Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Disposable Wipes: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to prohibit the sale and use of wet wipes containing plastic.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse of winter fuel payments to overseas residents was in 2023/24.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff have left the NHS ophthalmic sector to join ophthalmic units in independent treatment centres.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services: Treatment Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the value for money of ophthalmic care in independent treatment centres.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: Season Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling rail users to buy a discounted season ticket using a (a) young person's and (b) 26 to 30 railcard.

4 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Surrogacy: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing emergency travel documents for surrogate babies of British nationals born in Ukraine.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any HIV peer support services were (a) wholly or (b) partially funded by the public purse in 2023-24

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any Integrated Care Boards fund programmes which (a) find and (b) re-engage with people living with HIV who have not accessed HIV care in the last year

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of Baroness Merron of 11 September 2024, House of Lords, Official Report, column 1565, what steps he is taking to engage with people who have been diagnosed

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2024 to Question 3798 on NHS: Training, how many of the rejected or unsuccessful direct entry applicants were not accepted (a) due to the lack of a suitable p

12 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2024 to Question 3784 on Solar Power: Housing, if he will make it his policy to regulate the Smart Export Guarantee market to ensure that (a) residentia

12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 3791 on Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination, whether he has received any advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

12 Sep 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Music: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a fan-led review of the music industry.

10 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Military Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the equipment his Department has provided to Ukraine to help counter chemical threats included (a) gas detection and (b) chemical protective equipment for use by (i) civilians and (ii) armed forces.

9 Sep 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken with international partners to establish an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.

3 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Multiple Myeloma: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission research to (a) track and (b) compare international access to myeloma treatments; whether his Department holds data on the use by other countries of isatuximab in combination

3 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Dental recruitment incentive scheme 2024/25 published on 10 May 2024, how many NHS dentists have been recruited on the Golden Hello pathway in each (a) region and (b) ICB area

3 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Police: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September to Question 2138 on Police: Vetting, what information her Department holds on the performance of police forces processing of Disclosure Barring Service checks tha

3 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Police: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2138 on Police: Vetting, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of English police forces in delivering Disclosure and

3 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Drax Power Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to hold a substantive debate in the House of Commons on future subsidy arrangements for Drax power station.

3 Sep 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bangladesh: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1627 on Bangladesh: Demonstrations, whether he has had discussions with his Bangladeshi counterpart on recent (a) protests

3 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Genomics: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of (a) Genomics England Limited and (b) the NHS Genomic Medicine Service in (i) stimulating and (ii) facilitating research activity.

2 Sep 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Badgers: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on vaccinating badgers to help tackle the spread of bovine tuberculosis.

2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to conduct a review of prescribing rights during this Parliament.

2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applicants were (a) accepted onto and (b) rejected from the NHS Scientist Training Programme in (i) 2021-2022, (ii) 2022-2023 and (iii) 2023-2024.

2 Sep 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Venezuela: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the contested elections in Venezuela.

2 Sep 2024 · Department for Education

Educational Psychology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she had made an assessment of the adequacy of the number of educational psychologists in each local education authority in England.

2 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many eVisa applications have been received as of 2 September 2024.

2 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Biometric Residence Permits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Biometric Residence Permits will expire with the move to eVisas.

2 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Biometric Residence Permits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to publicise the ending of Biometric Residential Permits and transition to e-visas.

Source: official written-questions record.