Written questions

1,571 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Jan 2024 · Home Office

West Mercia Police: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the funding for the National Rural Crime Unit will be allocated to West Mercia Police.

10 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Government: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any redundancy notices will be given to local government staff due to the end of the Household Support Fund.

10 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received funding from the Household Support Fund in each financial year since 2021-2022.

10 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waiting times for non-urgent GP appointments in (a) the UK, (b) rural areas and (c) North Shropshire constituency.

10 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for a non-urgent GP appointment in (a) rural and (b) urban areas in the latest period for which data is available.

10 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for a non-urgent GP appointment in (a) the UK and (b) North Shropshire constituency in the latest period for which data is available.

9 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol: Power Failures

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the digital landline rollout, what discussions she has had with industry stakeholders on (a) assessing whether and (b) ensuring that residents have access to enough mo

9 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of broadband (a) signal strength and (b) speed on the rollout of digital landlines in rural areas.

9 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the cessation in the rollout of digital landline switchovers on consumers.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Cheese: Canada

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help British cheese producers maintain levels of exports to Canada.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Cheese: Canada

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the UK’s trading agreement with Canada on the British cheese industry.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Cheese: Canada

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies exported cheese to Canada in 2023; and what estimate she has made of how many will be able to export to Canada without being subject to full tariffs in 2024.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Cheese: Canada

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an estimate of how many UK cheese exporters will have to pay full tariffs on exports to Canada as a result of changes to the trading agreement.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Cheese

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to support British cheese makers.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Alternative Fuel Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to ensure that alternative fuel payments are received by all eligible consumers not connected to the electricity grid.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol: Telemedicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department is taking steps to monitor the migration of telecare users from the public switched telephone network to digital phone lines.

5 Jan 2024 · Treasury

Household Support Fund

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the planned cessation of the Household Support Fund on the financial status of councils.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's press release of 4 October 2023 on the redirection of HS2 funding to transport across the North and Midlands, what newly funded road schemes in the Midlands will be (a) in Nor

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Transport: North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press notice entitled Find out about every new transport project in your region, published on 5 October 2023, how much and what proportion of funding for local transport connections across

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of the funding for the Midlands Rail Hub will be spent in North Shropshire constituency.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Transport: North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of Network North funding will be allocated to improving public transport connections in North Shropshire constituency.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Alternative Fuel Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of the Alternative Fuels Payment, in the context of trends in the level of costs for alternative fuels.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol: Telemedicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what her Department's policy is on the funding arrangements for new telecare devices for people who have telecare devices that are not compatible with new digital landlines.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol: Telemedicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has made an assessment of the compatibility of telecare products with digital landlines.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Potatoes: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of prices paid to potato growers by (a) supermarkets and (b) manufacturers of processed potato foods.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Potatoes: Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of lower potato production on food security.

5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infant Mortality and Miscarriage: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much her Department has spent on research into reducing inequalities in (a) pregnancy loss and (b) baby deaths in each year since 2015.

5 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding will be allocated to local authorities to support them with the resettlement of Afghan families in their areas in 2024.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Working Hours: Pilot Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Autonomy entitled The results are in: the UK's four-day week pilot, published in Feb

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the designation thresholds for local authorities' planning decision making performance.

Source: official written-questions record.