Written questions
2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israeli Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made representations to the Israeli government on its E1 settlement plan.
2 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to amend the Skilled Worker Visa to enable visa holders to have a second job outside of their permitted occupation.
2 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Skilled Worker visas are live as of 2 September 2022.
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Parrots: Non-native Species
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of ring-fenced parakeets on other native wildlife.
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to amend the Boiler Upgrade Scheme to include a subsidy of £5,000 towards the cost of a heat pump for households that retain a gas boiler where that
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Heat Pumps: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the levels of ancillary costs associated with installing heat-pumps in homes including (a) initial surveys, (b) planning permission applications and (
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Visual Impairment: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of the rise in the cost of living on people who are blind and partially sighted.
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to recruit 300 new driving examiners; and how many and what proportion of the examiners that have been recruited are conducting prac
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Sign Language: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons his Department will not introduce a GCSE in British Sign Language until September 2025.
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors hold a live temporary (a) emergency registration or (b) licence to practise; and how many of those doctors have submitted applications to restore their routine registration or lice
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Sign Language: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to launch a consultation on the British Sign Language GCSE.
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Yoga: Social Prescribing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to promote the social prescribing of yoga to help patients with high blood pressure, heart disease, aches and pains, depression and stress.
2 Sep 2022 · Treasury
Disguised Remuneration Loan Charge Review
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Independent Loan Charge Review: report on the policy and its implementation, published in December 2019, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of access to information given to Lord Mor
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the efficacy of standardising colour coding of capsules between manufacturers to help patients ensure that they are taking the correct medicine.
21 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS trust hospitals in England are fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).
19 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Air Conditioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to review the existing guidance on the use of air conditioning units in hospital wards in England.
19 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Air Conditioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the existing guidance on the use of air conditioning units in hospitals wards in England was last reviewed.
19 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the climate resilience of hospital buildings in England.
19 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to extend the NHS Bursary to trainee doctors from low-income backgrounds to include the final two years of training to help ensure completion of their medical cour
19 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS England will begin publishing 12-hour data measured from the time of arrival on the wait for admission to hospitals.
18 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Tumour Treating Fields Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has received from (a) NICE, (b) patient groups or (c) other bodies about making additional funds available for tumour-treating fields such as Optune.
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to ensure that students in houses in multiple occupation will continue to have access to fixed-term, rather than periodic, tenancies in the provisions o
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what representations he has received from landlords of HMO student accommodation on the potential impact of the Renters Reform Bill on their properties.
18 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Melilla: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2022 to Question 28505 on Melilla: Asylum, whether (a) she or (b) Ministers, as opposed to officials, have contacted their counterparts in (i
18 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Air Conditioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provided additional funding for hospitals to purchase (a) portable air conditioning units and (b) other air cooling equipment in the context of the Met Office's extreme heat
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
National Grid: Seas and Oceans
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with the National Grid on the potential merits of building an offshore electricity grid instead of additional on-land energy pylons.
18 Jul 2022 · Home Office
High Rise Flats: Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish (a) all correspondence that she and her Department have had with (i) developers and (ii) housing associations on the Grenfell Inquiry's recommendation to make it mandatory for owne
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will extend the deadline of the Horizon compensation scheme to allow the estimated 170 branch managers who were not aware of the scheme and are reported to have missed the d
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Education
Pupil Exclusions: Racial Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support is available for parents to challenge the decision of school governing boards on student exclusions, in the event that parents consider racial discrimination to be a factor.
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Education
Pupil Exclusions: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to tackle the disproportionate rates of school exclusions of black children.
Source: official written-questions record.