Written questions

745 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Bereavement Support Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides for unmarried bereaved parents and their children who are ineligible for bereavement support payments.

5 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit conditionality easements have been applied to claimants suffering a bereavement following the death of a partner, child or qualifying young person since April 2017.

5 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Bereavement Support Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families have claimed the (a) higher and (b) lower rate of bereavement support since 6 April 2017 in (i) England, (ii) the North West, (iii) Merseyside and (iv) Wallasey constituency.

5 Sep 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports Competitors: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department provides for deaf athletes.

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Strokes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to meet with the Stroke Association to discuss the personal independence payment assessment guidelines for stroke survivors.

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Stroke Association

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she last met with the Stroke Association; and what issues were discussed at that meeting.

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Consumer Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it remains her Department's policy to create a pensions dashboard.

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Consumer Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her department plans to publish the feasibility study into the creation of a pensions dashboard.

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the conclusion of the report, Rolling Out Universal Credit, published by the NAO in June 2018, that one in five claimant

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce (a) modifications and (b) improvements to the administration of universal credit in relation to monthly pay arrangements for claimants who are not paid on the same date in

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support households facing financial difficulties as a result of universal credit payment fluctuations because of monthly pay arrangements.

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to reduce the time taken for payments of universal credit to claimants as a result of universal credit payment fluctuations in relation to monthly pay arrangements.

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to resolve payment (a) errors and (b) delays in relation to people claiming universal credit in 2018.

17 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Derelict Land: Merseyside

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that all brownfield sites are prioritised for development in (a) Wirral and (b) Merseyside.

17 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Derelict Land: Wirral

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been built on brownfield sites in Wirral in each calendar year since 1 January 2011.

17 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Derelict Land: Wirral

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in Wirral which have a shortage of brownfield sites with exemptions under the proposals for the National Plan.

17 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to empower local authorities to prevent developers from building on greenbelt land when allocated brownfield sites with existing planning permission

6 Jul 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Wirral

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the additional costs incurred by (a) Wirral Council and (b) advice agencies in Wirral as a result of the roll-out of universal credit.

5 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of ambulance 999 calls that were (a) put on hold and (b) sent to voicemail in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Wirral in each of the last

5 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the average waiting time before a 999 ambulance call is answered in (a) Wirral, (b) Merseyside, (c) the North West and (d) England in each of the last 10 ye

5 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to support the building of new social housing in the (a) North West and (b) Wirral.

3 Jul 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Antibiotics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the trends in antibiotic usage in the UK agricultural sector over the most recent five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a state

3 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people with a diagnosis of (a) TB and (b) drug-resistant TB in (i) Wirral, (ii) Merseyside, (iii) the North West and (iv) England.

3 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the number of patients diagnosed with (a) antimicrobial- and (b) antibiotic-resistant diseases in England in each of the last five years.

3 Jul 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Antibiotics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the use of antibiotics in the UK fisheries sector in the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

3 Jul 2018 · Treasury

Financial Services: Powers of Attorney

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2018 to Question 158173, if he will make it his Department's policy to require (a) banks and (b) other financial institutions to check for proof of power of attorney before that perso

27 Jun 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on staff in her Department advising claimants of employment support allowance at tribunal to withdraw their appeal and submit a new claim for universal credit.

27 Jun 2018 · Treasury

Finanical Services: Powers of Attorney

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) banks and (b) other financial institutions are required to have proof of a power of attorney before that person is able to withdraw money from an dependant's bank account.

15 Jun 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Written Statement of 15 June 2108, on personal independence payments, HCWS767, whether previously unsuccessful personal independence payments claimants for daily living allowance 3 who h

15 Jun 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Written Statement of 15 June 2018, on personal independence payments, HCWS767, what methodology she used to determine that around 1000 claimants will be affected.

Source: official written-questions record.