Written questions
1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to recommendation 90(f) of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Report on follow-up to the inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irel
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that disabled people receive adequate financial support through the benefit system; and with reference to the advance unedited report from the United Nations Committee
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the advance unedited report from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entitled Report on follow-up to the inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Gr
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to accept the recommendations of the advance unedited report from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entitled Report on follow-up to the inquiry con
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the advance unedited report from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entitled Report on follow-u
7 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to collect data on waiting times for accessing vision rehabilitation support.
7 May 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on waiting times for accessing vision rehabilitation support.
29 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will hold discussions with (a) sector stakeholders and (b) people with lived experience on his Department's consultation on proposed changes to Personal Independence Payments.
22 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Medical Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech on welfare of 19 April 2024, who the specialist work and health professionals are that will be responsible for issuing fit notes.
22 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department it taking to help ensure that disabled people have access to reasonable adjustments in the workplace.
19 Apr 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to tackle climate change.
19 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Just Stop Oil: Young Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for which some Just Stop Oil protestors who were under the age of 18 were held on remand in adult prisons.
19 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Just Stop Oil: Prison Sentences
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the cases of Just Stop Oil protestors who were imprisoned on remand for slow-marching.
18 Apr 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has had discussions with her Israeli counterpart on the application of the UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement to the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
18 Apr 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Imports: Israeli Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has (a) requested and (b) received legal advice on allowing imports from illegal Israeli settlements.
17 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department (a) collects and (b) holds on waiting times for accessing vision rehabilitation support in England.
17 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to undertake a review of vision rehabilitation provision across England.
16 Apr 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Equality
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what recent steps his Department has taken to implement the FCDO disability inclusion and rights strategy 2022 to 2030, published on 16 February 2022.
16 Apr 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
United Nations
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what his priorities are for the UN Summit of the Future on 22-23 September 2024.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Education
Universities: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of enrolments of international students on the finances of universities.
12 Apr 2024 · Home Office
Visas: Graduates
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the correspondence of 12 March 2024 from Professor Brian Bell, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the timescales given for the Migration Advisory Committee's revi
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
County Courts: Judgements
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will bring forward legislative proposals to allow claimant data for County Court Judgements to be published.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Judgements: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to publish claimant data for (a) County Court Judgements and (b) the Courts Service.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Judgements: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish the results of his Department's consultation on Including claimant data on the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines, which closed 16 January 2024.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Service Charges: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to introduce legislation to create a regulator for service charges.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Service Charges: Battersea
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what support his Department is providing to leaseholders in Battersea who are facing service charges increases.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Service Charges: Battersea
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to tackle high services charges for leaseholders in Battersea.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Forfeiture: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to bring forward an amendment to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill to ban forfeiture.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Ground Rent
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether it remains his policy to introduce a cap on ground rents to a peppercorn value.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Broadcasting Programmes: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the BBC’s decision to cut Radio 4’s In Touch show from 20 to 15 minutes on accessibility.
Source: official written-questions record.