Monday, 30 May 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with (a) Network Rail, (b) Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), (c) Transport for London (TfL) and (d) the London Borough of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage major retailers to provide vehicle charging points; and whether he has made an assessment of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing two factor authentication for the booking of driving tests.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2022 to Question 796, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the licensing authority, Transport for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what further discussions he plans in 2022 with his Italian counterpart to help ensure that UK citizens, resident in Italy before the end of 2020, will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Freeport East on demand for rail freight transport in the East of England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with his Italian counterpart on helping to ensure that UK citizens, resident in Italy before the end of 2020, can exchange...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking with local transport authorities to ensure the provision of a sheltered area at each bus stop in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is Department's policy that the short list for the Great British Railways competition will be announced and there will be a Ministerial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the matrix used to assess bids when he publishes the shortlist for Great British Railways; and if he will provide feedback to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Great British Railways headquarters is located, whether he plans to move a proportion of his Department's staff to that location.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government supports the delivery of the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme; what financial settlement the Government plans to award Network...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Govia Thameslink Railway on restoring rail services to pre-pandemic levels, especially during peak hours, to and from...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Govia Thameslink Railway on the (a) safety concerns regarding the gap between the train and the platform and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the British Geological Survey's short report on shale gas fracturing and the modelling of seismic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he expects the First-tier Tribunals for Green Deal scheme complaints to be concluded.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2022 to Question 344, on Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme, if he will publish the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of A&E service provision for children in Southport.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost of storing PPE in warehouses during the period from April 2021 to May 2022; and whether his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, made on 2 December 2021, whether he plans to repeal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the vaccination options available to prevent the spread of monkeypox.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2022 to Question 151279, on Evusheld, how long the Antivirals and Therapeutics Taskforce or its...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the average level of physical activity in Ipswich and other local authority areas in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the offer of a fourth covid-19 booster jab to people diagnosed with long...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend (a) Healthy Start and (b) free school meals to everyone who receives Universal Credit; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make Healthy Start vouchers available to families with no recourse to public funds; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend eligibility for Healthy Start Vouchers by extending the age limit by one year to cover children...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to help ensure that people with lower incomes have access to foods rich in vitamin D.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of vitamin D deficiency on people at high risk from covid-19 in the event that they contract...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to raise awareness of the Government recommendation to take a vitamin D supplement in the autumn and winter months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of endometriosis clinics in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) private and (b) NHS dentists across the country broken down by Clinical...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on increasing diagnosis rates for dementia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will commission a full independent inquiry into her Department's handling of the cases of Nazanin Zaghari...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with her Chilean counterpart on political stability in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has targets for reducing levels of (a) violence and (b) violent deaths as part of her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support elected women in parliaments overseas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact her Department’s International Development Strategy on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of pairing British towns and cities with those in Ukraine and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to support British citizen Alaa Abd El-Fattah who is imprisoned and on hunger...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the severe drought episode in the East and Horn of Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of levels of food insecurity affecting people in the Sahel region of Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate she has made of the level of funding allocated to the Sahel region from the Official Development...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Family Justice Panel report, Assessing risk of harm to children and parents in private law children cases, updated on 5 August...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) lift the mileage rates limit for public sector workers who are required to use their vehicle to do their jobs and (b) increase the approved...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people of state pension age who will not be eligible for the £150 council tax rebate because they live in...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the Marriage Allowance.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to reduce the tax burden on families.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2022 to Question 869 on Child Benefit, if his Department will (a) make and (b) publish an assessment of the potential...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Scottish Government has received in Barnett consequentials as a direct result of the London Crossrail Project; whether that project has been...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a real terms pay increase for public sector workers.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reintroducing the cost control mechanism for public service pensions.
To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, with reference to Figure 10 of the report entitled Independent Review of Lowest Income Communities funding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to make available to Parliament through life capability road maps, referred to on p18 of the Land Industrial Strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the 2021 report of the RFCA External Scrutiny Team was received by his office; and when he plans to publish it.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants were interviewed for the post of Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department undertook an equality impact assessment on the migration of claimants from legacy benefits to Universal Credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what means her Department is contacting claimants on legacy benefits who are due to move to Universal Credit; what support is in place to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of how many claimants who are expected to move from legacy benefits to Universal Credit will consequentially...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have been employed in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available, broken down by directorate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to strengthen the social safety net to support households in the context of the rising cost of living.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the take up rate of Pension Credit in (a) Flintshire and (b) Wales; and what steps her Department is taking to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to mitigate the risk of flooding throughout Shrewsbury in the short and medium term, in the context...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect the areas of Shrewsbury’s town centre, Coton Hill, Coleham, and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has had recent discussions with Durham County Council on funding to reduce pollution in the river Wear.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to mark Clean Air Day 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who (a) are the children of unmarried parents from the British Overseas Territories and (b) have sought to claim citizenship...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she intends to use seized Russian assets frozen under sanctions for the benefit of victims in Ukraine.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that people who are under investigation for rape are monitored to prevent (a) further attacks...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that cases of emotional abuse are afforded the same priority as physical abuse cases.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how an hon. Member may make a request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 for environmental sustainability reports made by MI5.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to implement the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union C-247/20 VI on 10 March 2022 on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance the Government has provided to fire authorities on basing operational firefighting decisions on the risks of fire to high rise...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to move civil service jobs to the North West.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of applying further controls to rents in (a) York and (b) other high...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his timeframe is for changing the annual index of park home pitch fees from the Retail Price Index to the Consumer...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to support co-freeholders who are prevented from selling their property and share of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he expects the second part of the Government’s leasehold reform legislation to be brought forward.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether resettled Afghans who reject two offers of accommodation will be considered intentionally homeless or will still...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to reform the private rented sector and help strengthening renters’ rights; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding was provided to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council through his Department's Local Council Tax Support...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what conditions are typically linked to a loan issued by the Public Works Loan Board to a local authority to carry out...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to incorporate the Community Housing Fund into the Affordable Homes Programme; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the decision set out in a departmental communication to stakeholders dated 11 May 2022 not to renew the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the number of developers who have not signed the Government’s building safety...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when will he will respond to the Bacon Review into scaling up self-build and custom housebuilding published on 21 August 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether a developer is responsible for paying for cladding remediation of a building in a case where it was not the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that commercial leaseholders pay their share of the costs of remediation works on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the number of resident management companies based in blocks requiring (a) cladding...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with (a) his Deputy Chief of Staff and (b) Lynton Crosby on the potential merits of a windfall tax on oil and gas company...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2022 to Question 157459 on Export Credit Guarantees: Iran, whether the £28.4 million debt owed...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many businesses were awarded a grant of between £500 and £999 through the Tradeshow Access Programme in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department has spent on (a) flights and (b) hotel accommodation for visits by (i) officials and (ii) Ministers to the United...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will provide details of her Department’s export support programmes providing financial assistance that are available to British...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of her Departmental staff are based in each region of (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland and can advise...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department will take to ensure that national records of war memorials are accurately maintained.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment has she made of the UK's current ability to protect undersea cables.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of privatising Channel 4 on the independent television sector in (a) Alyn...
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the potential risks to (a) staff and (b) other hon. Members of...
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission has had discussions with (a) the Chair of the Procedure Committee, (b) trade union...
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will make it its policy to establish an inquiry into the potential creation of a mechanism...
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to help reduce regional inequality.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve allergy awareness in (1) educational, and (2) health care, settings.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what periodic review of literature they conduct in respect of the latest scientific evidence on foetal viability.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of allergy services by (1) region, and (2) integrated care system.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Allergy's UK's Patient Charter, published on 5 May; and what steps they will take to support it.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to (1) control infections, and (2) reduce costs, in NHS controlled hospitals.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to permit overseas-born trainee GPs to stay in Britain at the end of their training.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have they made of the impact of the policy set out in the SEND review which makes mediation mandatory before allowing families to go to the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the UK's accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the statement by Cardinal Charles Bo of 14 May, concerning the threat to human rights and religious freedom in Hong Kong; and...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the effectiveness of international sanctions against Russia, and (2) any potential gaps in those sanctions.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the value of the economic support provided to Russia by Chinese state-owned enterprises.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of their ability to redeploy frozen Russian foreign exchange reserves held in the UK for (1) humanitarian, and (2) reconstruction...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to enact secondary sanctions against (1) Chinese state-owned companies, (2) Chinese entities, and (3) individuals, proven to...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest position of sanctions for Belarus.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they monitor the economic support that Russia receives from other countries as part of assessing the effectiveness of sanctions; and if not, what plans...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the judgment by Israel’s High Court on 4 May concerning the eviction of Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to freeze the assets of the Russian Orthodox Church in the UK.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to impose sanctions on (1) Patriarch Kirill, and (2) other bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, who have supported (a) President Putin, and...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the planned procurement costs of the Tempest programme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a sixth generation manned fighter and its accompanying Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs) would be seen as replacing the F35B in its role as part of...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there is an approved staff requirement for a sixth generation manned fighter; and if so, whether the number of (1) manned aircraft, and (2) supporting...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they have given to Work Coaches for recommending employment requiring in-person attendance to immunocompromised individuals.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by the Department for Work and Pensions Health is everyone's business: Proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss, published in July...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Marie Curie report Dying in Poverty, published in May.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made with the roll-out of Local Nature Recovery Strategies.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to publish in full the recommendations at a species level from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee arising from the 7th...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to implement the recommendations of the Landscapes review: National Parks and AONBs led by Julian Glover.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of (1) the incidence, and (2) aggregate cost to victims, of online fraud; and what assessment they have made of the success of (a) the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what (1) resources, and (2) processes, they have in place to conduct due diligence on visa applications in relation to (a) national security, and (b) illicit...
To ask Her Majesty's Government why they consider that the QEII Conference Centre is unsuitable accommodation for the House of Lords; and what evidence they have for this.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of awarding housing association tenants capital to buy in the private sector rather than allowing such tenants to buy their...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they plan to give to the promotion of municipal bonds to enable residents to invest in local initiatives to reduce the impact of climate change.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a requirement to deliver biodiversity net gain will be obligatory for planning decisions under the proposed Levelling up and Planning legislation.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Greenhalgh on 28 April (HL7965), how many applications for the Community Right to Bid have been received for local...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Infrastructure and Projects Authority has produced any analysis on their social care reforms; and if so, whether this analysis will be published.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of the 91,000 civil service jobs that they intend to cut are based in the Home Office.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to impose a one-off windfall tax on oil and gas producers' profits.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of international efforts so far to deliver the Glasgow Climate Pact.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that negotiations under the Glasgow Dialogues result in a financial facility for (1) loss, and (2) damage, relating to climate...
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