Written questions

1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sunscreens

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to fund awareness campaigns to encourage the use of sunscreen to prevent melanoma.

14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sunscreens

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has funded awareness campaigns to encourage the use of sunscreen to prevent melanoma in the last three years.

14 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Young Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to enforce Section 96(1)(1) of the Children and Families Act 2014 on providing a needs assessment for all young carers.

14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Screening: Young Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing annual health check-ups for young carers under 18.

14 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Young Carers: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with Ofsted on the potential merits of identifying young carers as a specific group within the education system.

11 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to create a National Care Service; and what his planned timetable is for this.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to work with (a) disabled people and (b) disabled people's organisations to improve disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Personal Independence Payments at supporting the extra costs of disability.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much funding he plans to provide for home insulation in each of the next three years; and if he will make it his policy (a) for all homes to have an efficiency rating of band C or higher

9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Statutory Sick Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential impact of the level of Statutory Sick Pay on public health outcomes.

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

Leasehold: Service Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on increasing the rights of leaseholders to challenge the reasonablene

9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a maximum number of appointments each GP can undertake in one day.

9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the additional resources needed by general practice to meet patient demand in 2024-2025.

9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Surgeries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the condition of the general practice estate; and what additional investment his Department intends to make in the general practice

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of (a) reviewing and (b) reforming the Carer's Allowance.

8 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing a National Carers Strategy.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding Attendance Allowance to the list of benefits that qualify for the Winter Fuel Payment.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services and Social Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve NHS health and social care services.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to implement the recommendations of Blood Cancer UK's Action Plan.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Cancer: Sunscreens

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the use of sunscreen to help prevent (a) melanoma and (b) other skin cancers.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

English National Opera: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the level of Arts Council England funding to the English National Opera on the availability of (a) free tickets to young adults and (b) o

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reform the Work Capability Assessment.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether pensioners who qualify for pension credit after 22 September 2024 and before 31 December 2024 are entitled to receive the winter fuel payment during winter 2024-25.

12 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for the number of pensioners with an annual income of between £15,000 and £20,000.

11 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Fuel Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of how many pensioners not receiving Pension Credit are spending more than 10% of their income on energy bills.

11 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have an annual income of between £11,383 and £20,000.

10 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set up a Pensioner Task Force to (a) assess intersecting issues of income, housing, health and fuel costs and (b) make recommendations to tackle pensioner poverty.

5 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to establish a long-term strategy to end pensioner poverty.

2 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office

Youth Mobility Scheme: EU Countries

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to negotiate a youth mobility scheme with the EU.

30 Aug 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to exempt the children of military families from the proposal to apply VAT to private school fees.

Source: official written-questions record.