Written questions

695 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his Answer of 17 October 2022 to Question 58927, if he will he publish information held by his Department on school and community defibrillator provision to allow areas of most need to be identified

20 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Defibrillators: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what evidential basis did she determine the defibrillator requirements for (a) schools and (b) communities in her Department's recent tender for defibrillators.

20 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, why respondents were only asked about Automated External Defibrillators purchased within the last four years in her Department’s most recent survey on school defibrillator provision.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poisoning: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help tackle the sale of (a) Ferber Painting Badger Killer, (b) Ferber Painting Hedgehog Killer and (c) other illegal poisons that are used on

9 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy Loss Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a timeline for the Pregnancy Loss Review; whether he expects the review to reflect the recommendations from Miscarriage Matters, The Lancet Journals series published in April 202

20 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Flats: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support residents in flats with communal boilers who are not covered by the energy price cap.

20 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hearing Impairment: Babies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when was the last NHS England annual data report for the new-born hearing screening programme published.

20 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hearing Impairment: Babies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she expects NHS England will publish the annual data report for the new-born hearing screening programme for 2018-19; and for what reason that report has not yet been published.

1 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Short-term Holding Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take steps to open a new (a) short-term holding facility and (b) holding room for processing people who arrive in the UK on small boats.

1 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Manston Asylum Processing Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to publish statistics on the number of people who were detained at the Manston short term holding facility in same format as it used for data on other short-term

1 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Manston Asylum Processing Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people held at the Manston short-term holding facility were moved to (a) private accommodation, (b) another short-term holding facility and (c) an immigration detention

17 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Cost of Living Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to increase the qualifying period for future cost of living payments to help fluctuating earners; and if he will make it his policy to backdate cost of living payments for fluctuat

17 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Business Rates: Sheffield

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of the changes to business rates announced in the Autumn Statement 2022 on Sheffield City Council revenues.

17 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the French coastguard’s call logs from 24 November 2021 relating to fatalities in the Channel; and if he will launch a public

17 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Marine Accident Investigation Branch will conclude its inquiry into the 32 deaths in the Channel on the 24 November 2021.

17 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Charter Treaty

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Departments position on the UK's membership of the Energy Charter Treaty of the withdrawal of (a) Germany, (b) France, (c)

15 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds entitled 2021: Birdcrime: fighting raptor persecu

15 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department will respond formally to the recommendations in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit Report: United Kingdo

11 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Educational Psychology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer of the 24 October to Written Question 63042, whether she plans to allocate new funding to train educational psychologists after 2022.

8 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Nationality and Borders Act to mitigate the risk of indirect discrimination for claims based on protected characte

3 Nov 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the Expert Advisory Group to the Scottish Government on Ending Conversion Practices in Englan

3 Nov 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts in (a) Malta, (b) France, (c) Canada, (d) New Zealand, (e) Greece and the relevant regional and state governments in (i) the USA, (ii) Spain and

3 Nov 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with relevant stakeholders on the Government's plan to exclude transgender people from its ban on conversion therapy practices.

3 Nov 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions her Department has had with (a) NHS England, (b) NHS Wales, (c) the Royal College of GPs, (d) the Royal College of Psychiatrists, (e) the British Psychological Society and (f) the British Asso

3 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Investment Zones: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his Department's definition of a deregulated planning process is; what planning process will be used inside investment zones; and whether that process will be used outside them.

2 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital funding her Department has provided for (a) specialist deaf units, (b) bases and (c) other deaf resource provisions for deaf children in England in each of the last five years.

2 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was allocated to specialist deaf units, bases for deaf children or deaf resource provisions in England in each of the last five years.

2 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have (a) specialist deaf units, (b) bases for deaf children and (c) deaf resource provisions in England as of 2 November 2022.

2 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that there are an adequate number of mental health specialists within the NHS to meet the needs of patients.

26 Oct 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Land Management Schemes: Hedges and Ditches

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to ensure that hedgerows are central to Environmental Land Management Schemes, including the provision of funding to plant and restore hedgerows that enh

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