Written questions

2,217 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Mar 2019 · Department for Transport

Driving: Diabetes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the DVLA plans to update its guidance for drivers with diabetes who take insulin on using Flash GM and Continuous Glucose Monitoring technologies to monitor their blood glucose levels.

4 Mar 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Parental Leave and Parental Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to extend (a) maternity and (b) paternity leave and pay for parents of (i) very sick and (ii) premature children.

4 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Government will issue a formal statement in support of the uprising against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

4 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Yemen: Military Intervention

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to prevent Saudi Arabia from employing child soldiers in Yemen.

4 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to secure the supply of (a) methotrexate and (b) hydroxychloroquine in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

13 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

USA: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will (a) publish and (b) place in the Library the Cost Sharing Arrangement between the UK and US Governments for the use of bases.

13 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

USA: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who pays for the services of the Ministry of Defence Police at (a) NSA/NRO Menwith Hill and (b) those other RAF bases occupied by US forces.

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

Electric Vehicles: Batteries and Fuel Cells

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the recyclability of (a) batteries in electric vehicles and (b) fuel cells in hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

11 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Electric Vehicles: Fuel Cells

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to introduce an equivalent to the Faraday challenge for the promotion and further development of hydrogen fuel cell technology for electric vehicles.

11 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the costs to the public purse of each appeal by his Department to the Upper Tribunal against rulings allowing asylum seekers and other migrants to remain in the UK in each

11 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department sets targets for the number of final immigration court appeals brought against rulings allowing (a) asylum seekers and (b) other migrants to stay in the UK.

8 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Air Routes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have made to the European Commission to remove the cap in Article 3(2) of the proposed draft Regulation on air connectivity.

8 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Air Routes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure UK airlines are able to expand their (a) networks and (b) destinations after the UK leaves the EU.

8 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Air Routes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he had with representatives of UK air carriers prior to his letter to industry on 7 January 2019 on the European Commission’s proposed draft regulation on air connectivity.

7 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the poverty levels of countries traded with under the Everything But Arms Agreement.

7 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antibiotics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to secure the supply of antibiotics in the event of the UK without a deal.

4 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Housing Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to maintain funding for the Community Housing Fund after March 2020.

4 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for NICE to publish its review of the Highly Specialised Technologies process.

4 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cerliponase Alfa

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold meetings with families of children with ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 disease on the availability of Brineura on the NHS.

4 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

RAF Menwith Hill: Ministry of Defence Police

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much money has been reimbursed to the public purse by the US Administration for the cost of services provided by the Ministry of Defence Police at RAF Menwith Hill in the last 12 months.

4 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Papua: Chemical Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the accuracy of reports that the Indonesian Armed Forces used Chemical weapons on West Papuan civilians on 15 December 2018.

4 Feb 2019 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of delaying the introduction of Making Tax Digital.

1 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many inquiries the British Army received as a result of its recruitment campaign referring to millennials, binge gamers, phone zombies, and snowflakes.

1 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government provides ring-fenced funding to help local authorities implement local cycling and walking infrastructure plans other than those funds that are made available for transport infrastructure

1 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that pancreatic cancer patients receive treatment within 20 days of diagnosis.

1 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department will take steps to support local leaders in identifying children in (a) unsafe households and (b) deprived households.

1 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gaming Machines and Loans: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the prevalence of advertising of (a) payday loans and (b) gambling machines on the take-up of those products.

1 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made on the effect of universal credit on the mental health of applicants with terminal illness; and how many applicant applied for universal credit under the special rules in 20

1 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Chronic Illnesses and Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made on the effect of universal credit on the mental health of applicants with long term illness and disability.

1 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Cannabis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are plans to reclassify cannabis use as a health and not a criminal issue.

Source: official written-questions record.