Written questions

1,495 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people who have paid for day two and day eight covid-19 tests upon returning to the UK but have not received them are not held up in quarantine; and whet

19 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) investigate and (b) suspend the contracts of private companies that are failing to fulfil their obligations to provide PCR covid-19 tests and results on time to people returning to t

19 May 2021 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Criminal Investigation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures are in place to prevent investigation bias in rape and serious sexual offence cases.

19 May 2021 · Home Office

British Nationality: Ceremonies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of increases in the waiting time for citizenship ceremonies on applicants.

19 May 2021 · Home Office

British Nationality: Ceremonies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of citizenship ceremonies that have been delayed in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Stockport constituency since March 2020.

19 May 2021 · Home Office

British Nationality: Ceremonies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of suspending the requirement to attend a citizenship ceremony during the outbreak of covid-19.

17 May 2021 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to install tactile surface markings at train stations across the UK.

17 May 2021 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to allocate funding to Network Rail to expedite the installation of tactile surface markings at stations (a) in Stockport, (b) in Greater Manchester and (c) across the UK.

12 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Alan Duncan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether Sir Alan Duncan attended the Sultan's Privy Council in Oman in early January 2011 when he was Minister of State for International Development.

26 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Colombia: Bombings

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports that several children were killed in a military bombing raid against illegal armed groups in Guavi

22 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mohamed Adjevi

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Moroccan Ambassador and instruct HM Ambassador to Morocco to raise with the Moroccan authorities the case of the British passport holder,

19 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Disability and Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate the Government has made of the number of increased care bills issued by local authorities in England to disabled and mentally ill adults in the last 12 months; and what assessment he

16 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Protais Mpiranya

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to encourage Zimbabwe to give up Rwanda Genocide suspect Protais Mpiranya to allow him to face trial.

16 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Zimbabwe: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support is the Government is providing to Zimbabwe to support covid-19 testing and vaccination in that country.

16 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how widely the cancer treatment drug, Phesgo, has been rolled out; and whether Phesgo is being used for treatments at Stepping Hill Hospital.

16 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Stepping Hill Hospital: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cancer related appointments and treatment sessions have been postponed at Stepping Hill hospital as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

16 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cancer related appointments and treatment sessions have been postponed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

16 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the delivery of cancer treatment.

16 Apr 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Oxford/AstraZenica vaccines were exported from the UK to Australia in late February and early March 2021.

16 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid to Child Maintenance Group customers in compensation for distress in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.

16 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2019 to Question 166586 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, since the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advised that local teams should consider a universa

16 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sultana Khaya

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has raised the case of Sultana Khaya with his Moroccan counterpart.

16 Apr 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Re-employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2021 to Question 164672, on Re-employment, how many (a) employer and (b) employee groups Acas spoke to, by business sector.

15 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Western Sahara: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2021 to Question 141623 on Western Sahara: Sovereignty, what assessment he has made of whether the exercise of self-determination includ

15 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Western Sahara: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2021 to Question 141623 on Western Sahara: Sovereignty, whether it is his policy that the status of Western Sahara is as a Non-Self-Gover

14 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Test and Trace

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2021 to Question 140313, how many contracts have been awarded relating to test and trace since 18 January 2021.

14 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Test and Trace

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2021 to Question 140313, what the value was of each of the 217 contracts awarded to public and private companies.

14 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Test and Trace

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2021 to Question 140313, which (a) public and (b) private organisations have received contracts relating to NHS test and trace.

14 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests for Alternative Payment Arrangements were refused in (a) England, (b) the Northwest and (c) Stockport in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20 and (iii) 2020-21.

14 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Alternative Payment Arrangements were requested by claimants in (a) England, (b) the Northwest and (c) Stockport in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20 and (iii) 2020-21.

Source: official written-questions record.