Written questions
1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 Jul 2023 · Home Office
Abortion: Demonstrations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing support to local councils managing protestors outside facilities providing abortion care until the implementation of safe access
18 Jul 2023 · Home Office
Abortion: Demonstrations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when safe access zones around facilities providing abortion care under the Public Order Act 2023 will be initiated in England and Wales.
18 Jul 2023 · Women and Equalities
Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent steps she has taken to help close the ethnicity employment gap.
18 Jul 2023 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to support the maritime sector's transition to net zero emissions.
18 Jul 2023 · Treasury
Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to alter his policies on inheritance tax; and if he will make a statement.
17 Jul 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Urban Areas: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help urban areas adapt to (a) warmer summers and (b) flooding.
17 Jul 2023 · Women and Equalities
Equal Pay
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will set out the Government's timeline for its pay transparency pilot.
12 Jul 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Ticket Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of closing train station ticket offices in Warrington North constituency on the (a) safety and (b) accessibility of passenger rail travel in the North West.
12 Jul 2023 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Contracts for Services
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department is taking steps to prevent public contracts being awarded to companies that blacklist workers.
12 Jul 2023 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Contracts for Services
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what social value criteria the Government considers when awarding public contracts.
12 Jul 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a reasonable adjustment disability passport template to facilitate people with disabilities when changing employers and in recording
12 Jul 2023 · Home Office
Lone Parents: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an equality impact assessment of the potential impact of the no recourse to public funds condition on single mothers.
12 Jul 2023 · Women and Equalities
Equal Pay
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government taking to help close the (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) disability pay gap.
12 Jul 2023 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to support unprofitable bus routes in hard-to-reach rural areas.
12 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Companies: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help tackle levels of debt in the water industry.
12 Jul 2023 · Treasury
Energy: Profits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to tackle excess profits in the energy sector.
12 Jul 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of inspections carried out by the Health and Safety Executive.
10 Jul 2023 · Department for Education
Comprehensive Schools: Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers were employed by state comprehensives (a) in the most recent period for which data is available and (b) in 2019.
7 Jul 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the additional costs of living with a disability.
6 Jul 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Ticket Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of ticket office closures at train stations on rail users.
6 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to develop a care pathway for cardiac arrest survivors.
6 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that survivors of cardiac arrest can access an individual post-cardiac arrest rehabilitation plan.
6 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all survivors of cardiac arrest can access appropriate, ongoing, personalised support.
6 Jul 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his planned timetable is for the publication of a consultation on the National Disability Action Plan.
5 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade: Commonwealth
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to increase the level of trade with Commonwealth countries.
5 Jul 2023 · Cabinet Office
Covid-19 Inquiry
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps the Government has taken to engage with the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
5 Jul 2023 · Women and Equalities
Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the Workers Protection (Amendment to the Equality Act 2010) Bill.
4 Jul 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Zimmer Biomet
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department is taking steps to help protect jobs at Zimmer Biomet in Bridgend.
4 Jul 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Deep Sea Mining
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support an international ban on deep-sea mining.
4 Jul 2023 · Treasury
Banks: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce a windfall tax on banks to account for excess profits in the banking sector generated by the interest rate rise on 22 June 2023.
Source: official written-questions record.