Written questions
1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Defibrillators: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department requires recipients of the Community Automated External Defibrillator Fund to register their automated external defibrillators onto The Circuit national defibrillator network
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Defibrillators: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to encourage community organisations in (a) Warrington and (b) the rest of England to register their automated external defibrillators onto The Circuit nation
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Defibrillators: Government Departments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether automated external defibrillators installed on Government buildings are registered onto The Circuit national defibrillator network.
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Voluntary Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to develop volunteering as a route to an NHS career; and what support his Department provides to (a) NHS Cadets and (b) other programmes to help support a (i) di
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Voluntary Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long-Term Workforce plan, what steps his Department plans to take to recognise the clinical capability of volunteers in enhancing NHS resilience and delivering NHS Career
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Voluntary Organisations
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to enable Integrated Care Boards to draw on surge capacity from auxiliary organisations such as St John Ambulance to help support NHS emergency preparedness.
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Voluntary Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help improve how NHS England works with clinically trained volunteers.
28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of Lord Darzi's Independent investigation of the NHS in England, published on 12 September 2024, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen NHS resilience; and
24 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British National (Overseas): Diplomatic Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that Hongkongers who have (a) arrived in the UK under the BN(O) scheme and (b) will be naturalised as British citizens have access to UK (i)
22 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Hong Kong: Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to communicate the risks associated with travel to Hong Kong to Hongkongers who have (a) arrived in the UK under the BN(O) scheme and a
22 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings she has had with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs since 5 July 2024.
22 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has not published an annual report since 2019; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that the Advisory Coun
22 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Drugs: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on tackling drug-related harms of all of the recommendations made by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs between 2010 and 20
18 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to end the duty stamps scheme.
18 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will ask the Office for Budget Responsibility to review its (a) price elasticity of demand and (b) other forecasting methodology for alcohol duty revenues.
17 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of fires that have been caused by the batteries of (a) e-scooters and (b) e-bikes in the last 12 months.
16 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Mental Health Bill will (a) protect and (b) enhance the rights of (i) children and (ii) young people who are (A) detained in and (B) admitted informally t
16 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase funding for the children's mental health to (a) reduce waiting times for and (b) increase access to support.
16 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Educational Institutions: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to embed a Whole Education Approach to mental health and wellbeing in all education settings.
16 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department has made on reviewing the fairness of PIP assessments.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Menopause: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that employers are supporting women managing menopause.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Flexible Working: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support women with flexible working.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Further Education: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle low pay in the further education sector.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
TGI Fridays: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with D&D London on the closure of 35 TGI Fridays branches.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to simplify railway ticket pricing.
11 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Shared Ownership Schemes: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people have successfully applied for the Home Ownership for People with Long-term Disabilities (HOLD) scheme since it was launched.
10 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Great British Insulation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people secured a grant from the Great British Insulation Scheme since it opened in April 2003.
9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hormone Replacement Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to review the requirement for three miscarriages to have taken place before the drug progesterone can be administered.
8 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to proceed with the recruitment process for members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, as announced by the previous government on 2 August 2023.
8 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Mandatory Provident Fund: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with (a) HSBC and (b) Standard Chartered on the provision of Mandatory Provident Fund retirement savings to Hong Kongers on the British National (Overseas) visa scheme.
Source: official written-questions record.