Tuesday, 15 February 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent by police forces on enforcing mandatory mask wearing on TFL services since the end of Plan B covid-19 restrictions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the monthly cost to the public purse is of consultants supporting or contracted by the Great British Railways Transition Team.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what risk assessments were carried out in relation to pedestrian safety when determining the route of HGV traffic for the HS2 construction project...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, whether the policies on delivering higher wages in poorer communities...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of changes since 2010 in the relative value of the standard weekly rate of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of insolvency company charges on the payment of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to encourage (a) careers in hospitality and (b) career development pathways in the hospitality...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to work with industry representatives to tackle labour shortages in the hospitality sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support the UK’s manufacturing sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken on the delivery of the Life Sciences Vision including enabling cancer immune therapies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to develop the Research and Development Roadmap into a Research and Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the announcement, Boost for space clusters across the UK, whether the funding for the Open University...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to box 3.6 on page 172 of the Levelling Up White Paper, what the £20 million of UK Government and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, if he will make it his policy to undertake a Government consultation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, whether he plans to make changes to the Research Evaluation Framework.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Box 3.6 on page 172 of the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, how much of the £210...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of how the model of global collaborative funding for covid-19 research can be used in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of successful prosecutions for cases involving child abuse.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the role of antiviral drugs in protecting people who are immunocompromised from covid-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the process for removing businesses from the list of PCR test providers for travel on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that young people with asthma and other respiratory problems, who received their first and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department is undertaking on the long-term effectiveness of covid-19 vaccines for blood cancer patients.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what further steps he will take to tackle the backlog of applications which have been submitted to the Coronavirus Test Device Approval...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on plans to streamline the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into (a) second and (b) third generation covid-19 vaccines.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September to Question 47056, what assessment he has made of the number of UK residents, who have received...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contingency measures are in place in the event of significantly increased levels of demand for covid-19 lateral flow tests.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Tier 3 Weight Management Services in tackling rising levels of childhood...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on (a) contractors and (b) temporary staff for NHS Track and Trace.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the amount (a) spent in 2020-21 and (b) of projected spend in 2021-2022 is on the purchase of (a) PCR tests, (b) lateral flow tests,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients are waiting for NHS Tier 3 and Tier 4 Weight Management Services; and what the average wait time is for those services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to prevent topical steroid withdrawal reactions while tackling the severe reactions that can result from long...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to encourage an increase in GP referrals to medical weight loss clinics.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to fund new Tier 3 Weight Management Clinics for (a) adults and (b) children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Obesity Audit will be published; and what assessment the Audit will make of the effectiveness of Tier 3 weight...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent by his Department on (a) laboratory capacity to process PCR tests and (b) contact tracing including contact centres in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much (a) has been spent in 2020-21 and (b) is projected to be spent in 2021-22 on consultancy fees for NHS Track and Trace.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposals to end the requirement to self-isolate by spring 2022 on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's current target is for dental appointment waiting times.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on how people can access dental care in circumstances where NHS dental treatment is not available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet representatives of the Donor Conceived Truth Campaign to discuss the legal rights of donor conceived people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that all children receive at least an annual dental check in the context of NHS dental appointment shortages.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of mandating dentists to work for a proportion of their time in the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent funding has been made available for research into brain tumours.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's Vision for the Women’s Health Strategy, what steps he is taking to increase the collection of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of post-diagnosis support services for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance entitled: Covid-19: management of staff and exposed patients or residents in health and social care...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of offering the hepatitis A and B vaccinations as routine vaccinations rather than...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the estimated annual increase is in funding for local government for social care as a result of the introduction of the new social...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making the yellow fever vaccine available on the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children who present with tic type behaviour (a) as at February 2022 and (b) prior...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children who present with emetophobia (a) as at February 2022 and (b) prior to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current annual total budget is for public sector contributions to residential social care covering central and local government.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to implement policies and interventions to reduce gambling-related harms in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of post-diagnosis support services for young people aged 17+ with Autistic Spectrum Disorder;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the results were of the consultation on having a national uniform policy for the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people (a) over 18 and (b) under 18 diagnosed with long covid.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the assessment rate is for UK national drug licences by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency as at 12 November...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals to prevent sex selective abortion.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the experience of inequalities in adult social care need by ethnicity; and what plans his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle delays in the publication of the Mental Health Services monthly statistics.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support student households in response to the rise of the energy price cap.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data has in the formulation of policy at his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he is having with relevant stakeholders on changes to the Student Opportunities Fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government provides a crown guarantee to the Universities Superannuation Scheme via the Office for Students.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Participation of Local Areas metric for improving access and participation in higher education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to regulate alternative higher education providers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role he will have in the decisions of the Office for Students to fine institutions if they fall below the threshold for continuation, progression...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role he had in the appointment of the interim chief executive of the Office for Students.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the timescale of student maintenance payments on the financial security of students.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to relax the Office for Students’ registration requirements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has issued any non-disclosure agreements to third-party contractors since February 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the legal ombudsman in the system of complaint procedure.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of first aid and medical cover provision across the prison estate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the (a) nature and (b) impact on victims of crime of restorative justice in the context of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason restorative justice is not included in the Victims Bill consultation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect, including any retrospective effect, of proposed reforms to sections 3 and 6 of the Human...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department made of the role of a prison officer prior to raising the retirement age to 68.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent from the public purse on criminal legal aid in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether energy companies which are granted future oil and gas and licences will be eligible for tax reliefs for (a) exploration and production and (b)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how much a single household of two people will receive from the Energy Bill Discount Scheme in 2022-23; and if that household...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis is for how the proposals to reform alcohol taxation will support improved public health, in the context of the comparative number...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings he had with his Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (a) 1 March to 31 May 2021, (b) 1 June to 31 August 2021 and (c) 1 September...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to provide further details of the energy bill rebate; whether energy customers will be able to opt out of taking the rebate;...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the energy rebate announced on 3 February 2022, what steps he plans to take to enable customers to reject the rebate prior to payment or...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing Air Passenger Duty as a way to support the aviation industry following...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a windfall tax on oil and gas producers to help fund a package of support for households struggling...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing beer duty and alcohol duty to help support pubs.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a reformed business rate for pubs that is equitable to other small businesses.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support he plans to put in place for people who are (a) experiencing financial difficulties as a result of the rise in energy bills and (b) residing...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is making an assessment of the potential merits of equalising the duty between spirits and other alcohol categories.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy that the Energy Bills Rebate will be repaid by people who did not receive the rebate; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support is available to those in the events, leisure, hospitality and sports sector who have been impacted by the omicron variant but do not qualify...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to extend eligibility for the Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant to allow unclaimed funds to be claimed by affected...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a breakdown of the £4.3 billion in fraudulent claims to coronavirus support schemes, by type of support scheme.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to recoup monies lost to fraud in the coronavirus grant schemes.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the names and businesses of all claims to coronavirus support schemes which have proven to be fraudulent.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the need for legislation to make holders of lower-income country sovereign debt governed by English law participate in debt...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the impact on Sudan of Sudanese national debt; and what steps he is taking to provide debt relief to that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2022 to Question 107537 on Jerusalem: Palestinians; what response she...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions officials in her Department (a) have had and (b) plan to have with relevant stakeholders on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress she has made on discussions with her French counterpart on stopping illegal crossings of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of LGBT rights in Chechnya.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in Ukraine; and what recent steps she has taken...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of Pakistan's progress in meeting goal 16.2 of the UN's Sustainable...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to never recognise Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of LGBT rights in Russia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the steps being taking by the Government of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the APPG for Pakistani Minorities Inquiry Report, published on 25 November 2021, what assessment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much the evacuation of Nowzad cost the Government in expenditure of time and money.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of political prisoners being held in Egypt.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the economic ties between Namibia and the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the strength of economic relations between Ghana and the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of tensions in the Republic of Moldova between the Moldovan government and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in Somalia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of recent unrest in Kazakhstan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of steps taken towards (a) accountability for and (b) justice for the victims...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of allegations of torture against Kakwenza Rukirabashaija in Uganda.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people (a) known to be in detention in Uganda for acts of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the tensions between Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations she has made to the Government of Uganda in relation to repeated restrictions on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to provide support for people in Madagascar affected by Tropical Cyclone Batsirai...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to (a) urgently scale up and prevent mass starvation and death in Somalia and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will take steps to engage the grassroots resistance committees in Sudan that are drafting a charter for a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans she has to allow Afghan refugees given Indefinite Leave to Remain under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, to join the armed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2022 to Question 107718 on Submarines: Decommissioning, which of the decommissioned Royal Navy submarines that are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 176 of the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, what steps his Department is taking to welcome Regional Defence and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many meetings he had with his Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (a) 1 March to 31 May 2021, (b) 1 June to 31 August 2021 and (c) 1...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the reasons for the fall in pension credit uptake.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish the most recent figures on pension credit uptake.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of pension credit uptake on levels of pensioner poverty.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to help ensure all eligible pensioners are in receipt of pension credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of households in receipt of housing benefit who were affected by the benefit cap in 2020-21 were in receipt of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned uprating to benefits in April 2022 on levels of absolute poverty in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many meetings she had with her Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (a) 1 March to 31 May 2021, (b) 1 June to 31 August 2021 and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of changes since 2010 in the relative value of the standard weekly rate of Maternity Allowance...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners are in (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency in the most recent period for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to reintroduce the pension triple-lock for the 2023-24 financial year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to prioritise support for pensioners in poverty.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the resources needed to support pensioners in Newport West constituency...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government intends to end the practice of operator self-monitoring for water companies; which agency will take over...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing a business case for a Silk Stream Flood Alleviation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has made available in total for the Silk Stream Flood Resilience Innovation project.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the total amount of textile waste produced by the UK in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many responses there have been to the call for evidence on commonly littered and problematic plastic items to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much single-use plastic has been used in Government buildings in 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a one pence per garment levy to support...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions the Government has had with the fashion industry to encourage major fashion outlets to take part in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on the export of plastic waste from the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Government’s strategic priorities for Ofwat, 2 February 2022, when the review of the Security...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department (a) will take to support Afghan nationals after their six months leave to remain in the UK ends and (b) is taking...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places remain to be allocated under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme; and how many of those given protection under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of a fair funding review of (a) fire services and (b) police services,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent girls being groomed in (a) Romania and (b) elsewhere and trafficked to the UK for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy that firearms officers from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary will be deployed on British ferries; and what assessment...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to allow people seeking asylum the right to work in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to remove British Citizenship fees for children under the age of 18.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many days on average it took to process claims from unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for settled status from EU students are pending decision.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how can a person who requires asylum support and who is unable to register their asylum claim due to delays in the asylum system can access...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which local authority areas the asylum seekers placed in Napier Barracks are being dispersed to.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the finding in the report entitled We want to be strong, by the British...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from Greater Manchester child and migrant rights organisations on children seeking asylum in the UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average waiting time is from when a person contacts the National Asylum Intake Unit to register an asylum claim to when...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what monitoring her Department has undertaken of fires caused by e-scooters in (a) single owned properties, (b) privately owned properties...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department is providing to local authorities and housing associations on the safe storage of e-scooters, in response to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, whether he plans to increase funding for the provision of services by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, if his Department will reverse the real term reductions in local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps the Government is taking to promote freedom of religion or belief for Ahmadiyya Muslims in (a) Newport West...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance he is giving to local authorities on the distribution to student households of funding from the £144...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, for what reason he has included new build student accommodation in the target numbers for development plans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to (a) prioritise brown field development over the use of green field sites and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that social housing providers are accountable to local authorities and residents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of purpose-built student housing on house prices in Bath.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, for what reason there is not a target to raise the performance of secondary school children in the Levelling Up White...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will take steps to help safeguard tenants in the private rented sector from the risk of homelessness by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the new task force on older people’s housing announced in the Levelling Up White Paper will hold its first meeting.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many meetings he had with his Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (a) 1 March to 31 May 2021, (b) 1 June to 31...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what obligations managing agents have to refund the collection of service charges to which they are not entitled under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, whether he plans to work with and strengthen tenancy unions to help meet...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department have developed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder as a...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Government procurement is from SMEs.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the responsibilities of the Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency are.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department have received counselling as a result of workplace bullying or...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of his Department's process for handling allegations of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has amended its outsourcing policies in response to the decision in Mr D Antwi and...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to use public procurement to help support the growth of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings he had with his Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (a) 1 March to 31 May 2021, (b) 1...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill on future...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to ensure that due diligence procedures for government procurement are adequate to...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether products from the Malaysian company, ATA, are in the UK's public procurement supply chain.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) the Cabinet Secretary and (b) any officials working on the Cabinet Secretary's Inquiry into...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his new Chief of Staff will receive remuneration for that role in addition to his Ministerial salary.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to UK trade: November 2021, published 14 January 2021, that showed total export of goods, including precious metals,...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of international trade on (a) Romford constituency and (b) the outer London boroughs.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she plans to consult UK Fisheries on the interests of the UK far fishing fleet as part of the trade negotiations with Greenland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2021 to Question 108456, on Football: Accountability, whether the Government has made an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many meetings she had with her Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (a) 1 March to 31 May 2021, (b) 1 June to 31...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government's announcement for a consultation on a register for holiday lets, whether she plans for a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to ban the use of website cookies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the impact on consumers of recent and planned above inflation prices rises in mobile and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to promote access to a free TV licence by claiming pension credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the National Archive received a request from Clive Stafford-Smith, in the interests of Krishna Maharaj and Rupert Burgess...
To ask the Right hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside representing the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body, what the monthly operating costs are of the Restoration and Renewal Programme, (a) in total...
To ask the Right hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside representing the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body, what the latest estimate is that the Delivery Authority has submitted to the Parliamentary...
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to de-medicalise the process of obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many meetings she had with her Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (a) 1 March to 31 May 2021, (b) 1 June to 31 August 2021 and (c) 1...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the holders of the South Western Railway franchise regarding the operation of the London to Portsmouth line; and when they...
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect (1) long-distance, and (2) commuter, train services into London mainline stations to reach the levels they were at prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the EU about an exemption from cabotage rules for UK-based performing arts organisations touring in the EU; and whether the...
To ask the Leader of the House what assessment she has made of the delay in scheduling debates for Select Committee reports in the House of Lords; and what plans she has to provide for the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide a grant for homeowners to upgrade their gas boilers to heat pumps.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in the Space Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Programme to identify a replacement for the EGNOS navigation system; and when...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to mitigate against fuel poverty.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people in the UK are immunocompromised or immunosuppressed and classified as (1) severely clinically extremely vulnerable, and (2) clinically extremely...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how the incidence of serious incidents disclosed to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, including where samples are mixed up or patient records are...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many courses of (1) antiviral, and (2) monoclonal, antibody treatments for COVID-19 are (a) currently held by NHS England, and (b) secured via new contracts.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the capacity of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to achieve its core purpose of improving health...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' Protection of Civilians Report of 11–24 January, what representations...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current strength of UK forces in Mali; and what changes, if any, they will make to their military activities in Mali following the announcement by the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the current political and security situation in Burkina Faso, following the military coup which ousted President Kaboré in...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many British nationals who are Russian speakers were employed in each of the last five years by the Armed Forces.
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to restore sick note procedure to seven days rather than allowing workers to stay off work for 28 days without a sick note from their General...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) delays in processing applications for the granting or renewal of shotgun and firearms licences and certificates in each...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to require social media companies to reimburse users who are victims of online fraud.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the National Crime Agency's seizure of millions of pounds derived from the Azerbaijan laundromat on 31 January, what steps they intend to take, if...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the economic impact of migration to the UK under the British National (Overseas) visa scheme for people from Hong Kong.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the rates of fraud relating to the demonstration of proof of funds in international student visa applications, and (2)...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what contributions they have made to the Khartoum Process (EU/Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative) in North Africa in each year since 2014; and what...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 26 October 2021 (HL2952), how many unaccompanied Afghan minors with family links to the UK...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce financial incentives to make proposals for new housing care and support schemes more attractive to potential (1) developers,...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they plan to take to ask Haringey London Borough Council to conform with the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity in the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to complement the £1.5 billion Brownfield Fund with planning policies to support the creation of (1) homes, (2) jobs, (3)...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards achieving the voluntary contributions of £4 billion for the remediation of cladding from developers of blocks of flats...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk that developments of blocks of flats between 11 and 18 metres in height that used (1) special purpose vehicles, or (2)...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to set up a task force to improve co-ordination between different departments on housing care and support policy.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether registered social housing providers are eligible for grants from the Building Safety Fund towards the (1) removal, and (2) replacement, of flammable cladding.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any Commonwealth countries sending competitors to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games have asked for assistance with vaccinating their (1) competitors,...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Derby County Football Club and other football clubs, and (2) whether the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 31 January (HL5527), whether they will now answer the question put, namely, further to the...
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