Written questions

2,217 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lumacaftor/ivacaftor

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to secure a deal with Vertex on access for patients to the drug Orkambi on the NHS.

25 Mar 2019 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of a £30,000 annual salary threshold for intermediate and high-skilled migrant workers on small towns that rely upon skilled migrant workers in the

25 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Polar Bears

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning the import of polar bear trophies into the UK.

25 Mar 2019 · Home Office

Disclosure and Barring Service: Tata Consultancy Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the decision for Tata to replace Capita as IT providers for the Decision Barring Service, whether his Department has met with the Information Commissioner's Office to ensure that dat

20 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the budget for the maintenance of existing defences in the end agency flood prevention budget has been in each year since 2010.

20 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the reduction has been in the end agency flood prevention budget for maintenance of existing defences since 2010.

20 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what changes there have been in the Environment Agency flood prevention budget for rivers in each year since 2010.

20 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Defence

USA: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2019 to Question 221023, who pays for the remaining cost of those services of the Ministry of Defence Police; and what the process is for determining who pays those costs.

20 Mar 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

European Capital of Culture

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the UK will be able to participate in the European capital of culture under the terms of the proposed EU withdrawal agreement.

20 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Areas: Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding UK National Park Authorities has provided to rural bus services in each year since 2010.

14 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Diseases: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase (a) patient and (b) clinician awareness of the (i) effect on carbon emissions of inhalers and (ii) range of low carbon inhalers available; and how he plans to me

12 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Leeds

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait is for personal independence payment claimants in Leeds to attend a tribunal hearing.

12 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Leeds

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for a hearing for a claimant appealing a personal independence payment decision in Leeds in 2018.

12 Mar 2019 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: NHS

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will make it his Department's policy to exclude health services from all future trade agreements.

11 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Defence

RAF Menwith Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the two space-based infra-red system radomes at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill are a fully operational part of the US missile defence system.

11 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants took advance payments during the five-week waiting period for their first universal credit payment in (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2018 in Yorkshire and the Humber.

11 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2018 to Question 155669 on Livestock: Exports, whether he has plans to include a ban on live animal exports for fattening.

11 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animals have been transported to mainland Europe for slaughter in each of the last five years.

11 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dogs: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many puppies have been seized and taken into quarantine since the Animal and Plant Health Agency established an intelligence team to gather data, intelligence and information on th

11 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to (a) undertake a review the decision by the Health and Care Professions Council on 14 February 2019 to increase subscription fees for allied health professionals

11 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has in place to ensure that people in Yorkshire of all categories of (a) gender, (b) sexuality, (c) age and (d) ethnicity and background with an eating disorder are able t

11 Mar 2019 · Home Office

Refugees: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are currently waiting for a decision on leave to remain as a stateless person in Yorkshire and the Humber.

11 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sleeping Rough: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on the Rough Sleeping Initiative in Yorkshire and the Humber in each month of financial year 2018-19.

11 Mar 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Park Authorities: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money has been allocated from the public purse to the National Park Authorities in each year since 2010.

11 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless veterans in Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2010.

11 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of maintaining a five-year land supply on the ability of local authorities to reject planning applications.

11 Mar 2019 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants: West Yorkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants have been employed in primary schools in West Yorkshire in each year since 2010.

4 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of personal independence payment were sent home from their assessment appointments at Independence Assessment Services in 2018 due to staffing issues.

4 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Plastic Surgery: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward regulations on who is permitted to administer (a) botox injections and (b) dermal fillers.

4 Mar 2019 · Treasury

Guaranteed Minimum Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many public sector workers were directly affected by the recent HMRC exercise to reconcile pensions which resulted in overpayments due to changes in the guaranteed minimum pension.

Source: official written-questions record.