Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date her Department sent letters to people eligible for Pension Credit to inform them that they must apply for Pension Credit to continue receiving winter fuel payments.

4 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of forecast revenue from changes to Agricultural Property Relief in each financial year from 2024-25 to 2029-30.

4 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to provide additional funding to local authorities for the cost of increases to employer National Insurance contributions.

4 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Government Departments: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, HC 295, whether the Departmental settlements include funding for public sector employers for the cost of increases to employer National Insuran

28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Visitors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the number of health visitors available to support babies with special educational needs and disabilities.

21 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Peas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the increasing use of pea protein in food products.

21 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Peas: Allergies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with the Food Standards Agency on listing pea protein as an allergen.

21 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Anti-social Behaviour

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to allow local councils to roll out noise cameras to monitor illegal vehicle modifications.

21 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Sector: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will conduct a review of public notices advertising to ensure that those notices are distributed in (a) printed and (b) online news outlets.

16 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Watford Hospital: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to visit Watford General Hospital before his Department's review of the New Hospital Programme is complete.

16 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions: Social Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of raising employer’s National Insurance Contributions on the social care sector.

16 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions: Hospitality Industry

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of raising employer’s National Insurance Contributions on the hospitality sector.

16 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions: Small Businesses

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of raising employer’s National Insurance Contributions on small and medium-sized businesses.

15 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the blog post entitled How we’re dealing with bots and the reselling of driving tests, published by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency on 29 June 2023, what progress that Agency has made

15 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to increase the Lifetime ISA property cap threshold in line with the rate of house price inflation.

15 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Adrenaline Auto-injectors: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of permitting GPs to prescribe a third epi pen to school children with severe allergies when school policies require them to leave one of the two

14 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Disposable Wipes: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October to Question 6533 on Disposable Wipes: Plastics, on what date he plans to bring forward proposals to implement a ban on the sale of wet wipes contai

14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has received recent representations from the charitable hospice sector on the impact of statutory funding levels on the adequacy of (a) service levels, (b) staffing levels and (c) patien

9 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to reply substantively to the correspondence of 23 January 2024 from the Hon. Member for St Albans on behalf of her constituent, his Department’s reference MC2024/01885,

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Electronic Travel Authorisations: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether airlines who will have responsibility for checking electronic travel authorisations (ETA) for EU nationals from 2 April 2025 will also have the ability to check (a) EU identity cards and (b) E

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department (a) collects and (b) holds on the number of people waiting for places in hospices run by charitable organisations.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether hospice funding will be included in his Department's 10-year plan for health and care.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Transplant Surgery: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the conclusions of the report entitled Transplant care in the UK: a patient perspective, published by Kidney Care UK in July 2024, if he will take steps to ensure people who have

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the conclusions of the report entitled Transplant care in the UK: a patient perspective, published by Kidney Care UK in July 2024, if he will take steps to ensure all chronic kidn

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the conclusions of the report entitled Transplant care in the UK: a patient perspective, published by Kidney Care UK in July 2024, if he will take steps to ensure that eligible ki

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help reduce waiting lists for a kidney transplant.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hertfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Hertfordshire SEND Improvement Plan, published in December 2023, whether her Department (a) was consulted on and (b) agreed with the implementation of the Hertfordshire County Council targ

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Hertfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has received representations from Hertfordshire County Council to request funding to (a) assess the viability of and (b) introduce bus franchising in Hertfordshire.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Off-payroll Working

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will review IR35 rules.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewers: Property Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to require sustainable drainage systems for new housing developments under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.

Source: official written-questions record.