Written questions
2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Group: Biofuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the BBC Panorama programme entitled The Green Energy Scandal, whether Ofgem is taking steps to investigate if Drax Group plc were aware that biomass fuels used by them origi
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Renewables Obligation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to ensure that hon. Members can scrutinise the extent to which Ofgem is successfully delivering the Renewables Obligation scheme.
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Renewables Obligation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to ensure that hon. Members can scrutinise the extent to which electricity suppliers comply with the relevant sustainability criteria of the Renewables Obligation scheme
30 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2022 to Question 97701 on Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Children, what recent discussions his Department has had with JCVI’s respiratory syncytial virus subcommi
29 Mar 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 28 March to Question 161414 on General Practitioners: East of England, what data his Department holds on the closures of GP surgeries in the last twelve months in (a) each
28 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Convention on Biological Diversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2023 to Question 164001 on the Convention on Biological Diversity, when her Department plans to publish the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action
28 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health and Care Professions Council: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with the Health and Care Professions Council on the potential merits of (a) giving its membership a vote on its budget plans and (b) consulting with its membership on me
28 Mar 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to prevent access to unregulated online gambling services.
28 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the amount of income care users are allowed to keep after contributing towards their care costs by at least 10.1 per cent in line w
27 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Gyms and Leisure Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to provide additional support with the increased cost of energy for leisure centres and gyms.
27 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Intensive Industries: Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will reclassify (a) public swimming pools and (b) leisure centres as energy and trade intensive industries.
27 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Carbon Emissions: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it is his Department's policy that upper tier authorities should include all schools and school buildings in 2030 net zero commitments.
27 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any applications to the Environment Agency for limited extended validity have been granted following legal injunctions against the Environment Agency since 2016.
27 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications for limited extended validity were made to the Environment Agency in each year since 2016; and how many were yet to be processed by year of application as of 25 M
23 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Seed Potatoes: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an estimate of the average time it took to import seed potatoes from France in the last 12 months.
23 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fruit and Vegetables: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the extent to which recent increases in the costs of production incurred by British fruit and vegetables producers are reflected in the prices bei
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of Government food procurement standards for supporting British produce.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Reservoirs: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) Anglian Water and (b) Water Resources East on the suitability of the proposed Fens Reservoir to support agricultural use.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Avian Influenza: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with insurance companies about their willingness to insure poultry farmers against losses related to bird flu which are not covered by Government co
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fruit and Vegetables: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of the average price differential between the retail price of British fruit and vegetables sold in the UK and the prices paid to UK-based primary prod
22 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of the new hospital programme in each hospital trust.
20 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Hertfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to correspondence from the Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing to the hon. Member for St Albans dated 21 February 2023, on what date her Department received a letter from Hertfordshire
20 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on (a) the number of requests for new needs assessments for education, health and care plans from upper-tier local authorities and (b) the number of such requests that have
20 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Parking: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March to Question 156100, when his Department plans to (a) complete and (b) publish its impact assessment on levels of private parking charges and additio
16 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Spring Budget 2023, HC1183, published on 15 March 2023, if he will make an estimate of the number and proportion of (a) health professionals and (b) other NHS employees whose
15 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport
Roads: Litter
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to set National Highways key performance indicators for cleaning up litter.
13 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published on 20 May 2021, whether the new fare structure will address the disparity in pricing for annual season tickets available fr
13 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Workplace Pensions: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to amend FCA guidance to waive the requirement that someone has to seek independent financial advice and obtain a certificate to allow a transfer out of a defined benefit p
13 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Capital Gains Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to process applications for a refund of overpaid Capital Gains Tax within 60 days, in line with the period of time allowed for Capital Gains Tax to be reported and paid from the date of
13 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing free school meal vouchers to those students who are eligible for free school meals but cannot access a school setting due to (a) disability, (b)
Source: official written-questions record.