Written questions

1,673 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that patients are aware when they are being treated by (a) an Anaesthesia Associate and (b) other healthcare practitioners without a medical degree.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that families affected by dementia are able to access funding for care.

17 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase access to GPs.

15 Jan 2024 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to help ensure that all those affected by contaminated blood receive appropriate compensation; and what is his planned timetable for finalising the compensation framework.

15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Yemen: Military Intervention

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help prevent regional conflict following strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: International Law

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Israel on the importance of upholding international law.

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the timeline is for ensuring all victims of the Horizon scandal receive the compensation they are due; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure all wrongfully convicted victims are compen

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many subpostmasters in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West were (i) wrongfully convicted and (ii) quit as a result of the flawed Horizon accounting system.

10 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Environment Protection: Job Creation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent steps she has taken with Cabinet colleagues to encourage the creation of green (a) jobs, (b) investment and (c) skills in (i) Preston, (ii) Lancashire, (iii) the North West and (i

10 Jan 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 has taken to help ensure the UK meets its international climate commitments since COP26 in November 2021.

10 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to support homeowners, in the context of the Government's commitment to reach net zero by 2050.

10 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Home Discount Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the eligibility criteria for the Warm Home Discount for winter 2024-25.

10 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of the Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill with the UK's 2050 net zero target.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Education

Bus Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase funding to local authorities for the provision of free bus travel to schools.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to help increase the affordability of bus travel for school children.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Annual Review of Local Government complaints in England for 2022-2023, publi

19 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs and Poultry: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to publish a consultation on reforms to the use of farrowing crates for pigs and cages for laying hens.

21 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Famine: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress his Department has made on delivering commitments in the G7 famine prevention and humanitarian crises compact.

20 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Cosmetics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to cancel or recall existing licenses that allow companies to carry out exclusive-use cosmetics ingredients on animals.

7 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of increases in child poverty levels in Preston constituency.

7 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the levels of child poverty in Preston constituency.

7 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to end the two-child limit for benefit payments.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animals: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it remains her Department's policy to prohibit the live export of animals for slaughter or fattening.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deep Sea Mining

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is her Department's policy to support a ban or moratorium on deep-sea mining in international waters.

2 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Public Sector: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether figures relating to sentencing referencing the statutory aggravating factor of providing a service to the public introduced by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 are recorded.

2 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Shoplifting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) incidents of and (b) arrests for shoplifting were recorded in each police force across England in each of the last three years.

2 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Shoplifting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports of, (b) charges for and (c) convictions for shoplifting in (i) Preston and (ii) England there were in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

10 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Leader of the House of Commons on finding Parliamentary time for the remaining stages of the Kept Animals Bill.

Source: official written-questions record.