Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Jun 2021 · Women and Equalities

Disability: Candidates

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment her Department has made of the extent and nature of the barriers experienced by disabled people throughout the UK in contesting elections.

29 Jun 2021 · Leader of the House

House of Commons: Hybrid Proceedings

To ask the Leader of the House, if his office will undertake an equalities assessment on the effect of ending hybrid virtual proceedings in the House.

29 Jun 2021 · Department for Education

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that there is equality for disabled children and their non-disabled peers in their recovery from the effects of the covid-19 outbreak.

29 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Disability: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the (a) mental and (b) physical health of mothers of disabled children and young people.

29 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the health and wellbeing of disabled children.

29 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing funding for disabled children's health and care services as part of the covid-19 outbreak recovery.

29 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help disabled children whose conditions have worsened during the covid-19 outbreak to recover progress on their healthcare outcomes.

29 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that disabled children can catch-up on missed (a) therapies and (b) health services as part of the recovery from the covid-19 outbreak.

28 Jun 2021 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: CCTV

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether a risk assessment has been carried out on the secure holding of CCTV footage within her Department.

28 Jun 2021 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: Email

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether any departmental business has been conducted on private email addresses; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that full records are kept of that business.

28 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) the transition to a midwifery-led Continuity of Carer model is adequately resourced and (b) women who are pregnant after the death of a baby a

28 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that gender affirming surgery is available to transgender men.

23 Jun 2021 · Cabinet Office

Coronavirus: Public Inquiries

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress he has made on the commencement of the public inquiry into the handling of covid-19 outbreak.

23 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Public Inquiries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet families bereaved by covid-19 in preparing for the public inquiry into the handling of the covid-19 outbreak.

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Children and Mothers: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking through its presidency of the G7 to progress the policy of ending the preventable deaths of mothers, new-borns and children by 2030.

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Females: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans he has to discuss implementation of the Declaration on Girls' Education at the next G7 Foreign and Development Ministers' meeting.

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Females: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he will take to (a) monitor and (b) account for the commitments made in the Declaration on Girls' Education endorsed at the G7 Leaders' Summit in June 2021.

22 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Unsolicited Goods and Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle unsolicited goods scams.

22 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kickstart Scheme and Restart Scheme: Part-time Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing candidates on the (a) Kickstart scheme and (b) Restart scheme greater flexibility to take on part-time placements rather than

22 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kickstart Scheme and Restart Scheme: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how regularly her Department plans to review the eligibility criteria of the (a) Kickstart scheme and (b) Restart scheme.

22 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kickstart Scheme and Restart Scheme: Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to widen the eligibility of the (a) Kickstart scheme and (b) Restart scheme to allow people receiving employment and support allowance to access those schemes.

22 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure economically inactive disabled people are supported to find jobs.

22 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the disability pay gap.

22 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Government’s new employment programmes including Kickstart and Restart meet the needs of disabled people.

22 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government’s national strategy for disabled people will take to prevent the further widening of the disability employment gap.

18 Jun 2021 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to respond Question 14209, tabled by the hon. Member for Battersea on 11 June 2021.

17 Jun 2021 · Women and Equalities

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential effect of mandatory vaccines for care workers on equalities.

17 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what equalities impact assessment his Department has undertaken on mandatory vaccines for care home staff for (a) disabled people (b) women (c) Black, Asian and ethnic minority people.

16 Jun 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, published in July 2017 and the Government's Good Work response and consultations of 2018, what plans have been put

16 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Epilepsy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Women's Health Strategy, if he will allocate additional funding to research on anti-epileptic drugs so that babies born to women with epilepsy can avoid preventable disabiliti

Source: official written-questions record.