Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Solar Power: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2022 to Question 37516 on Solar Power, if he will take steps to increase the installation of domestic solar panels by enabling households with so

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foie Gras: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September to Question 45314 on Foie Gras: Imports, if he will set out a timeline for building a sufficient evidence base to inform decisions and any potent

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deposit Return Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what date the Deposit Return Scheme will be operational.

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Electricity and Natural Gas: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of decoupling gas and electricity wholesale prices.

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the British Franchise Association report entitled 2018 Franchise landscape: Brought to you by the BFA and NatWest, which found that failure rates for franchises

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Gazumping

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 125519 on Gazumping, what progress his Department has made on encouraging the adoption of voluntary reservation agreements sinc

20 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: West Bank

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether any arms exported from the UK under arms export licences have been used in reported attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank i

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Reach: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the dates of any meetings her Department has had with Reach Plc since 1 January 2022 in which requests by Reach employees who are also NUJ members to receive a pay in

20 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Job Sikhala

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Zimbabwe on the withholding of medical attention for the Zimbabwean Member of Parliament Job Sikhala, who is currently de

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Transport

Low Emission Zones: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish a consultation on the introduction of a cleaner vehicle subsidy scheme for people who live outside the London Ultra Low Emission Zone but are required to travel into it for work.

8 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Wind Power: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 26 April 2022 and to Written Statement HCWS294 of 8 September 2022, if he will urgently review the inclusion of footnote 54 on the National Planning Policy

7 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the three letters to hon Members representing Hertfordshire constituencies from the Minister of State Maria Caulfield, dated 6 September 2022, relating to the release of fees tota

7 Sep 2022 · Department for Transport

Thameslink Line: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in the context of rail fares being set by her Department, if she will take steps to ensure that the cost of off-peak single fares for Thameslink rail journeys (a) starting and (b) terminating at St Albans City

7 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Doctors: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September to Question 45643, what data her Department regularly requires from the GMC on the number of currently licensed doctors, for the purposes of NHS workforce plan

6 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Billing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his contribution of 5 September 2022, Energy Update statement, Official Report, column 59, on what date he plans to announce the energy bill support arrangements

6 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Email and Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to introduce either (a) direct email addresses or (b) a contact webform to allow claimants of social security benefits other than Universal Credit to (i) notify their loca

6 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting times for calls to be connected to each JobCentre Plus office in the UK were in each month in each of the last three years.

5 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Sign Language: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether under arrangements for Education, Health and Care Plans for Deaf children may include provision and specific funding to support parents and close family members of those children to learn British Sign L

5 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the letter from Education Unions dated 21 July 2022, how many schools were provided with HEPA air filtration devices during the 2022 summer holidays in preparation for the Autumn term.

5 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Sign Language: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) local and (b) national funding is available for parents and close family members for studying advanced British Sign Language courses that enable them to communicate more effectively with their children

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Preventive Medicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process is undertaken by t5he (a) NHS and (b) his Department to evaluate potential future prophylactic covid-19 treatments.

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tixagevimab/cilgavimab

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement on 12 August 2022 that Government will not be procuring any doses of Evusheld at this time, if he will provide a full list of the experts who were consulted in th

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a list of members of the Rapid C-19 Oversight Group.

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tixagevimab/cilgavimab

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement on 12 August 2022 that Government will not be procuring any doses of Evusheld at this time, what assessment was made during the decision making process of the rel

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tixagevimab/cilgavimab

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement on 12 August 2022 that Government will not be procuring any doses of Evusheld at this time, if he will set out in detail the decision making process including (a)

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tixagevimab/cilgavimab

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish all evidence provided by immunologists to inform the decision not to procure Evusheld.

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to recommendations in the consensus statement of the 2017 International Conference on the Standards of Care on the use of Palivizumab for some categories of children with spinal musc

5 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date he expects NHS England’s Palivizumab Expert Group to respond to the request from the JCVI to consider the eligibility of children with spinal muscular atrophy to receive the Palivizuma

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Middle East: Foreign Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of not having a specific ministerial role for the Middle East on the UK's influence in that region.

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israeli Settlements

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Israeli government's E1 settlement plan on the human rights of Palestinian residents in that area.

Source: official written-questions record.