Written questions

2,786 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle persistent school absences.

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of persistent school absence rates in the last 12 months.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Health: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to promote child dental health.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of regional inequalities in child health.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paediatrics: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of pediatric waiting times.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential relationship between junk food advertising and trends in the levels of junk food consumption by children.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce the consumption of junk food among children.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help encourage the consumption of healthy foods by children.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Health: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help prevent tooth decay in children.

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Veterans: Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of high-quality affordable housing for veterans.

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Veterans: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with the Cabinet Office on the number of veterans made homeless in the last 12 months.

15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on transgender people of delays for specialist gender identity services.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will set a deadline for publication of the Government response to the consultation on Pavement parking: options for change.

8 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Police: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of detectives.

8 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the rate of victims of crime dropping out of criminal proceedings.

8 Jan 2024 · Attorney General

Crimes against Property and Public Order Offences: Prosecutions

To ask the Attorney General, what steps she is taking to increase prosecution rates for (a) theft, (b) criminal damage and arson and (c) public order offences.

8 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has held recent discussions with (a) refugee, (b) asylum seeker and (c) human rights charities on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.

8 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) refugee, (b) asylum seeker and (c) human rights charities his Department consulted on the drafting of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding she has committed to the National Suicide Prevention strategy.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking work with Cabinet colleagues to deliver a joined-up approach to suicide prevention.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to work with local government to deliver a joined-up approach to suicide prevention.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: NHS 111

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 – 2023/24, published in July 2019, what progress she has made on achieving 100% coverage of 24/7 age-appropriate crisis care via

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services and Oral Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential relationship between oral cancer detection rates and the availability of dentists.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Portsmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent estimate of the average waiting time for a dentist appointment for residents of Portsmouth.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to publish the Dentistry Recovery Plan.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists have been recruited since the launch of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Health: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the number of children admitted to hospital because of dental related emergencies in the last year.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of dentists taking on new patients compared to patient demand.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Incentives

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of incentives for dentists to work in areas with the most urgent needs.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help improve (a) recruitment and (b) retention of dentists.

Source: official written-questions record.