Written questions
1,495 written questions tabled, most recent first.
1 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Office for National Statistics report, Coronavirus and the social impacts on disabled people in Great Britain: September 2020, what steps her Department has taken to support disabl
1 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Office for National Statistics report, Coronavirus and the Social Impacts on Disabled People in Great Britain: September 2020, what assessment she has made of the implications for
1 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Australia and Canada
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons she has not had discussions with the Governments of (a) Canada and (b) Australia on up-rating UK state pensions overseas.
1 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Vagrancy Act 1824
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824.
1 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Vagrancy Act 1824
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2021 to Question 11550, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of repealing the Vagrancy Act 1824.
19 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Muhammed Salem Ayyad Al Fahim
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will ask the Ambassador to Morocco to (a) make representations to the Moroccan authorities on the disappearance and death of Muhammed Salem Ayyad Al Fahim and (b) reque
19 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Walid Salek El Batal
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Moroccan Ambassador on the opinion of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calling for the immediate release of the Saharawi journ
19 Feb 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sultana Khaya
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will instruct HM Ambassador to Morocco to raise with the Moroccan authorities the throwing of stones at the Saharawi human rights defender Sultana Khaya by police.
8 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) potential merits of including ME/CFS on the list of neurological conditions in group 6 of the JCVI priority list and (b) consistency of GP decisions on includ
1 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support is being provided to local authorities and housing associations facing increased costs for maintaining and improving their ageing housing stock to meet current stand
1 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of changes in the level of demand for social housing in (a) the UK, (b) the North West and (c) Stockport since the beginning of the covid-19 outbrea
1 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the number of households on council housing waiting lists in (a) the UK, (b) the North West and (c) Stockport.
26 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessments: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will undertake to change the timing of Maximus' Customer Satisfaction Survey for claimants undergoing Work Capability Assessments to after they have completed the process.
25 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional support he is providing to hospices to allow family members to present at the end of life during the covid-19 outbreak.
25 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an estimate of the (a) additional expenditure incurred and (b) revenue lost by local authorities as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
25 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Tax: Arrears
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the (a) level of council tax arrears nationally and (b) effect of those arrears on local authorities.
22 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an estimate of the (a) additional expenditure incurred by and (b) amount of revenue lost by local authorities during the covid-19 outbreak.
22 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Tax: Arrears
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an (a) estimate of the national level of council tax arrears and (b) assessment of the effect of that matter on local authorities.
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will change the timing of Maximus' customer satisfaction survey for claimants undergoing assessments for work capability assessments.
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Publicity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publicise the option for fortnightly payment of universal credit.
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of claimants for universal credit who have been affected by digital exclusion including the closure of libraries, day centres and other public sources of digit
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Mortgages
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, since the start of the covid-19 outbreak, what Government support has been provided to people claiming universal credit who have a mortgage and are not eligible for receipt of housing allowance to help
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what total amount of debt is being permanently written off in response to the Government's recent review of Child Support Agency historical cases.
22 Jan 2021 · Treasury
Individual Savings Accounts: Widowed People
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the three year limit on the transfer of ISA benefits from a deceased spouse during the covid-19 outbreak.
22 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Landlords: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make landlord registration schemes mandatory for all local authorities in England to improve protections for tenants from rogue landlords.
22 Jan 2021 · Home Office
Immigration: Health Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether citizenship applications where the applicant has gaps in Comprehensive Sickness Insurance (CSI) due to maternity leave or childcare responsibilities have been successful in instances where the
22 Jan 2021 · Home Office
Immigration: Health Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether women who have gaps in their Comprehensive Sickness Insurance (CSI) as a result of maternity leave or childcare responsibilities will still qualify for citizenship if those gaps result in an a
22 Jan 2021 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Procurement
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason information on the number of businesses supplying public bodies that have been deemed to be at risk under the terms of procurement is not held centrally.
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support the Government is providing for workplace learning; and what recent estimate he has made of the number of people in receipt of that support.
22 Jan 2021 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Contracts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how often a supplier termination event takes place at HM Revenue and Customs relating to the prohibition of the use of arrangements involving the use of offshore entities, whereby the main purpose is to achieve a re
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