Written answers

Monday, 25 April 2022

  • Department for Transport

    • Department for Transport: Information Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many communications staff are employed by his Department (a) full time, (b) part time and (c) on flexible working arrangements as of 19 April 2022.

    • Blue Badge Scheme: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the impact of the £10 charge for blue badge parking applications on low-income households.

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail tickets were sold in March 2022.

      Railways

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passenger journeys were made by rail in March 2022.

      Aircraft: Electric Vehicles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what licensing regulations apply to the (a) trial and (b) use of electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles.

      Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the table entitled Local highway authority amounts per year in the transparency data on Highways maintenance and ITB funding formula...

      Humber Bridge: Tolls

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the reason for booths on the Humber Bridge not accepting cash payments; and if he will make a statement.

      Roads: Urban Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how the National Highway's study on the strategic road network in urban areas is taking into account the Government's target for half of urban...

      Aviation: Exhaust Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the number of ghost flights departing the UK each month.

      Railways: Fares

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Over one million half price rail tickets in first ever Great British Rail Sale, published on...

      Roads: Capital Investment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what proportion and amount the RIS2 budget for capital enhancements has been changed in the context of the (a) Spending Review 2021, (b) pausing of...

      A1079: Road Traffic Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what further plans he has to improve the traffic flows and vehicle capacity of the A1079 between Hull and York.

      Highway Code: Publicity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to publicise the recent changes to the Highway Code.

      Transport for the North: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to produce an indicative projection of funding across the Spending Review period for Transport for the North.

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Parental Leave

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will introduce additional paid parental leave entitlements equivalent to the time parents have to take off from...

    • Clothing: Manufacturing Industries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to amend UK place of origin regulations for clothing to enable customers to identify products...

      Foreign Companies: Property

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made on the establishment of a Register of Beneficial Owners as provided by the Economic Crime...

      Sanctions: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether (a) Ministers and (b) senior civil servants in his Department met people in the last 18 months who are now...

      Newport Wafer Fab: Nexperia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings he has had with Nexperia on the takeover of Newport Wafer Fab.

      Post Office: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to recover bonuses paid to company directors during the Post Office Horizon scandal.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to respond to the letter of 25 February 2022 to the Minister for Science, Research and...

      Advanced Research and Invention Agency: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what salary offer was made to Dr Peter Highnam to join the Advanced Research and Invention Agency as its CEO.

      Economic and Social Research Council: Public Appointments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason he vetoed the appointment of Professor Jonathan Michie as a chair of the Economic and Social Research...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of the higher price cap for pre-payment meters on (a) low income families and...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons the energy price cap is higher for those in prepayment meters than default tariffs.

      Industry: Economic Growth

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of industry clusters as a means to grow the economy.

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the benefits of providing residents who are local to energy and nuclear plants with...

      Electricity: Consumers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what forecasts his Department has made for the total number of domestic electricity consumers in each of the next five...

      Energy Company Obligation: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment has been made of the impact of his Department’s decision to disqualify some disabled people from...

      Energy Supply: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of support provided by energy suppliers to disabled customers...

      Warm Home Discount Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government Response to the Warm Home Discount: Better targeted support from 2022 consultation,...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of disabled people's exposure to higher than average energy...

      Electricity and Natural Gas: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will summarise the four options being examined by Ofgem to reduce wholesale prices for gas and electricity; and...

      Liquefied Petroleum Gas: Scotland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he will make an assessment of any factors that may impact LPG supply in Scotland; and if he will take steps to...

      House Insurance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether financial support is available to people who require home insurance where their home is built above a coal mine...

      Electricity: Consumers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the total number of domestic electricity consumers was in the UK in each of the last five years.

      Firewood

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2022 to Question 98190 on Firewood, what assessment he has made of the reasons for...

      Biofuels

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish a biomass strategy 2022.

      Energy: Standing Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to equalize energy standing charges between the regions of the UK.

      Biofuels

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many responses were received to the tender process to select a new provider to take over the running of the...

      Wood-burning Stoves: Ecolabelling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of eco-label accreditation for producers of wood-burning...

      Power Failures: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to improve communications on power failures on the low voltage network in the upland and wooded...

      Carbon Emissions: Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2021 to Question 88605, Carbon Emissions: Health, what policies his Department...

      Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to ensure that payments made under the Government’s Renewable Heat Incentive scheme are...

      Nuclear Power Stations: China

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information he (a) holds and (b) has requested from (i) EDF, (ii) ONR and (iii) the Chinese authorities on the...

      Nuclear Power Stations: China

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with (a) EDF, (b) ONR and (c) his Chinese counterpart on (a) reports of potential...

      Private Rented Housing: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance his Department is providing to private rented tenants wishing to encourage their landlords to apply for...

      Warm Home Discount Scheme: Carers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to extend the Warm Home Discount scheme to include carers on the lowest incomes.

      Energy: Meters

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of (a) the number of installed smart meters that are not on the national database, (b)...

      Universities: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to utilise university research capability to develop economic clusters.

  • Northern Ireland Office

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Air Pollution: Death

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of deaths that were attributed to air pollution in (a) Plymouth, (b) the South West...

    • Health Services: Shropshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Hospitals Transformation Programme on the standard of planned care services in...

      Hearing Impairment: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of NHS provision of ear (a) irrigation and (b) micro-suction.

      NHS: Innovation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2022 to Question 105519, what assessment his Department made of the steps required to practically...

      Perinatal Mortality: York Hospital

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what actions he plans to take following the Serious Incident Investigation into the death of Baby Ronnie.

      Mental Health Services: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that the forthcoming reform of the 1983 Mental Health Act will include school and community-based...

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people who are extremely critically vulnerable are able to receive free covid-19 PCR tests.

      Employment and Support Allowance: Fines

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contribution-based ESA claimants have been fined as a result of an erroneous belief that they were entitled to claim free dental...

      Asthma: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of LOGEX’s International Comparison Medicines Uptake 2021 report to NHS England & NHS...

      Doctors' List of Patients: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance and assistance his Department provides to (a) clinical commissioning groups and (b) general practitioners on enabling...

      Parkinson's Disease: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into new treatments for people living with Parkinson's disease.

      Brain Cancer: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to prioritise research into brain cancer.

      Neurology: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the Government's neurodegenerative research fund is being allocated to paediatric research.

      Hormone Replacement Therapy: Payments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timeframe is for implementing the hormone replacement treatment single annual payment scheme.

      Brain Cancer: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to encourage research into (a) causes of and (b) treatments for brain cancer.

      Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made for the implication for his Departmental polices of the estimated loss of the £8.1 billion of PPE...

      Brain Cancer: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commit to (a) reviewing and (b) increasing the allocation of funding for brain tumour research.

      General Practitioners: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) to allow diverting ring-fenced ARRS funding towards core GP funding so...

      Maternity Services: Migrants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' position statement on Equitable access to maternity care for...

      Perinatal Mortality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to minimise the number of stillbirths in (a) the West Midlands and (b) England.

      Lord O'Shaughnessy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what records his Department holds of correspondence between Lord O'Shaughnessy and companies providing covid-19 testing or testing...

      General Practitioners: Workplace Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what key performance indicator targets have been set by NHS England and NHS Improvement for the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme...

      Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's 2019 Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access, what progress the Government is making...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Randox Laboratories

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 17 November 2021 for specified minutes, notes,...

      Cannabis: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to medicinal cannabis for people who are eligible.

      Oxford Nanopore Technologies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2022 to Question 108528 on Oxford Nanopore Technologies, if he will place copies of the minutes in the...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2022 to Question UIN 121770 on Procurement, for what reason aggregated totals of the financial...

      NHS: Complaints

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how may complaints the NHS has received in each of the last five years.

      Nurses: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason midwives and health visitors were not included in the Government’s target to increase the number of nurses; and on...

      Medical Treatments: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to implement a system for the reporting of harms from non-pharmaceutical treatments offered by clinicians within the NHS.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Meller Group

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2022 to Question 101747 on Department of Health and Social Care: Meller Group, whether the reference...

      General Practitioners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new GPs have been registered in each of the last 5 years.

      Abingdon Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds minutes of the meetings between the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation and Abingdon...

      Ventilators

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ventilators purchased by his Department since 2020 have been found unsuitable for use.

      Hospital Beds: York

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help support the provision of NHS beds in York in the context of a substantial proportion of patients being...

      Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has authorised the use of gowns purchased from Clandeboye Agencies Limited during the covid-19 pandemic.

      Locums: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide an estimate of the cost of NHS GPs being paid locum rates in the latest week for which figures are available.

      Hearing Impairment: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that ear microsuction and irrigation services are available on the NHS for pensioners who...

      Long Covid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been (a) assessed at long covid clinics and (b) discharged since the creation of those clinics; and what...

      General Practitioners: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that rural communities' access to a local GP surgery is maintained.

      Primary Health Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to undertake a public campaign to communicate to patients how they can access primary care services.

      Breast Cancer: Ellesmere Port and Neston

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current waiting time is for a breast cancer referral in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency.

      Dental Services: South East

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2022 to Question 116904 on Dental Services: South East, how many dental practices in (a) the...

      General Practitioners: Digital Technology

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the capacity of general practice across England and Wales to deliver online booking to...

      Dental Services: Equality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2022 to Question 119642 on Dental Health Inequalities, what his timetable is for publishing a report...

      General Practitioners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people can access face-to-face GP services.

      Health Services: Home Visits

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to home visits from healthcare professionals, what guidance his Department has issued for people who want to challenge...

      Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the (a) symptoms of and (b) treatments for myalgic encephalomyelitis and long...

      Sodium Valproate: Public Consultation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to his Department's consultation on original pack dispensing and supply of medicines containing sodium valproate...

      Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of when the business case from the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust will be (a) completed and (b)...

      Breast Cancer: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the backlog of women who are waiting to see a breast cancer specialist as a result of delays caused by...

      Health Professions: Resignations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses, and (c) health visitors have left the NHS since 23 March 2020.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to letters of 11 February and 14 March 2022 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of his...

      Ministry of Justice: Written Questions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Question 117746 on Unispace Global: Protective Clothing tabled by the hon. Member for Brent Central on 3...

      General Practitioners: Workplace Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of GPs wait over (a) six months, (b) 12 months and (c) 18 months to receive their NHS Pension scheme pension...

      Royal Shrewsbury Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the length of the waiting time in the emergency department at the Royal Shrewsbury...

      Emergency Calls

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of callers to 999 in (a) England and (b) Shropshire are transported to hospital.

      Cancer: Nurses

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the costs of training a cancer clinical nurse specialist.

      Health Professions: Cancer

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the shortage of specialist cancer staff in the NHS workforce.

      NHS: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Spending Review 2021, what the specific yearly allocation of additional funding for the NHS workforce is.

      General Practitioners: Workplace Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2022 to Question 138173, on General Practitioners: Pensions, whether the (a) report undertaken by NHS...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he intends to respond to a letter dated 02/03/2022 from the Hon. Member for West Lancashire reference ZA59051 regarding covid-19...

      Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what purpose his Department has commissioned legal advice from Pinsent Masons LLP on matters relating to (a) DHSC funding of overseas...

      Royal Shrewsbury Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times in the emergency department at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

      Hip Replacements: Waiting Lists

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the current average wait time for a hip replacement operation in (a) Oxfordshire and (b) England.

      Dentistry and Medicine: Student Numbers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase the cap on medical and dentistry courses for students in 2022.

      Health Education England: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget is for Health Education England for 2022-23.

      Dentistry: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the model of York and Hull Medical School being used as a model for a future...

      Ambulance Services: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance response times were in (a) York and North Yorkshire and (b) England for the latest period for which figures...

      NHS: Crimes against the Person

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many physical assaults on NHS staff were reported in Suffolk in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.

      Nurses: Parkinson's Disease

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the 50,000 additional NHS nurses committed by the Government to be recruited by 2024 will be Parkinson's...

      PPE Medpro

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has paid to PPE MedPro for the purchase of personal protective equipment; and whether that company has met its...

      Excalibur Healthcare Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has paid to Excalibur Healthcare for the purchase of personal protective equipment; and whether that company has...

      Protective Clothing: Waste Disposal

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential (a) units and (b) purchased cost of personal protective equipment which the Department plans...

      Protective Clothing: Storage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the condition of personal protective equipment in storage as of 18 February 2022.

      Coronavirus: Sick Leave

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the Government’s Living with COVID strategy on levels of NHS covid-19...

      Coronavirus: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds data on the number of NHS staff fined for breaking covid-19 related restrictions in the workplace.

      Health Professions: Migrant Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with representatives of the General Medical Council on access to PLAB 1 and PLAB 2 tests for medical...

      Protective Clothing: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Minister of State for Health's Statement, DHSC Update, 3 February 2022, Official Report, if he will publish a list...

      Ayanda Capital

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has paid to Ayanda Capital Ltd for the purchase of personal protective equipment; and whether that company has...

      Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contracts were directly awarded without competitive tender outside the high priority lane for supply of personal protection...

      NHS: Workplace Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the annual pension contribution cap has had on retention and recruitment of staff...

      Kidney Diseases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many renal counsellors there are in the NHS.

      Cataracts: Surgery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the current average wait time for a cataract operation in (a) Oxfordshire and (b) England.

      Integrated Care Systems

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2021 to Question 24224 on Integrated Care Systems, if he will publish all formal correspondence and...

      Coronavirus: Mortality Rates

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's plans for living with covid-19, what plans he has to reduce the mortality rate of those dying with...

      Dental Services: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what activity target he plans to set for NHS dental practices in the first quarter of 2022-23; and when he plans to communicate that...

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reintroducing free covid-19 lateral flow tests for asymptomatic clinically...

      Donors: HIV Infection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has plans to review legislation on gamete donation for people living with HIV in the context of the recent...

      Dental Services: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of NHS dentistry to tackle the covid-19 backlog.

  • Wales Office

    • Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government ahead of the Government's proposals to open an offshore asylum processing centre in Rwanda.

    • Wales Office: Information Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many communications staff are employed by his Department (a) full time, (b) part time and (c) on flexible working arrangements as of 19 April 2022.

      Wales Office: Information Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on communications staff in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.

  • Department for Education

    • Special Educational Needs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children with special educational needs and disabilities that do not currently have a place in...

    • Overseas Students: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer to Question 141156 on Overseas Students: Ukraine, whether students who arrive in the UK on the (a) Homes for Ukraine Scheme and...

      Special Educational Needs: Tribunals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the current requirement for parents to consider mediation before accessing the SEND Tribunal; and for what...

      Department for Education: Apprentices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Public Sector Apprenticeships Target, how many apprentices were employed in his Department in the financial year 2021-22; what...

      British Students Abroad: Russia and Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2022 to Question 146609 on British Students Abroad: Russia and Ukraine, what assessment he has made of the capacity...

      Schools: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of projected inflation rates on real-terms funding for schools.

      Children in Care: Quarantine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to issue guidance to end the need for young people in care homes being asked to self-isolate when they come into contact with...

      Foster Care: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ask local authorities to show flexibility with regard to the clearance of uncleared adults within homes with in-place fostered children, to...

      Oak National Academy: Remote Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to ensure that access to Oak National Academy's online content remains zero rated so that pupils can access remote education...

      Religion: Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his recently published Schools White Paper, what steps he is taking to ensure all children receive high-quality provision of...

      Schools: Uniforms

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the publication on 19 November 2021 of statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms, what measures his Department has put in...

      Schools: Disciplinary Proceedings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that teachers and other education staff can choose to be accompanied to disciplinary or grievance...

      Students: Loans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the mechanism for determining student loan interest in light of the projected volatility of...

      Universities: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions his Department has held with the University and College Union about grievances of university staff relating to pensions, pay and...

      National Curriculum Tests

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the resumption of Key Stage (a) 1 and (2) SATs examinations do not have a negative impact on the...

      National Tutoring Programme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact on the public purse of the cancellation of his Department's contract with Randstad for the delivery of the...

      Teachers: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has undertaken an assessment of the impact of teacher absences due to covid-19 on pupil behaviour.

      Further Education: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 April 2022 on the Further Education Capital Transformation Fund, HCWS769, for each college...

      Children: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support Ukrainian child refugees' access education once in the UK.

      Pupils: Body Searches

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to review (a) guidance and training for teachers and school staff and (b) guidelines on child safeguarding in relation to...

      National Curriculum Tests

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department made of the effect on children of his decision to continue with Key Stage 1 SATs examinations in 2022 prior to the...

      Curriculum

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has held discussions with schools on the potential merits of including in the curriculum learning on veganism, fast fashion and climate change.

      National Curriculum Tests

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children that will complete their curriculum studies prior to the next round of Key Stage 2...

      Schools: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to change the current framework governing the opening of new schools.

      Children: Body Searches

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the suitability of the current guidance issued to (a) schools, and (b) local safeguarding partnerships regarding...

      Schools: Admissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether school applications from Ukrainian refugees will be assessed according to the same criteria as other children.

      Multi-academy Trusts: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish a breakdown of academy trust revenue reserves for 2020-21 by trust.

      Students: Loans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact on graduate disposable incomes of the increase in student loan interest rates.

      Department for Education: Parliamentary Questions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of working days is that it has taken him in the (a) 2021-22 Parliamentary Session as a whole and (b) in the 2021-22...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Community Orders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2022 to Question 151126, how many offenders who had a community order terminated early for failing to comply with...

    • Robbery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) mean and (b) median time was from offence to completion for cases of robbery and armed robbery in each (i) region of (A) England and (B)...

      Rape: Prosecutions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2022 to Question 141201, on Rape: Criminal Proceedings, how many rape prosecutions were stopped post-charge because a...

      Sentencing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 52 of the White Paper, A Smarter Approach to Sentencing, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage the use of...

      Drugs: Misuse

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) mean and (b) median number of days taken was from offence to completion of drug offence cases for (i) Crown and (ii) Magistrates Court in...

      Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support his Department providing to victims of domestic abuse.

      Independent Monitoring Boards: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of recruitment challenges to Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB); what steps he plans to take to...

      Prisons: Visits

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of prisons have resumed family days following the covid-19 outbreak.

      Gambling: Suicide

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing coroners to record gambling addiction as a relevant factor to a death by suicide.

      Coroners: West Midlands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of waiting times for investigations to be made by the Birmingham and Solihull Coroner Service.

      Coroners: Perinatal Mortality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the independent maternity review chaired by Donna Ockenden, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of...

      Prison Officers: Cost of Living

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what additional targeted support his Department is providing to prison officers struggling with living costs.

      Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help protect victims of domestic abuse when non-molestation orders have been breached and offenders have up to 28...

      Victim Support Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Victim Liaison Officers are employed by the HM Prison and Probation Service.

      Prisons: Dictionaries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners (a) requested and (b) received a requested dictionary in the last 12 months; and what the rules are for the provision of dictionaries...

      Prisoners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in the adult estate are under 21 years of age.

      Prisoners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the prison population that will be aged 18-21 in each of the next five years.

      Prisoners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown by age group of all prisoners in England and Wales.

      Prisoners: Self-harm and Suicide

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on levels of (a) self-harm and (b) suicide among prisoners held under...

      Prisoners' Release: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to extend the scheme supporting prison leavers at risk of homelessness into temporary basic accommodation to all 12 National Probation...

      Magistrates Courts: Pre-sentence Reports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of cases before magistrates’ courts are sentenced without a pre-sentence report.

      National Probation Service for England and Wales: Surveys

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the results of the most recent survey of probation staff as carried out by the Annual Civil Service People Survey.

      Victim Support Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases are held under the victim contact scheme.

      Offender Assessment System

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the usefulness of assessments made under the Offender Assessment System in probation.

      Probation: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to introduce additional clinical supervision for probation officers.

      Prison Sentences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of steps to re-sentence prisoners currently serving a sentence of Imprisonment for public protection.

      HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Common Platform on the number of roles at Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service.

      Crown Court and Magistrates' Courts: Trials

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) Crown court and (b) Magistrates court trials in each of the last three years have been ineffective due to (i) the prosecution not being...

      Self-harm: Internet

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a new offence for (a) encouraging or (b) assisting serious self-harm in the new...

      Spiking: Alcoholic Drinks

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for drink spiking-related offences in the West Midlands in the last three years.

      Magistrates: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to assist the recruitment and retention of magistrates.

  • Treasury

    • Research: Tax Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the statement on page 31 of the Spring Statement that the definition of R&D for tax reliefs will be expanded by clarifying that pure...

    • Health and Social Care Levy: Publicity

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions (a) he or (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with HMRC about the advice issued to employers to add the message, 1.25 per cent...

      Taxation: Domicil

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he took to avoid a conflict of interests when considering changes to tax rules for non-domiciled residents.

      Health and Social Care Levy

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he approved the HMRC guidance, Prepare for the Health and Social Care Levy, issued on 31 January 2022 and last updated on 7 February 2022.

      Health and Social Care Levy

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money HM Treasury will receive this year from the National Insurance increase in financial year 2022-23; and how much funding will be allocated to...

      Corporation Tax

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has held discussions with (a) officials in his Department, (b) Cabinet colleagues and (c) relevant stakeholders on the global minimum corporate...

      Taxation: Domicil

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has attended policy discussions with officials in his Department on (a) the non-domicile status of taxpayers, (b) the treatment of foreign...

      Taxation: Russia

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Russians have been denied non-domiciled tax status in each of the last ten years.

      Self-employment Income Support Scheme

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to support self-employed workers facing (a) financial hardship or (b) bankruptcy due to tax repayments on SEISS grants.

      Revenue and Customs: Newcastle upon Tyne

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who owns the freehold for the Benton Park View site in Newcastle upon Tyne that is used by HMRC.

      Energy: Housing

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the European Commission on the application of changes to VAT for the installation of energy saving materials in Northern...

      Health and Social Care Levy: Off-payroll Working and Self-employed

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Health and Social Care Levy on the earnings of (a) freelance and (b) other off-payroll workers.

      Self-employment Income Support Scheme

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2022 to Question 127486 on Self-employment Income Support Scheme, if he will direct HMRC to accept payment...

      Taxation: Russia

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Russians sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Sanctions regime have claimed non-domiciled status in the UK.

      Energy: Housing

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the number of EU member states that are currently enabling reduced VAT treatment of the installation of energy saving materials.

      Fuels: Excise Duties

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the 5 pence fuel duty reduction has been passed on to consumers.

      UK Government Investments: Staff

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April to Question 148084, for what reason his Department's contract with Health Management Ltd., tendered through procurement...

      Offshore Industry: Taxation

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact and merits of introducing windfall tax on gas and oil producers.

      Car Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the rate per mileage allowance for for persons using their own vehicle for business use.

      Cost of Living: Disability

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take further steps to support disabled people with (a) energy price increases and (b) the increased rate of inflation.

      Treasury: USA

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's transparency data on ministerial travel published on 31 March 2022, who paid for the cost of his (a) flights and (b)...

      Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse for financial year 2022-23 of postponing for 12 months the inflation-linked increases in...

      Soft Drinks: Taxation

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy on the finances of affected companies.

      Car Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will amend the HMRC £4000 upper threshold cap on travel costs in response to recent increases to the cost of travel.

      Car Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with HMRC on ensuring that travel reimbursement costs reflect the cost of travel in the context of rises in fuel costs.

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support his Department has provided to families in response to recent increases in gas and electricity prices.

      Fossil Fuels: Taxation

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government plans to take to help mitigate the loss of revenue from taxation on fossil fuels in the next 20 years.

      Treasury: Disclosure of Information

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a leak inquiry has been commissioned by his Department into the source of media reports on 21 March 2022 revealing data on the UK’s debt...

      Business Travel: Electric Vehicles

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made on the potential merits of increasing the reimbursement of business travel in fully electric company cars.

      Royal Mint: Non-fungible Tokens

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of creating the Royal Mint non-fungible token; and if he will provide a breakdown of that cost by...

      Pensions: Tax Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has been raised in each of the last five years as a result of the pensions annual allowance tax charge from (a) defined contribution and...

      Economic Crime

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the Treasury Committee's Economic Crime Report published on 2 February 2022; what assessment he has made of (a) the potential...

      Children: Day Care

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to increase the Tax Free Child Care cap in response to the rising cost of childcare.

      Child Benefit

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish data on the proportion and number of child benefit payment recipient families by gender of claimant for each year from 2009 to 2018...

      Credit

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the level of reliance on consumer credit borrowing for essential household purchases.

      NHS: Cost Effectiveness

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March to Question 146546 on Health and Social Care Levy, if he will take steps to ensure that the NHS also reports regularly...

      Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to mitigate the effects of the declining number of free-to-use ATMs in Birmingham.

      Child Benefit

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish data on the proportion and number of Child Benefit families that have opted out of receiving child benefit payment by gender of the...

      Banks: Closures

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to mitigate the effects of bank branch closures in Birmingham.

      Public Finance: Wales

      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 Wales.

      Individual Savings Accounts

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to increase the property price cap for Lifetime ISAs in line with the rate of inflation.

      Military Aid: Ukraine

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money he has allocated for military support for Ukraine as of 14 April 2022.

      Public Finance: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of provisions included in the Spring Statement 2022 on Northern Ireland.

      Social Services: Finance

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will commit to allocating funding for early intervention, such as early help and family support services, to the same level that funding...

      Cost of Living

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate the Government has made of the basic cost of living for a family comprised of one adult and two children.

      Dormant Assets Scheme

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps is he taking to claim orphan funds through the Dormant Assets Scheme.

      Credit

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of inflation on the growth in consumer credit borrowing.

      Fossil Fuels

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the level of final support provided by UK banks for new oil and gas projects.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much of the £25 million match-funding to the DEC Appeal has been disbursed to date.

    • Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support the Government is providing to Ukraine for dismantling and countering the effect of Russian...

      Three Seas Initiative

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans her Department has for the UK to develop and undertake a leadership role within the Three Seas Initiative.

      Europe: Security

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

      International Law: Sanctions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what criteria she will use to determine when to apply sanctions to countries in breach of international law.

      Russia: Sanctions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of sanctions on the Russian economy.

      Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Visits Abroad

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her declaration of ministerial travel published on 31 March 2022 whether the total cost to the...

      Mubarak Bala

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department plans to send observers to the trial of Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association...

      Mubarak Bala

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the continued detention of Mubarak Bala,...

      Nigeria: Abduction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has made representations to the Government of Nigeria regarding those abducted from train...

      Sanctions: Civil Proceedings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the Government's policy is on individuals subject to sanctions pursuing legal action in the UK courts.

      India: Rohingya

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the accuracy of reports that Rohingya refugees are being returned to...

      Pooja Kumari

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the case of Pooja Kumari, an 18 year old...

      Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Aviation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to her Department’s declarations of ministerial travel, whether the share of the travel costs...

      Iran: Nuclear Power

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the statement by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General on 3 March...

      Democratic Republic of Congo: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the new UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Democratic...

      Libya: Visits Abroad

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Nawasi Brigade had any involvement in the then Foreign Secretary's visit to Tripoli in May 2017.

      Somaliland: Fires

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help support Somaliland following the recent fire in Hargeisa.

      Arms Trade: Sanctions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including a clause in the UK Sanctions List on...

      Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any funding for the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda will be funded through the...

      Lewa Wildlife Conservancy: Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has provided financial assistance to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.

      Lewa Wildlife Conservancy: Duke of Cambridge

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, on what occasions the Duke of Cambridge has visited Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.

      Tigray: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the government of Ethiopia on the benefits for humanitarian access of the...

      Tigray: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the humanitarian situation in Tigray; and what steps her...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the £100.4 million of ODA spent on donating excess vaccines to developing countries in...

      Russia: Financial Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support is being offered to UK nationals who have the majority of their funds in Russian bank accounts in the...

      Russia: Diplomatic Service

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government has plans to expel personnel from the Russian Embassy in the UK.

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Afghanistan: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 115842 on Afghanistan: Refugees, how many Afghans with confirmed eligibility for relocation to...

    • Nato

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a centre for democratic resilience within NATO HQ; and if he will make a statement.

      Army: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the full cost of training a regular army recruit undertaking phase one basic training, including (a) staff, (b)...

      Military Aircraft

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of (a) the UK's defence sovereign capability and (b) European defence sovereign capability in relation to rotary aircraft.

      Ajax Vehicles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what other responsibilities and duties the SRO for the Armoured Cavalry Programme has outside of the Ajax Programme; and how much of their time each of...

      Ajax Vehicles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date his Department expects the Government Furnished Equipment Combat Mk II headset upgrade will be (a) in service with the Army and (b) fully...

      Maritime Patrol Aircraft

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the UK's sovereign defence capability in relation to Maritime Patrol Aircraft.

      Artillery: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made on the Mobile Fires Platform programme; and when the procurement process is planned to commence.

      Air Force and Army: Teesside International Airport

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which landing slots are reserved by the (a) Army and (b) RAF at Teeside International Airport.

      Radioactive Materials: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many safety improvement notices have been issued by the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator in each year since 2010.

      Artillery: Armoured Fighting Vehicles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Mobile Fires Platform programme is planned to focus on certain types of armoured vehicles.

      Veterans UK: Complaints

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints submitted to Veterans UK have been transferred to the (a) Head and (b) Assistant Head of Veterans UK in each year in the last five years.

      Veterans UK: Complaints

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the number of complaints submitted to Veterans UK in each of the last five years, by reason for or topic of complaint.

      Veterans UK: Complaints

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of complaints submitted to Veterans UK have been transferred to the Customer Relations Team in each of the last five years.

      Veterans UK: Complaints

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints have been submitted to Veterans UK in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) per 100,000 veterans residing in the UK.

      Armed Forces: Sexual Offences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the levels of military initiation rituals which humiliate and sexually abuse serving personnel.

      Armed Forces: Offences against Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what data his Department collects on the number of Armed Forces personnel with adverse childhood experiences.

      Armed Forces: Sexual Offences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of sharing records of convicted perpetrators of military sexual assault with civilian...

      Armed Forces: Sexual Offences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will respond to the recommendations listed in the 2021 Forward Assist Privileged Access Interview Report entitled, El Hombre...

      Armed Forces: Sexual Offences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what specialist support his Department provides for men in the Armed Forces who have reported sexual assaults during (a) initiation ceremonies and (b)...

      Leidos: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has paid to Leidos for the operation of the Logistics, Commodities and Services Transformation Programme in each year since 2015.

      AWE: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has paid to AWE Management Ltd under the Atomic Weapons Establishment management and operation contract in each year since 2000.

      Defence Business Services: Blackpool

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 April 2022 to Question 148053, on Defence Business Services: Blackpool, which other sites were considered; and if he will...

      Defence Business Services: Blackpool

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 April 2022 to Question 148050, on Defence Business Services: Blackpool, whether the business case has been put before the...

      Ministry of Defence: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many senior personnel in his Department have applied for clearance from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments for positions with Capita in...

      Defence Equipment: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 9 of the NAO's Equipment Plan 2021 to 2031, what plans his Department has to achieve £7 billion in planned cost reductions...

      Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a breakdown of funding from the public purse allocated to the maintenance of the UK's Mastiff fleet since 2015.

      Ukraine: Challenger Tanks

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has (a) undertaken or (b) plans to undertake an urgent assessment of the Challenger 3 upgrade programme in the context of the...

      Ministry of Defence: Buildings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the £500 million allocated to preventative maintenance for the Defence Estate in preventing further...

      Army: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total accommodation cost to the Army for infantry personnel was in each year since 2010.

      Antiship Missiles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total serviceable UK stock is of Harpoon missiles of any mark.

      A400M Aircraft and Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the planned equipment investments for (a) A400M and (b) F-35b will be delegated to the RAF's TLB.

      Ministry of Defence: Capita

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide details of all contracts which his Department holds with Capita, broken down by (a) value, (b) commencement date and (c) estimated...

      Military Bases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made for the implications of his policies of the National Audit Office, Optimising the defence estate, published in June 2021.

      RAF Lakenheath: Nuclear Weapons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the underground storage vaults at RAF Lakenheath are being upgraded (a) generally and (b) specifically to allow the storage of B61-12 nuclear...

      Ukraine: Armed Conflict

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has been placed on war footing in response to the invasion of Ukraine; and whether his Department is on war footing as of 19...

      Army: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is still his policy to reduce the Army to 73,000 trained regulars as set out in his policy paper, Future Soldier: Transforming the British...

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral statement to the House of 9 March 2022 on Ukraine, whether the Government has successfully delivered the consignment of...

      Nuclear Weapons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what data his Department holds on whether the special weapons referred to in the US's 2023 Defense Budget request for infrastructure investment at a...

      Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Prime Minister’s speech on action to tackle illegal migration on 14 April 2022, how many existing Royal Navy vessels will be...

      Kenya: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the relationship between the British Army Training Unit Kenya and the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya is.

      Army: Costs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November to Question 73729, what recent estimate he has made of the average cost to the British Army of employing an...

      Ministry of Defence: Civil Servants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants in his Department work on (a) press, media relations and communications, (b) policy, (c) social media engagement and (d) strategy.

      Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the debate on War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Payments, on 28 March 2022, Official Report, c 654-74, whether he has...

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) strategic framework or (b) other protocol his Department has developed for the comprehensive replenishment of arms and material stocks...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will remove the five-week wait time for universal credit in the context of the increases in the cost of living.

    • Personal Independence Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average response time for answering personal independence payment new claims calls was in each month from December 2021 to March 2022.

      Social Security Benefits: Tribunals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact on the finances of personal independence payment and employment support allowance claimants of...

      Social Security Benefits: Deductions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of temporarily pausing deductions from benefits to repay Government debt, such as benefit...

      Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom of Information

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2022 to Question 147025, which Minster took the decision to withhold the Prime Minister’s...

      Universal Credit Complex Needs Steering Group

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2022 to Question 147022 on Universal Credit Complex Needs Steering Group, for what reason her Department...

      Universal Credit: Self-employed

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many self-employed claimants who claimed universal credit for the first time between 30 March 2020 and 31 July 2021 were subsequently...

      Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2022 to Question 113786 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Assessments, what progress her Department...

      Access to Work Programme: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on the annual award renewal of the Access to Work Scheme.

      Industrial Health and Safety: Immunosuppression

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will take steps to encourage employers to carry out covid-19-specific health and safety risk assessments in the workplace to...

      Social Security Benefits: Uprating

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will increase (a) personal independence payment (b) disability living allowance and (c) universal credit in line with inflation.

      State Retirement Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the reduction in claims for child benefit since August 2012 on entitlement to the...

      State Retirement Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department does not allow full backdating of state pension credits for non-working claimants who claim child benefit late.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Glasgow East to the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work...

      Cold Weather Payments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for cold weather payments to include people who...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she will respond to the correspondence of 8 December 2022 from the hon. Member for High Peak, reference RL31129.

      Department for Work and Pensions: Redundancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there will be any redundancies following the closure of the offices in her Department's estate from which staff will not be relocated...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department will respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, emailed on 4 February 2 March and 22 March 2022,...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she will reply to the letters from the Member for Weston-super-Mare of 14 January and 24 February 2022 on behalf of my...

      Children: Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of child maintenance arrangements were unpaid in (a) February 2022 and (b) March 2022.

      Social Security Benefits: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) officials in her Department and (b) Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of a temporary...

      Social Security Benefits: Tribunals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of tribunals for employment support allowance and personal independence payment...

      Social Security Benefits: Appeals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of mandatory reconsiderations for employment support allowance and personal...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Electronic Cigarettes: Recycling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential for single-use vaping pens to be recycled including (a) plastic body, (b)...

    • Plastic Bags: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a legal obligation on retailers to donate all revenues...

      Asbestos: Landfill

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the amount of asbestos sent to landfill.

      Air Pollution: Greater London

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will require developers of construction sites to conduct detailed air quality monitoring to assess compliance with...

      Inland Waterways: Access

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many projects have been brought forward through the Farming in Protected Landscapes and Green Recovery Fund to improve...

      Environment Act 2021

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to tackle potential concerns that the consultation on the UK Environment Act lacked critical...

      Inland Waterways: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government has undertaken an assessment of the cost of (a) maintaining and (b) improving the resilience of the...

      Water: Pollution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review whether the requirement in The Bathing Water Regulations 2013 that sampling must be carried out between 15...

      Trees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the differences between (a) arboriculture and amenity trees and (b) forestry and woodland.

      Food Supply

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to safeguard food security.

      Trees: Professions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department provides to the tree officer profession in the arboricultural sector.

      Air Pollution: Greater London

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he will take steps to give powers to the London Assembly to regulate Non-Road Mobile Machinery, in response to the...

      Air Pollution: Monitoring

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he took to ensure continuity in the real-time publication of monitoring data for particulate matter, PM2.5 and...

      Trees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the role of arboriculture in achieving the UK’s environmental targets.

      Animals: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether people are able to adopt and bring to the UK abandoned animals from the Ukraine.

      Inland Waterways: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish details of the funds allocated for the maintenance of navigable waterways since 2017; and whether he has...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to facilitate entry into the UK for Ukrainian citizens with pets.

      Air Pollution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage contribution did (a) pollen, (b) sea spray and (c) other naturally occurring sources make to average...

      Air Pollution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what legal maintenance requirements apply to (a) wood-burning stoves, (b) open fireplaces, (c) gas appliances, and (d)...

      Air Pollution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage contribution did (a) pollen, (b) sea spray and (c) other naturally occurring sources make to average...

      Hazards: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to commission research on the flammable items with potential to cause significant damage in the...

      Wood-burning Stoves: Greater London

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he will take steps to give powers to London Authorities to tackle domestic wood burning in the capital, in response...

  • Home Office

    • Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police charges have been made to date for assaults and threats against shop workers and owners that took place in the financial...

    • Prison Sentences: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the report by Hibiscus Initiatives and others, entitled Tackling double disadvantage, published on 22...

      Body Searches: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of strip-searches carried out on children by police forces in England and Wales.

      Police: Vetting

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of police officers waiting for (a) a vetting decision and (b) security clearance to work in roles...

      Police: Vetting

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are police officers working in positions classified as sensitive who do not have the required level of clearance to work in...

      Police: Proof of Identity

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of police warrant cards that are unaccounted for in police forces in England and Wales.

      Post-mortems: EU Law

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the UK's compliance with Recommendation R(99)3 of the Council of Europe on the Harmonisation of...

      Police: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will publish the academic report from Operation Drayfurn.

      Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the costs to the public purse of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda and funding the processing costs for each...

      Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the processing time for asylum seekers and migrants who are sent to Rwanda for processing.

      Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the £120 million economic development program in Rwanda will be paid for using the Official Development Assistance (ODA)...

      Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the carbon footprint resulting from transporting asylum seekers to Rwanda; and what...

      Detention Centres: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ukrainian nationals are being held in Immigration Removal Centres as of 1 April 2022.

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long the average wait for visas applied for under the Homes for Ukraine scheme is as of 1 April 2022.

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pregnant women were allocated visas via (a) the Ukrainian Family Scheme and (b) the Homes for Ukraine scheme as of 1 April 2022.

      Immigration: Veterans

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 23 February 2022, HCWS624, on Outcome of Public Consultation on Settlement Fees for Non-UK...

      Immigration: Veterans

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 23 February 2022, HCWS624, on Outcome of Public Consultation on Settlement Fees for Non-UK...

      Immigration: Veterans

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 23 February 2022, HCWS624, on Outcome of Public Consultation on Settlement Fees for Non-UK...

      CS Todd

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcome was of the equalities impact assessment on disabled people in awarding the contract for Fire Safety Order Guidance to CS Todd.

      Visas

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many holders of Tier 1 investor visas who have been sanctioned have claimed non-domiciled status in the UK in each of the last ten years.

      Animals in Science Regulation Unit

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) the Home Office Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s Change Programme will not...

      Domestic Abuse

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle domestic abuse.

      Antisocial Behaviour

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of police responses to reports of antisocial behaviour.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support Ukrainian refugees.

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on increasing the number of visas granted to people fleeing the war in Ukraine.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of Ukrainian refugees residing in the UK.

      Crime: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle rural crime.

      Police: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on delivering 20,000 new police officers.

      Fraud

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the day-to-day impact of fraud on the general public.

      Domestic Abuse: Victims

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting disaggregated data on incidents of domestic violence by (a) ethnicity...

      Crime: Business

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her departmental data Crime against businesses: findings from the year ending March 2021 Commercial Victimisation Survey...

      Police: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will allocate extra funding to constabularies to deliver in-depth, face to face and role specific disclosure and rebuttable...

      Body Searches: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce new guidance on the use of strip-searches on children.

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will extend or adjust the visas of existing Ukrainian students in the UK whose student visas are due to expire this year.

      Police and Crime Commissioners: West Midlands

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the merits of transferring the responsibilities of the Police and Crime Commissioner for the West...

      UK Visas and Immigration: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are assigned to the UKVI MP Account Manager Team hotline.

      Homelessness: EU Nationals

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the impact of the no recourse to public funds policy on levels of (a) homelessness and (b)...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the position of Northern Ireland to accept and accommodate refugees from Ukraine in the context of the...

      Visas: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration she is giving to changing visa requirements for travel to the UK to enable Russian nationals who are critical of...

      Visas: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the situation of Russian nationals in the UK whose UK visas are soon due to expire, but who are...

      Visas: Belarus and Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will introduce further visa policy concessions for (a) Russian and (b) Belarussian nationals at risk of persecution for speaking...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will take steps to (a) waive all visa requirements and (b) introduce a resettlement scheme for unaccompanied Ukrainian...

      Immigration: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to waive the immigration applications fees for Ukrainian nationals who have leave to remain in the UK as of 17 March 2022.

      Immigration

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the (a) rationale and (b) number of applications in the latest period for which data is available for each definition...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on allocating funding to the NHS for services for...

      Visas: Biometrics

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the number of biometric appointments available in visa application centres in Berlin in the week...

      Birth Certificates

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to allow parents to be listed as the gender neutral category parent or birth-parent on their children's birth certificates.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how his Department will ensure that the Shared Prosperity Fund will maintain Research and Innovation funding at a level...

    • UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Levelling Up White Paper, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the Shared Prosperity Fund will...

      UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether official in his department have held discussions with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive's...

      UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he has taken to engagement with the disability employment sector in Northern Ireland on the Shared Prosperity Fund.

      Regional Planning and Development: Publicity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on advertising for the Levelling Up White Paper; and from which budget funding for that...

      Children: Day Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the cost of childcare on rent arrears and household debt on families with...

      Discretionary Housing Payments: Birmingham

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of reductions to discretionary housing payment on the numbers of people in...

      Social Rented Housing: Overcrowding

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he plans to take over the next 12 months to reduce overcrowding in social housing.

      Social Rented Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he plans to take to enable people to find accommodation in the event that the local housing allowance is...

      Sleeping Rough: West Midlands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to reduce rough sleeping in (a) Solihull constituency and (b) the West Midlands.

      Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding of the New Homes Review 2022, that 64 per...

      Mental Health Services: West Midlands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the number of acute bed spaces available for young people in crisis in Birmingham...

      Leasehold: Ground Rent

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the applications of provisions in the Leasehold Reform...

      Building Regulations: Toilets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what progress his Department has made since December 2021 on gathering of evidence on toilet provision and facilities to...

      Housing: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) challenges disabled (i) renters and (ii) buyers face on the private housing...

      Energy: Conservation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that opportunities to install energy efficiency measures through Government schemes are...

      Local Plans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his Department's policy is on whether a surplus contribution to meeting employment need made by a council through its...

      Local Plans: York

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish a timetable for the inspector's inquiry into York's local plan.

      Second Homes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in the context of high proportions of second homes in some communities, whether he has plans to bring forward proposals to...

      Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of annual profits of housing developers; and what assessment he has made of the potential...

      Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of areas with high levels of development of high cost housing on the cost of...

      Poverty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to tackle the challenges presented by areas of very high housing costs for people in housing poverty.

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Huddersfield

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people under the Homes for Ukraine scheme have settled in the Huddersfield constituency since 24 February 2022.

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether Ukrainians who have fled Ukraine and been granted refugee status in another EU country are still eligible for the...

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Kingston upon Hull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people in (a) the City of Hull and (b) Kingston upon Hull North have registered as sponsors under the Homes for...

      Refugees: Kingston upon Hull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of people who will arrive in the city of Hull under the Ukraine...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Ukrainian refugees have access to community support networks and...

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will publish details of the entire process for the Homes for Ukraine scheme for the (a) applicant and...

      Non-domestic Rates: Valuation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he intends to publish a relief scheme for the 2023 revaluation of business rates; and if he will make a statement.

      Local Government: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2022 to Question 143776, on Gazprom: Local Government, whether he plans to change...

      Council Tax Reduction Schemes: Solihull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding has been allocated to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in the recent Local Council Tax Support...

      River Thames: Freight

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of transporting construction materials and debris via the River Thames...

      National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what discussions the Sponsor Body has had with (a) experts and (b) industry leaders in (i) haulage and (ii) construction...

      National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the construction of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Lord Lebedev

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide a timetable for the publication of the information detailed in the Humble Address motion tabled on 29 March 2022 regarding Lord...

    • Airports: Staff

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the current backlog of security checks required for airport staff to begin employment is.

      Government Departments: ICT

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review the appropriateness of arrangements and guidance on the use of WhatsApp and other electronic communications to conduct Government...

      Treasury: Disclosure of Information

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been as at 19 April 2022 in terms of (a) staff hours and (b) other resources committed to the leak enquiry being...

      United Kingdom Security Vetting: Standards

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has he made of the (a) efficiency and (b) effectiveness of UK Security Vetting.

      Airbus A321: Registration

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons (a) Airbus A321 flight registration G-GBNI was re-painted in UK government livery and (b) Airbus A321 flight registration G-XATW had...

      Public Sector: South Yorkshire

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he could list the (a) national headquarters of government agencies and UK wide or English statutory bodies, (b) other English non-departmental...

      Cabinet: Public Opinion

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) polling services in 2021.

      Public Sector: Conduct

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made on the standards in public life workstream under the Open Government Partnership; when he plans to initiate the...

      Leadership College for Government

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Leadership College for Government will open; and in which locations that College will be based.

      Companies: Human Rights

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2022 to Question 143578, whether the updated guidance in the Public Contracts Regulations will explicitly...

      Coronavirus: Health Education

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent from the public purse on advertisements in local newspapers related to tackling covid-19.

      Government Departments: Local Press

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent from the public purse on advertisements in local newspapers related to the UK's exit from the European Union in each of the...

      Local Broadcasting: Radio

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using community radio stations as a means of promoting national Government...

      Advertising: Contracts

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that independent news publishers have fair and reasonable access to national media advertising contracts,...

      Cabinet Office: Information Officers

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many communications staff are employed by the Department (a) full time (b) part time and (c) on flexible working arrangements.

  • Department for International Trade

    • Overseas Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent assessment she has made of trends in UK (a) export and (b) import levels compared with other economies.

    • Spirits: Exports

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) reducing or (b) removing non-tariff barriers faced by UK spirits exporters.

      Trade Agreements: Gulf States

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what meetings she or her officials have had with NGOs about a future free trade agreement with the Gulf Co-operation Council.

      Department for International Trade: Belfast

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress she has made on establishing a trade and investment hub in Belfast.

      Exports: Arts

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what support her Department provides to specifically support and encourage exports from the creative industries; and if she will make a...

      Spirits: Exports

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of growth potential for UK spirits exports to international markets.

      Trades Union Congress

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, by which date will the Trade Union Congress have a seat on the Trade Advisory Committee.

      Department for International Trade: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if payments under the contract agreed by his Department for the provision of the Export Support Services Contact Centre have been made on an...

      Spirits: Exports

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate her Department has made of the annual value of UK (a) whisky, (b) gin, (c) vodka and (d) rum exports.

      Department for International Trade: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many callers to the Export Support Services Contact Centre took part in customer satisfaction surveys in each month from 1 October 2021...

      Department for International Trade: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of calls answered by the Export Support Services Contact Centre resulted in an agent (a) resolving the caller’s query...

      Department for International Trade: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of calls received by the Export Support Services Contact Centre inside its core operating hours were answered within 30...

      Department for International Trade: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many calls were received by the Export Support Services Contract Centre in (a) February 2022 and (b) March 2022 relating to imports and...

      Arts: Exports

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate she has made of the value of creative industries exports in 2021; and if she will make a statement.

      Department for International Trade: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many callers to the Export Support Services Contact Centre made complaints in each month from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022; and what...

      Department for International Trade: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many calls were received by the Export Support Services Contact Centre inside its core operating hours in each month from 1 October 2021...

      Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: Dispute Resolution

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has sought any legal advice about the ISDS provisions in CPTPP.

      Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many meetings with (a) Ministers and (b) officials in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (i) she and (ii) officials...

      Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has conducted an environmental impact assessment on the potential effect of UK membership of the Comprehensive and...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Chelsea Football Club: Sales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has had any involvement in the proposed sale of Chelsea Football Club.

    • Historic Buildings: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the risk of damage to historic wooden churches near...

      Channel Four Television and Netflix: Streaming

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of Netflix’s loss of 200,000 subscribers and more than...

      Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Aviation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Greening Government Commitments Annual Report, April 2019 to March 2020, published in October 2021 by the...

      Holiday Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to enable local authorities to cap the number of short-term holiday lets in a given area as...

      Cybersecurity: Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking with the Department for Education to promote early years cyber security education.

      Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Information Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many communications staff are employed by her Department (a) full time, (b) part time and (c) on flexible working...

      Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Public Opinion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) polling services in 2021.

      Gamstop

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the results of the GAMSTOP single customer view trial will be made publicly available.

      Gambling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will introduce an affordability system for gambling, incorporating assessments of average bets and average levels of...

      Telephone Systems

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to work with Ofcom to ensure that people who still use landlines after the PSTN switchover process is...

      Channel Four Television: Privatisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the Welsh government on proposals to privatise Channel 4.

      Channel Four Television: Privatisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the ability of Channel 4 to compete with Netflix and Amazon following the privatisation of...

      Channel Four Television: Privatisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps ensure that Channel 4 will commit to implementing programmes similar to the 4Skills scheme once that...

      Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Public Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 131081 on Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Public...

      Holiday Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) the scheme operating in Nice and (b) other French schemes...

      Semiconductor Devices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that UK access to semiconductors is not hindered by lack of domestic production.

  • Prime Minister

    • Employment: Coronavirus

      To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to his oral evidence to the Liaison Committee of 30 March 2022 and his acknowledgment that previous assertions that employment is higher than before the...

  • Cop26

    • Fossil Fuels: Russia

      To ask the President of COP26, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) relevant stakeholders on integrating divestment in Russian supply of oil and gas with COP26...

    • Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask the President of COP26, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Government's proposed transportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda on meeting the UK's COP26 obligations.

  • Women and Equalities

    • Equal Pay

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to review the gender pay gap reporting regulations now that five years have elapsed since they were first implemented.

    • Equal Pay: Gender

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to help encourage businesses to complete horizontal pay audits requiring companies to identify whether there are...

      Alcoholism: Discrimination

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the impact the exclusion of alcohol dependence and other addictions from the protections of the Equality Act 2010 has...

  • Department for Transport

    • Railways: Portsmouth

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much taxpayer funding is being saved per month by having only one fast train per hour on the Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour line rather than the two that were...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Energy: Business

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, given that the energy price cap does not apply to businesses, and that the spot price of natural gas has increased from 47 pence per therm in March 2021 to 296.89...

    • Electrical Goods: Standards

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Callanan on 5 April (HL Deb col 1963), what plans they have to ensure the rapid development of common standards and language...

      Agriculture: Land

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how they expect to reconcile food security and self-sufficiency with plans to install solar panels on agricultural land.

  • Attorney General

    • Prosecutions: Mental Health

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer from Lord Stewart of Dirleton on 1 December 2021 (HL4164), what assessment they have made of the effect waiting that over three...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Hospital Wards: Gender

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to redraft Annex B of the NHS document, Delivering Same-Sex Accommodation, published in September 2019, to implement recommendations...

    • Medical Equipment: Innovation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further the publication by NICE of NICE healthy technology evaluations: the manual on 22 January, how they plan to fast-track any “true innovation”...

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve communication with immunocompromised patients who have not been informed about access to free COVID-19 PCR tests; and...

      Health Professions: Labour Turnover

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the combined impact on NHS retention levels of (1) the rising cost of living, and (2) the increasing numbers of new nurses...

      Diabetes: Health Education

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of patients who joined the Diabetes Prevention programme between 2018 and 2019 failed to complete the course; and what steps they are taking...

      Lord Bethall: Abingdon Health

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Department of Health and Social Care maintains records of any Government business conducted from Ministers' personal phones; whether any such records...

  • Department for Education

    • Schools: Coronavirus

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of schools being told to dispose of COVID-19 testing kits.

    • Citizenship: Education

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to revise the inspection criteria for citizenship education with Ofsted; and what plans they have to publish (1) any correspondence, or...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Prisoners: Gender Recognition

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take in response to the guidance by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on single sex spaces in relation to the prison and probation...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Northern Ireland Protocol

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they had with EU Vice President Maroš Šefčovič in the month of March regarding the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.

    • Indonesia: West Papua

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they will make to the government of Indonesia regarding the statement by UN special rapporteurs on 1 March detailing human rights abuses in...

      Gaza: Israel

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Israel about its reasons for (1) refusing, and (2) delaying, permits for medical treatment for children in Gaza.

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the restrictions imposed by the government of Israel on (1) the movement of Palestinians within Palestinian territories, and (2)...

      Mohammad Shehadeh

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 15 March (HL6555), whether they will now answer the question put, namely, what representations...

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 15 March (HL6555), what assessment they have made of the findings by the Defence for Children in...

      Azerbaijan: Nagorno Karabakh

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Azerbaijan about the importance of adhering to the terms of the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement; and...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Reserve Forces: Medals

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether volunteer reserves serving in (1) the Royal Gibraltar Regiment; (2) the Cayman Islands Regiment, (3) the Turks and Caicos Regiment, (4) the Bermuda...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Local Housing Allowance

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish details of the average gap between the Local Housing Allowance and rents, broken down by (1) local authority, and (2)...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Bread: Sugar

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the legislation to replace the Bread and Flour Regulations will (1) reduce, or (2) ban, sugar added in the making of manufactured bread.

    • Fishing Vessels

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, in light of the sustainability objective in section 2(b) of the Fisheries Act 2020, what steps they will take in order to determine whether current fleet capacity...

      Coral Reefs: British Overseas Territories

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of stony coral tissue loss disease on the (1) economy, (2) biodiversity, and (3) climate resilience, of the UK’s...

      Animals: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the current rabies requirements for Ukrainian animals arriving into (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Northern Ireland, and (4) Wales; and if there are any...

      Biodiversity: British Overseas Territories

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to consider the biodiversity of the UK’s Overseas Territories at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15); and what...

  • Home Office

    • Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend the Ukrainian refugee visa schemes to include temporary places for (1) students, and (2) academics.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Solent Freeport

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they decided to establish Southampton as a freeport whether they had any discussions with AB Ports regarding the powers and charges of Harbour Revision Orders...

    • Freeports

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in the plan deliver at least one freeport in each of (1) Scotland, (2) Wales, and (3) Northern Ireland, as set out in The Benefits of...

  • Cabinet Office

    • EU Law: Northern Ireland

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential divergence in laws and policies between Great Britain and Northern Ireland resulting from the review of EU retained law.

  • Treasury

    • Taxation: Domicil

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reform the taxation of residence and domicile.

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