Written questions

1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Universities: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she had recent discussions with universities on taking steps to ensure that the statistics on the employment of former students on degree courses are accurate when universities offer courses to new stud

17 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to provide funding for the Office for National Statistics covid-19 infection survey after March 2023.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his planned timetable is for the abolition of Section 21.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Union Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require every employer to have a recognised trade union in the workplace.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the number of (a) internship and (b) graduate scheme opportunities advertised to students by universities.

17 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help support people who are not eligible for free prescriptions but find it difficult to pay for them.

17 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria and Turkey: Earthquakes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help support those affected by the recent earthquake in (a) Turkey and (b) Syria.

17 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to take steps to create safe and legal routes for migrants travelling across the channel in small boats.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has had recent discussions with representatives of Ukrainian refugees on the adequacy of the process for securing private accommodation after leaving the Homes for Ukraine

9 Feb 2023 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Taxation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Prime Minister will amend the ministerial code to require all new Ministers to publish their tax returns.

9 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Pay Settlements

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to offer a higher pay award for nurses in 2022-23 than that recommended by the NHS Pay Review Body in its Thirty-Fifth Report, published in July 2022.

8 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil: Protest

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people whose daily activity was disrupted by (a) Extinction Rebellion and (b) Just Stop Oil protests in the last calendar year.

7 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Zero Hours Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ban zero-hours contracts.

7 Feb 2023 · Cabinet Office

Dominic Raab

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister was first made aware of the allegations of bullying made against the Rt hon. Member for Esher and Walton.

6 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on requirements to record the (a) number and (b) identity details of people turned away from polling stations for not possess

6 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will introduce a target for processing applications to extend a stay in the UK using a FLR(FP) form.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of potential workforce challenges facing community pharmacies.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help support the long-term sustainability of community pharmacies.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the long-term financial sustainability of community pharmacies.

1 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Restaurants: Braille

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make it her policy to make it mandatory for all restaurants to provide braille menus.

31 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Nazi War Crimes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the War Crimes Act 1991 at increasing the number of police investigations of suspected Nazi war criminals living in the UK.

30 Jan 2023 · Cabinet Office

Nadhim Zahawi

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister first became aware that the Rt hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon had not (a) declared to his permanent secretary and (b) disclosed in his ministerial declaration of interests the investig

24 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish a sexual and reproductive health action plan.

19 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Levelling Up Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding from Levelling Up Fund Round 2 will be provided to each local authority.

18 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what reason his Department (a) funded the repatriation of five Britons from Ukraine on 22 September and (b) did not fund the repatriation of the body of Paul Urey.

17 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Teachers: Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had since her appointment with (a) the NEU and (b) other teaching unions about pay and working conditions.

13 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Women’s Health Strategy for England, published on 30 August 2022, CP 736, how many and what proportion of integrated care boards have policies that provide equitable IVF acces

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to abolish energy pre-payment meters.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Construction: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help support the training of more (a) joiners and (b) plasterers.

11 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help reduce the carbon emissions caused by large-scale sporting events in the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.