Wednesday, 20 April 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Golborne Spur will be removed from HS2 plans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on the provision of audio and visual equipment on all buses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what policy objectives his Department intended to achieve through The Seafarers (Transnational Information and Consultation, Collective Redundancies...
To ask the Attorney General, how many CPS prosecutions there have been to date for the theft of goods by customers from retail and wholesale premises that took place in the financial years (a)...
To ask the Attorney General, how many CPS prosecutions there have been as of 30 March 2022 for assaults and threats against shop workers and owners that took place in the financial years (a)...
To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Public Sector Apprenticeships Target, how many apprentices were employed in (a) her office, (b) the Government Legal Department, and (c) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has asked the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to provide advice on the use of the Novavax covid-19 vaccine in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the (a) availability of free covid-19 lateral flow tests and (b) functioning of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason medical assessors are required to assess evidence establishing a link between a covid-19 vaccine and the death of an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to assess the impact of the Government's new calorie labelling requirements on people with eating disorders; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date the NHS Business Services Authority awarded the contract for a supplier to cover medical assessments of claims under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what methods he uses to measure the success of public health interventions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government’s upcoming sexual and reproductive health strategy will reflect the British Association for Sexual Health and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the context of the 2030 smoke-free target, what plans he has to improve smokers’ awareness of (a) e-cigarettes, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people who have not received free priority covid-19 PCR tests are able to access them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that (a) equitable progress is made for all people at risk of poor sexual health and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will commit to the World Health Organisation's target of ending sexually transmitted infection epidemics as a public...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the outcomes were of the detailed modelling assessment of endoscopy capacity and demand within the bowel cancer screening programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the proportion of urgent referrals for suspected breast cancer that met the 28 day faster diagnosis standard was (a) in general and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the health benefits of the daily mile.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of reports of clinically vulnerable, clinically extremely...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has undertaken an assessment of which immunocompromised patients should be eligible for treatment with the drug,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to place an order for the drug, Evusheld.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the Government is conducting tests of the drug, Evusheld, on covid-19 omicron subvariants in the context of the United...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the timeframe for Evusheld being available for eligible patients following its recent MHRA approval.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Chief Medical Officer is taking to tackle air pollution problems following his speech at the Clean Air Summit in London on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Medical Officer on bringing forward legislative proposals to help tackle air pollution...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish his response to the Independent Review of Smokefree 2030 Policies; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to encourage the uptake of covid-19 (a) booster vaccinations and (b) future vaccinations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what period will be covered by (a) the new Tobacco Control Plan for England and (b) its delivery plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 92799 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, in how many of the Yellow Card cases where the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department paid £600 million to Unispace Global Ltd for the purchase of personal protective equipment in 2020; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money has been spent relating to the covid surge deal as of 24 February 2022; how many patients that funding has treated to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022 to Question 121768 on Protective Clothing: Finance, in which sub-category of the total...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide the (a) number and (b) proportion of PPE items provided by each company identified through the High Priority Lane; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the agreed salary range is for Chief Officers of NHS clinical commissioning groups.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Paymaster General of 5 January 2022, Official Report, column 122, if he will list the more...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to support people with sickle cell disease to access free prescriptions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NICE plans to update the Quality Standard for COPD to take account of recent advances in research and clinical practice.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2022 to Question 101748 on PPE Medpro: Baroness Mone, how many suppliers of PPE to which contracts...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients across England can receive earwax removal treatment at (a) their NHS GP Surgery or (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to prioritise targeted, lab-based studies to find possible treatments for those suffering from...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Child of the North research published in 2022.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an impact assessment of the potential effect of measures included in the Spring Statement 2022 on Scotland.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to offer a VAT reduction to owners of electric vehicles who charge their cars at public charging points.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact assessment was made of the potential effect of measures included in the Spring Statement 2022 on the South West Region of England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the governments of (a) Democratic Republic of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementation of secondary sanctions against...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Indian counterpart regarding visa waiting times for UK citizens wishing to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of submariners who have received radiation doses in excess of safe limits in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the call by Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) women for fair...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what inter-ministerial group exists to discuss (a) poverty and (b) matters relating to the cost of living; when that group last met; and which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Personal Independent Payment assessments take account of complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility for carer’s allowance to include people to who...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to reform the assessment processes for Employment Support Allowance, Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2022 to Question 138303, whether there is statistical evidence available to show (a) how the minimum income...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she provide details of each Jobcentre Plus in the UK, broken down by (a) permanent and (b) temporary job centres.
To ask the President of COP26, what recent steps he has taken to help coordinate a whole of Government response to tackling the climate and ecological emergency ahead of the COP15 Biodiversity...
To ask the President of COP26, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recent rise in gas prices on the commitments agreed at COP26.
To ask the President of COP26, to ask the President of COP26, if he will hold discussions with his international counterparts on the potential merits of prioritising discussion of food...
To ask the President of COP26, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of fracking on delivering the UK's COP26 commitment to tackling climate change.
To ask the President of COP26, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of domestic use of (a) renewables and (b) energy efficiency improvements to meeting COP26 objectives.
What assessment he has made of the effect of the announcements in the Spring Statement 2022 on prospects for meeting COP26 objectives.
To ask the President of COP26, what progress he made at COP26 on reducing the use of coal.
To ask the President of COP26, what recent discussions he has had with the COP President-designate and states party to the UNFCCC on the implications for the COP27 agenda of current trends in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of processing a male asylum seeker in Rwanda under her proposed arrangements; and if she will publish...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where asylum seekers are sent once their claims for asylum are processed at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of offering a fee-waiver to people applying to come to the UK from Afghanistan using...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the cost has been to his Department of the recent advertising campaign for levelling up (a) in newspapers and (b) on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what proportion of Ministerial replies are sent to hon. Members from his Department within 20 working days as suggested in...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment has been made of supporting a temporary waiver that includes all forms of intellectual property, including (a) medical...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) telecoms and (b) network providers meet Ofcom's requirement to have at least...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with representatives of telecommunication firms on preventing potential Russian interference...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential economic impact of the privatisation of Channel 4.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help support and maintain British-owned semi-conductor manufacturing in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that young listeners and viewers benefit from the Public Service Broadcasting...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reinstating the Young Audiences Content Fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the compilation of evidence that underpins the Benyon Review and Nature Recovery Green Paper.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of undertaking visual checks to confirm that dogs entering...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Defra group breaches of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics between January 2009 and February...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to respond to the Dame Glenys Stacey's 2018 Farm Inspection and Regulation Review; and whether any...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ban the use of cages for laying hens.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the European Union's decision to ban the use of cages...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made representations to the devolved Administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on the use of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will bring forward legislative proposals early in the next parliamentary session to ban the import and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2022 to Question 102540 on Air Pollution, what plans he has to publish the results of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what changes have been made to his Department’s contractual arrangements for monitoring particulate matter, PM2.5 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the impact of the agreements reached in October 2021 and January 2022 between CF Industries or...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what are determines whether a vehicle is an electric bicycle or an electric motorbike for the purposes of (1) sales of such vehicles, and (2) whether they can be...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to develop a low carbon fuels strategy.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with South Western Railway about reverting to providing two fast train services per hour each way between Waterloo and Portsmouth...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether vehicle-to-grid charging provision is (1) expected as part of, or (2) will be prioritised in the funding for, the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure pilots.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the using British Rail Class 222 units from the Midland Main Line to add services to the principal stations in (1) the East...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by PACTS The Safety of Private E-scooters in the UK, published on 19 March; and what steps they will take in response...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether (1) an impact assessment, and (2) value for money assessment, on the role of EGNOS in the UK was undertaken prior to 31 December 2020; and if so, whether...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide commercial incentives to businesses willing to reduce their gas use at certain times.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reform the energy markets so that consumers’ bills are less dependent on global gas prices.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the steel used in the UK manufacturing industry was produced (1) in the UK, (2) in the EU, and (3) in the rest of the world, in the last year...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures the dementia strategy will include to improve patient access to (1) FDG-PET scans, and (2) CSF tests, for an early and accurate diagnosis of...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve the (1) approval, and (2) set-up processes, for dementia trials.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of GP surgeries asking patients to email a photograph of their skin conditions.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to reinstating routine tongue-tie checks for newborn babies.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 28 March (HL7110), given that the TransActual UK Trans lives survey 2021: Enduring the UK's hostile...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 30 March (HL7298), what plans they have to request that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of NHS leaders at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust,...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what contractual arrangements they have, if any, with pharmaceutical companies that prevent the sale of antiviral drugs for COVID-19 by private clinicians.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had regarding the provision of (1) hearing aids, (2) stop smoking services, and (3) treatment for hypertension, to (a) reduce dementia...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to make the PPE that is no longer needed by the NHS available to carers.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are stockpiling COVID-19 tests in advance of any new variant becoming prevalent; and if so, whether they will be in a position to reinstate free tests...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how patients can appeal the outcome of complaints against GPs in England.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a list of the projects that have been given access to the Palantir Foundry parts of NHS England’s...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the status of the forthcoming medicines update of the NG28 Type 2 Diabetes Guideline; and how long it will take for updated...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have had discussions with any country which is protecting the clinically extremely vulnerable by making pre-exposure prophylaxis (PREP) available to...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 1 March (HL6395), what assessment they have made of the number of women who (1) have undergone a formal...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Afghan children are currently in school in the UK; and how many are waiting for a place in education.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the results of the poll undertaken by Parentkind, published in March; in particular, what assessment they have made of the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners are currently being held (1) three to a cell designed for one, and (2) two to a cell designed for one, in each prison.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Russia to remind that country about the duty on its peace-keeping forces to prevent (1) attacks by...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the United Nations special rapporteurs on 26 January regarding the cases of Jaafar Sultan and Sadiq Majeed Thamer who are on death row...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the refreshed Shipbuilding Strategy intends to (1) enhance, and (2) grow, the UK ship repair capability.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in view of the war in Ukraine, whether they have re-assessed the gap in Royal Navy surface to surface missile capability.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what new financial support they will allocate to support building a (1) sustainable, (2) low carbon, fishing industry.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the dairy sector in England.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of domestic demand for palm oil as a result of (1) disturbances to agricultural production in Ukraine, and (2) restrictions to...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to enable the food and drink industry to use safe, alternative products where ingredients become unavailable due to shortages in world...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of (1) the availability of kosher food in Northern Ireland, and (2) the restrictions imposed by the provisions of the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage more home grown food production; and what assessment they have made of whether a policy akin to the Dig for Victory...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made on the impact of supply chain inflation on the English dairy sector’s productive capacity.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money they have given to each of the UK's Overseas Territories in the Caribbean to treat stony coral tissue loss disease in the last two years.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with non-governmental organisations working in the UK's Overseas Territories about the treatment of stony coral tissue loss disease.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take, if any, to meet the Fisheries Act 2020 ecosystem objective, particularly the monitoring and mitigation of sensitive species by...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what further steps they will take to support farmers with increased fertiliser and fuel costs.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support farmers that face rising prices for fertiliser products.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support dairy farmers adversely affected by higher costs of (1) feed, (2) fuel, and (3) fertiliser.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce a National Food Security Council.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of new environmental regulations, such as the Clean Air Strategy and Farming Rules for Water, on the future of the dairy sector in...
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to launch their consultation on the welfare of game birds.
To ask Her Majesty's Government which policies, if any, the Home Office has applied the Family Test to in the last year.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposals by the International Rescue Committee on Ukrainian refugees; and in particular, the proposal to offer visa-free...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what restrictions they are imposing, if any, on refugees from Ukraine who have been offered residence in the UK regarding their right to take up employment.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their paper The Benefits of Brexit: How the UK is taking advantage of leaving the EU, published on 31 January, which of the benefits identified will...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 6 April (HL7366), what discussions they have had with the Metropolitan Police about why releasing the number of...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 4 April (HL7149), what assessment they have made of the consistency of that answer with the award of the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish environmental and greenhouse gas emission figures beside the quarterly GDP figures.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the privatisation of Channel 4 on the independent production sector.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the fundamental differences between Channel 4 and international streaming services, such as Netflix.
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