Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many buildings in Battersea have been identified as having unsafe cladding.

19 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what active remediation work is taking place on buildings with unsafe cladding in Battersea.

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Independent Press Standards Organisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the neutrality of the Independent Press Standards Organisation; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing new neutrali

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Heat Networks: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a list of all registered district heat networks in Battersea constituency.

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps Department is taking to monitor and ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry.

18 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make assessment of the effect of excluding (a) the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment, (b) the care component of DLA, (c) Attendance Allowance and (d) disability pre

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, If he will take steps to include customer satisfaction scores for people who applied for (a) Employment Support Allowance, (b) Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work, (b) Personal Independence Pay

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include data on the quality of disability benefit assessments carried out by (a) Atos, (b) Capita and (c) Maximus as a measure of performance in his Department's Annual Report for th

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include data on (a) the number of requests for a mandatory reconsideration of decision by his Department to refuse an application for (i) Employment Support Allowance, (ii) Universal

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will include in his Department's Annual Report for the 2022-23 financial year a performance measure on the number and proportion of appeals against decisions by his Department to refuse (a) Employ

12 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of excluding the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment, the care component of DLA, Attendance Allowance and disability premiums in social

12 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Income Support: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the level of the Minimum Income Guarantee on disabled social care users whose only income comes from disability and means-tested benefits.

12 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current Minimum Income Guarantee amounts in the context of recent increases in the cost of living.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reform the Access to Work scheme for disabled people including introducing portable passports.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for Access to Work grants for disabled people.

10 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Leasehold: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help enfranchised leaseholders in Battersea constituency with uncapped costs of fixing building safety defects.

9 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Leasehold: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help support leaseholders in low-rise blocks facing uncapped costs to fix cladding and other building safety defects.

20 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on guaranteeing the rights of care homes residents to receive visitors.

20 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold a roundtable with families and relevant stakeholders on the adequacy of visiting arrangements in care homes.

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport

Pedestrian Areas: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy that future travel schemes will ensure direct access from the pavement to the bus.

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport

Pedestrian Areas: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the petition handed into Number 10 on 18th October 2022, if he will meet representatives of the National Federation of the Blind to discuss floating bus stops.

19 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department (a) is taking to ensure that care home providers follow his Department's visiting guidance and (b) may take where family visits for care home residents are not allowed.

13 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Elective Recovery Taskforce: Ophthalmology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether ophthalmology was discussed at the first meeting of the Elective Recovery Taskforce on 7 December 2022.

5 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Office for National Statics data on coronavirus related deaths by hearing and vision impairment status, England: 24 January 2020 to 20 July 2022, whether he has made an assess

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Concussion

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the International Football Association Board on the potential merits of introducing temporary concussion substitution protocols.

15 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Ticket Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether train operating companies are required to publish equality impact assessments of proposals to (a) close ticket offices and (b) reduce ticket office opening hours at the same time that such proposals are

14 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Police: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the over-policing of children.

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Means-tested Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to means test the (a) Disability Living Allowance and (b) Personal Independence Payment.

2 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Alaa Abd El-Fattah

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to call for the unconditional release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah at the upcoming COP27 meeting.

2 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Alaa Abd El-Fattah

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress he has made on securing the unconditional release of the British national Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

Source: official written-questions record.