Written questions

1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to incentivize contractors and service providers to operate in underserved areas with high demand for energy efficiency upgrades.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the new EPC regulations on the supply of rental properties in underserved regions.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department plans to take to support landlords in (a) rural and (b) coastal areas to meet the new EPC standards by 2030.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what financial assistance the Government is providing to landlords to help them meet the new EPC requirements for private rented properties.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support landlords in areas with limited access to qualified professionals and contractors in meeting the proposed higher EPC requirements for private re

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor progress on reducing the number of people with a learning disability and autism in mental health hospitals.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism and Learning Disability: Community Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the final report from the Funding Flows task and finish group.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism and Learning Disability: Community Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department allocated to improve community support for people with a learning disability and autistic people in 2024-25.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his Department's policy that there should be no more than 30 adult inpatients with a learning disability and/or autism per million adult population in mental health inpatient uni

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who the members of the assessment advisory panel are for the Members of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Pay Review Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who the members are of the assessment advisory panel for the Members of the NHS Pay Review Body.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pigmeat: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has received representations on health warnings on bacon.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alan Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which office in his Department Alan Milburn sits in.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has a policy on unconscious bias training in the NHS.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to undertake an impact assessment for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Independent Commission into Adult Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Baroness Casey of Blackstock will be paid for her review into social care; and how many civil servants have been assigned to support that review.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Insects

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has a policy on the introduction of insects into the human diet.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance he has issued on using Community Protection Notices for household waste receptacles.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that councils are aware of the guidance entitled Household waste bins: when and how councils may issue fixed penalties, published on 23 April 2018.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ban (a) three and (b) four weekly residual bin collections.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish each of the responses to the final Simpler Recycling consultation.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 18949 on Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal, what assessment his Department made of the potential impact of not setting minimum

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fires: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25593 on Wood-burning stoves: air pollution, what assessment his Department has (a) made and (b) commissioned of the impact of the

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Recycling and Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 24365, on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: WRAP, what guidance (a) his Department and its agencies and (b) WRA

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has conducted research on the potential links between fly-tipping and the availability of frequent and comprehensive household rubbish collections.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rodents

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) research and (b) data his Department holds on rodent infestations and problems.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of the findings by the Taxpayers Alliance in their report entitled One in ten councils in the UK are considering reducing their bin

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

WRAP: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 24365 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: WRAP, how much funding is being provided to WRAP in (a) 2024-25 and (

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Recycling and Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 27559 on Domestic Waste: Recycling and Waste Disposal, whether his Department has (a) funded and (b) supported the Waste & Resour

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Litter: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 23782 on Domestic Waste: Disposal, whether an outsourced contract for issuing fixed penalty notices in a manner that is in breach

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