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.