Written questions
399 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for not including household members of people who are clinically vulnerable within the eligibility criteria for covid-19 booster vaccinations.
30 Aug 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Navy: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to update the Basic Eligibility And Entry Standards to the Royal Navy to allow applications from individuals with asthma when their condition is managed.
30 Aug 2024 · Treasury
Travel: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has plans to review and update the Overseas Scale Rates.
30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Long Covid: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support (a) children and (b) other people with long covid.
18 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Parking: Codes of Practice
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her policy to publish a statutory code of practice under the Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019.
10 May 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Insulation: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to increase levels of home insulation; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of poor home insulation on health.
17 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Recreation Spaces and Water
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of the population have access to (a) green space and (b) water within 15 minutes walk from home.
17 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Supply: Sustainable Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the sustainability of the future water supply.
17 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Supply: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with water companies to help tackle leaks.
17 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his expected timetable is for publishing his Department's roadmap on household water efficiency.
17 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Wildlife: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hectares of new wildlife habitats have been (a) created and (b) restored since 31 January 2023.
12 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to (a) support research for and (b) raise awareness of Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency.
19 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport
Motor Insurance: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will hold discussions with car insurance providers on the cost of insurance for young drivers.
21 Feb 2024 · Treasury
Mortgages: Misrepresentation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has made with the Financial Ombudsman Service on support for people who have been missold a shared appreciation mortgage.
16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Pregnancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to (a) publicise and (b) promote the maternity exemption to prescription charges; and what steps she is taking to ensure (i) rapid reimbursement and (ii) the removal of fin
31 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Politics: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment on the impact of (a) the Our Generation Our Vote project and (b) other political literacy projects on levels of political engagement among young people.
31 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Driving Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to extend graduated driving licences from motorbike users to newly qualified car drivers.
31 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Roads: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the lessons that his Department could learn from (a) Oslo and (b) Helsinki on reducing road deaths to zero.
31 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Roads: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the annual (a) budget for reducing serious injury and death of the roads and (b) cost to the exchequer per casualty is.
31 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Roads: West Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to support West Yorkshire's strategy to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2040.
30 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Motor Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2024 to Question 7457 on Motor Vehicles: Insurance, if he will publish the (a) minutes and (b) attendance of meetings his Department has held with representatives of the mot
24 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Visas: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that individuals with family in the UK who switch to a SOC 6145 health worker visa are not separated from their dependents.
8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Students: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will have discussions with the Student Loan Company on the cancellation of student debt when a provider's course is deemed insufficient to meet the requirements to issue a qualification.
5 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Visas: Married People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) discussions and (b) correspondence he has had with the Migration Advisory Committee on the proposed change in the salary threshold for spouse visas.
5 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Widowed Parent's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Widowed Parent's Allowance to allow continued claims if the individual remarries or lives with another person.
18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport
Motor Insurance: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5413 on Motor Vehicles: Insurance, if he will make an assessment of the impact of increases in the cost of insurance on (a) elderly people and (b) people i
18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport
Motor Insurance: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5413 on Motor Vehicles: Insurance, whether his Department plans to issue guidance to insurance companies on this matter.
18 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport
Motor Insurance: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5413 on Motor Vehicles: Insurance, what discussions he (a) has had and (b) plans to have with insurance companies on this matter.
13 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Ombudsman
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) efficiency and (b) effectiveness of the (i) Energy Ombudsman and (ii) Ombudsman's complaint resolution processes; and what steps she is taking t
12 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Holiday Parks: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has (a) made an assessment of the implications for her policies of (i) trends in the level of fee increases and (ii) other business practices of holiday parks and (b) had recent discussions
Source: official written-questions record.