Written questions

810 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

West Coast Partnership Rail Franchise: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether First Trenitalia West Coast, Alstom Transport or Atalian Servest are permitted to improve pay arrangements for cleaners employed in Alstom’s traincare depots.

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

West Coast Partnership Rail Franchise: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether under the terms of the emergency recovery management agreement between his Department and First Trenitalia West Coast, he has given a mandate in relation to Atalian Servest’s current pay arrangements at

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

West Coast Partnership Rail Franchise: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish correspondence between his Department and the directors of First Trenitalia West Coast, Alstom Transport Ltd or Atalian Servest in respect of the current industrial dispute over cleaners’ pay

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

West Coast Partnership Rail Franchise: Atalian Servest

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the terms of the contract between his Department and First-Trenitalia West Coast indemnify Atalian Servest from any financial penalty caused by industrial action.

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

West Coast Partnership Rail Franchise: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether under the terms of the emergency recover management agreement between First-Trenitalia West Coast and his Department the franchise operator continues to be paid in the event that cleaning is disrupted b

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

West Coast Partnership Rail Franchise: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish reports from First Trenitalia West Coast, including tables, charts and other data, showing delivery of Station and Train cleans against planned programmes for each Performance Based Fee Asses

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

West Coast Partnership Rail Franchise: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the planned programmes of Station and Train cleans required from First-Trenitalia West Coast as a condition of its Emergency Recovery Management Agreement for each Performance Based Fee Asses

21 Mar 2022 · Women and Equalities

Gender Recognition: Scotland

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of the proposed Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland on equity of legal protections for trans people in the UK.

21 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish the Government’s Vaccine Strategy.

21 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into intra-nasal covid-19 vaccines.

21 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will reconsider the decision that the UKHSA will scale down the COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) announced in the Government’s Living with COVID-19 Strategy, published on 21 February 2022.

21 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will extend the provision of free covid-19 tests to the unpaid carers of clinically vulnerable individuals in the community.

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference the national statistics for Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry published on 22 February 2022, what the response rate was to the Seafarer Employment Survey conducted by the UK Chamber of Shippi

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the national statistics for Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry published on 22 February 2022, what steps he is taking to increase the number of UK-based ratings employed on (a) domestic and

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the national statistics for Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry published on 22 February 2022, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) UK and (b) non-UK resident seafarers employed

18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date all local authorities in England will be providing postal at-home HIV testing.

18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether daily limits are in place on the number of postal at-home HIV tests available through local authorities.

18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to provide financial support to local authorities for the provision of at-home HIV testing in all parts of England.

18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of local authority provision of availability of at home HIV testing all year round; and what criteria is used to determine eligibility criteria for that test

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

National School Breakfast Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the National School Breakfast Programme missed its target of reaching 2,500 schools in the 2021-22 academic year; and if he will make a statement.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

National School Breakfast Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on monitoring student uptake of free breakfast provision as part of the National School Breakfast Programme in the 2021-22 academic year.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Furs: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to publish its response to the recent consultation on the fur market in the UK.

8 Feb 2022 · Women and Equalities

Gender Recognition Certificates

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to de-medicalise the process of obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Drax Power Station: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish his estimates for the amount of (a) lost carbon sequestration and (b) greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the decomposition of the roots of trees burnt at D

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Biofuels: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason only 70 per cent of the wood pellets burnt in UK power stations need to be sustainably sourced in order to qualify for renewable subsidies; and what discussions he

31 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the roll out will begin of the primary course of covid-19 vaccination for children aged five to 11, who are in a clinical risk group or who are a household contact of someone who is immunosupp

31 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to UKSHA data showing increasing hospitalisations among children with covid-19, if he will urgently publish (a) data on the primary cause of those hospitalisations and (b) the propo

24 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Liverpool Airport: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been carried out on the potential effect of increased pollution, noise and emissions from Liverpool's proposed airport expansion on people's physical and mental health.

24 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport and Liverpool Airport: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of proposed (a) Liverpool and (b) Heathrow airport expansions on (i) levels of UK carbon emissions and (ii) the ability of the Government to meet its target

13 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Drax Power Station: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what renewable subsidies for burning wood pellets were paid to Drax in each of the last 10 years under the (a) Renewables Obligation and (b) Contracts for Difference scheme.

Source: official written-questions record.