Written questions

142 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will conduct a review into apprenticeships that includes taking representations from existing functional skills teachers.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Clean Air Zones: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) reduce and (b) prevent fraud against people paying Clean Air Zone charges online via fake websites.

22 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Overseas Territories: Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Section 51 of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, what steps his Department has taken to help British Overseas Territories establish a publicl

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Medical Equipment: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Consumer Rights Act 2015 to increase statute of limitations to 20 years for faulty medical devices.

22 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Assets

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to ring-fence Business Asset Disposal Relief in the upcoming Budget.

22 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the McCloud remedy is implemented for affected NHS workers by April 2025.

22 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme to all veterans.

4 Oct 2024 · Cabinet Office

Employment: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to enforce equal pay rights in the (a) public and (b) private sector.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hydrocephalus: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of instructing NICE to review it's infant head circumference measurement guidelines, in the context of improving the diagnosis and treatment of

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the tapered annual allowance threshold for NHS pensions.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Conveyancing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2024 to Question 3887 on Conveyancing, what steps her Department is taking to help (a) speed up and (b) reduce the cost of conveyancing.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Supply Teachers: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing funding for local authority teacher supply pools.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase public awareness of the required parental contributions when accessing student loans.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Motor Insurance: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussion with the Financial Conduct Authority on the racial disparity in motor insurance premiums identified in the Citizens Advice report, Discriminatory pricing: exploring the ethnicity penal

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Travel: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the requirement for individuals with lifelong conditions to re-apply for disability travel cards.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions Ombudsman

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the length of time it takes for cases to be reviewed by the Pensions Ombudsman.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to help reduce the pay gap between (a) further education college teachers and (b) other teachers.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the financial sustainability of community pharmacies.

4 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Women

To ask the Foreign Secretary, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help protect women from oppression in Afghanistan.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Mobile Phones: Shipley

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help improve mobile phone coverage in Shipley constituency.

4 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the backlog in asylum seeker claims.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for ADHD assessments.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for access to CAMHS support.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Property Development: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a tax on unbuilt developments where planning permission has lapsed; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of such a tax on t

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neurodiversity: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase access to diagnosis for children with (a) ADHD and (b) autism in the context of applications for school places.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools that were assessed before the announcement of the removal of single headline grades and which have not yet received their report will receive a single headline grade.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce (a) bus, (b) coach and (c) other transport costs for schools.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prevent the sale of the CellAED personal defibrillator.

4 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Emergency Calls: Hoaxes and False Alarms

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of hoax calls to emergency services.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the New Deal For Working People, what plans he has to change the employment status of foster carers.

Source: official written-questions record.