Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if her Department will make an assessment of the feasibility of excluding (a) Israeli settlements and (b) other Occupied Palestinian Territories from the territorial application of a new UK-Israel Free

20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement will (a) be compatible with the UK's international obligations and (b) not apply to Israeli settlements in the Occu

20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she plans to exclude (a) Israeli settlements and (b) other Occupied Palestinian Territories from the territorial application of the UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement.

20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has made an assessment of whether (a) Israeli settlements and (b) other Occupied Palestinian Territories could be excluded from the territorial application of the UK-Israel Free

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Primary Education: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether has plans to extend free period products to primary schools.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the free period products for schools’ scheme.

9 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Period Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle period poverty.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Thomas Knyvett College: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with Thomas Knyvett College in Ashford on safeguarding of Black, Asian and Ethnic minority students.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Pupils: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department can take to reprimand schools where safeguarding processes for students have been inadequate.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Pupils: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to put in place safeguarding practices for Black, Asian and ethnic minority students at risk of racist abuse.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to ensure it can correctly identify benefits claimants in need of additional support.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) Disability Living Allowance claimants are identified as needing additional support in the last month for which data is available.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment claimants were identified as needing Additional Support and automatically progressed to the provider for an assessment but (a) did not have an assessment or (b) ha

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment claimants were identified as needing Additional Support and automatically progressed to the provider for an assessment in each of the last five years.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 135440 on Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment, what assessment he has made of the reason for the increase in the number of

8 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pethidine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons UK-manufactured pethidine supplies are not available as of 7 February 2023.

7 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to increase the level of Official Development Assistance allocated for education, including for literacy and numeracy projects, in countries with

7 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of its education programmes on children’s foundational learning.

7 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve literacy for girls and women.

7 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle learning poverty in middle-income countries.

7 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle learning poverty in low-income countries.

7 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pethidine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the medicine pethidine is expected to be available for patients who have been prescribed it.

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

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether any residential buildings under 11 metres in height in Battersea constituency have been identified as having unsafe Aluminium Composite Material cladding systems.

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

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether any residential buildings between 11 and 18 metres in height in Battersea constituency have been identified as having unsafe Aluminium Composite Material cladding systems.

6 Feb 2023 · Treasury

Energy: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a one off windfall tax on energy companies.

6 Feb 2023 · Treasury

Energy Price Guarantee

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of stopping the rise in the Energy Prince Guarantee planned for 1 April 2023.

6 Feb 2023 · Treasury

Energy Price Guarantee

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact on households of increases in the Energy Price Guarantee.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of doctors entering ophthalmology specialist training.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to capture data on delays in follow-up appointments for ophthalmology services.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Visual Impairment: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of new technologies in reducing waiting times for patients living with sight loss.

Source: official written-questions record.