Written questions

1,355 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Sep 2020 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of a potential growth in green shipping on the UK's environmental targets ahead of COP26.

29 Sep 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to reply to the joint letter of 29 July 2020 from the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North and the

29 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter of 3 June 2020 from the hon Member for Hull West and Hessle on the Youth Enterprise Bank and Making Changes for Careers Programme in Kingston upon Hull.

29 Sep 2020 · Department for Transport

Railways: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to maintain (a) dialogue with open-access rail operators, (b) support for those operators and (c) protection of the jobs and conditions for staff employed by those operators as a result

29 Sep 2020 · Department for Transport

Railways: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what dates Ministers and officials have met representatives of the open-access rail operators Hull Trains and Grand Central to discuss support for the sector since the outbreak of covid-19; and what the outc

28 Sep 2020 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the technologies required to deliver a green UK shipping industry.

28 Sep 2020 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, ahead of COP26, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a green shipping fund.

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to publish updated guidance for (a) Narcotics Anonymous and (b) other mutual aid groups on holding face-to-face meetings during the covid-19 outbreak.

28 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Teaching Excellence Framework Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to respond to the independent review of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework conducted by Dame Shirley Pearce and submitted in August 2019.

23 Sep 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Watchkeeper WK450

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to announce a decision on the mid-life extension and upgrade of the Watchmaker Unmanned Air System.

23 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to issue updated covid-19 guidance to children's residential care homes.

23 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Students: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how and (b) what steps he is taking to monitor changes in the level of drop-out rates among higher education students due to the covid-19 outbreak in the 2020-21 academic year.

23 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Students: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to provide additional financial support to higher education students in response the covid-19 outbreak.

21 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Small Businesses: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to make further financial support available through the Discretionary Grant Fund.

21 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Leisure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing a sector-specific extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for the sport and leisure sector.

21 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Students: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing support to university students unable to provide a guarantor to secure their accommodation.

21 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Students: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has been made of the number of university students unable to provide a suitable guarantor for their securing accommodation.

15 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Arts and Theatre

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme beyond October 2020 for the theatre and art industries.

15 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reinstating the ability for sperm banks to deliver to residential addresses in the UK.

14 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ask the Office for National Statistics to provide the figures for the years from 2013 to 2020 of the number of recorded births of babies diagnosed with fetal valproate spectrum disorder.

14 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) investigate the lack of information given to pregnant women prescribed with sodium valproate and (b) introduce a national compensation fund for people affected by the e

14 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information is provided by his Department to midwives in order to help them prepare an expectant mother with epilepsy in the ante-natal stages of her pregnancy, when prescribed sodium valproat

14 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of babies harmed by valproate in pregnancy following the failure of the pregnancy prevention program for women prescribed sodium valproate.

14 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Epilepsy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the GP to patient ratio for female patients between the ages of 15 to 45 years old with epilepsy in the Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle constituency.

14 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review entitled First Do No Harm, what his timescale is for implementing recommendations (a) 1, (b) 2,

9 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will answer the letter of 23rd June 2020 from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular and Venous Disease on the effect of the Covid-19 outbreak on people with vascular disease.

9 Sep 2020 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 20 August 2020 and follow-up correspondence from the Leader of Hull City Council on the housing of asylum seekers in the Royal Station Hotel in Kingston-upon-H

8 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Influenza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis was for the removal of certain categories of asthma sufferers from the list of people entitled to free flu vaccinations at their GP; and if he will make a statement.

7 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) information he holds on and (b) assessment he has made of the effect on the risk of transmission of covid-19 for clinically vulnerable people of those people living in households with chil

7 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to include dairy-free milks for children with dairy allergies in the healthy start voucher scheme.

Source: official written-questions record.