Written questions
1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.
8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that increased funding for mental health services is (a) improving patient outcomes and (b) reducing waiting times.
8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on meeting the Mental Health Investment Standard; and how this is reflected in the funding allocated to mental health services in the NHS.
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20098 on Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles, what colour wheel lug nuts are standard for vehicles purchased by the Environment Ag
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20097 on Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles, whether livery expenditures are classified as (a) essential and (b) non-essential mo
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20098 on Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles, whether wheel lug nuts on Environment Agency vehicles are (a) painted and (b) otherw
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20097, on road Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles, how much the Environment Agency has spent on vehicle livery broken down by (a)
17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Charities
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representation not-for-profit social care providers will receive on the proposed Adult Social Care Negotiating Body.
17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Charities
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that fees paid by commissioners take into account changes in the costs faced by not-for-profit social care providers.
17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 16662 on NHS: Public Consultation, what the total budget is for deliberative engagement in the 2024-25 financial year.
16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the refreshed NHS workforce plan will include policies on the palliative care sector.
16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the 10-year health plan will include policies on palliative care.
16 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 14178 on Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of the minimum r
13 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles and Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the ratio of staff to road vehicles in the Environment Agency (a) is and (b) was in each of the last three years.
13 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency has spent on custom wheel lug nuts for Agency vehicles in each of the last three years; and for what purpose.
13 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency spent on road vehicle fleet maintenance by (a) vehicle type, (b) fuel type and (c) non-essential modifications in each of the last three financial years
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) his Department’s policy is and (b) what guidance has been given to local authorities on the use of microchips in household wheelie bins.
12 Dec 2024 · 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 has been produced by his Department on the issuing of fines by local authorities on householders who leave items by the curtilage of their property to be given away and r
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Waste: Codes of Practice
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2024, to Question HL2390, on Waste: Codes of Practice, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation on making the Code of Practice a s
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Domestic Waste: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information (a) his Department and (b) its agencies holds on the number of household receptacles required for rubbish and recycling collections by each local waste collection auth
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the frequency of household residual bin collections by local waste collection authorities.
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Domestic Waste: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any (a) grant scheme, (b) core departmental and (c) other funding for local authorities is linked to their recycling rates of household waste.
12 Dec 2024 · 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 his Department has made of the potential impact of the frequency of residual waste household collections on (a) public health and (b) local amenities.
12 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding (a) his Department and (b) NHS England has provided for the Global Majority Fellowship Programme in the last year for which figures are available.
12 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the delay to community pharmacy funding negotiations on community pharmacies.
9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support community pharmacies to ensure (a) financial sustainability, (b) consistency in the provision of services, and (c) dispensing of prescriptions.
9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on community pharmacies.
5 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16662 on NHS: Public Consultation, what the budget is for deliberative engagement by type of spend in the 2024-25 financial year.
5 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on children's hospices.
3 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Learning Disability: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a learning disability strategy that includes measures on (a) health, (b) housing, (c) social care and (d) employment.
3 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential risks of omitting people with learning disabilities from the (a) 2025 and (b) spring 2026 covid-19 booster vaccination programme.
Source: official written-questions record.