Thursday, 3 March 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average journey time was to cross the Dartford Crossing (a) northbound and (b) southbound at peak times in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on funding orders for hydrogen-fuelled buses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that there is an adequate supply of rest areas for HGV drivers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Russian ships dock at UK ports each year to (a) refuel or (b) restock.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2021 to Question 76803, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of awaiting a RNEP...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the DVLA has adequate resources to clear the backlog of (a) new and (b) renewed driving licence...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 125381, on Electric Scooters: Injuries, with which NHS Trusts he is working to collect evidence on rental...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2022 to Question 125383, on Electric Scooters: Injuries, if he will ensure that the National Police Chiefs...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of training times required to achieve basic certification to work in the offshore (a) oil and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help and encourage households to improve energy efficiency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including people who claim disability benefit in the eligibility...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department and its agencies remove all internal covid-19 related policies,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to mitigate the impact the energy price cap increase on customers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a long-term zero carbon electricity contracts...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what definition his Department uses for health and wellbeing in his Heat and Buildings Strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how his Department defines health and wellbeing as it applies to the Government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has provided guidance to health and wellbeing boards on how health and wellbeing is to be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies on provision of financial support for energy costs of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department has had with Ofgem on the rise in the energy price cap.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help strengthen and secure vaccine production in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that workplaces provide statutory bereavement leave to both parents after baby loss.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Scottish Limited Partnerships have been fined for failing to register a Person of Significant Control in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Scottish Limited Partnerships failed to register a Person of Significant Control in each year since the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps are being taken to prevent a loss of scientific skills and expertise in the event that the UK fails to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has allocated to to research on alternative energy resources for (a) 2020-21 and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will (a) review all Belarusian and Russian beneficiaries of UK R&D spending and (b) assess how much R&D...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support the development of geothermal energy as part of sustainable energy solutions for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will hold discussions with relevant stakeholders on the reasons for the removal of the ATM from North Harrow Post...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will require that the chief executive of the Post Office publishes the full list of ATMs being removed from (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the covid-19 outbreak on the pay gap for ethnic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the UK maintains the infrastructure needed to (a) develop...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has paid on average for each vaccine dose purchased from (a) AstraZeneca, (b) Moderna and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to introduce a publicly available register for residential property that has foreign ownership.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, if he will publish the 1,800...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to reduce paper usage in Government departments in light of the climate emergency.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of SMEs accessing Public Sector contracts via the digital platform of Bloom Services; and if he...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 128229, how many outstanding (a) emails and (b) letters he has from the public as at 28 February...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will confirm that (a) Sir Robert Francis' Infected Blood Compensation Framework Study will be published soon after he has received it and (b) it...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has held recent discussions with the Royal British Legion on support for veterans'...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2021-23 commitment to explore in greater detail developing a commitment to Aid...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the use of alcohol by young people in public places; and if he will ensure that his Department's policies...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the negotiations on the new NHS dental contract to conclude.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of eating disorder services in the (a) West Midlands and (b) UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require health warnings on alcohol...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to take steps to reduce alcohol harm among deprived groups.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to enhance the funding and resources for children’s eating disorder services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the Government's timeline for the delivery of reforms to adult social care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reviewing how to determine a GPs patient list size as safe when assessing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 92799, what regulatory action the MHRA has taken in response to the side effects...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with long coivd have received a diagnosis of (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis or (b) chronic fatigue syndrome.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for people seeking a diagnosis of autism; and what steps the Government plans to take to (a) reduce that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the proportion of children and young people referred to NHS mental...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the increase in alcohol consumption in the north of England during the covid-19 outbreak.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that covid-19 lateral flow tests for people visiting residential care homes remain free after 1 April 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commit to keeping NHS covid-19 lateral flow tests for people who visit care home residents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of residential care homes that have closed in (a) Coventry North East constituency,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of setting a standard hourly agency rate across social care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing social care funding to enable an inflationary wage increase...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of how the use of technology in the health and social care sectors will improve patient outcomes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of recovery action by local authorities for care charge debts on the well-being of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allocating funding to local authorities to enable uplifts in the discretionary...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the changes in the proportion of people with dementia in England who have a recorded dementia diagnosis...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to introduce a zero cap on care costs for people who turn 18 with eligible care needs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to establish and fund nationally an Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder pathway.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with eating disorders are not turned away from services because of their BMI.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a specific three-digit mental health support line from which callers...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the waiting times for children and adolescent mental health referrals in the South East.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Sugar Content in Wine Revealed, published by the Alcohol Health Alliance on 16 February 2022, what plans his Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who have received a diagnosis of (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis and (b) chronic fatigue syndrome are currently in employment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is aware of NHS Grampian’s virtual support service; and whether he has had discussions with the Scottish...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the long-term impact of covid-19 on individuals with a diagnosis of (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis or (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to communicate effectively with the public on how best to make use of NHS services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to address the backlog in (a) CT and (b) MRI appointments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate on 3 February 2022 of how many and what proportion of NHS staff have not received their first covid-19...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the impact of staff absences due to the Omicron covid-19 variant on delivering care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a compensation scheme for NHS frontline workers who have been...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients attending A&E in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England were seen within four hours during...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on what professional and ethical standards and requirements apply to practitioners of alternative...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timetable is for publishing the 10-Year Cancer Plan for England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the mandatory covid-19 vaccination programme in the context of NHS and social care staff shortages.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the (a) organisations and people responsible for the (i) oversight and (ii) implementation of the National...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of cases that have been recorded where patients have complained of side effects from the use...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the level of covid-19 hospitalisations on NHS transplant services as of 26 January 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has held with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence regarding a review into...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he make an estimate of the number of patients who have opted to pay for medical advice and appointments following the postponement of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason it is his Department's policy that a national eye care strategy for England is unnecessary.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2022 to Question 110446 on Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances: Standards, what extent of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for the (a) conclusion and (b) sharing of conclusions with hon. Members of the review of leadership in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out the range of assumptions of virus spread and severity of illness used in his covid-19 response planning.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there is a way for hon. Members to contact the Vaccine Data Resolution Service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 119864, how many of the 25 per cent of approved devices from UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the proposed transition from Healthy Start vouchers to the Healthy Start card in March 2022, what steps his Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice he has received from Government health advisers on an individual's likelihood to transmit the Omnicron covid-19 variant up to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) reports have been submitted by the public on problems with the Healthy Start helpline and (b) how many of those problems...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on vaccinated individuals who move from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland to England, but are unable to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the quantifiable effect of the NHS COVID pass on reducing the transmission of the virus.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans that his Department will be able to ensure that a NHS covid pass is available for 12 to 15 year olds, to evidence proof of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions, alongside Cabinet colleagues, with the South African authorities to establish whether the latest official...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process his Department is putting place for people acquiring free-of-charge covid-19 tests from 1 April 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's policy paper entitled Towards Zero - An action plan towards ending HIV transmission, AIDS and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people eligible for antiviral treatments against covid-19 on the basis of significant...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations on the upcoming consultation on calorie labelling of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the volume of plastic waste that has been generated as a result of the use of (a) PCR and (b) lateral flow...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to ensure all (a) retailers and (b) retail staff are thoroughly aware and trained to serve customers using the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the National Obesity Strategy does not result in effects that could potentially...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an assessment was made during the design stage of the covid-19 testing system of the environmental effects of plastic waste...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people taking part in the PANORAMIC study will continue to receive free covid-19 tests.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) friends, (b) family members and (c) carers of immunocompromised people will be able to access free asymptomatic covid-19...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of ending free-of-charge covid-19 lateral flow testing for the general public on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of ending free-of-charge covid-19 lateral flow tests on pregnant women.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people with the Acute Myeloid Sarcoma form of Leukaemia will continue to be eligible for free covid-19 testing after the end of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to support schools facing rising energy costs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the command paper entitled Higher Education Policy Statement & Reform Consultation, CP 617, published on 24 February 2022, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many family hubs will be established in England; and what proportion of those hubs will be situated in the North West.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many requests for education, health and care plans were (a) requested by parents and (b) approved by Cheshire West and Chester local authority in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many CO2 monitors his Department has issued to schools in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of whether gambling advertising is a predictor of at risk and problem gambling in secondary school children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made a quantitative assessment of trends in the level of closure of (a) nurseries and (b) early year settings in (i) 2020...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the allocation of funding resulting from the forecast underspend for the National Tutoring Programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is he taking to help ensure that the genocide of Roma and Sinti peoples during the Holocaust is taught as part of the national curriculum.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many exclusions from school (a) in total and (b) of pupils with special educational needs occurred in Cheshire West and Chester in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices were (a) added to and (b) went live on the Apprenticeship Service between 1 April 2021 and 30 November 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Investigation Report into Child sexual exploitation by organised networks, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many incentive payments for hiring a new apprentice were made to employers for apprentices who started apprenticeship training between 1 April and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support his Department is providing to children who live in children's homes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his timetable is for the publication of the SEND Review; and what plans he has for a review of the Education and Health Care Plan process.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had discussions with Ministerial colleagues in the Treasury on the potential merits of increasing the funding rate for universal infant...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to allow weddings to take place outside without the need for a permanent structure or in an approved structure, on a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Approved Premises there are in (a) Stockton, (b) Darlington, (c) Middlesbrough, (d) Redcar and (e) Hartlepool.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courtrooms in each Crown Court building in England and Wales have been unused in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time between arrest and appearing in front of magistrates for people charged with knife possession has been in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on producing social media videos and graphics for use on ministerial social media accounts since January 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals to the First Tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) regarding SEND plans found in favour of the appellant in cases...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to increase capacity in (a) family courts and (b) employment tribunals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2022 to Question 102716 on HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Disability, whether the test phase went live as planned...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the his Department will publish prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes in England and Wales up to the year ending December 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the deportations in 1942 from the then German-occupied Channel Islands, how many of the citizens who were deported (a) were British,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding his Department provides to courts in England and Wales for the maintenance of their premises.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Answer of 26 January 2022 to Question 105550 on Court: Fines, if he will provide a breakdown of the value of court-imposed fines for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to plans to reform the Human Rights Act announced on 14 December 2021, what steps he is taking to progress those plans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022, to Question 121764, on Courts: Closures, if he will publish (a) figures for the sale proceeds for each of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures for (a) unpaid court fines, (b) debt from compensation orders and (c) unpaid court costs for each court in England and Wales.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a reduced duty rate for sales at the production point for the English wine...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies that a 4 per cent alcohol by volume pint of beer or cider contains more alcohol...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason his Department has decided not to cut VAT on domestic energy bills.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value was of National Insurance contributions received from people resident in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of the UK for each year since 2000.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the annual value of (a) imports of alcoholic spirits from Russia to the UK and (b) exports of alcoholic spirits from the UK to Russia.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Loan Charge and HMRC's power to open a tax year and place it under enquiry, how many people are affected by having at least one of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the (a) effectiveness of HMRC's policy on long-life assets and (b) effect of that matter on tug owners.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many UK residents who were trapped in Afghanistan for longer than 12 weeks in 2021 subsequently had their tax credits claims ended.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out the (a) number of civil servants and (b) budget devoted to (i) developing targets of individuals and companies for sanctions under the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many law firms have reported having designated persons as their clients under the Russian Sanctions Regulations.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications for licences relating to legal fees OFSI has received for the Russia Sanctions Regulations.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have had their guaranteed minimum pensions reduced in financial year 2021-22 following reviews by HMRC in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the different costs of production between cider and beer.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on revenue of equalising cider and beer duty as part of the alcohol duty system changes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to engage in dialogue with countries which are trading or have a relationship...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government plans to include British ports in the sanctions regime against Russia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress she has made on securing the release of (a) Anoosheh Ashoori and (b) other British nationals...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether Russia has developed an (a) economic, (b) diplomatic or (c) industrial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what additional diplomatic steps she will take to prevent further Russian incursion into Ukraine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking on reports of kidnapping and forced conversions of religious minorities in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of Russian flagged ships using British ports.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she discussed (a) the situation in Ukraine and (b) steps to hold the Russian Federation to account in her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many applications her Department has received to vary or revoke a designation under the Russia (Sanctions)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the veracity of reports that Black and Ethnic Minority people fleeing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to her oral statement of 28 February 2022 on Sanctions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2022 to Question 102809, whether her Department plans to contact any Afghan...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what her policy is on the use of British ports by Russian-flagged operators.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2022 to Question 126521, on Afghanistan: Chevening Scholarships Programme,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take in response to the Russian Government's decision to ban UK airlines from...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish the (a) individuals and (b) firms that (i) she, (ii) her special advisors and (iii) officials...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to mitigate Russian (a) influence in and (b) use of British Overseas Territories which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to engage with Commonwealth nations on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she plans to take to support UK-based businesses with operations in Ukraine that are affected by the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking with her international counterparts to help protect the human rights of the Kurdish...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the risk to residents of the Baltic countries of the conflict in Ukraine; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the extent of potential further economic sanctions against Russia; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Afghan journalists the UK has evacuated from Afghanistan since 1 August 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking with her international counterparts to provide civilian aid to Afghanistan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans her Department has to ensure that humanitarian support is provided to Ukranian people in the event that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on (a) security and (b) the risk of human rights abuses in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on supporting foreign nationals to leave Ukraine,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what humanitarian support the Government is providing to Ukraine; and whether there are any plans to increase this...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2022 to Question 103614 on Disability, when the FCDO Disability Inclusion...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of reports that Wagner Group forces in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of changes to her Department's spending allocations on vocational...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will set out the (a) number of civil servants and (b) budget devoted to (i) developing targets of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government's role as host of the Pandemic Preparedness Summit in March 2022, if the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which Government Department is the policy lead for (a) climate mitigation and (b) climate adaptation in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which British Overseas Territories have fulfilled their commitment under the Joint Ministerial Council Communique...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to UK boosts access to finance for women-owned businesses and clean energy projects in Nigeria,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government declined to provide evidence to the Uyghur Tribunal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help support the independence of the judiciary in Hong Kong; and if she will discuss...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of Professor Laura Murphy’s report on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make representations to (a) the Federal Government of Somalia and (b) the Government of Puntland state...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her counterparts in (a) Botswana, (b) Somalia and (c) South Sudan on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of changes to her Department's spending allocations relating to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Uwezo National Learning Assessment Report 2021, published by Uwezo Uganda in February 2022, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether discussions she has had with her international counterparts on the administrative detention of Palestinian...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect Taiwanese citizens living outside of Taiwan from possible...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure good human rights practice within multinational companies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of whether Belarusian special forces previously trained by the UK are active in the conflict in Ukraine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian staff employed in his Department have received information security training each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the costs of the National Flagship were excluded from the Defence and Equipment Plan 2021-31.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department and its agencies remove all internal covid-19 related policies, restrictions and mask mandates.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with his NATO counterparts to ensure routes out of the Ukraine remain safe and open.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many F-35b aircraft his Department plans to procure.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of each armed forces service reporting their accounts and forecasting to the National Audit Office...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 18 of the National Audit Office's report, The Equipment Plan 2021 to 2031, published on 21 February 2022, for what reason the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 18 of the National Audit Office's report, The Equipment Plan 2021 to 2031, published on 21 February 2022, for what reason the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the length of time taken to construct support facilities for F-35b, as outlined the Defence and Equipment Plan, is connected with the Air...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2022 to Question 114659 on Ministry of Defence: Assets, whether the Chinook Mk4 listed relates to the retirement of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the costs of the Morpheus programme were excluded from the Equipment Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to introduce 59 calibre ammunition for the UK's AS90 artillery.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK troops have fired AS90 in the past five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date he plans to publish the refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a comparative assessment of the provision of free accommodation to (a) British and (b) non-British nationals employed at Rosyth Naval Yard.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to improve information security training within his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2021 to Question 18564 on Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund, what estimate he has made of the projected average...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many incidents of serious harm have been reported to her Department since February 2012; what proportion of those incidents met the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2022 to Question 105664 on Government: Procurement, whether the first meeting of the Disability...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provisions her Department has made for monies to fund tribunal cases involving applicants appealing against the refusal of Personal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints in the year 2021 were investigated by her Department in which phone records had been deleted.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's policy on managing customer records, if she will publish her Department's guidance on what triggers a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish cost assessments made by her Department in relation to its customer record retention policy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at what point in the customer journey for the work capability assessment and personal independence payment assessment are disabled and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610 on the satisfaction ratings for disability benefit assessments, if she will ask...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610, if she will ask Capita to provide a detailed breakdown of the responses of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 103610, if she will ask Maximus UK (Health Assessment Advisory Service Ltd) to provide a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Access to Work grants are awaiting a decision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Access to Work grants have been decided in each of the last four weeks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the extent of the potential impact on pensions of women with menopause symptoms retiring early.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time is for which Access to Work grant applications have been awaiting a decision; what proportion of those...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department is issuing to employers to support their immunocompromised staff to work safely from their place of work after...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman asked for further information on the ongoing case regarding communication of changes to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of times that the online pensioner toolkit was accessed in each of the last six years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time between the annual publication of pension credit take-up statistics and the year those...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people made a successful pension credit claim in 2019-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to (a) make automatic pension credit payments to people who are eligible and (b) improve data sharing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the scale of pension deficits for (a) Royal Mail, (b) universities and (c) other large pension schemes where...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Household Support Fund beyond March 2022 in response to forecasts that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of not uprating benefits in line with inflation on levels of child poverty in Bootle...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households are facing deductions to their universal credit award as a result of debts owed to the public purse.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment (PIP) claimants (a) were refused PIP, (b) appealed against the refusal of PIP and (c) were successful...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims in each parliamentary constituency had sums deducted from their claim in the most recent month for which data...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in light of her decision to end the free provision of covid-19 lateral flow tests, what support she will provide to employers to help ensure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason landowners and farmers are no longer compensated for allowing permissive access to their land under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of banning the caging of commercially reared egg-laying hens.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's consultation on Commercial and Non-Commercial Movements of Pets into Great Britain opened...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help ensure the UK becomes nature positive by 2030.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to improve the accuracy of flood prediction (a) methods and (b) technology in light...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with authorities in York on the stability of infrastructure in Skeldergate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a Government backed flood reinsurance scheme for businesses that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) availability of and (b) potential merits of introducing technology to enable...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) assessment he has made of the adequacy of the water drainage system in York and (b) steps he is taking to ensure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of seasonal agricultural workers come from Ukraine; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many healthy pigs were slaughtered in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) since January 1 2022 due to (i) problems in supply...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the sugar industry since his decision to authorise the use of neonicotinoid...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of regulating outdoor burning for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing its cooperation with the food industry to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to create wildlife habitats in urban areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on producing social media videos and graphics for use on ministerial social media accounts since January 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Crime and Policing on 7 February 2022, Official Report, column 280WH, if she...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the potential impact of the Nationality and Borders Bill on family reunion rights in the context of the ongoing military...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many in-person legal visits have taken place at Derwentside immigration removal centre since women were first detained there on 28...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2022 to Question 122771, what assumptions her Department has made in concluding that 70 per cent of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set out (a) the number of FTE's and (b) the resources devoted to the Kleptocracy cell in the National Crime Agency.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent guidance her Department has issued to police officers on the possession of (a) Pelargonic Acid Vannilylamide (PAVa) spray and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions for criminal financial sanctions breaches have resulted from National Crime Agency investigations.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish her response to the consultation on personal emergency evacuation plans; what the reasons are for the time taken to...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people work for ActionFraud (a) in total and (b) focussing on cyber-fraud.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer to Question 125443 on Supported Housing: Regulation, what data his Department holds on the extent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward legislative proposals on leasehold reform to introduce rights for freehold home owners to seek...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to prescribe a requirement to clearly communicate (a) estate fees and (b) service charges to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to abolish or cap ground rents for people currently paying that charge.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of trends in the level of management costs paid by leaseholders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that freeholders and management companies of leasehold properties have accessible means by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department has taken to help (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations to respond to demand for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of demand for housebuilding in (a) Stockport constituency and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, for what reason leaseholders who are landlords are not able to receive support for the rectification of unsafe cladding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that older people who are living in poverty receive an assessment from their local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department has made of the number of new homes constructed by the Mayor of London from the £3.15...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendation in End Our Cladding Scandal's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will undertake an in-depth study on the reasons for housing challenges in (a) York and (b) other cities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a limit on the length of time properties owned by (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of social housing units developed in York in each of the last 5 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing use of empty residential units held as investments...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the cost of living pressures on the ability of people of pensionable age being able...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to increase the quantity of homes available for elderly residents to support access to secure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will introduce the Bellwin scheme as a result of recent flooding across the country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February to Question 126535 on European Social Fund and UK Shared Prosperity Fund, if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department provides support to local community groups that seek to purchase closed pubs in their local areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many cases the Police Service of Northern Ireland's Legacy Investigations Branch is considering; and how many victims those cases involve.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many cases the Police Service of Northern Ireland has completed in relation to offences that took place during the Troubles involving (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much of the £171,099,381.84 maximum liability for UK Export Finance arising between 2014-15 and 2020-21 from the underwriting of...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will publish the names of institutions headquartered in the Russian Federation that were approved to provide credit underwritten by...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many new export projects have been supported by UK Export Finance in the Russian Federation since the start of 2021-22; and what the...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to her Department's impact assessment of the new free trade agreement between the UK and Australia, published on 16 December...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has had discussions with her Portuguese counterpart on a visa agreement for remote workers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2022 to Question 113206 on Tourism: Disability, on what date the ministerial meeting with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support her Department will provide to local authorities for the delivery of youth services in the next two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of her Department's annual funding for youth programmes is provided to the National Citizen Service Trust.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure equal access to National Citizen Service programmes for disadvantaged young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals in 2022 to provide the Digital Markets Unit with full statutory powers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with independent news publishers regarding the news publisher definition in the Online Safety...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that older people in poverty are not also experiencing loneliness in their communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the (a) level of children’s exposure to alcohol marketing and (b) impact of that exposure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress she has made on developing creative clusters, as announced in the creative industries sector deal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of switching the telephone network from copper wires to digital phone lines...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how the Government will engage civil society organisations as part of the implementation of the Levelling Up White Paper.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of the availability of childcare on the retention of mothers in the workforce.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make single parents the tenth protected...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the fourth extraordinary funding settlement for Transport for London includes funding for the repair and reopening of Hammersmith Bridge.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Scottish Government about (1) the provision of investment funds to (a) Ferguson Marine, (b) BiFab, and (c) Prestwick...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 11 February (HL5963), what assessment they made of the value of safety of life when deciding...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefits of introducing Artificial Intelligence led mammography (1) to increase capacity in breast screening programmes,...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to their publication Our Vision for the Women’s Health Strategy for England, published on 23 December 2021, what engagement the Department for Health...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made, if any, of the number of recipients of social care in England who (1) required, and (2) received, night-time care packages, in (a)...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current average waiting time for (1) initial assessment at specialist Child And Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and (2) treatment by CAMHS,...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of allowing home use of mifepristone on the number of abortion pills purchased online from unregulated providers.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that members of the public are given a direct opportunity to raise concerns about matters relating to (1) health, and (2) care,...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the increases in childhood obesity during the COVID-19 lockdown, as shown by the National Child Measurement Programmes data for 2020 to 2021, published...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they provide to Government Ministers on wearing face coverings in crowded places with people they do not usually meet every day.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that the city of Bath has had no COVID-19 lateral flow tests available for over two weeks; and what steps, if any, they...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what mechanisms they have in place, if any, to check that results from COVID-19 PCR tests provided by private companies for those entering England from abroad meet...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have along with the private sector to ensure that lateral flow tests will be available throughout the country at a reasonable price from 1 April.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 9 February (HL6141), whether pharmacists are able to (1) stock, and (2) sell, the antiviral medications...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the services available to people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).
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