Written questions

1,673 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many leasehold properties were (a) built and (b) approved in (i) England and (ii) Lancashire in each of the last five years.

28 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Laying Hens and Pellets.

28 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include asthma in the prescription charges exemptions list.

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Pupils: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to (a) collect data on the wellbeing of every primary and secondary school in England and Wales and (b) publish that data in a wellbeing league table.

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education: Sleep

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to make sleep lessons compulsory for (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils as part of the Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in the National Curriculum.

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horses: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department holds information on the (a) number and (b) location of roadside sites where horses are tethered throughout (i) North West England and (ii) Lancashire; and if he

26 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Weather: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons there was a high level of excess winter deaths in 2017-18; and what plans he (a) put in place to reduce those deaths in 2018-19 and (b) is putting in place to reduce those deaths i

25 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to introduce statutory annual surveys for school staff in (a) primary, (b) secondary schools and (c) colleges.

25 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy.

25 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Teachers: Stress

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to tackle increasing levels of stress and of mental health issues experienced by primary and secondary school teachers and head teachers.

13 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many deaf people are currently in prison in (a) England and Wales and (b) the North West of England.

13 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's 22 October 2018, New study into Iraq and Afghanistan veterans launched, whether that study will record and analyse the roles in which those people served.

12 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Funerals: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what procedures are in place to (a) monitor and (b) prevent local authorities charging burial and cremation fees that above inflation rates.

12 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Soaps

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 7 January 2019 Guardian article entitled Sales of barred soap are up – but is it better at cleaning than a shower gel?, if his Department will make a comparative

12 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Insects: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to preserve natural habitats for (a) butterflies, (b) bees and (c) moths.

12 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development

Female Genital Mutilation

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what events the Department for International Development held to mark the United Nations Day for Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation.

11 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Housing: Heating

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of National Energy Action's report entitled, Cold homes claiming needless lives and costing every local Health and Wellbeing Board

11 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Weather: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the reasons behind the high level of Excess Winter Deaths (EWDs) in 2017-2018; what plans he put in place to reduce the number of EWDs in 2018-2019 and what plans he wil

11 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Fuel Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households have been classified as being in fuel poverty; and how many of those households include (a) children and (b) people aged over 60 in each of the last three year

4 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Smoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate funding to (a) local authorities and (b) clinical commissioning groups to achieve the national target of reducing the number of smokers during pregnancy to six per cent

30 Jan 2019 · Treasury

Medicine: Education

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to ensure that the UK has the ability to train sufficient numbers of medical students for the NHS.

30 Jan 2019 · Treasury

Medicine: Education

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of funding additional domestic medical student places to meet increasing demand on NHS services.

30 Jan 2019 · Treasury

Medicine: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Health and Social Care on funding for additional domestic medical student places.

17 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Crime: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the trends in the level of (a) knife crime, (b) gun crime, (c) homicides and (d) gang-related crime in (i) Preston constituency and (ii) Lancashire.

17 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to increase the uptake of flu vaccinations for primary-aged school children in Lancashire.

14 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 9 January 2019 to Question 205829, Children; Maintenance, how many non-compliant parents were disqualified from holding or obtaining a UK passport in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 a

7 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the rate of non-compliance from paying parents to receiving parents using the Child Maintenance Service.

18 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce a maximum waiting time for treatment for patients who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

18 Dec 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to increase funding allocated to children's services in local authorities in England in the next Comprehensive Spending Review.

9 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many inpatient deaths there were in (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust for which an eating disorder was the underlying cause of

Source: official written-questions record.