.

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the housing element of universal credit on trends in the levels of (a) homelessness, (b) health and well-being, (c) poverty and (d) the socio-economi

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how often her Department updates the housing element of universal credit to reflect changes in local market rents; what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the length of time between those update

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the housing element of universal credit is calculated; and whether those calculations are made by her Department.

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the ability of the housing element of universal credit to reflect local rental market rates; and when that assessment was made.

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2020 to Question 3870, for what reasons that answer did not include an assessment of the effect of the policy to no longer fund free TV licences for

12 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office

Bullying and Harassment: Ministers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2020 to Question 25185, for what reasons only figures for the Home Office were supplied and not figures for all government departments; whether those figures provided include gr

12 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Oxygen

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of hospitals' (a) infrastructure and (b) plans to provide a consistent supply of oxygen at suitable pressures and quantities during periods of hig

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Discretionary Housing Payments: Care Leavers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will provide local authorities with updated guidance on awarding discretionary housing payments for care leavers until the shared accommodation rate exemption comes into force in 2023.

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the reasons why the UK ranked 40th for children’s well-being out of the 44 countries that took part in the OECD’s PISA 2018 rankings; and what steps the Government is taking to im

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Education

Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of having a Minister responsible for the effect of all Government policies on children; and which Department is responsible for Government policie

12 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to Questions 23469 and 25181 tabled on 4 March 2020 by the hon. Member for Slough.

12 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Intensive Care: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital intensive care beds there were as at 11 March 2020; what estimate he has made of how many additional hospital intensive care beds could be created and normally staffed within one

11 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has published on cleaning (a) GP surgeries and (b) other medical facilities after exposure to covid-19; and what guidance his Department has published on ensuring that

11 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) paramedics, (b) ambulance technicians, (c) A&E medical staff and (d) ICU and ITU medical staff have not yet received protective equipment and fitted masks to enable them to safely trea

10 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on increasing the number of GP training places.

10 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of full-time equivalent GPs in (a) 2020 and (b) 2015.

10 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of a bed occupancy rate above 85 per cent in hospitals on the adequacy of treatment of patients with covid-19.

10 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the average bed occupancy rate in hospitals.

9 Mar 2020 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Disability

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to tackle organisations that discriminate against disabled employees.

9 Mar 2020 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Disability

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make it her policy to (a) publish the names of organisations that lose employment tribunals for disability discrimination and (b) allocate (i) resources and (ii) funding to support those organisati

9 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect on her Department's reputation of the level of cases of employment tribunals for disability discrimination that her Department has lost since 2016.

9 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of trends in the level of cases lost by her Department in relation to employment tribunals for disability discrimination on objective 2 of her Department's sin

9 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the reasons why her Department has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other employer since 2016; and if she will make a statement.

9 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Supermarkets: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which supermarkets his Department has met to discuss planning in response to covid-19; and on which dates those meetings took place.

9 Mar 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Nationals Abroad: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that UK nationals quarantined overseas are provided with regular information and support.

9 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of his Department's major projects are categorised by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority as (a) green and (b) red.

9 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times has the scope of a project listed in his Department's Major Projects Portfolio has changed; what the cost to the public purse was of those changes; and what assessment he has made of the effect of

9 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on contracted companies charging management fees to sub-contracted companies where both companies are owned by the same parent company in each of the past f

9 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Clyde Naval Base

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference the Government’s announcement entitled, £500 million for Faslane, published in August 2015, what the objectives are of that upgrade; and what progress he has made on completing that upgrade.

Source: official written-questions record.