Written questions

1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Local Skills Improvement Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to continue (a) funding and (b) support for Local Skills Improvement Plans.

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lecanemab

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to make Lecanemab available on the NHS to patients with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to end trail hunting.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure there is adequate provision for youth services in all regions.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to extend the household support fund after 30 September 2024.

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include (a) unpaid family carers and (b) household contacts of immuno-suppressed individuals in the covid-19 vaccination programme.

27 Aug 2024 · Treasury

Cash Dispensing

What steps her Department is taking to ensure that shared banking hubs help improve access to cash for people who are financially excluded.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Poole constituency are (a) eligible for and (b) in receipt of pension credit.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people over state pension age have been (a) assessed as spending more than 10% of their income on fuel (b) assessed as being eligible for pension credit and (c) receiving pension credit for the

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much pension credit was unclaimed in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) claimed and (b) were eligible to claim Pension Credit in each of the last three financial years.

30 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Chancellor of Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the impact of removing the entitlement to the Winter Fuel Allowance from people over State Pension age who pay tax at (a) the higher rate of 40% and (b) the additional rate of 45% on the

30 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Pensioners: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of people over State Pension age paid income tax at (a) the basic rate of 20%, (b) the higher rate of 40% and (c) the additional rate of 45% in the last financial year.

29 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of the winter fuel allowance in 2022/23; what estimate she has made of the savings to the public purse of only paying the winter fuel allowance o people claiming pe

29 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for children requiring an autism assessment.

24 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Employment Tribunals Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) ACAS Early Conciliation Certificates and (b) Employment Tribunal cases (i) heard and (ii) settled before a hearing were found in the claimant's favour in (A) 2021, (B) 2022 and (C) 2023.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to introduce a national register of short-term rented properties to help ensure that those properties are compliant with relevant safety legislation.

19 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle sewage discharges by Wessex Water in Poole constituency.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of SEND provision in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole; and what steps she plans to take to support the local authority in that area to improve the funding and del

Source: official written-questions record.