Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number women who have been (a) made redundant and (b) furloughed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

19 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ethnic Groups: Maternity Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce racial disparities in maternal healthcare.

19 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Babies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of babies born with covid-19.

19 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of covid-19 on BAME pregnant women.

18 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure employers do not use the Government's shielding list for covid-19 to decide who can and cannot travel to work.

18 May 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the £360 million allocated to charities to help mitigate the effect of the covid-19 outbreak has been allocated to disability charities.

15 May 2020 · Women and Equalities

Government Departments: Equality

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will publish the accessibility guidance that issued by his Department to the (a) Head of Digital Communications and (b) Director of Communications in each Government Department on their accessibility ob

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people who have tested positive for covid-19 are disabled.

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people who have been tested positive for covid-19 are BAME.

15 May 2020 · Home Office

Stop and Search: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) ethnicity was of each individual subject to and (b) outcome was of each incidence of stop and search since the beginning of the covid-19 lockdown.

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the £60,000 death-in-service lump sum payment in respect of covid-19 will be available to the families of contract workers in (a) hospitals and (b) care homes.

24 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when (a) the Government and (b) Public Health England began to record data on ethnicity in the number of deaths due to covid-19.

24 Apr 2020 · Cabinet Office

Press Conferences: Coronavirus

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons a British Sign Language interpreter is not provided in the Government’s daily press briefings on covid-19; and if he will take steps to ensure that a British SIgn Language interpreter is include

24 Apr 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made on the effect of changes to Child Maintenance Service payments on single mothers during the covid-19 outbreak.

24 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made on the effect of the suspension of the Care Act 2014 in the Coronavirus Act 2020 on deaf and disabled people’s access to social care.

24 Apr 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Access to Work claims can be processed electronically during the covid-19 outbreak.

23 Apr 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Remote Working: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps are being taken to protect pregnant women who are unable to work from home.

21 Apr 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Supermarkets: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure people who are blind or partially sighted are able to access essential groceries.

16 Mar 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to repatriate British nationals who are stranded abroad as a result of covid-19.

13 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what preparations are in place to ensure access to social care for disabled people during the delay phase of covid-19.

11 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that social security claimants that are unable to attend (a) work capability or (b) work-related activity assessments as a result of covid-19 will not face benefit sanct

16 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office

Universal Credit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit plans to complete its research into the effect of universal credit on vulnerable claimants.

16 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office

Universal Credit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which voluntary organisations were consulted as part of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit’s research on the effect of universal credit on vulnerable claimants.

13 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) school students and (b) Black, African and Caribbean school students were excluded in Battersea in 2019.

13 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) school students and (b) BAME school students were excluded in Battersea in 2019.

10 Jan 2020 · Department for Transport

Rolling Stock: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what deadline his Department has set for making all train carriages fully accessible.

7 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) school students and (b) BAME school students were excluded in 2019.

7 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) school students and (b) Black, African and Caribbean school students were excluded in 2019.

7 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) school students and (b) disabled school students were excluded from school in 2019.

15 Oct 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who will sit on her Department's new independent Serious Case panel.

Source: official written-questions record.