Written answers

Thursday, 4 August 2022

  • Home Office

    • Rescue Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a responsibility to support Mountain Rescue teams alongside the other emergency services.

    • Home Office: Aviation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.

      Home Office: Advertising

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

      Home Office: Public Relations

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Home Office has spent on communications and public relations agencies in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.

      Home Office: Legal Costs

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Cancer: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of joint working between the (a) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,...

    • Community Diagnostic Centres: Medical Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the community diagnostic centres operating in England are equipped with diagnostic equipment purchased in...

      Community Diagnostic Centres: Tomography

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) CT, (b) MRI, (c) X-ray, and (d) PET machines his Department plans to purchase to support the expansion of community...

      Community Diagnostic Centres: Medical Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to upgrade equipment in community diagnostic centres.

  • Department for International Trade

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Gambling: Mental Health

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take in response to the recommendations set out in the ‘Prevention of Future Deaths Report’ issued after the inquest of Jack...

    • Health Services: Males

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made on the development of a Men’s Health Strategy.

      Pharmacy: Finance

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to provide funding for the implementation of a National Minor Ailments Scheme to be operated by community pharmacies and pharmacists.

  • Department for Education

    • Children: Day Care

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many parents claimed (1) tax free childcare payments, (2) the universal 15 hours free childcare offer for three and four year olds, and (3) the extended...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Autonomous Weapons: Treaties

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their policy paper Ambitious, Safe, Responsible: Our approach to the delivery of AI enabled capability in Defence, published on 15...

    • Autonomous Weapons

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their policy paper Ambitious, Safe, Responsible: Our approach to the delivery of AI enabled capability in Defence, published on 15 June,...

      Autonomous Weapons: Ethics

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their policy paper Ambitious, Safe, Responsible: Our approach to the delivery of AI enabled capability in Defence, published on 15 June, what...

      Armed Forces: Pastoral Care

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Goldie on 13 July (HL1351), what proportion of those using chaplaincy provided by their service identified as...

      Defence: Artificial Intelligence

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, whether they will publish an annual list of all AI defence programmes they are working on, including the stage of implementation and the budget for each programme.

      Defence: Artificial Intelligence

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their policy paper Ambitious, Safe, Responsible: Our approach to the delivery of AI enabled capability in Defence, published on 15 June, what steps...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Flood Control: Somerset Levels

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the preparedness of flood defences in the Somerset levels and marshes for winter 2022–23.

    • African Swine Fever

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the current risk level of African swine fever for the UK.

  • Home Office

    • British Nationality: Assessments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much has been paid out in refund requests after people submitted a 'Life in the UK' test (1) refund request, or (2) complaint form, since March 2014.

    • British Nationality: Assessments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 19 July (HL1506), whether the 'Life in the UK' test includes any questions about...

      Asylum

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 11 July (HL1285), what assessment they have made of (1) the number of asylum seekers attracted...

      Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 11 July (HL1285), whether they consider as a matter of policy that all asylum seekers travelling...

      Visas: Dependants and Married People

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the current waiting times for (1) spousal, and (2) dependant, visa applications.

  • Northern Ireland Office

    • Cost of Living: Northern Ireland

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the increased cost of living in Northern Ireland in the absence of a functioning Executive that could...

  • Department for International Trade

    • Trade Promotion: Prime Minister

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the criteria for selecting the countries to which the Prime Minister has appointed trade envoys; and when all national priority countries will have trade...

  • Cop26

    • Climate Change Convention: Egypt

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken, if any, to ensure that delegates to the COP27 conference in Sharm el Sheik are able to travel by land/sea routes and otherwise minimise...

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