Written questions

2,200 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022 on food standards.

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Public Health: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to enhance (a) environmental and (b) public health regulation following his Department’s review of existing EU regulation.

11 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 8 September 2022 from the hon. Member for Walton on Mehrnoosh Khajvand.

10 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the query from the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton sent to the Urgent Queries box on 23 August 2022 on Hawzheen Ahmad Weysi.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) local authorities and (b) integrated care boards in meeting the requirements of Section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that hospitals are complying with Paragraph 20.20 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to publish the health disparities white paper.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her intention to publish the Health Disparities White Paper by the end of 2022.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Promotion Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Health Promotion Taskforce will meet before the end of 2022.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Life Expectancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her policy to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy between areas where it is highest and lowest by 2030.

10 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many asylum decision-makers are currently working in her Department and (b) how this number compares to the number of asylum decision-makers who were working in her Department in each calendar

22 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is working with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to support the retrofitting of homes with insulation to help reduce energy bills.

20 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Home Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to Question 33899 tabled by the hon. Member for Walton on 11 July 2022.

8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Sleeping Rough: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans he has to support people with experience of rough sleeping to gain (a) training or (b) employment; and whether the Department is assessing the potential merits of direct e

2 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Liverpool Walton sent to the Urgent Queries inbox on 11 July 2022 regarding Mehdi Helmiouskoui.

2 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of outstanding administrative reviews are without a decision more than six months after application as of 2 September 2022.

2 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to expediate decisions on family reunion visas over the 24 week service standard.

2 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of family reunion visa decisions are being made within the 24 week service standard.

2 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 7 July 2022 from the hon. Member for Liverpool Walton on his constituent Andrew Wright.

2 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Naturalisation: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what the average processing time is for a naturalisation decision from her Department and (b) how this compares to each year since 2016.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the recommendations of the Good Work Plan published in December 2018, how many of those recommendations (a) have been implemented, (b) are in the process of bein

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tobacco

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish the Tobacco Control Plan.

2 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Public Sector: Inflation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of higher levels of inflation on spending on public services.

2 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that asylum seekers awaiting a decision on an asylum application are not drawn into modern slavery.

2 Sep 2022 · Treasury

NHS: Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the British Medical Association briefing entitled NHS Workforce and the Pension Taxation Crisis, published in June 2022, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of that report's recomme

21 Jul 2022 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government has plans to reform the eligibility criteria for free school meals to ensure that children living in poverty are eligible.

21 Jul 2022 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government has plans to introduce an automatic registration process for free school meals.

21 Jul 2022 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has plans to make interim compensation payments to infected blood support scheme beneficiaries before a compensation scheme is established; and if he will make a statement.

21 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2022 to Question 31917 on Eating Disorders: LGBTQ+ People, if he will undertake a review of the (a) prevalence and (b) trends in the levels of eating disorders in

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