Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussion she has had with NHS England on the reasons why reusable NHS equipment is not permitted to be returned and reissued to new patients.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 2.25(3) of the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, published on 6 March 2024, how local authorities can apply for funding for additional special school places.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Kate Sang

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of (a) damages and (b) legal costs to the Department following legal action by Professor Kate Sang.

6 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Allergies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the federated data platform will include functionality to enable the creation of a consolidated national allergy register.

4 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Coroners: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing bereaved family members to receive coroner inquest notifications by text message.

4 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Coroners: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of sending coroner inquest notification letters to bereaved family members using signed for delivery.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Green Belt: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the consultation entitled Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: reforms to national planning policy, published on 22 December 2022, and to paragraph 35(a) of the Nati

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the consultation entitled Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: reforms to national planning policy, published on 22 December 2022, and to paragraph 35(a) of the Nati

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the consultation entitled Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: reforms to national planning policy, published on 22 December 2022, and to paragraph 35(a) of the Nati

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the consultation entitled Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: reforms to national planning policy, published on 22 December 2022, and to paragraph 35(a) of the Nati

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Green Belt: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement entitled The Next Stage in Our Long Term Plan for Housing Update, HCWS161, published on 19 December 2023, and paragraph 145 of the

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Green Belt: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to paragraph 145 of the National Planning Policy Framework, published in December 2023, whether it his policy that the threshold for an exceptional circumstance would

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Green Belt: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to paragraph 61 of the National Planning Policy Framework, published in December 2023, whether it his policy that a local authority area being located wholly within th

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

DNACPR Decisions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to ensure that patients' relatives are aware of their right to a second opinion when a doctor makes a do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation decision.

1 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport

Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2024 to Question 15192 on Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards, whether his Department made an estimate of the potential increased cost to the public purse of performance fe

29 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will ask the Care Quality Commission to undertake an assessment of the quality of the commissioning of children's palliative care services by integrated care boards.

29 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how she plans to distribute funding through the Children's Hospice Grant in the 2024-25 financial year.

27 Feb 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 25 October 2023 to Question 202520 on Special Educational Needs, on what date he plans to publish additional guidance on school admission for summer-born children with an Educati

27 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether suicide prevention funding for local authorities will be extended beyond April 2024.

26 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring all mobile network operators to send regular text messages to customers stating that when they have no signal on thei

22 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the report entitled The Prevent duty and its chilling effect on human rights published by Amnesty International in Nove

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Candidates: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Action 1 in her Department's Disability Action Plan, published on 5 February 2024, whether he plans to establish a temporary fund in 2025 to support disabled general election candidate

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether a value for money assessment was conducted before his Department lowered performance targets for Thameslink for the 12 months to the end of March 2024.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any public consultation was conducted before his Department lowered performance targets for Thameslink for the 12 months to the end of March 2024.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he consulted any passenger and commuter groups before lowering performance targets for Thameslink for the 12 months to the end of March 2024.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason his Department lowered seven performance targets for Thameslink for the 12 months to the end of March 2024.

16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of children aged ten and under that received dental (a) treatment and (b) surgery under general anaesthetic in each year since 2015.

7 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primary Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of (a) NHS Capital and (b) District Valuer Services rules in meeting demand for new primary care facilities.

7 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primary Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of primary care facilities to meet demand.

7 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's publication entitled Addressing the significant financial challenges created by industrial action in 2023/24, and immediate actions to take, published on 8 November

Source: official written-questions record.