Written questions

825 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the written statement of 30 July 2024 on Adult Social Care Workforce, HCWS50, whether he plans to make a further statement about how funding for Adult Social Care Learning and Dev

18 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Workers: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the written statement of 30 July 2024 on Adult Social Care Workforce, HCWS50, whether he plans to provide further funding for social work apprentice opportunities.

18 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that participation in disability sports does not affect eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment.

18 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators: Sportsgrounds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of defibrillators in sports stadiums.

9 Oct 2024 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether forthcoming legislation to ban conversion practices will include protections for those who are asexual.

9 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Georgia: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the safety of LGBTQI+ people in Georgia following the On Family Values and Protection of Minors legislation being passed.

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Politics and Government: Georgia

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the potential impact of the legislative package on Family Values and Protection of Minors being signed into law in Georgia on that country's safe state designation unde

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to increase the availability of electric vehicle charge points for people who do not have off street parking.

4 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure there is not a funding cliff edge for VAWG services in March 2025.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that specialist violence against women and girls services are aware of the early release of prisoners with known histories of those offences.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing benefits for those (a) in supported accommodation and (b) subject to higher service charge payments.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people who are (a) under pension age and (b) terminally ill to access their state pension.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing people who are terminally ill to withdraw funds from private pensions.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of (a) trainee pilots accessing one standardised training course and (b) allowing new pilots to use their UK licence in EU countries without under

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Nottingham East

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to increase funding for arts and culture in the Nottingham East constituency.

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Immigration: Sudan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to increase access to resettlement to the UK for Sudanese refugees in neighbouring countries who are at risk and cannot return to Sudan.

6 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department and NHS England have made on the Greener NHS initiative.

6 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to audit NHS supply chains to ensure that no medical (a) garments and (b) equipment are sourced from (i) Xinjiang and (ii) other regions with widespread repor

6 Sep 2024 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to engage with LGBT+ people from minority (a) ethnic and (b) religious groups about the impact on them of (i) conversion practices, (ii) prejudice and (iii) abuse.

30 Aug 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle barriers to (a) accommodation, (b) employment and (c) education for people on Ukraine scheme visas unable to (i) e

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Further Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for the further education sector.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Further Education: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the retention of teachers in further education colleges.

30 Aug 2024 · Home Office

Refugees: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that people who have recently acquired refugee status do not experience homelessness after leaving asylum accommodation.

30 Aug 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to provide funding for homelessness services following the end of the Rough Sleeping Initiative funding in April 2025.

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the exercise by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence of its discretionary power to show flexibility in relation to its (a) Standard T

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on implementing the commitment in the England Rare Disease Action Plan 2024 to review the criteria for determi

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Online Safety Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to implement the Online Safety Act 2023 to protect young people from (a) harmful content and (b) AI-deepfakes.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking in schools to (a) tackle misogyny and (b) ensure girls' safety.

30 Aug 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2024 to Question 454 on Asylum: LGBT+ People, when her Department last reviewed the level of the risk of (a) discrimination, (b) harassment and (c) violence towards L

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to expand access to dementia training for adult social care workers

Source: official written-questions record.