Written questions

894 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Feb 2022 · Prime Minister

10 Downing Street: Official Hospitality

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2022 to Question 119829, if he will list the party political receptions that were held at 10 Downing Street from October to December 2020.

22 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit claimants there are by (a) constituency and (b) region as at 22 February 2022.

22 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there has been an increase in the uptake of Pension Credit in each year since 2010.

22 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on promotion campaigns to encourage the take up of Pension Credit in each year since 2010.

22 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what communications strategy her Department has to help ensure that pensioners who are eligible for but not in receipt of Pension Credit are aware that applying for Pension Credit may entitle them to ot

21 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to improve the health assessments process for people with (a) multiple sclerosis and (b) other relapsing and progressive conditions.

18 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the role of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria in achieving the Government’s target to end the preventable deaths of mothers, new

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department are working on the State Pension underpayment correction exercise; and if she will recruit additional staff to work on that exercise.

18 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Energy Bills Rebate

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse is of the element of the energy bill discount scheme, announced on 3 February 2022, relating to the council tax rebate proposal; and what allowance he has made in that costing for t

8 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis is for how the proposals to reform alcohol taxation will support improved public health, in the context of the comparative number of units of alcohol in a (a) four per cent ABV pint of beer

8 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of (a) Scotch Whisky distilleries and (b) reforms to alcohol taxation that widens the differential between spirits and categories such as beer and cider on (i) employment op

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will lift the benefit cap in the context of the rise of the cost of living.

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of the benefit cap on levels of poverty.

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Lone Parents: Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of the benefit cap on women who are lone parents.

8 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Daniel Morgan Independent Panel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to implement the recommendations in The Report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.

7 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Daniel Morgan Independent Panel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made in implementing the recommendations of the Report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.

7 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress has been made on securing reciprocal agreements with countries outside of the EU to facilitate the uprating of state pension to UK citizens living abroad.

7 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Special Advisers

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse is of (a) his new Chief of Staff and (b) his new Director of Communications.

7 Feb 2022 · Prime Minister

Prime Minister: Photographs

To ask the Prime Minister, what the cost to the public purse is of the No. 10 Downing Street photographer.

7 Feb 2022 · Prime Minister

10 Downing Street: Official Hospitality

To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the official receptions held at 10 Downing Street in the financial years (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.

1 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Remote Working: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish (a) any assessment undertaken and (b) the methodology of any such assessment on the cost and productivity differential between civil servants working from home

1 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office

10 Downing Street: Cleaning Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of cleaning in No. 10 Downing Street in each of the last five years.

1 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Cleaning Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cleaners are employed by his Department; and what the average salary is for cleaners.

1 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Protective Clothing: Ports

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much personal protective equipment (PPE) is in temporary storage at UK ports; what the average length of time is that PPE is held at ports; and what the cost is of storing PPE at ports.

1 Feb 2022 · Prime Minister

Prime Minister

To ask the Prime Minister, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of the creation of the Office of the Prime Minister.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Buses: Driving Licences and Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the waiting period is for (a) a PCV theory test and (b) the granting of a PCV licence.

31 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Whisky: Scotland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the contribution the Scotch whisky sector can make in supporting the UK’s hospitability sector to recover from the covid-19 outbreak.

31 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Whisky: Scotland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he will take to ensure that the Alcohol Duty Review supports the Scotch whisky sector.

27 Jan 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has issued to Jobcentre staff on the celebration of religious festivals, birthdays, retirements and other occasions during periods of covid-19 restrictions.

27 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to research by Cardiff University’s Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, Public attitudes to death and dying in the UK, published on 2 November 2021, what steps he is taking

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