Written questions

1,571 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

River Severn: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the timetable is for the publication of the Severn Valley Water Management Scheme.

5 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Parish and Town Councils

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when details of community engagement with Parish Councils and local Flood Action Groups will be published on the Environment Agency website.

5 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Absent Voting

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people failed to answer the prescribed questions when applying to vote as a proxy.

5 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Electoral Register

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people failed to answer the prescribed questions when applying to vote as an elector.

5 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people returned to vote at the recent local elections with the correct form of ID after initially being turned away.

5 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people had their ID checked in private at the local elections on 4 May 2023.

5 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people were not permitted to vote due to suspected (a) personation and (b) forgery at the local elections on 4 May 2023.

5 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people were turned away from the polls at the local elections on 4 May 2023 because they presented unacceptable forms of ID.

5 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2022 to Question 46163 on Social Rented Housing: Air Conditioning, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that social housing bu

5 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people paying for social care are in arrears.

3 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Affordable Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many homes have been built that are (a) affordable (b) for social rent since 1 January 2022.

3 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the shortfall of social housing stock is (a) nationally (b) by local authority.

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of (a) the proportion of heat pumps installed in the UK that have been manufactured in the UK in each of (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022 and (b) in each case, t

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many Low Carbon Heating Technician apprenticeship places there (a) were in 2022 and (b) are in 2023.

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to take steps to help increase the number of training places available for heating engineers to learn to install heat pumps.

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many training places were available on training courses for heating engineers to learn to install heat pumps in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when his Department plans to publish performance data from the Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project.

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heating: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information his Department holds on how many hybrid heating systems were sold in each of the last three years.

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number and proportion of homes that are not suited to heat pump installation; and what steps his Department is taking to (a) support and (b) provi

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the affordability of replacing existing household gas, alternative fuel or electric heating systems with air source heat pumps.

2 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it remains his Department's target to install 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028; and what recent estimate he has made of the number of heat pumps that have been installed in (a) tot

17 Apr 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Lay Observers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the role of the Chair of the National Council of Lay Observers is not remunerated; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of remunerating that role in line with the level of rem

17 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Voter Authority Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what data his Department holds on the take-up of voter authority certificates by (a) age group and (b) ethnic origin.

17 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Voter Authority Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people applied for a Voter Authority Certificate in England as of 1 April 2023; and how many and what proportion of these applications were rejected.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase literacy in schools.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

School Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of schools had libraries in (a) Shropshire and (b) England in (i) 2010, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2023.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

School Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of schools have a library.

29 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Energy Performance Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Energy Performance Certificate in improving the energy efficiency of older housing stock.

27 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the service specifications for teenage and young adult cancer services in England.

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the ability of local councils to balance their budgets.

Source: official written-questions record.