Written questions

1,690 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Jun 2021 · Cabinet Office

Weddings: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will allow up to 60 people to attend weddings after the 21 June 2021.

4 Jun 2021 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts: Greater London

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessments of the potential merits of increasing the Lifetime ISA threshold for people living in London.

24 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respite Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure carers have access to breaks from their caring responsibilities.

24 May 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to tackle the impact of restraint during transportation on the (a) mental and (b) physical health of children in care.

24 May 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of restraint on the (a) mental and (b) physical health of children in care, particularly during the covid-19 outbreak.

12 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has of made (a) the delays in administering the second doses of the Pfizer BioNTech and (b) the current status of supplies of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for the UK.

12 May 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Almshouses: Tenants' Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to bring almshouse residents’ rights in line with tenants' rights.

11 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the right standards are met when NHS track and trace phone calls are made to returning passengers into the UK.

26 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sacituzumab Govitecan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allow accelerated approval and access to the breast cancer drug Trodelvy, to treat people with serious metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

26 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contact Tracing: Computer Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2021 to Question 134587 on Contact Tracing: Computer Software, for what reason the Government is not planning to re-design the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app

23 Apr 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make an assessment of adding touring artists to the list of jobs that qualify for covid-19 travel exemptions.

23 Apr 2021 · Department for Transport

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to exempt people in long-distance relationships from the covid-19 international travel ban.

15 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Noise

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure law enforcement of vehicle noise limits.

15 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to support survivors of domestic abuse who commit offences as a result of trauma from their past abuse.

15 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to introduce a target for the average time taken to provide a diagnosis of endometriosis of (a) four years or less by 2025 and (b) 12 months or less by 2030.

15 Mar 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iraq: Journalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recent arrests of journalists in the Iraqi Kurdistan region; and if he will make representations to hi

11 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect on the level of pupil premium funding for (a) mainstream and (b) SEN schools as a result of the new calculations of eligible pupils using the October 2020 census instea

11 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Leisure and Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to waive business rates for retail and leisure property until September 2021.

4 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Pupils: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to update guidance for schools and colleges on the use of clear face coverings to meet the needs of students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

1 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) review the cost of covid-19 testing for the Test to Release scheme and (b) exempt people who are returning to the UK from work-related travel from payment of that cost.

1 Mar 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mikhail Gutseriev

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will place sanctions on Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriev in response to his funding of the Belarussian regime and president Alexander Lukashenko.

25 Feb 2021 · Treasury

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will announce a pay rise for NHS staff and other public sector workers in Budget 2021.

25 Feb 2021 · Department for International Trade

UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Employment and Environment Protection

What plans she has to maintain employment and environmental protections in the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

24 Feb 2021 · Home Office

Protest

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has consulted protest groups on any forthcoming legislative proposals related to protest.

24 Feb 2021 · Home Office

Protest

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what equalities and human rights impact assessments she plans to undertake ahead of bringing forward legislative proposals on the right to protest.

23 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that inbound passengers on indirect flights out of red-list countries are not able to evade having to quarantine in a Government-approved hotel for 10 days.

22 Feb 2021 · Treasury

Community Energy: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will maintain the Social Investment Tax Relief; and if he will take steps to reform that relief so that enterprises in community energy and tackling climate change qualify for investment.

22 Feb 2021 · Women and Equalities

Discrimination

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to tackle hair discrimination in (a) dress code policies in schools and (b) places of work.

22 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will (a) set a timescale for the reopening of UK borders specifically for people separated from their partners and families and (b) immediately allow British Citizens in relationships regardless of marita

22 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

What steps he is taking to protect leaseholders from the costs of remediating buildings from unsafe cladding.

Source: official written-questions record.