Written questions
1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.
8 Feb 2021 · Department for Education
Pupils: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will update the guidance entitled Children of critical workers and vulnerable children who can access schools or educational settings, to provide a list of specific critical worker roles.
8 Feb 2021 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
What steps she is taking to ensure that domestic abuse services receive adequate support to meet increased demand as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
4 Feb 2021 · Treasury
Hospitality Industry and Tourism: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to maintain VAT at 5 per cent for supplies of hospitality, hotel and holiday accommodation and admissions to certain attractions in Budget 2021.
2 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Insulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many residential buildings in the UK require the removal of combustible cladding; and what estimate he has made of the cost of that removal.
1 Feb 2021 · Department for Education
Post-18 Education and Funding Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to implement (a) the recommendation on interest rates on student loans and (b) other recommendations of Post-18 review of education and funding: independent panel report, published
28 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Travel Restrictions: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will scientific advice he received prior to the decision that travellers from certain countries will need to enter a quarantine hotel upon arrival in the UK.
27 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to provide mental health support to healthcare staff working in hospital wards dedicated to the treatment of patients with covid-19.
27 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress he has made on ensuring that every school and college has a designated lead in mental health.
26 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Weddings: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to ensure weddings can recommence once covid-19 infection rates have declined.
26 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Conditions of Employment: Re-employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to prevent employers using fire and re-hire tactics when negotiating employee contracts.
25 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plastics: Packaging
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to reduce the use of single use plastic in supermarket packaging.
25 Jan 2021 · Cabinet Office
Census: Staff and Voluntary Work
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what ratio of paid staff to volunteers are working to assist in compliance with completing the census in 2021, compared with 2011.
22 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to (a) retain nurses employed in the NHS, (b) encourage nurses who have left the NHS to return to the NHS and (c) attract more students to train in the nursing profession.
22 Jan 2021 · Cabinet Office
Elections: Coronavirus
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of altering the candidate nomination requirements for elections during a pandemic.
21 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Landlords: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to introduce a licencing scheme for landlords in the private housing sector.
21 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Remote Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to help school pupils catch up with the curriculum who did not have access to a computer device during school closures in spring 2020 due to the covid-19 outbreak.
20 Jan 2021 · Home Office
Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers in (a) January 2021 and (b) January 2019.
20 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to provide staff to Nightingale hospitals in the event that general hospitals are overwhelmed by covid-19 patients.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish data on the rates of covid-19 infection in (a) professional and (b) grassroots sport in the period prior to the January 2021 national covid-19 lockdown.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Nurseries: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to ensure that only the children of (a) key workers and (b) people who cannot work from home will be accepted at nurseries during the covid-19 outbreak.
18 Jan 2021 · Cabinet Office
Passengers: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to introduce mandatory quarantine at hotels to reduce the spread of covid-19 by people arriving from outside the UK.
18 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing (a) retail workers and (b) other workers in public facing roles to be prioritised for the covid-19 vaccine once everyone over the a
18 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Disinfectants
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress the Government has made in rolling out Virusend (a) in NHS settings and (b) for commercial use.
15 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will have discussions with those employers who continue to have large numbers of employees in their workplaces, to encourage them to send home employees who are able to work
14 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in which (a) professions, (b) settings and (c) activities are covid-19 transmission rates highest.
14 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to reduce the number of pupils in school during the covid-19 lockdown that began in January 2021.
13 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Homelessness: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will announce further funding for the Everyone In scheme.
13 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Protective Clothing: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence informed his Department's decision that children under the age of 11 do not need to wear a mask in an enclosed public space during the covid-19 outbreak.
12 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish details of the tendering process for the provision of food parcels to children eligible for free school meals who are learning at home during the January 2021 covid-19 lockdown.
12 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Mothers and Pregnancy: Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to implement the Government’s July 2019 commitment to establish a taskforce of employer and family representative groups to address pregnancy and maternity discrimin
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