Written questions
2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport
Railways: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2021 to Question 38423, whether no Train Operating Company has informed his Department that they have already started (a) freezing and (b) reducing recruitment of (i) train
20 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of learner drivers who have had to resit their driving theory tests as a result of the shortage of practical driving test appointment availability.
20 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test centres have an available appointment for a practical driving test available within the next six weeks; and how many appointments are available within the next six weeks at those centres w
20 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made on the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency's plan to recruit 300 new driving examiners; and how many and what proportion of the examiners recruited as at July 2021 are activel
20 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will review her Department’s policy of (a) not responding to and (b) refusing further cases from hon. Members who are requesting urgent assistance for people still in
20 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
DNACPR Decisions: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) investigations and (b) prosecutions into the unlawful use of blanket do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions taken during the covid-19 pandemic (i) are in progress, (ii)
20 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to implement the recommendations from the Care Quality Commission's report Protect, respect, connect – decisions about living and dying well during COVID-19 published in Mar
20 Sep 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Property Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether financial resources are available for residents who need to repeatedly respond to multiple applications from a developer for a site that repeatedly seeks to extend the limits
20 Sep 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Property Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what powers local planning authorities have to censure a developer that submits multiple applications for a site that seeks to extend the limits to development which are already sett
20 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport
Parking: Pedestrian Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2021 to Question 170743 on Parking: Pedestrian Areas, what recent progress he has made on plans to reform the management of pavement parking.
20 Sep 2021 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Correspondence
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that all government agencies pro-actively promote access to paper or printable forms for people who do not have full access to digital v
20 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Travel: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will recognise travellers from the EU and US as fully vaccinated where their first and second dose of covid-19 vaccinations are different approved vaccines.
16 Sep 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Buildings: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the value of additional funding that will be required by local authorities to effectively administer the proposed new building safety regime, as set out
15 Sep 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the recommendations of the Climate Assembly UK report, The path to net zero, published on10 September 2020, when he plans to publish his Department’s response to
14 Sep 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will update the National Planning Policy Framework to remove the ability of the Planning Inspectorate to use the housing standard methodology calculation when (a) assessing loc
13 Sep 2021 · Home Office
Travel Restrictions: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether visa applications from red list countries will continue to be processed while covid-19 restrictions on international travel remain in place.
13 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on recording absence from school as authorised in the event that eligible children are required to isolate following a covid-19
10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Misconduct
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to implement the recommendations of the report by the Professional Standards Authority, Sexual Misconduct In Health And Social Care: Understanding Types Of Abuse
10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Misconduct
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the Professional Standards Authority entitled Bad apples? Bad barrels? Or bad cellars? Antecedents and processes of professional misconduct in UK Health and Social C
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Social Media: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with (a) YouTube and (b) other social media companies about whether their harmful or dangerous content policies should be extended to cover content including
10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Covid Pass: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2021 to Question 32520, when British citizens who received their covid-19 vaccinations overseas will be able to register their vaccine status for access to an NHS
10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy for children aged 12-15 who are eligible for the covid-19 vaccination due to clinical vulnerability to isolate at home for 3 weeks after their first vaccine.
9 Sep 2021 · Home Office
Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the Grant Thornton Report on Labour Availability to (a) introduce a 12 month covid-19 recovery visa to enabl
8 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 12211 on Dementia: Research, if he will publish a timetable for the Government’s delivery of the dementia moonshot.
8 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an urgent assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations for recruiting HGV drivers contained in the Grant Thornton Report on Labour Availability; and if he will make a statement.
8 Sep 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture and Food: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits to the food and farming sectors of implementing the recommendations from the Grant Thornton Report on Labour Availability on visas
8 Sep 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Retail Trade: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the fourth Grimsey Review, published July 2021.
8 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to enable tenants in blocks of flats to install electric vehicle charging points in allocated parking spaces on a presumptive basis in the event that landlords repeatedly ignore re
7 Sep 2021 · Home Office
Action Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timeline is for the replacement of Action Fraud with an improved national fraud and cybercrime reporting system.
7 Sep 2021 · Treasury
Collateral (UK): Insolvency
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the collapse of Collateral (UK) Limited.
Source: official written-questions record.