Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Apr 2023 · Department for Transport

Traffic Lights

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a smart traffic light system trialled in Spain and France in which traffic lights turn green for drivers approaching at the

24 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of dental practices at risk of closure.

24 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

BUPA: Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential effects of the closure of Bupa dental practices on the number of children seeing a dentist each year.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Bills Rebate

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of eligible households who have not received Energy Bill Support Scheme payments automatically have made an application for the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her correspondence with teachers of 29 March 2023, if she will make an assessment of the affordability of the proposed pay award for teachers at schools that signed fixed-term energy contracts

20 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Fortified Wines: Imports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to support importers of fortified wine importers.

20 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Fortified Wines: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an easement for fortified wines that are made from fresh grapes after 1 August 2023.

19 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April to Question 176748 on General Practitioners: Closures, if he will publish a list of the 158 practices that have been either closed or merged.

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have a (i) school nurse, (ii) healthy lifestyles coach and (iii) equivalent health worker.

19 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason teachers and students in SEN schools are excluded from receiving covid-19 booster vaccinations.

19 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of funding the NHS pay awards through the public health grant on the availability of funds for public health programmes.

19 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding each local NHS Trust and Integrated care system promised a new hospital as part of the New Hospital programme has received.

17 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will amend assessment criteria for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) to ensure that claimants who are not eligible for PIP but who (a) are eligible or (b) would be eligible for the Limited Capab

17 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance entitled Working definition of trauma-informed practice, published by his Department on 2 November 2022, what recent progress his Department has made on developing th

17 Apr 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February to Question 150416 on Bicycles and Electric Vehicles: Safety, whether he plans for those regulations to include provision for the use of electric bikes operated with a hand

17 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help to ensure indoor air quality in care homes poses a low risk to health.

17 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Heating

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help to ensure temperatures in care home are (a) regularly recorded and (b) regulated.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Land: Ownership

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to introduce an ownership transparency register for land and buildings in town centres.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Oil: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made representations on the potential impact on global net-zero commitments of the Willow Project in Alaska to his American counterpart.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Chronic Illnesses and Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the statement in Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published in March 2023, that his Department will begin testing matching people’s primary health condition

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review the operation of (a) income-based ESA or (b) contribution-based ESA following the abolition of the Work Capability Assessment announced in Transforming Future Support: The Hea

14 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Commission for Countering Extremism report entitled Hateful extremism and the law, published 2 July 2021, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing tha

14 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Commission for Countering Extremism report entitled Hateful extremism and the law, published 2 July 2021, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing tha

14 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Commission for Countering Extremism report entitled Hateful extremism and the law, published 2 July 2021, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing tha

14 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Commission for Countering Extremism report entitled Hateful extremism and the law, published 2 July 2021, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing tha

14 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to respond to the Commission for Countering Extremism report entitled Hateful Extremism and the Law, published February 2021.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the £2 bus fare cap beyond June 2023.

14 Apr 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Powers of Attorney

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) shortest, (b) mean average and (c) longest period of time was that it has taken for the Office of the Public Guardian to register a lasting power of attorney document in the last 12 months.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February to Question 148806 on Homes for Ukraine Scheme, whether he plans to update the How to rent guidance to include guidance for people leaving a Hom

30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter sent by the hon. Member for St Albans on 16 November 2022, and subsequently resent on 20 January and 20 March 2023, reference DC5119.

Source: official written-questions record.