Written answers

Thursday, 24 March 2022

  • Department for Transport

    • Railways: Civil Servants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Civil Servants with the rail directorates are based (a) Leeds and (b) London as of 16 March 2022.

    • Ports: Nationalisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to nationalise ports operators in England.

      Large Goods Vehicles: Driving Licences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the lack of requirement for a HGV specific licence for road construction purposes.

      Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make provision for there being a short...

      Driving Tests: Carmarthenshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency on tackling the backlog at the Carmarthen and Llanelli driving test...

      Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Members

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of enquiries made to the DVLA from Members of Parliament and (b) proportion of those queries...

      Transport for London: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of the absence of a long-term funding deal with TfL on the provision of TfL services to...

      Infrastructure: Investment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the level of investment from individuals appearing on the UK sanctions list in companies contracted by (a) HS2 Ltd...

      Railways

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage rail travel in the next 12 months.

      Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraphs 18 to 21 of the Government Response to the Transport Select Committee’s Third Report on the Rollout and safety of...

      P&O Ferries: Redundancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will hold urgent talks with representatives of P&O Ferries to (a) reverse its decision to dismiss 800 British workers and (b) seek the...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Diesel Fuel: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the quantity of Russian produced diesel that is utilised for transport in the UK.

    • Recovery Loan Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on businesses of Recovery Loan Scheme repayments; and if he will...

      Warm Home Discount Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will increase the Warm Homes Discount to reflect the increase in the energy price cap and household energy bills.

      Tidal Power

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the use of tidal power to help meet the UK's energy...

      Gazprom: Sanctions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of potential sanctions against Gazprom on UK energy intensive industries who...

      Energy Supply

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish an update to the National Emergency Plan for downstream gas and electricity.

      Energy: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made on the proportion of homes rated EPC C+ in (a) 2010 and (b) 2020.

      Electricity Generation: Costs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what comparative assessment he has made of the cost of producing a kilowatt of electricity from a (a) North Sea wind...

      Wind Power: Storage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to store wind energy generated at night for use during days of high demand and low wind.

      Liquefied Natural Gas: Imports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the carbon dioxide saving in the event that all imported liquified natural gas was...

      Offshore Industry: Licensing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which new oil and gas fields in the North Sea will be licenced to supplement domestic production in 2022.

      Natural Gas and Oil: Licensing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy (a) not to permit licencing of onshore gas or oil development where the Planning...

      District Heating: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the likely level of forthcoming price rises for heat network customers; and if he...

      Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Artificial Intelligence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2020 to Question 112077, Artificial Intelligence, what progress has been made...

      P&O Ferries: Redundancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will hold discussions with (a) P&O Ferries representatives, (b) P&O Ferries workers and (c)...

      Shipping: Minimum Wage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to prevent businesses advertising vacancies for seafarers in British territorial...

      Land Registry: Artificial Intelligence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 112078, Land Registry: Artificial Intelligence, what progress...

      Shared Services Connected and UK Shared Business Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) civil servants, (b) public servants in UK Shared Business Services and (c) private sector workers in...

      Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of carbon tariffs on the economic performance of steel companies...

      Shipbuilding

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact on British steel companies of the Government's new Ship Building Strategy.

      Redundancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that companies may not make decisions and announcements on...

      Homes Shopping: Origin Marking

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring online marketplaces to detail country of origin...

      Solar Power: Industrial Estates

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to incentivise the use of industrial spaces for the generation of solar power using...

  • Attorney General

    • Fraud: Prosecutions

      To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to her Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 128272, on Fraud: Criminal Investigation, how many prosecutions for fraud and forgery were dropped in each (a)...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • NHS: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS staff in (a) Royston, (b) Basildon, (c) Harlow, (d) Watford, (e) Brentwood and (f) Thurrock receive the Fringe High Cost Area...

    • Health Services: York

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of covid-19 on those people waiting for elective care in York.

      York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the level of covid-19 cases on York and Scarborough Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

      Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Standard Contract 2022-23, in what format the 12-hour standard for maximum waits from the time of arrival in...

      Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce ambulance queues outside Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts dated 10 December 2021, 20 December 2021, 11...

      Dentistry: Health Professions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential career pathways for practitioners from other medical professions to transfer into dentistry.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the total cost to the public purse of (a) lateral flow and (b) PCR covid-19 tests in the last twelve months.

      Covid-19 Testing Taskforce: Andrew Feldman Associates

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who represented Andrew Feldman Associates at the meetings of the Covid-19 Testing Taskforce on (a) 13 April 2020, (b) 17 April 2020, (c)...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of offering every adult over the age of 18 Spring covid-19 booster...

      Contact Tracing: Software

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of additional contracts with the ZOE Covid Study.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a monthly breakdown of the cost to the public purse of providing free covid-19 lateral flow device tests at...

      NHS Test and Trace: Consultants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the reliance and expenditure on consultants in providing NHS Track and Trace.

      Abortion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether is Department is taking steps to end the practice of at-home abortions.

      Coronavirus: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to respond in a timely way to potential increases in covid-19 infection rates in the context of the...

      Coronavirus: Hospitals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of people contracting covid-19 in hospitals.

      Influenza

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prepare for next winter's influenza season; and if he will make a statement.

      Coronavirus: York

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the trend in the levels of the covid-19 infection rate in York.

      Healthy Start Scheme: Eligibility

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether recipients of (a) child tax credit, (b) income-related employment support allowance, (c) pension credit, (d) income-based job...

      Health Visitors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there is any requirement that health visitors see a baby during their mandated contact or if a phone call with only one parent...

      IVF: Eligibility

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of clarifying IVF eligibility guidance to allow individuals with...

      HIV Infection: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on preparing the way for the use of injectable PrEP to prevent HIV.

      Coronavirus: Carers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the provision of free covid-19 tests to the unpaid carers of...

      Care Homes: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of covid-19 have been diagnosed in care homes in the last week.

      Sexual Assault Referral Centres: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has his Department allocated in funding to Sexual Assault Referral Centres in each of the last five years for which figures are...

      Immunosuppression: Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2021 to Question 92097 and following the Conditional Marketing Authorisation awarded by the...

      Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will supply a decision on behalf of the Government on each of the 25 recommendations made by the select committee on Health and...

      Kidney Diseases: Dialysis Machines

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of rising fuel prices on the gas and energy bills of people receiving dialysis...

      Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will supply a decision on behalf of the Government on each of the 25 recommendations made by the select committee on Health and...

      Coronavirus: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to add Idiopathic CD4 Lymphopenia to the list of conditions that qualify for anti-viral drugs in the event...

      NHS: Car Allowances

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on reviewing NHS mileage rates in the context of the recent increase...

      Health: Stockport

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on health inequalities in Stockport.

      Abortion: Telemedicine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the (a) evidential basis and (b) reasoning that underpins the Government’s decision not to make the telemedicine...

      Dentistry: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) recruitment and retention rates of dentists in the (i) NHS, (ii) mixed and...

      Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has (a) made an assessment of the potential merits of adopting a preventative approach to healthcare for dentistry...

      Abortion: Telemedicine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to review measures enabling telemedicine for early medical abortion ahead of the planned deadline of 30...

      Gun Sports: Lead

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the risk to human health from levels of lead shot found in pheasants for sale in UK supermarkets.

      Health Visitors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to revert back to the criteria that only face-to-face contacts are counted for health visitor mandated contacts.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Early Day Motions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a response to Early Day Motion 883, Campaign for an Osteogenesis Imperfecta national awareness month.

      Cervical Cancer: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of cervical cancer screenings in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b) Kidsgrove.

      Vaccination: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of transferring processes and systems used in the deployment of covid-19 vaccines...

      Long Covid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the levels of long covid in England as of 17 March 2022.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much additional funding the Government plans to allocate to local health services for each refugee who has arrived in the UK via the...

      Dental Services: Ventilation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is offering support to NHS dentists to help enable them to sufficiently ventilate their practices.

      Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on creating a national vaccine strategy; and if he will publish a timeline for its publication.

      Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish the Government’s Vaccine Strategy.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish the Government’s Vaccine Strategy.

      NHS: Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) ensure that people can book NHS dental appointments and (b) remove covid-19 restrictions to...

      Health Visitors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take in response to low levels of delivery of health visiting mandated contacts in some local authority areas.

      NHS: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the amount of NHS funds lost to fraud in each of the last five years.

      Health Professions: Students

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of offering a retrospective financial award to healthcare students who studied...

      Protective Clothing: Xinjiang

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 118613 on Protective Clothing: Xinjiang, what steps his Department took to (a)...

      PPE Medpro

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022 to Question 120779, on PPE Medpro, whether his Department does (a) not hold a record of a...

      Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the companies listed in his Department's spreadsheet entitled Product VIP Atamis were rated as (a) red, (b) amber or (c)...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place his Department's correspondence with the Health and Safety Executive regarding gowns purchased by Clandeboye for use by...

      Clipper Logistics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a monthly breakdown of the cost of Clipper Logistics' contract with NHS Supply Chain Logistics' service provider to...

      NHS

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to publish an update to the NHS Long Term Plan.

      NHS: Redundancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any NHS staff have been made redundant while suffering from long covid; and if he will make a statement.

      Care Workers: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with relevant stakeholders on increasing care staff pay and conditions to the level of those of NHS staff in...

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial support is being offered to care providers who are financing the testing of staff for covid-19 following the ending of...

      Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the outbreak of covid-19 on the demand for urgent NHS specialist eating disorder treatment...

      Disability Data Working Group

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2022 to Question 105652 on Disability, whether the first meeting of the Disability Data Working...

      Mental Health Services: Tees Valley

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women have been admitted to mental health hospitals in Teesside in each of the last five years.

      Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Community Integrated Care’s report entitled Unfair To...

      Palliative Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to research by Cardiff University’s Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, Public attitudes to death and dying...

      Integrated Care Boards: Palliative Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) provide statutory guidance to Integrated Care Boards on the requirement to commission specialist palliative care and (b)...

      Diabetes: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking help people in Ukraine who suffer from diabetes and are at risk of running out of insulin.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 125511 tabled by the hon. Member for St. Albans on 18 February 2022.

      Coronavirus: Surveys

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will reconsider the decision that the UKHSA will scale down the COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) announced in the Government’s...

      Carers: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will extend the provision of free covid-19 tests to unpaid carers of clinically vulnerable individuals in the community.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice the Government has provided to pharmacies regarding the distribution of free lateral flow tests that are not for resale after...

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will maintain free covid-19 testing in line with the Welsh Government in the context of increasing cases of covid-19 and admissions...

      Care Homes: Visits

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's guidance that visitors to care homes may be required to a lateral flow test before visiting, what...

      Sugar: Consumption

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to introduce further measures to prevent the widespread consumption of sugar in the UK.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 119864, what the evidential basis is for the statement that (a) approval of...

      Healthy Start Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of online applications for Healthy Start prepaid cards, submitted by beneficiaries already in receipt of the...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to support research into intra-nasal covid-19 vaccines.

  • Department for Education

    • Department for Education: Remote Working

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact of increased homeworking during the covid-19 outbreak on his Department’s carbon footprint.

    • Schools: Discipline

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding he has made available for specific interventions designed to improve behaviour in (a) England, (b) each region of England and (c)...

      Higher Education: Admissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a redistribution of student numbers between providers as a result of higher A-Level grades...

      Higher Education: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Office for Students has an integrated model to assess the potential impact of ongoing, multiple and...

      Office for Students: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to ensure that the Office for Students has a full set of key performance indicators against which its performance can be measured.

      Universities: Remote Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support and (b) offer redress to university students whose face-to-face teaching has been replaced by...

      Special Educational Needs: North West

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of young people with complex special educational needs and disabilities in (a) St Helens North...

      Students: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of students who have been diagnosed with covid-19 in the last week.

      Schools: Agency Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many agency staff members have been used to support staff absences in schools in the last week.

      Schools: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) pupils, (b) teachers and (c) support staff have been off school with covid-19 in the last week.

      Department for Education: LGBT+ People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department leaves Stonewall's Diversity Champions scheme.

      Office for Students: Databases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to ensure that higher education providers have a good understanding of (a) the reasons for which the Office for Students...

      Students: Loans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposal not to provide university students loans if prospective students have failed GCSE Maths and...

      Department for Education: Carbon Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to measure its carbon footprint.

      Higher Education: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role the higher education financial sustainability oversight group has; and whether he chairs that group as at 14 March 2022.

      Overseas Students: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Ukrainian nationals who wish to study at university and who have been granted leave under the (a) Family route and (b) Homes for Ukraine route...

      Special Educational Needs: Teachers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) recruitment, (b) development and (c) retention of specialist staff working in the Special Educational Needs...

      Students: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department is providing to Universities on providing support and advice for Ukrainian students.

      Children: Dyslexia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on children’s wellbeing of receiving an early diagnosis of dyslexia.

      Universities: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people arriving from Ukraine and due to go to university from September 2022 will have access to a...

      Nutrition: Health Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure all children are taught about healthy diets and how to cook nutritious food in school.

      School Meals: Veganism

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has he made of requiring vegan meals to be provided in schools in England.

      Childminding: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason guidance states that childminders cannot operate if they have a positive or suspected covid-19 case in their household, despite the...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Barristers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the change in the number of full time and part time criminal barriers was from 2019/20 to 2020/21.

    • Courts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court rooms have been in use on average in each court in England and Wales in each of last 12 months.

      Prisons: Staffordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on increasing the number of prison places in Staffordshire.

      Human Rights

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of proposed reforms to the Human Rights Act on human rights protections in the UK.

      P&O Ferries: Redundancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to ascertain whether P&O Ferries had sought a legal injunction to remove dismissed staff from their vessels.

      Young Offenders: Reoffenders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures for (a) proven youth reoffending rate and (b) the average number of reoffences (frequency rate) for each Local Justice Area...

      Homicide: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals on sentencing for people found guilty of the murder of a child.

      Marriage: Humanism

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an (a) economic and (b) equalities impact assessment of bringing forward legislative proposals for humanist marriages ahead of the...

      Marriage: Humanism

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals recognising humanist marriages in advance of wider marriage law reform following a positive report from...

  • Treasury

    • Self-employment Income Support Scheme

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of waiving all tax on the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grants with a rebate on the amount paid...

    • Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) artificial intelligence, and (b) machine learning projects are being (i) undertaken and (ii) considered by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to help Ukrainian refugees who have fled to the UK to exchange their physical currency for sterling.

      Fuels: Prices

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to provide specific support to community health and care staff on the increased cost of fuel.

      Minimum Wage

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) companies pay their employees the minimum wage and that (b) police forces are able to enforce related legal...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Iraq and Syria: Islamic State

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the possibility of genocide committed against the Christian and Yazidi women by...

    • Middle East: Christianity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to support Christians in the Middle East.

      European Solidarity Corps

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had discussions with (a) Cabinet colleagues, (b) devolved Administrations and (c) representatives...

      Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans she has to (a) conduct and (b) publish impact assessments for changes to levels of UK funding for (a)...

      Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Poland and Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK officials are present on the Poland-Ukraine border.

      Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) global health, (b) climate heating response and (c) conflict...

      Humanitarian Aid: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether UK humanitarian aid shipped to (a) Ukraine and (b) surrounding countries includes torches, battery packs...

      Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international counterparts on her plans for the International Development...

      Financial Institutions: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish a consolidated list of all Russian banks and comparable institutions which (a) are and (b) are...

      Ukraine: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Prime Minister on the safety of women and child refugees fleeing Ukraine.

      Ukraine: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the level of support available to refugees from Black, Asian and minority ethnic...

      Iraq and Syria: Islamic State

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the resurgence of the Islamic State group in (a) Syria and (b) Iraq.

      Peru: Visas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Peruvian counterpart on the availability of visas for Peruvians who would...

      Colombia: Internally Displaced People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of report by The Council for Human Rights and...

      British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies: Sanctions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps has she taken to ensure that UK Government sanctions are being applied in the crown dependencies and...

      Saudi Arabia: Honours

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions officials from her Department have had with their counterparts in Saudi Arabia on the Prime...

      Environment Protection: Private Sector

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with international counterparts to protect global populations from damage...

      Sri Lanka: Water

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2021 to Question 53270, what recent contact she has had with the Sri Lankan...

      Malawi: Disaster Relief

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support her Department is providing to communities in Malawi affected by Tropical Storm Ana.

      Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Remote Working

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of increased homeworking during the covid-19 outbreak on her...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Guided Weapons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times enhanced blast variants of the AGM-114N Hellfire missile have been used by UK armed forces since June 2009.

    • Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the potential risk of Ukraine’s Azov movement acquiring access to UK-supplied weapons; and whether he has...

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any members of Ukraine's Azov movement have access to UK-supplied anti-aircraft weapons.

      Dstl

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide details of all the bodies which DSTL warned of potential non-compliance with health and safety regulations in September 2014.

      Ministry of Defence: Buildings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the report by the National Audit Office, Optimising the defence estate, published in June in 2021, what assessment his Department has...

      Army: Weapons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the L127 A4 fuze is in service for use with 81mm or 60mm mortars by the British army as of 16 March 2022.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit: Students

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes in Universal Credit eligibility rules for students in receipt of extra-costs...

    • Poverty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Households Below Average Income statistics, how many households were categorised as living in poverty after housing...

      Department for Work and Pensions: Fraud

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much expenditure by her Department was identified as fraudulent in the last three years.

      Universal Credit: Visual Impairment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the reasonable adjustments her Department has made for blind and sight...

      Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is the Risk Review Team's policy to suspend cases when fraud is suspected and not in cases where more evidence is required to...

      Social Security Benefits: Fraud

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the definition of fraud used by the Risk Review Team to determine which cases to investigate.

      Social Security Benefits: Habitual Residence Test

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the cases investigated by the Risk Review team were subsequently disallowed because of a failed Residence Test.

      Government Departments: Newcastle upon Tyne

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on who owns of the freehold of the Benton Park View site in Newcastle upon Tyne leased to HMRC and her...

      Housing Benefit: Stockton on Tees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many exempt accommodation premises there are in Stockton.

      Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 112080, Artificial Intelligence, what progress has been made with each of the items listed.

      Employment and Support Allowance: Greater London

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Employment and Support Allowance claimants in (a) Feltham and Heston, (b) Hounslow and (c) London boroughs have had (i) mandatory...

      Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on the length of time taken to resume Employment and Support Allowance Payments following a successful appeal.

      Access to Work Programme: Flexible Working

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the access to work programme facilitates flexible working.

      Cost of Living: Coventry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help support disabled people in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry meet the increased costs of...

      Carer's Allowance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of Carers Allowance payments to support unpaid carers meet the increased costs of living.

      State Retirement Pensions: Falkland Islands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 129842 on Pensioners: British Nationals Abroad, how many people in receipt of a UK pension...

      Pension Credit: Hendon

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been awarded pension credit in Hendon constituency in each of the last five years.

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) are eligible for and (b) claim pension credit in (i)Ealing Southall and in (ii) the UK.

      Access to Work Programme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will consider offering Access to Work applicants an extension to their grant where excessive delays to the renewal process is...

      Access to Work Programme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to communicate delays to Access to Work (a) new applications and (b) renewals to scheme users to allow...

      Access to Work Programme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current waiting time is for Access to Work (a) new applications and (b) renewals.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Landfill

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to reduce the amount of waste generated in the UK to landfill in (a) the UK and (b) other countries.

    • Food Poverty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will set out a new food poverty strategy in the context of significant increases in the cost of living.

      Birds of Prey: Conservation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to rewild white-tailed eagles.

      Gun Sports: Lead

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of use of lead shot on conservation of birds of prey.

      Food Supply

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to provide for the supply of...

      Fisheries: Monitoring

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of 2022 Data Collection Framework for Fisheries...

      Land: Nature Conservation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of land that will be taken out of agricultural production as a result of schemes and...

      Fisheries: Monitoring

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will prioritise the introduction of Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) onboard vessels that pose high...

      Food: Packaging

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to hold discussions with representatives of manufacturers to encourage wider use of...

      Food Supply: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the UK's agricultural sector is able to support supply in the event of a...

      Slaughterhouses: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to increase staffing levels in abattoirs.

      Security: EU Countries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her G7 counterparts on strengthening European security.

      Furs and Pâté De Foie Gras: Imports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's timetable is for making a decision on banning the import of fur and foie gras products.

  • Home Office

    • Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of expanding the Ukraine Family Visa Scheme to include Ukrainian nationals whose close...

    • Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Ukraine Family Scheme Visas granted to date are for three years; and what proportion of those visas have been offered for...

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of compensating passport holders for lost unexpired time on their passports...

      Nationality and Borders Bill: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the provisions of the Nationality and Borders Bill on Ukrainian refugees attempting to reach...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make the Ukrainian Sponsorship Scheme visa application available in Ukrainian.

      Refugees: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with local authorities that are at or nearing the cap for accommodating refugees about future...

      Visas: Peru

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that Peruvians who would like to travel to the UK are able to do so without a visa.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to help Ukrainian refugees in the UK secure employment upon arrival.

      Antisocial Behaviour: Supported Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Minister for Policing has taken to tackle anti-social behaviour within and around areas with a high concentration of exempt...

      Offences against Children: Internet

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals for online child sexual abuse cases the National Crime Agency has passed on to each police force in England between (a)...

      Body Searches: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with representatives of the Metropolitan Police following the strip search of a 15-year-old black student in...

      Police: Inspections

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people and organisations responded to the HMICFRS consultation on the Policing inspection programme and framework.

      Licensed Premises: Closures

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of individuals remaining on or entering premises in contravention of a closure notice or similar direction were recorded...

      Police: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women police constables have been employed by police forces in England & Wales in each of the last ten years for which figures...

      Police: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training is provided to police officers on tackling antisemitism.

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Homes for Ukraine scheme to provide the same (a) support and (b)...

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date in the spring the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will begin to refer people to the Afghan Citizens Resettlement...

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances the UNHCR refer a refugee from Afghanistan to the Government for resettlement.

      Asylum: English Language

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on (a) provision of and (b) eligibility for English language classes for asylum seekers who are based in hotel...

      Common Travel Area: Republic of Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to change the Common Travel Area arrangements with Ireland; and if she will make a statement.

      Asylum: Birmingham Selly Oak

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of provision by the National Asylum Support Service and contracted providers to support the (a)...

      Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) increasing safe routes to the UK for refugees and (b) removing differential...

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to implement a scheme through which UK firms can sponsor Afghan citizens in need of relocation, in the same...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance on the Ukraine Family Scheme updated on 9 March 2022, whether applicants to the Ukraine Family Scheme who...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to create safe routes for Ukrainian refugees travelling to the UK.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy to introduce a resettlement scheme for people in Ukraine.

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her oral contribution in response to a question from the hon. member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central on 1 March 2022, Official...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people from Ukraine resident in the UK on a tier 2 visa are eligible to bring family members from Ukraine into the UK under the...

      Visas: Hungary

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional staff with relevant expertise and experience have been allocated to the UK's visa application centre in Hungary since 20...

      Asylum: Employment

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling asylum seekers to pursue employment in the event that their claim has been...

      Visas: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 1 Investor visa applications by people from Russia led to the granting of British citizenship in each year since 2008, broken...

      Immigration: EU Nationals

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce an expedited process for family members of EU/EEA Nationals awaiting decisions on applications to the EU Settlement...

      Asylum: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of current asylum programs and policies in place for Russians.

      HM Passport Office: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the information available to call handlers supporting individuals looking for application updates...

      Asylum: Mental Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 132223 on Asylum: Mental Health, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness...

      Domestic Abuse Commissioner: Finance and Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the (a) budget of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner and (b) number of full-time equivalent staff working for the Domestic Abuse...

      Police: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces have undertaken cultural competency training; and what plans her Department has to ensure that that training is...

      Home Office: Remote Working

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of increased homeworking during the covid-19 outbreak on her Department’s carbon footprint.

      Females: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what programmes her Department has undertaken to improve street safety for Jewish women; when those programmes took place; and what...

      Sexual Offences: Religion

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the latest figures available for the number of police recorded (a) sexual offences and (b) rapes by the religion of the...

      Social Rented Housing: Evictions

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce a Police data sharing policy to assist housing providers and landlords seeking to evict problem...

      Counter-terrorism: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department made a counter-terrorism assessment of right-wing extremism in Ukraine following the murder of Mohammed Saleem in 2013.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • EU Grants and Loans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the calculation for the average value of EU structural fund receipts to the UK of around £1.5 billion per...

    • Local Government: Staffordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen collaboration with regional leaders in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b)...

      Local Government Finance: Staffordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Local Government Finance Settlement on local communities in (a)...

      Regional Planning and Development: Staffordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the proposals in the Levelling Up White Paper on regional inequality in (a)...

      Community Assets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment the Department has made of the potential merits of mitigating the cost to local authorities of renewing...

      Community Assets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of updating the Assets of Community Value guidance last published in 2012.

      Community Assets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Assets of Community Value, as defined by the Localism Act 2011, there are in England as of 16 March 2022.

      Homelessness

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will prevent local authorities from informing people that are intentionally homeless and cannot be supported.

      Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in the context of the under-supply of housing in England, if he will take steps to help ensure that future housing...

      Civil Servants: Leeds

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the number of Civil Servants operating from Leeds as of 16 March 2022 by (a) pay grade and (b)...

      Shared Ownership Schemes: Older People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many properties have been completed through the Older Person’s Shared Ownership scheme over the last five...

      Social Rented Housing: Evictions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in the context of increases in the cost of living, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that (a)...

      Private Rented Housing: Evictions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in the context of increases to the cost of living, if he will end (a) evictions of tenants by landlords and (b) Section 21...

      Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the cost of temporary accommodation and storage for homeless households for local authorities.

      Building Regulations: Noise

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Government's forthcoming planning reforms, if will make it his policy to update building regulations...

      Leasehold: Ground Rent

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of leasehold dwellings sold since 2010 that were subject to doubling clauses in...

      Building Regulations: Walls and Fences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Party Walls Act 1996 to include (a) retrospective enforcement...

      Royal National Institute of Blind People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he next plans to meet representatives of the RNIB.

      Multiple Occupation: Council Tax

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment estimate he has made of the number of council tax revaluations for Houses of Multiple Occupancy in England...

      Council Tax: Homes for Ukraine Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether people who sponsor a refugee through the Homes for Ukraine scheme will still be eligible to claim 25 per cent...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to assess the practicability of using empty NHS and Social Services buildings, including Nightingale...

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme: LGBT+ People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department will seek to match LGBTQ Ukrainian refugees with LGBTQ hosts as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

      Local Government: Remote Meetings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he will publish the Government's response to his Department's call for evidence on local authority remote meetings.

      Local Government: Remote Meetings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2022 to Question 94508 on Local Government: Remote Meetings, when his Department plans...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of collating data from (a) local authority teams, (b) GPs...

      Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Remote Working

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of increased homeworking during the covid-19 outbreak on his Department’s...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Civil Servants: Offices

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of her decision to close 42 offices across the UK with her policy on increasing the proportion of...

  • Department for International Trade

    • Import Duties: USA

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress has been made on ensuring the removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium imports in the US.

    • Trade Agreements: Japan

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which of the following protected UK geographical food and drink names were among the 77 proposed geographical indications submitted by her...

      Trade Agreements: Australia

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reason the following protected UK geographical food and drink names were not included in Annex A of the side letter on geographical...

      Trade Agreements: Japan

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2022 to Question 133932, whether the Japanese authorities are expected to (a) begin public consultation...

      Military Aid: Saudi Arabia

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the ethical implications of supplying weapons and military support to the Saudi...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Music: EU Countries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress the Government has made on supporting touring musicians to continue to work in Europe.

    • Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support she is providing to (a) Refugee Action, (b) City of Sanctuary and (c) other charities supporting Ukrainian refugees.

      Sports: Government Assistance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support grassroots sport.

      Sports: Belarus and Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent Russia and Belarus participating in international sporting events.

      Film: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with Northern Ireland Screen and other producers on support for the film industry in the devolved...

      Telephones: Care Homes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether providers will be prohibited from charging those in adult social care settings extra charges for powercut-resistant...

      Broadcasting: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport, what recent discussions her Department had held with Ofcom on revoking the licences of Russian state-backed broadcasters.

      Cybersecurity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to utilise data sovereignty to gain a competitive advantage over hostile states.

      Broadband: Standards

      What proportion of addresses have access to gigabit-capable broadband connections in (a) Kettering constituency and (b) England.

      Freedom of Expression

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the Online Safety Bill on free speech.

      Internet: Advertising

      What recent progress her Department has made on tackling fraudulent online advertisements.

      Gambling: Taxation

      If she will make it her policy to introduce a statutory levy on gambling operators to fund services relating to gambling harms.

      Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill

      What steps she has taken to implement the recommendations of the Draft Online Safety Bill Joint Committee.

      Freedom of Expression

      What steps her Department is taking to protect freedom of expression.

      Platinum Jubilee 2022

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

      Internet: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent children accessing legal content online that may be harmful to them.

      Gambling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle harms that can be caused by problem gambling.

  • Women and Equalities

    • Gender Recognition: Scotland

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of the proposed Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland on equity of legal protections for...

    • Gender Recognition Act 2004

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference the Third report of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, HC 977, entitled Reform of the Gender Recognition Act, what progress...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Tidal Power: River Severn

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reconsider the proposal for building a Severn Barrage to generate electricity from a renewable source; and what plans they have to discuss...

    • Energy: Imports

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the UK’s dependence on non-domestic energy resources.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Protective Clothing: China

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 22 February (HL6027), how much was spent on the 24.1 billion items of Personal Protective Equipment where...

    • Palliative Care: Travellers

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendations identified by the National Institute for Health Research in its article A highly personalised approach to end...

      Drugs

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what links there are (1) legally, (2) administratively, and (3) financially, between the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and pharmaceutical...

      Coronavirus: Prescription Drugs

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 15 March (HL6625), why antiviral treatments for COVID-19 can only be prescribed by a clinician within a COVID...

      Dementia

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the NHS will spend on research into the (1) causes, and (2) treatment, of dementia in each of the next five years.

      Protective Clothing: Public Transport

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the public health benefits of wearing a face mask on public transport.

      Kidney Diseases: Coronavirus

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when people with chronic kidney disease will receive guidance regarding how they are to be supported and protected from COVID-19; and whether this guidance will be...

      Health Services and Social Services: Staff

      To ask Her Majesty's Government which sectors have been consulted as part of (1) the Health Education England's review of long-term strategic trends for the health and social care workforce, and...

      Coronavirus: Surveys

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Office for National Statistics' COVID-19 infection survey, and of its continuing utility.

      Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the NHS Standard Contract 2022/23, when the data relating to the 12 hour standard for maximum waits from the time of arrival in Emergency Departments...

      Oral Tobacco: Health Hazards

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 15 November (HL3287) which stated that “snus products contain significantly lower levels of harmful...

  • Department for Education

    • Hallam Diocese: Academies

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to issue an apology to the governing bodies of 19 schools in the Catholic Diocese of Hallam which were sent academy orders, without...

    • Children: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support refugee children from Ukraine and accommodate them within the education system.

      Social Services: Children

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to measure progress towards the restoration of disabled children’s social care services to pre-pandemic levels.

      Adoption: Pupil Premium

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the report by Adoption UK From Both Sides, published on 3 March; and in particular the recommendation that advice and...

      Students: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for universities in England (1) providing accommodation, and (2) waiving fees, for Ukrainian students who have fled that...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Prisoners: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many incidents of physical restraint took place in the female prison estate on women aged (1) 18 to 24, and (2) 25 years or older, in each year since 2018.

    • Prisons: Telephones

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of cells in (1) the female prison estate, and (2) the male prison estate, have in-cell telephony; and what proportion of cells in each prison have...

      Prisoners: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women aged (1) 18 to 24, and (2) 25 years or older, are currently held in each female prison establishment.

      Prisoners: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wolfson of Tredegar on 2 February (HL5530) concerning the average distance from home for prisoners in female and male...

      Child Contact Centres

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they are giving to the National Association of Child Contact Centres; and whether the grant will be for a (1) two year, or (2) three year, period.

      Prison Sentences

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many recalls of those with an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence have subsequently resulted in (1) no further action taken, (2) charges dropped, and...

      Domestic Abuse

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, what progress they have made in developing a report about the extent to which individuals are protected from domestic abuse when using contact centres in England,...

      Community Orders

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hours of unpaid work have been completed as part of Community Sentences in each of the last five years.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Remote Working

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office staff are working from home; and what proportion of the department this represents.

    • Armenia: Azerbaijan

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledonon 7 March (HL6312), what attempts they have made to document the destruction of Armenian historical sites...

      Russia: Sanctions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to impose sanctions on (1) states other than Russia, and (2) individuals other than Russians, in order to close loopholes to the...

      Russia: Oil

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have (1) to review their decision to allow oil from Russia to enter the UK for the remainder of 2022, and (2) to implement an earlier ban.

      BBC World Service: Finance

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they provide directly to support the BBC World Service.

      Armenia: Azerbaijan

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the reported remarks of President Aliyev of Azerbaijan that the Nagorno-Karabakh region does not exist and it should not be...

      Nagorno Karabakh: Humanitarian Situation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, following the cutting of the gas supply to the region.

      Nagorno Karabakh

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, following the reporting targeting of villages in the area on the border with Azerbaijan.

      Ukraine: Family Planning and Maternity Services

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they are providing to support (1) maternal health, and (2) family planning provision, for (a) those in Ukraine, and (b) those who are now refugees, in...

      Food Supply

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the war in Ukraine on (1) global food supplies, and (2) food prices; and what steps they are taking, together with...

      Nigeria: Humanitarian Aid and Security

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking in response to the humanitarian and security situation in Nigeria.

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Veterans: Identity Cards

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current timetable for phase 2 of the rollout of Veteran’s ID Cards to all veterans who left the armed forces before 2018.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Department for Work and Pensions will fulfil their commitment to publish the evaluation strategy for the managed migration pilot; and when they will...

    • Universal Credit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there will be any further piloting of managed migration before it is rolled out.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Soil

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to announce further plans to improve soil quality and structure in England.

  • Home Office

    • Home Office: Remote Working

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Home Office staff are working from home; and what proportion of the department this represents.

    • Police: Road Traffic Control

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 7 March (HL6233), what is the reason for the decline in the number of roads policing...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many visa applications they have received under the Ukraine Family Scheme to date; and how many visas have been granted.

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many immigrants to the UK from Afghanistan are still living in hotels awaiting resettlement; and how long have they been waiting.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government why they require biometric data from people seeking refugee status having fled from Ukraine; what assessment they have made of decision by the government of the...

      Asylum: Visas

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a person may be granted a visa that cannot be cancelled for the purpose of coming to the UK to apply for asylum; and if so, in which paragraph of...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of France regarding refugees from Ukraine who wish to enter the UK but have been prevented from moving from...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Kate Josephs: Correspondence

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have had any correspondence with Ms Kate Josephs, former Director General of the Covid Task Force, since she left role, regarding the Cabinet...

    • Veterans: Research

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether research undertaken by the US Department of Veterans Affairs could help shape policy in relation to veterans’...

  • Treasury

    • Child Benefit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Office of Tax Simplification OTS evaluation note: Update on OTS work on the High Income Child Benefit...

    • Economic Situation: Equality

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent steps they have taken to help reduce economic inequality.

      Car Allowances

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the 45p per mile fuel allowance for cars and vans should be increased due to (1) the length of time it has remained...

  • Women and Equalities

    • Gender Recognition: Equality

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will introduce legislation to implement reforms in England and Wales similar to those proposed in the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill...

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