Written questions
1,673 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Warm Home Discount Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans extend the warm home discount.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to tackle energy poverty.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing support to users of prepayment energy meters who are unable to make prepayment.
23 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Charities: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the (a) impact of the rise in the cost of energy on the charity sector’s ability to maintain services and (b) potential merits of providing energy g
17 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Companies House: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Autumn 2021 Budget, how much and what proportion of the £63 million committed to Companies House reform has been spent as of 17 March 2022.
17 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Companies House: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by Companies House in each year since 2015.
17 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Companies House: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the annual budget for Companies House (a) was in each year since 2015 and (b) is for each year until 2024.
17 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Companies: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his timetable is for implementing the changes to Companies House proposed in the Corporate Transparency and Register Reform White Paper.
10 Mar 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Eastern Europe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department are assigned to visa application centres in (a) France, (b) Poland, (c) Hungary, (d) Moldova, (e) Romania and (f) other overseas centres as of 10 March 2022; and if sh
10 Mar 2022 · Home Office
Home Office: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff from her Department were assigned to processing visa applications for entry into the UK from nationals from (a) Afghanistan and (b) Ukraine, as of 10 March 2022.
28 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Bus Services and Taxis: Assistance Animals and Wheelchairs
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking in response to reports of discrimination by (a) bus, (b) taxi and (c) minicab drivers against (i) assistance dog owners and (ii) wheelchair users.
28 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Bus Services and Taxis: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring all (a) bus, (b) taxi and (c) minicab drivers to undertake disability equality training.
28 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Visual Impairment: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support children and young people with vision impairment.
25 Feb 2022 · Women and Equalities
Children: Day Care
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of the availability of childcare on the retention of mothers in the workforce.
25 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle situations in which benefits may have been wrongly ended as a result of a lack of medical evidence related to the covid-19 outbreak.
25 Feb 2022 · Department for International Trade
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has made progress on securing trade deals with individual American states.
25 Feb 2022 · Department for International Trade
Trade Agreements: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure future trade deals tackle poverty in line with the Government's commitments to deliver the sustainable development goals.
25 Feb 2022 · Department for International Trade
Fairtrade Initiative
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Fairtrade farmers and workers are considered in the Government’s trade policy.
25 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Long Covid
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a compensation scheme for NHS frontline workers who have been unable to return to work due to the impact of long covid.
25 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the impact of staff absences due to the Omicron covid-19 variant on delivering care.
25 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Tomography: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to address the backlog in (a) CT and (b) MRI appointments.
25 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to encourage the uptake of covid-19 (a) booster vaccinations and (b) future vaccinations.
24 Feb 2022 · Women and Equalities
Equal Pay
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of prohibiting employers from requesting salary history from new employees in an effort to help tackle the replication of pay gaps between organisations.
24 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the covid-19 outbreak on the pay gap for ethnic minority groups.
24 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Menopause
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support she is providing to employers to help women considering leaving the workforce due to symptoms of menopause.
24 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Early Retirement: Menopause
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential economic effect of workers taking early retirement as a result of menopause.
24 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensions: Menopause
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the extent of the potential impact on pensions of women with menopause symptoms retiring early.
23 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Nationals Abroad: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many British nationals remain in Afghanistan as of 23 February 2022; and what plans her Department has to assist with repatriation efforts.
23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that pregnant women receive equitable care during (a) pregnancy and (b) childbirth.
23 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternal Mortality: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports that Black and Asian women are more likely to die in (a) pregnancy and (b) childbirth than white women in the UK.
Source: official written-questions record.