Written questions
2,200 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 117811, whether his Department is aware of any other technical IT faults with the asylum application process.
20 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Elective Recovery Taskforce
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the (a) agendas and (b) minutes of the meetings of the Elective Recovery Taskforce.
20 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment he has made of the costs of (a) indemnifying train companies from losses on strike days and (b) meeting rail workers' union's pay demands.
20 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for ADHD NHS treatment is.
19 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether any energy suppliers have been sanctioned for breaching Ofgem's rules on the fitting of prepayment meters in the last three years.
19 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2023 to Question 124060 on Energy: Meters, if he will ask Ofgem to make an assessment of the level of compliance with current rules on forced
19 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Wealth
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Oxfam's report entitled Survival of the Richest, published on 16 January 2023, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the finding that over the last two years the
19 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2023 to Question 124060 on Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the minutes of his Departm
19 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Supply Chains: Environment Protection and Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a Business, Human Rights and Environment Bill to tackle (a) human rights abuses, (b) environmental destruction a
19 Jan 2023 · Church Commissioners
Church of England: LGBT+ People
To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what progress has been made on the proposals that the bishops have put to General Synod on the outcomes of the Living in Love and Faith process for debate next month; an
19 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will take steps to help customers who have been subject to the forcible instillation of prepayment to have them removed at no cost.
19 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill with paragraph 882 of the International Labour Organisation code on Freedom of Associ
19 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will launch a formal inquiry into the practice of forced prepayment meter installations, including (a) evidence used by energy suppliers to assess vulnerability
19 Jan 2023 · Prime Minister
Strikes
To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to his Answer to the Rt. hon Member for Holborn and St Pancras at Prime Minister's Questions on 11 January 2023, Official Report, column 554, on what evidential basis he said that the International Labour Organisa
18 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court warrants to forcibly enter homes requested by energy suppliers' debt agents have been refused by magistrates since July 2021.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill on industrial relations.
18 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2023 to Question 121128 on Care Homes: Visits, in the context of the 98.6 per cent of care homes stated, how many care homes does that percentage represent; and
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
North Sea Oil: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed Rosebank oil field on the protected seabed, the Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, for what reasons his Department will not introduce the Renters Reform Bill in this parliamentary session.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Autumn Statement 2022, whether his Department is holding a consultation with (a) local authorities, (b) civil society groups and (c) the wider public on ener
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Social Tariffs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Autumn Statement published on 17 November 2022, when the Government will set out its position on introducing a social tariff for energy.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government is taking steps to ensure that customers on energy prepayment meters do not pay higher rates compared with those on direct debits.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his Answer to the Question from the hon. Member for Eltham of 17 January 2023, Official Report, column 161, whether he plans to amend the (a) Gas Act 1986 and (b
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of zthe implications for his policies of the report GreenGo: Unlocking an energy efficiency and clean heat revolution published by IPPR on 18 January 2
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times energy suppliers have been found to be in breach of their licensing conditions in each of the last three years; and what penalties were applied to those suppliers.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will hold discussions with Ofgem on publishing an update on the compliance action being taken against energy suppliers found to be in breach of their licensing conditions.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish (a) the letter from his Department to Ofgem on forced prepayment meter installations and (b) Ofgem's response to that letter.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation to the Question from the hon. Member for Glasgow North on 17 January 2023, Official Report, colum
18 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the Care Quality Commission's future ability to carry out effective inspections of visiting policy in care settings following his announcement that that body will red
17 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish proposals to tackle the enforced installation of energy prepayment meters; and if he will make a statement.
Source: official written-questions record.