Written questions

683 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of funding for the ambitions in the Women's Health Strategy for England, updated on 30 August 2022.

20 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Women's Health Strategy for England, updated on 30 August 2022, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of progress on the 10-year ambition that women and girls wi

20 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce the average time taken for an endometriosis diagnosis.

19 Mar 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Public Telephones

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many and what proportion of public phone boxes were removed in (a) Liverpool and (b) England in (i) 2023, (ii) 2022, (ii) 2021, (iv) 2020 and (v) 2019.

19 Mar 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Public Telephones: Liverpool

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent discussions she has had with (a) BT and (b) Ofcom on the adequacy of the provision of public phone boxes in Liverpool.

19 Mar 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Public Telephones

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent discussions she has had with (a) BT and (b) Ofcom on the adequacy of the provision of public phone boxes.

19 Mar 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Public Telephones: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent discussions she has had with (a) BT and (b) Ofcom on the maintenance of public phone boxes.

19 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Colombia: Ceasefires

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in Colombia on the recent ceasefire with the ELN.

18 Mar 2024 · Home Office

Horticulture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 14388 on Horticulture: Seasonal Workers, whether his Department (a) monitors and (b) enforces payments to seasonal workers to ensure they receive

18 Mar 2024 · Home Office

Horticulture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 14388 on Horticulture: Seasonal Workers, who is responsible for payments to seasonal workers in line with the requirement that they must receive

18 Mar 2024 · Home Office

Horticulture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 14388 on Horticulture: Seasonal Workers, whether the requirement for seasonal workers to receive a minimum of 32 hours pay for each week of their

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cats: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) guidance and (b) support his Department provides to (i) veterinarians and (ii) other animal welfare professionals on cats and kittens illegally smuggled into the UK.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cats: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the illegal smuggling of cats and kittens into the UK.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hedges and Ditches: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help protect hedgerows.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Disabled Facilities Grants

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Disabled Facilities Grants were distributed to private rented sector tenants last year.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many wheelchair-accessible homes have been built in England outside London in the last year.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many new M4(2) homes have been built in England outside London in the last year.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information his Department holds on how many Disabled people were evicted thorough section 21 no-fault evictions in the private rented sector in 2023.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Furs: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 4004 on Furs: Imports, what criteria he is using to determine when to publish a summary of responses to his Department’s 2021 Fur

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to provide additional funding to the NHS for (a) diagnostic tools and (b) the workforce to help prepare for the potential arrival of new dementia treatments.

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of geographical disparities in access to specialist dementia diagnostics on the (a) accuracy and (b) timeliness of diagnoses across regio

4 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Access

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help ensure access (a) into Gaza and (b) across the Strip.

4 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Water

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help make the water pipeline from Israel into northern Gaza operational.

4 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

West Bank: Palestinians

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure protection of Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects the Food Data Transparency Partnership Eco Working Group to produce its report detailing proposals to measure and communicate carbon emissions in the food system.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dairy Products and Meat: Consumption

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the potential impact of reducing meat and dairy consumption on the Government's Net Zero Strategy.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Factory Farming: Inland Waterways and Rivers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the impact of factory farming on (a) rivers and (b) other waterways.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Streptococcus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the review of the list of notifiable diseases as part of proposed amendments to the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010, if he will take steps to add Group B Strepto

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Streptococcus: Preventive Medicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent (a) death and (b) serious illness of (i) mothers and (ii) babies from Group B Streptococcal Infection.

16 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Horticulture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many workers on the horticultural seasonal worker visa scheme were injured at work during (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

Source: official written-questions record.