Written questions
1,690 written questions tabled, most recent first.
8 Nov 2024 · Home Office
Immigration: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken for applications for indefinite leave to remain to be processed following a successful asylum claim on the mental health of app
8 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Employment Tribunals Service: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of naming parties involved in employment tribunal cases on those people; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits granting anonymity to parti
6 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his department has plans to increase funding for (a) NGOs and (b) human rights defenders operating in Afghanistan who are promoting the human rights of (i) women, (ii
31 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Diego Garcia: Chagossians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will take steps to facilitate the return of Chagossians to Diego Garcia.
31 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the treaty on the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will guarantee Chagossians (a) the right to return to the outer islands, (b) restitution
31 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that Chagossians (a) in the UK and (b) globally are consulted before conclusion of a treaty on the transfer of sovereignty of the C
17 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) equalising capital gains tax with income tax, (b) applying national insurance to dividends from (i) shares, (ii) rent from property and (iii) interest on
16 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Prostate Cancer UK's study entitled Using real world data to bridge the evidence gap left by prostate cancer screening trials, published in October 2024, what assessment he has ma
15 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is issuing guidance to GPs encouraging them to discuss a PSA test with men at the highest risk of developing prostate cancer.
14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Midwives: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have entered the NHS midwifery workforce through (a) pre-registration undergraduate courses, (b) apprenticeships, (c) postgraduate conversion from nursing, (d) return to midwifery p
14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Midwives: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people who joined the NHS as a midwife were newly-qualified as midwives in each of last five years.
14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Midwives: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students were enrolled on (a) pre-registration undergraduate and (b) postgraduate midwifery courses in each year of study in each of the last five years.
14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Midwives: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people graduated from pre-registration undergraduate midwifery courses as newly-qualified midwives in each of the last five years.
14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Midwives: Flexible Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of flexible working arrangements for NHS midwives.
14 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will (a) collect and (b) publish data on (i) the protected characteristics of individuals in detention who have claimed asylum, (ii) where those individuals are detained and (iii) th
14 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Mistreatment of Detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre Inquiry
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Government response to the Brook House Inquiry report, published on 19 March 2024, what progress her Department has made on implementing the re
14 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of community-based alternatives to detention.
14 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Immigration Removal Centres: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the risk of (a) abuse, (b) harassment and (c) violence faced by LGBTQI+ people in immigration detention centres.
14 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of provisions in Section 32 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 on LGBTQI+ people in the asylum system.
10 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Food: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, published in February 2022, whether he is taking steps to implement the Community Eatwell pilot.
10 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nutrition: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the (a) access to and (b) affordability of (i) fruit and (ii) vegetables for families living on low incomes in Lambeth.
10 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Schools: Sanitary Products
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is her policy to continue the provision of free period products to pupils during the school holidays.
10 Oct 2024 · Women and Equalities
Period Poverty
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of period poverty on (a) the economy and (b) educational attainment.
10 Oct 2024 · Women and Equalities
Sanitary Products: Scotland
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential (a) implications for her policies of the effectiveness of the free period products scheme in Scotland and (b) merits of implementing a similar scheme in England.
9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Long Covid
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the 2021 NICE guideline for long covid.
9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Air Conditioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of supporting the wider roll-out of air filtration systems within NHS services.
9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services and Social Services: Long Covid
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of Long Covid on the health and social care workforce.
4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to community-based mental health support for low-income children and families.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to reform the social security system to (a) support families on low incomes and (b) reduce related mental health issues.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Children: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to monitor the effectiveness of her Department's work to support the mental health of children in poverty in (a) schools and (b) other educational settings.
Source: official written-questions record.