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.