Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Drax Power Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of Drax power station's compatibility with the sustainability criteria of the Contracts for Difference and Renewable Obligation

5 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospital buildings were built before 1948 in England; what the ten oldest NHS hospital buildings are in England; and to which NHS trusts these buildings belong.

5 Dec 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of not uprating Local Housing Allowance on rates of (a) eviction and (b) homelessness applications in the next 12 months.

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sickle Cell Diseases: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a temporary suspension of NHS prescription charges for patients with sickle cell disease for (a) patients, (b) the NHS, and (c) th

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sickle Cell Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to mitigate the impact of the rising cost of living on people with chronic conditions such as sickle cell disease.

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sickle Cell Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department intends to publish a Sickle Cell Action Plan.

2 Dec 2022 · Treasury

VAT: Repayments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question 94867 VAT: Repayments, what systems are in place to identify patterns of non-compliance with VAT regulations by different sectors.

2 Dec 2022 · Treasury

VAT: Repayments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question 94867, how many (a) schools or (b) education trusts have received any demands for backdated VAT for each of the past five years.

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Junior Doctors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission a national survey on junior doctor welfare including the provision of catering for on call staff.

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a report on a quarterly basis on progress in implementing the National standards for healthcare food and drink.

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how will the new national standard for healthcare food and drink that relates to 24/7 food service provision, be monitored by NHS England.

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to monitor the consistency of the implementation of national standards for healthcare food and drink in healthcare settings in England.

2 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to 24/7 palliative care telephone advice lines for people with a terminal illness and their carers.

2 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Primary Education: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in England employ a (a) play or (b) creative arts therapist.

30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether pharmacists and the pharmacy workforce will be considered as part of the upcoming NHS workforce plan.

30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will publish a response to the consultation Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public which closed on 16 June 2021.

30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to extend the NHS and Social Care Life Assurance Scheme 2020 to include support for (a) NHS and (b) social care staff who have (i) a long-term disability due to a cov

30 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Long Covid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS workers were on sick leave due to Long Covid as of 29 November 2022; and how many and what proportion of those workers have been absent for more than (a) six and (b) 12 months.

28 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office

Climate Change: Infrastructure

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy report, Readiness for storms ahead? Critical national infrastructure in an age of climate change, published on 27 October, what assessment

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the recommendations of NHS England’s Palivizumab National Expert Group on the eligibility of a sub-group of children with spinal muscular atrophy to receive a palivizumab vaccina

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the context of increases in the number of respiratory syncytial virus infections being reported in children under the age of five, whether the forthcoming meeting of the JCVI will be expedited t

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Immunosuppression

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) public health and (b) clinical advice his Department is providing to immunocompromised patients who (i) do not demonstrate an antibody response to vaccines for covid-19 and (ii) who are me

28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Immunosuppression

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a covid protection strategy for immunocompromised patients.

24 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Help to Grow Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will review the eligibility criteria for the Help to Grow Management course; and if he will extend that criteria to include businesses employing between one and four people.

24 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Fuels: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Competition and Markets Authority’s road fuel review, published on 12 October 2022, what estimate he has made of time it will take to create an open data sch

24 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the affordability of prescriptions for patients on low incomes who do not qualify for free prescriptions.

24 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescriptions have been issued but not collected in each month of 2022 by commissioning area.

23 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Probate Service: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 86612, what is the (a) shortest, (b) mean average and (c) longest period of time that an actionable piece of correspondence received by the Probate Office in the

23 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 86612, if he will make it his policy to publish the (a) number and (b) proportion of complaints which meet the target of having received a reply within 10 working

23 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to increase the level of fees for Family Legal Aid lawyers for Special Children Act proceedings.

Source: official written-questions record.