Written answers

Friday, 29 July 2022

  • Department for Education

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Africa and Middle East: Visits Abroad

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many overseas visits were undertaken by Ministers from her Department to (a) the Middle East and (b) Africa in...

    • Morad Tahbaz

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when she last made representations to her Iranian counterpart on the case of Morad Tahbaz.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Hospitals: Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide funding for the creation of tier four young peoples' hospitals outside of the South of England.

    • Arthritis: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Inequality of access to advanced therapies for patients with inflammatory arthritis: a postcode...

      Medicine: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Physicians’ 2021 consultant census findings that 52 per cent of advertised consultant posts...

      Chronic Illnesses: Ethnic Groups

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to improve knowledge on identifying and diagnosing conditions that are (a) specific to and (b)...

  • Department for Transport

    • Aviation: Fuels

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how they plan to secure Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) development in the UK.

    • Airports: Standards

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the continued resilience of UK airports for both (1) passengers, and (2) freight operators.

      Airports: Weather

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure airports are resilient to rising temperatures in the UK.

      Airports

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the condition of runways at UK airports and their ability to withstand climate change-related weather conditions.

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Heating: Rural Areas

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have plans to help households in rural communities move away from higher cost fuel sources for heating.

    • District Heating

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures (1) they, and (2) Ofgem, are taking to ensure that homes connected to heat networks are not locked into high fossil fuel heating systems.

      Energy: Conservation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their plans to establish a regulatory framework for heat networks as set out in the Energy Bill [HL], what steps they are taking to ensure that...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Mental Capacity: Payments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish a response to their consultation Mental Capacity Act: Small Payments Scheme, which closed on 12 January.

    • Central Criminal Court: Judges

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of gender balance amongst the judges sitting to hear criminal cases in the Central Criminal Court.

      Protection From Eviction Act 1977: Prosecutions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions have been brought under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 for (1) harassment, and (2) unlawful eviction, by each police force in England...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • South Africa: AfriForum and Community Development

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of South Africa about (1) the activities of AfriForum, and (2) community relations in that country.

    • Ukraine: Development Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much Official Development Assistance funding originally earmarked for other countries has been reallocated to Ukraine.

      Pakistan: Human Rights

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take in response to human rights abuses in Pakistan, particularly against the people of Balochistan; and whether those plans will include the...

      Developing Countries: Sustainable Development

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to undertake a second Voluntary National Review at the UN High-Level Political Forum on the sustainable development goals.

      Pakistan: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they (1) are implementing, or (2) plan to implement, to use (a) Official Development Assistance, or (b) other policies, to address the issues of (i)...

      Iraq: Kurds

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for cooperation on education between the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the UK.

      Hong Kong: Human Rights

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the opinion of Carlos Gomez Martinez, of the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the national security law undermines Hong...

      Hong Kong: Human Rights

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the remarks by the United Nations Human Rights Committee during the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights review on Hong Kong that the...

      Development Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of UK Official Development Assistance funding is allocated on a multi-year basis.

      Hong Kong: Human Rights

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the view of experts from the United Nations Human Rights Committee that Hong Kong's national security law (1) undermines the...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Joint Exercises

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what military exercises they plan to conduct with allies during the rest of this year; and how many British participants will be in each exercise.

    • Joint Exercises

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what military exercises they have conducted with allies so far this year; and how many British participants were deployed.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit: Debts

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they are providing to Universal Credit claimants who are in debt to become debt free.

    • Working Conditions: Temperature

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to set upper-temperature limits for workplaces.

      Universal Credit: Children

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to abolish the two-child cap on claims for universal credit and child tax credit in order to assist families with the increased...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Air Pollution: Monitoring

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to develop the fine particulate matter (PM2.5) monitoring network in order to monitor the progress made towards achieving the air...

    • Climate Change

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to consult with local authorities on a long-term plan for dealing with future climate change events causing (1) extreme heat, and (2) flooding.

      Avian Influenza

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the current outbreak of avian flu on wild bird populations.

  • Home Office

    • Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total number of asylum seekers who have been deported to Rwanda to date.

    • Refugees: Deportation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government which other countries in addition to Rwanda they are considering as destinations to deport refugees from the UK.

      Deportation: Rwanda

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many deportation flights have flown from the UK to Rwanda; and when those flights took place.

      Deportation: Children

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many British citizens who were children were deported in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, and (3) 2021.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Housing: Standards

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to consult on the Decent Homes Standard; and if so, when that consultation will be launched.

    • Private Rented Housing: Evictions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that, with the removal of section 21 evictions in the upcoming Renters Reform Bill, private renters are not forced out of...

      Private Rented Housing

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total (1) number, and (2) proportion, of households in England in the private rented sector in each year since 2017.

      Energy: Housing

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of UK homes have an energy efficiency performance rating of (1) A, or (2) B.

      Private Rented Housing: Evictions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they made (1) to inform their plans for a no-let period of three months, after an eviction for sale, and (2) of whether this is long enough to...

      Private Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what impact assessment they have carried out on proposals to strengthen tenants' rights on the stock of private homes available to rent.

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