Written questions

2,200 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Joint Combating Drugs Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Joint Combating Drugs Unit.

17 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Joint Combating Drugs Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often the Joint Combating Drugs Unit has met since its establishment; and whether she plans to publish the outcomes of those meetings.

17 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to establish Alcohol Care Teams in hospitals with the highest rates of alcohol harm and socioeconomic deprivation.

17 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Rape: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of prosecutions for rape; and if he will make a statement.

17 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to £1 billion dedicated fund to help to support urgent and emergency care services, whether any of that funding will be allocated to private providers.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any organisations completed air quality modelling to help inform the air quality targets in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, published on 31 January 2023.

17 Feb 2023 · Treasury

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Liverpool Walton of 10 January 2023 on the international aid budget.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Local Government: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to take steps to ringfence funding for local authorities to help manage climate-related incidents in summer 2023.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Local Government: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential financial risk to local authorities from climate change-related weather and temperature incidents in summer 2023.

17 Feb 2023 · Cabinet Office

Local Resilience Forums

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of placing Local Resilience Forums on a statutory footing.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of funding provided to local authorities for meeting the targets set out in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, publish

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Quality Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to increase the air quality grant for local authorities in the forthcoming Spring budget.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Local Adaptation Advisory Panel

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last met with the Local Adaptation Advisory Panel for England Steering Group.

17 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Income Support: Disability and Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2023 to Question 133576 on Income Support: Disability and Local Government Finance, for what reason his Department has not made an assessment of the impact of t

17 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to help improve (a) security and (b) safeguarding for asylum seekers at the Suites Hotel in Knowsley.

17 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are accommodated by her Department in the Suites Hotel in Knowsley; and how many of those are (a) women and (b) children.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Watersure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for the WaterSure scheme.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish a summary of energy suppliers' responses on redress for vulnerable customers affected by forced prepayment meter installations.

17 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Hillsborough Families' Experiences Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the Home Office Hillsborough Team has initiated contact with bereaved families.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Energy: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will work with (a) disabled people and (b) disability charities in the development of the Government’s new approach to consumer protection.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department will take to tackle the impact of rising energy prices on disabled people.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Parkinson's Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of Universal Credit have a diagnosis of Parkinson's in (a) Liverpool Walton and (b) the UK.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will hold discussions with Ofgem on including remote switching in the suspension of forced prepayment meter installations.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will ask Ofgem for an assurance that their Market Compliance Review into prepayment meters examines the outcomes for consumers as well as processes and governance within suppliers.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2023 to Question 135450 on Energy: Meters, whether his Department has set a deadline for energy suppliers to publish that data.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Ecology

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing funding for agroecology on levels of food insecurity.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to address regional disparities in trends in the level of regional energy rates.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of how many households have been forced onto prepayment meters (a) by warrant and (b) via remote switching since the start of December 2022.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Minister for Energy and Climate's contribution to the Urgent Question of 6 February 2023 on Prepayment Meters: Ofgem Decision, over what time period the Government and O

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Minister for Energy and Climate's contribution to the Urgent Question of 6 February 2023 on Prepayment Meters: Ofgem Decision, what the results were of the Government's

Source: official written-questions record.