Wednesday, 6 September 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ask the Highways Agency to undertake an assessment of the benefits of upgrading all or part of the A15 between Lincoln and the M180...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many calls or other communications the police in England and Wales received from the public about extreme views or behaviour.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often intelligence about extremist activity or concerns was passed to the counter terrorist liaison officer in each police area in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent investment the Government has made to support the supply chain for the automotive sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number and proportion of constituents in Vale of Clwyd constituency eligible...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2017 to Question 5540, whether he plans for there to be a free-standing right to equal treatment in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July to Question 3564, on Immigration: EU Nationals, whether UK nationals who have rights under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the reported comments of the European Commission's Chief Negotiator Michael Barnier at the conclusion of the round...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 12 July 2017 to Question 3555, what period of absence from the UK will constitute a gap in continuous...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he plans next to meet the First Minister of Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for International Trade on ensuring that the Welsh Government is consulted on future trade deals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers were in post in Oldham schools in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants were in post in Oldham schools in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of children who frequently turn up to school not having eaten breakfast.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the under-representation of women as headteachers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average class size was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Barnsley and (ii) the UK in each of the last seven years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people from (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England have graduated from university in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people from (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England attended university in each year since 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students studied (a) art and design subjects, (b) design and technology subjects, (c) drama, (d) media, film and TV studies subjects, (e)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) protect the availability of arts and creative subjects and (b) remove barriers to pupils studying them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to make promoting wellbeing a statutory duty of a school and include it in the Ofsted inspection framework.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of schools participating in employment and enterprise schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote UK higher education abroad to prospective international students.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the value of a national online platform for advertising teaching vacancies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on teacher recruitment of the UK leaving the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her oral statement of 17 July 2017, Official Report, column 565, what estimate she has made of the savings to be made from the healthy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of school curriculum changes since 2010 on employment in the creative industries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the review into the Sex Offender Treatment Programme was commissioned; and which Minister commissioned that review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is his policy to support the proposals made by the Law Commission to allow a will or other testamentary disposition to be created by text...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's paper Better Defence Estate, published in November 2016, when he plans to announce a decision on the future location...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to close the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry Museum as a result of the proposals in his Department's Better Defence Estate report,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's Better Defence Estate strategy published in November 2016, when he plans to announce a decision on the future of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the whole-lifetime cost of operating RAF (a) Hercules and (b) A400M fleets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Arrestor Beds have been installed, or are about to be installed, at any RAF station other than RAF Northolt.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to section 4.22 of the Project Ark report by Ernst and Young of 1 February 2012, whether spare capacity at RAF Northolt can accommodate...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons it is necessary to install Arrestor Beds at RAF Northolt.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what mechanisms RAF Northolt has in place to manage noise complaints from people under the flight path of places using that airfield.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of the runway re-surfacing works at RAF Northolt will be.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many tonnes of materials will be excavated from the runway re-surfacing at RAF Northolt; and where that waste will be taken.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many lorry movements will be required to undertake the runway re-surfacing works at RAF Northolt.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether RAF service personnel have been involved in the marketing and promotion of commercial flights at RAF Northolt.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether RAF service personnel are involved in providing services for commercial flights at RAF Northolt.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many mental health practitioners were employed by his Department in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 15 September 2016 on housing benefit, what estimate he has made of the size of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's freedom of information response 1740 of 15 May 2017, what factors his Department took into consideration in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) applied for and (b) received employment and support allowance, whose main disabling condition was recorded as Crohn's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have received personal independence payments whose main disabling condition was recorded as Crohn's disease or ulcerative...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) applied for and (b) received support from the access to work scheme, whose main disabling condition was recorded as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which of his Department's online services are available in the Welsh language only on request.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the potential number of Acts or parts of Acts that will be subject to repeal as a result of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to replace the 20 metre walking distance for personal independence payment mobility criterion with the 50 metre...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what amount of his Department's annual expenditure is allocated to work relating to the UK leaving the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of low pay on levels of social security spending for (a) public and (b) private sector...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to bring self-employed workers into auto enrollment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to secure a full transparent market for asset purchase and sales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, for what reasons pensioners in countries such as the Netherlands receive a 50 per...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Written Statement HCWS603 of 20 April 2017, if individuals subject to an appeal lodged before that statement will have their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support disabled people to gain (a) employment and (b) skills and further training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claimants had the original decision on their application overturned as a result...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission on clarifying the duties of pension providers in respect of long-term...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of means-testing the winter fuel allowance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to invest in the Jobcentre Plus building in Union Street, Oldham; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the Government's response to the Cridland review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of adults who would have to work longer as a result of proposals in the Cridland Review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to extend auto-enrolment to low earners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides for businesses to assist with the employment of staff with a hearing impairment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the UK's waterways that will meet the EU's good ecological and chemical...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to monitor air pollution at (a) state schools in urban areas and (b) any school near an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by what date all the non-ACM housing cladding samples received to date will be tested.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with local authorities on the development of brownfield sites for housing in the West...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps have been taken to facilitate communication between survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire separated and housed in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people being evacuated from buildings that fail fire safety...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the local economy of the construction and establishment of a UK spaceport in Ayrshire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what his Department spent on advertising other than on social media in each month since January 2016; and how much of that spending was on (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what external advisers or companies his Department uses for advertising.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the job titles and numbers of staff under each job title in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent progress has been made on the Tay City Deal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent progress has been made on the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Deal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2017 to Question 3978, if he will publish the scoring and evaluation conducted by his Department of its social media...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, with reference to the Government's announcement of 17 July 2017, Huge economic boost for Scotland as Transport Secretary confirms new HS2 routes, what...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to improve oversight of the UK aid strategy across government; and what steps he has taken in response to the National Audit Office...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received on the appointment of Professor Russell Griggs as the independent reviewer of HBOS Reading fraud cases.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of automatic exchange of information on beneficial ownership as a means of introducing...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has received (a) representations or (b) reports on an increase in discrimination towards non-UK EU nationals in terms of their access to mortgage...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential occurrence of discrimination in access to mortgages for non-UK EU citizens; and if he will make a statement.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what distributional analysis his Department has carried out on the pay of public sector workers who are not covered by a pay review body; and if he will...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Government's estimates for 2017-18 as set out in the Supply and Appropriations (Main Estimates) 2010 will accommodate any increased pay offer to the...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what equality impact assessment his Department has carried out on the pay of public sector workers who are not covered by a pay review body; and if he will...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was lost to the Exchequer as a result of the reduction of capital gains tax (a) basic rate to 10 per cent and (b) main rate to 20 per cent...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has put in place to encourage private sector investment in research and development.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what equality impact assessment his Department has carried out on the provisions of the forthcoming Finance Bill; and if he will place in the Library a copy...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of plans to modernise the courts system.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to reduce VAT on hotels and restaurants in Northern Ireland.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to introduce measures to tackle tax avoidance and evasion by people through nom-dom status and offshore trusts.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will establish a cross-departmental working group to implement consistent reporting standards across all asset classes and product structures.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will hold discussions with the Financial Conduct Authority to bring forward its postponed 2017 review of the effectiveness of Independent Governance...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of the Government's changes to making tax digital.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue will be raised from the sugar levy in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21 and (e) 2021-22.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to cut air passenger duty in Northern Ireland.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made representations to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on the regulatory criteria the FCA uses in determining the requirements on...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases HM Revenue and Customs has pursued to prosecution for tax avoidance and evasion since 2010.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what equality impact assessment his Department has carried out on the Government's plan to cut corporation tax to 17 per cent by 2020.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been raised from selling government buildings in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014, (f) 2015, (g) 2016 and (h) 2017.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish details of all (a) meetings and (b) telephone calls that have taken place between the Cabinet Secretary and representatives of the...
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps he is taking to improve the reliability and speed of the internet and the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people receive NHS continuing healthcare provided by (a) a local government unit and (b) a clinical commissioning group.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when will companies following a recommendation for use from the Cancer Drugs Fund be able to access Cancer Drugs Fund funding for a drug which they have...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the cost to the public of a Prescription Prepayment Certificate has remained at the same level while costs of individual prescriptions...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2017 to Question 4953, what information his Department holds on incidents of non-fatal self-harm among children and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that children and young people who frequently miss health service appointments for reasons connected to mental health...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the assessment tools used in the diagnosis of autism are effective in the identification of co-morbid mental health problems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescription charge prepayment certificates have been purchased in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the process is for reviewing the prescription charge exemption criteria.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency admissions there were of children and young people under 24-years old with asthma in each of the last six years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether local authorities are required as providers of adult social care to ensure that any hoists which they supply to residents are replaced in a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for increasing medical training places by 1,500; and what assessment he has made of the need for new medical schools as a result of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on how many British running clubs have organised Couch to 5K programme since the inception of that programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the people and organisations that those people represent who attended the meeting of 20 July 2017 to discuss setting up an inquiry into...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the results of his Department's research into the health effects of incineration.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on respiratory medicines in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of which mental health interventions are effective for treating autistic people with anxiety or depression.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Clinical Quality Commission's (CQC's) report, The state of care in mental health services: 2014 to 2017: Findings from CQC's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Green Paper on Children and Young People's Mental Health will include specific measures to address anxiety disorders and other mental health...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of services in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme accepts self-referrals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS England spent on (a) low and (b) medium-secure inpatient mental health care in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information is issued to (a) adults and (b) children on their rights when they are admitted to inpatient mental health care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people attended accident and emergency due to intentional self-harm by (a) gender and (b) age group in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of visits to Watford hospital accident and emergency department resulted in admission to hospital in each year from 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding the Government plans to provide for NHS services in Hemel Hempstead constituency in each of the next five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the latest recruitment statistics are for medical training positions starting from August 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with the Home Office on the mental health needs of people on the Prevent programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of services in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme also offer (a) financial and (b) employment advice.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Health Education England plans to publish its five-year mental health workforce strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings his Department has had with private providers of mental health care; and with whom and when such meetings took place.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many times and (b) when the prescription charge exemption criteria have been reviewed in the last 30 years.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the study by the Universities of Bristol and Central Lancashire which found that 22 per cent of boys aged 14 to 17 have perpetrated acts of...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what policies are in place to ensure that refugees face no barriers to assimilation within the education system.
Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the instruction included on the 2016 London Mayoral election that voters should “Vote once [x] in column A for your first choice, and Vote once [x]...
Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen on 26 October (HL2496) and 8 November 2016 (HL2803), what progress they have made in creating an online...
Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the form of identification accompanying a postal vote should be amended to also require signed confirmation (1) that...
Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the speech by the then Leader of the Conservative Party on 8 September 2009 linking the issue of cutting the cost of politics to the proposal to...
Her Majesty's Government what lessons they have learned from the duration and cost of the Chilcot Inquiry.
Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Young of Cookham on 11 July (HLWS37), what steps they have taken to seek explanations from Ministers and Agency Chief Executives...
Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to measure the progress of the UK's development other than by the measurement of GDP per capita, as set out in the Social Progress Imperative...
Her Majesty's Government how many EEA nationals have been denied a job in the public sector in each of the last five years on the grounds that the UK has invoked the employment in the public...
Her Majesty's Government whether they will provide for simultaneous implementation of all four Boundary Commissions’ reports as set out in the Parliamentary Voting Systems and...
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