Written questions

243 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Shared Ownership Schemes: Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what fiscal steps his Department is taking to support shared ownership homeowners in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.

20 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Cardington Sheds are being used to train border force staff for the removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

20 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Emergency Calls: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulances were despatched to incidents where police officers attended as part of Right Care, Right Person policy in each of the last five years; and what the average waiting time was for

20 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to help support NHS England with trends in the level of demand on mental health services in the context of the implementation of the Ri

20 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of Universal Credit had their Universal Credit housing cost element removed for a period due to moving properties midway through the period in the last 12 months; and how many and wh

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Emergency Calls: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with the (a) Chancellor of the Exchequer and (b) Secretary pf State for the Home Department on taking steps to increase resources for (i) police, (ii) ambulan

19 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Spiking: Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to prevent drink spiking in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Patents: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that the process for the licencing of standard essential patents is the same for different sized businesses.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Iron and Steel: Port Talbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Secretary of State for Wales’s oral contribution of 23 January 2024 during the debate on Protecting Steel in the UK, Official Report, column 265, whether her Department has (a) undertak

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of conducting the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to conduct a new Workplace Employment Relations Study.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Remploy: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what payments his Department has made to the Remploy Ltd Pension and Assurance Scheme in each of the last 15 years.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department’s publication entitled DWP commercial pipeline at September 2023, published on 28 September 2023, when he plans to put the framework contract that includes security guar

7 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Defence

MOD Chicksands: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February to Question 12474 on RAF Chicksands: Housing, what plans his Department has to improve the (a) grade three (b) grade four accommodation over the next 12 months.

5 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to complete its review of the police funding formula before the end of this Parliamentary session.

1 Feb 2024 · Women and Equalities

Menopause: Employment

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support women experiencing menopause at work.

1 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department undertook an assessment of the impact of a separate pay spine for nursing on pay equality before launching the consultation.

31 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2024 to Question 7731 on Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board: Dental Services, what the impact of IFRS16 was on the capital departmental

31 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Boards: Primary Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2024 to Question 7731 on Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board: Dental Services, how many Integrated Care Boards are in leasing arrangement

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

Rural Payments Agency: Digital Mapping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2023 to Question 6369 on Rural Payments Agency: Digital Mapping, how many and what proportion of people have been waiting for more than (a) three

31 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Personal Income

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2024 to Question 11230 on Immigration: Personal Income, how many people on the current 10 year route to settlement will now have to meet a higher income threshold.

31 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence

MOD Chicksands: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the service accommodation at Chicksands base in Mid Bedfordshire falls into each category of accommodation standard.

30 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Motorcycles: Anti-social Behaviour

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of defining off road bikes as motor vehicles on levels of anti-social behaviour.

29 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Motorcycles: Anti-social Behaviour

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps he has taken to (a) tackle off-road biking and (b) work with local authorities on this issue.

29 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of pavement parking on (a) people living with visual impairments and (b) wheelchair users.

29 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps his Department has taken to tackle pavement parking on a national level.

29 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish his response to his Department's consultation entitled Managing pavement parking, which closed on 22 November 2020.

23 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Personal Income

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the net migration measures announced in December 2023, whether changes to the minimum income thresholds will apply to people who are already on the 10 year route to settlement.

23 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Naturalisation: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce processing times for decisions on the naturalisation of children.

23 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Naturalisation: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's average processing time for reaching a decision on a naturalisation application was in each of the last five years.

Source: official written-questions record.