Written questions
335 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to consult teenagers and young adults with cancer on the 10-year Health plan.
17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure that the specific issues faced by teenagers and young adults with cancer are accounted for in the 10-Year Health Plan.
17 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: HIV/AIDS
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Housing Act 1996 to help protect people living with HIV from housing discrimination.
11 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: HIV/AIDS
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department considers people living with HIV to have a priority need for housing.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Kirklees
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the number of people dying in poverty in Kirklees.
9 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Wholesale Trade: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help protect wholesale workers from crime.
9 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Wholesale Trade: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce specific protections for wholesale workers.
9 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Wholesale Trade: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of wholesale crime.
2 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody: Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance to prisons on supporting children in custody in different pandemic scenarios.
2 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody: Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to develop a coordinated strategy for managing the health and wellbeing of children in custodial settings during future pandemics.
2 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Alcoholism: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce alcohol-specific deaths.
2 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Alcoholism and Drugs: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce death rates from (a) alcohol, (b) drugs and (c) suicide in (a) the North and (b) coastal regions.
2 Dec 2024 · Cabinet Office
Emergencies: Planning
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to use evidence-based measures of community resilience for funding decisions.
2 Dec 2024 · Cabinet Office
Emergencies: Planning
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle regional inequalities in community resilience in the national resilience review.
2 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Autism: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure (a) teachers and (b) school staff have adequate (i) knowledge of and (ii) confidence in teaching autistic children.
20 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure young people with SEND develop real skills for life.
20 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the national standards underpinning transitional support provided to young people with SEND.
20 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the commissioning of local children services to ensure that every young person with SEND has access to (a) timely and (b) quality transition support.
8 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the projected net NHS spend on medicines (a) before and (b) after accounting for forecast rebates due via the (i) Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing, Acce
8 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a breakdown of the cost to the public purse of NHS spend on (a) branded pharmaceuticals, (b) generic pharmaceuticals and (c) companion diagnostics in the last 12 months.
6 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the priorities of (a) children and (b) young people with cancer are included within the ten-year plan.
6 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve (a) diagnosis and (b) referral rates for 13–24-year-olds with cancer.
6 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the NHS Long Term plan target of increasing clinical trial participation for children and young people with cancer to 50% by 2025.
5 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Avian Influenza
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department made of the number of cases of avian influenza within the game bird population.
24 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Mobile Phones: Aerials
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with Ofcom on the adequacy of its reporting on the quality of phone signals for consumers.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Broadband: Colne Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people in Colne Valley constituency can access a 5G signal by 2030.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Broadband: Colne Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help improve broadband connections in Colne Valley constituency.
23 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasting methodology for revenue from alcohol duty tax receipts.
22 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Young Offender Institutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of (a) lack of access to education and (b) prolonged cell confinement on the (i) rehabilitation and (ii) future prospects of children in young offen
22 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Young Offender Institutions: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to improve collaboration between education providers and young offender institutions.
Source: official written-questions record.