Written questions
1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Jul 2022 · Treasury
Shipping: Russia
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his policy to ban British companies insuring ships carrying Russian oil cargo will be made retrospective to prevent contracts being signed that last beyond the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement.
4 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hormone Replacement Therapy: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward the hormone replacement treatment costs reduction from April 2023 to an earlier date.
4 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Jim Fitton
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to help ensure the safety and welfare of Jim Fitton in detention in Iraq.
4 Jul 2022 · Treasury
Cash Dispensing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to promote the redistribution of ATMs in urban locations to rural and suburban sites.
4 Jul 2022 · Treasury
Cash Dispensing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he is taking steps to help ensure that the UK’s main banks maintain their membership of (a) LINK, (b) the Post Office and (c) other collective bodies for the purposes of ensuring the long-term sustainability
4 Jul 2022 · Treasury
Cash Dispensing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling the UK’s existing ATM network to accept cash deposits as well as withdrawals.
1 Jul 2022 · Women and Equalities
Companies: Databases
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make it his policy to require large employers to collect socioeconomic background data for use in (a) outreach work with schools and (b) recruitment and progression policies.
1 Jul 2022 · Women and Equalities
Companies: Databases
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make it his policy to require all large employers to collect socio-economic background data on (a) work experience schemes, (b) apprenticeships and (c) entry-level applicants for use in (i) outreac
1 Jul 2022 · Treasury
Financial Conduct Authority: Surveys
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the staff satisfaction findings of the most recent survey of staff at the Financial Conduct Authority.
30 Jun 2022 · Treasury
Minimum Wage: Uprating
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to increase the minimum wage in line with inflation.
29 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of covid-19 infections.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Cost of Living Payments: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make housing benefit claimants eligible for the £650 cost of living payment.
24 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hinkley Point B Power Station: Decommissioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions officials in his Department have had since 24 February 2022 with representatives of EDF on a potential life extension for Hinkley Point B.
22 Jun 2022 · Department for Education
Pupils: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when will schools who offer places to Ukrainian refugees receive additional per pupil funding for those children.
22 Jun 2022 · Department for Education
Pupils: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have offered places to Ukrainian refugees in each local authority area.
22 Jun 2022 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if train operating companies are required under their franchise agreements to offer the current wage package and commit to redundancies.
20 Jun 2022 · Treasury
Pensions: Debts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will make an estimate of the number of people who have accessed their pension pots to repay debt in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
20 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Platinum Jubilee 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to announce details of how the Platinum Jubilee fund will be administered.
17 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Public Holidays
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to maintain two jubilee bank holidays every year.
16 Jun 2022 · Treasury
Environment Protection: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress his Department has made on deciding the technical screening criteria which will decide which technologies will be classified as green under the UK Taxonomy.
15 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Post Office Card Account: Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason she has decided to close the Post Office Account Pensions schemes; and if she will reconsider that decision.
15 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sexual and Reproductive Health: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of appropriately trained health advisers within sexual health services, in context of the emergence of the monkeypox virus.
15 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hartlepool Power Station and Heysham 1 Power Station: Decommissioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the retirement of (a) Heysham 1 and (b) Hartlepool nuclear power plants on (i) electricity prices, (ii) security
15 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hinkley Point B Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department wrote to EDF to request examination of the possibility of a life extension for Hinkley Point B.
14 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sexual and Reproductive Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the forthcoming sexual and reproductive health strategy will tackle drug resistant sexually transmitted infections.
14 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sexual and Reproductive Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timeframe is for publishing a monitoring and evaluation framework for the forthcoming sexual and reproductive health strategy.
14 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sexual and Reproductive Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date the new Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy will be published.
14 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Electricity: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of (a) the price of electricity generated at Heysham I and Hartlepool nuclear power plants and (b) the wholesale market pr
14 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hartlepool Power Station and Heysham 1 Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of granting further life extensions for (a) Heysham 1 and (b) Hartlepool nuclear power plants on the security of el
14 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hartlepool Power Station and Heysham 1 Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had recent discussions with EDF on possible life extensions beyond March 2024 for (a) Heysham I Nuclear Power Station and (b) Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station.
Source: official written-questions record.