Written questions

2,786 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Homes for Ukraine scheme, what advice his Department provides on financial contributions by Ukrainian guests towards household bills.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had recent discussions with Ofgem on the adequacy of its scope of its Market Compliance Review into prepayment meters.

1 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on increasing the use of recyclable materials in clinical and healthcare settings.

1 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the use of single-use plastic in (a) GP surgeries and (b) pharmacies.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help ensure energy suppliers review customers already on prepayment meters so that this remains a safe payment method for people in vulnerable circumstances.

1 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of restricting the use of single-use plastics in clinical and healthcare settings.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure processes around remote smart meter switches receive the same scrutiny as warrant installations.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps is he taking to ensure suppliers fully commit to pausing forced installations of prepayment meters via a warrant until Ofgem’s review of consumer protections is complete.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to set out a timetable for the introduction of strict limit values on embodied carbon emissions for all building developments.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will establish a freely accessible database for anonymised Whole Life-Cycle Carbon Assessment data of new buildings.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to introduce a requirement for whole life-cycle carbon assessments to be submitted as part of (a) pre-application enquiries, (b) full planning submissio

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Regulations: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of including requirements to (a) assess, (b) report and (c) reduce embodied carbon in the building regulations.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Construction and Demolition: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to regulate the construction and demolition of buildings in order to reduce CO2 emissions and meet net-zero targets.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

School Leaving: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help school leavers who did not achieve a grade 4 or above in GCSE (a) Maths and (b) English in the 2021-22 academic year to do so in the next two years.

24 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Education: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to adopt the 18-plus-one ethnic data recording system used in the census across all education (a) services and (b) providers.

23 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Secure Accommodation and Secure Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to publish an impact assessment on the (a) rolling out and (b) practices of secure (i) schools and (ii) children's homes in England and Wales.

23 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff were employed to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in each year since 2010; and how much funding her Department provided for these staff in the same period.

23 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Pupils: Travellers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the provision of training courses specifically on preventing discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families to teaching staff; and whether her Department requires te

23 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools use Code T: Gypsy, Roma Traveller absence in line with guidance from her Department on school attendance.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential effect of (a) increasing the child element of Universal Credit by at least £15 a week and (b) ending the benefit cap on levels of children livi

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to uprate benefits annually in line with prices and living standards.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Action for Children’s latest report entitled, All worked out, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of children living in poverty in Portsmouth South; a

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of current planning policies in distinguishing between (a) demand for housing, (b) housing need and (c) the level of housing provisio

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

Agriculture and Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the report of the Countryside Charity Building on our food security, published in July 2022, if her Department will (a) consult on and (b) publish a national land use

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Derelict Land: Property Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department will take to prioritise development on brownfield land instead of on Green Belt and greenfield land.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to ensure that (a) local development plans retain their primacy in law and can provide for local variations to National Development Management Policies

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to ensure that National Development Management Policies do not override policies by Local Planning Authorities.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will issue guidance on the extent of the powers of National Development Management Policies..

22 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Electric Scooters

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that all police forces hold data on the number of privately owned e-scooters that they have (a) stopped and (b) seized.

22 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Electric Scooters: Portsmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many riders of privately owned e-scooters have been stopped by police in Portsmouth since March 2021.

Source: official written-questions record.