Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

26 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Shared Ownership Schemes: Community Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to help protect leaseholders of shared ownership properties who face high energy price increases where developers have enrolled those leaseholders in Communi

25 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will develop a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities.

25 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Life Expectancy: Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the Levelling Up white paper will include (a) improving life expectancy and (b) healthy life expectancy among its core aims.

25 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Promotion Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Health Promotion Taskforce will meet next.

25 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Health and Care Bill, how his Department will measure progress on the integration of eye care services into mainstream health services.

25 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eyesight

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what investment his Department is providing to enable the gathering of population level data on eye health.

25 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eyesight

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will launch a public awareness campaign around the importance of eye health.

24 Jan 2022 · Women and Equalities

Racial Discrimination

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the Government plans to publish a response to the Independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report.

19 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the oversight framework for 2021-22 for the National Outpatient Transformation Programme.

19 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cataracts: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the October 2021 survey by the Private Healthcare Information Network of a 30 per cent increase in the number of patients self-funding cataract surgery, what steps

19 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish an update on progress made in implementing the National Outpatient Transformation Programme, with specific reference to ophthalmology services.

19 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the (a) organisations and people responsible for the (i) oversight and (ii) implementation of the National Outpatient Transformation Programme for ophthalmology and (

17 Jan 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of social security after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in Batter

11 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that property developers are responsible for covering the remedial costs of fire safety defects; and what steps he is taking give those underta

11 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans he has to help protect leaseholders from paying the costs of non-cladding related fire safety defects, such as defective fire doors.

15 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Answer to the hon. Member for Putney on 29 November 2021, Official Report, column 658, what progress he has made in ensuring leaseholders are not responsible to

9 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that banks are not requesting EWS1 forms for buildings that are under 18 meters.

9 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he is taking steps to regulate EWS1 surveys to prevent erroneous assessment outcomes.

9 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what support his Department is putting in place for leaseholders that have an EWS1 assessment that is under 18 meters and has been classified as a B2 property.

8 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the Government plans to publish its response to the consultation on raising accessible housing standards for new homes which closed on 1 December 2020.

1 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the waiting times for elective surgery for people with inflammatory bowel disease.

1 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Public Lavatories

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making the provision of public toilets a statutory duty for local authorities.

1 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Home Care Services: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will increase housing-based care options for older people.

1 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Supported Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the implications for its policies of the finding of ARCO's November 2021 report, Putting the care in Housing-with-Care, that an expansion of the integra

1 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Supported Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the implications for its policies of the finding of ARCO's November 2021 report, Putting the care in Housing-with-Care, that integrated retirement commu

25 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Wandsworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the rates of staff turnover are in schools across Wandsworth in the latest period for which figures are available.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether all new homes will meet the accessible and adaptable standard following the consultation on raising accessibility standards for new homes.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation on raising accessible housing standards.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport

South Western Railway: Timetables

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide details of any proposed reductions in headcount at South Western Railway as a result of the proposed December 2022 timetable changes.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport

South Western Railway: Timetables

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish any assessments his Department has undertaken on the carbon impact of reducing South Western Railway services from the level they were at prior to the covid-19 outbreak.

Source: official written-questions record.