To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Government's decision not to proceed with the HS2 rail extension to Leeds on commuters from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many purchases of (a) small and (b) large vans have been supported through the plug-in grant in each year since its inception.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the amount spent each year on fuel for diesel-emitting buses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many orders for zero-emission buses purchased through the Government's grant scheme have been placed outside of the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of Guide Dogs’ Scoot Aware report on the impact of e-scooters on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to award a contract for the supply of ministerial cars; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of awarding...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in the context of the proposed reduction in rail service frequency and carriage numbers in London, what estimate his Department has made of the total...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the net cost of the Great British Rail Sale to train operators.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the resilience of the rural...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate capacity in the rural electricity network to support the planned...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses trading between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department is taking to support research and development in Northern Ireland.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many members of staff have left his Department since 12 December 2019.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of dental professionals who have qualified outside the EEA who practice...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the median number of full-time equivalent general practitioners is per 10,000 registered patients in (a) Slough, (b) the South East...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the primary care services that can be delivered by pharmacists.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to help support community pharmacists.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the 62-day cancer waiting times target for first treatment is met.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle the shortage of GPs and other healthcare staff.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to expand the NHS Learning Support Fund to provide financial assistance to international students.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the NHS on ending repayment clauses in contracts for international healthcare workers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to amend the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines for endometriosis on (a) pain management,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2022 to Question 36739 on Endometriosis: Diagnosis and with reference to the Women’s Health...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve women’s access to (a) long-acting reversible contraception and (b) other...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she expects NICE to update its guidelines on endometriosis care and research.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the performance of NHS trusts demonstrated by the latest data available; and what steps he is taking to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations in The Khan review: making smoking obsolete, published 9 June 2022, whether he has had discussions...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meals per day are provided to children who are admitted to a NHS hospital.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made on the impact of Covid-19 on (a) access to contraceptive provision and (b) the availability of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Integrated Care Systems are able to meet the care and support needs of people who have...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the speech entitled Health and Social Care Secretary speech on Health Reform, published by his Department on 8 March...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of resources available to pharmacists to enable them to offer self-care advice in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the 62 day cancer wait data published by the NHS in England includes all cancer patients irrespective of whether they entered the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Action 14 in the England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2022, what steps his Department has taken to ensure equity of access...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support available to help people to manage the rising fuel costs associated...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to NHS hospitals was of using (a) agency staff and (b) bank staff in 2020-21 for each region in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure hospital maternity services are able to offer home births.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the NHS on making the drug Evusheld available for treatment of people with compromised immune systems...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is legal for practitioners who are not GMC-registered to conduct consultations with patients in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward an emergency strategy to ensure that (a) clinically vulnerable, (b) clinically extremely vulnerable, and (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the Stickels, June 2022 BMJ paper on recovering aortic stenosis waiting lists, whether his Department...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NHS England and NHS Improvement to help ensure equality of access to GPs across England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential merits of reforming visa regulations to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were recruited into phase (a) one and (b) two clinical trials supported by the National Institute for Health and Care...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answers of 25 April 2022 to Question 146593 and 28 March 2022 to Question 116906 on Dental Services: South East,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help ensure that Learning Disabled people are aware that they are eligible for the booster...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide £10 million of funding to support DEBRA's drug repurposing programme and to conduct clinical trials...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to support the increased use of stethoscopes in (a) primary care settings and (b) CDCs for the detection of heart...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of how breathlessness clinics will support the (a) the detection of and (b) referral into CDCs for diagnosis...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish the Tobacco Control Plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will publish the Tobacco Control Plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase research into treatments for sickle cell disease.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Executives of NHS Trusts on the availability of (a) grommet and (b) adenoid operations...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government's extra payments to help with the cost of living such as the Energy Bills Support Scheme will be calculated as...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to support residential and nursing homes with the rise in energy costs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many radiographer vacancies there are in (a) Oxfordshire and (b) England as of 2 September 2022; what recent assessment his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors hold a live temporary (a) emergency registration or (b) licence to practise; and how many of those doctors have...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of patients detained under the Mental Health Act spend over 72 hours in a Section 136 suite or other triage units before...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure local authorities are using the Better Care Fund to provide respite for carers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Law Commission's report, Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, published July 2022, if he will implement the Commission's...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the conclusions of his Department's review of the presumption of parental involvement will be published.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of cases there were recorded on the Common Platform where the address for the defendant shared the same postcode as the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing drug rehabilitation programmes within prisons where there are registered drug addicts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of drug rehabilitation programmes in prisons on levels of reoffending.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, why Prevention of Future Deaths Reports have not been published on the Chief Coroner's website since May 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help support Gambia following recent flooding in that country.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the FCDO Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, which states that the temporary increase in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department's 2021 spending review commitments, how much and what proportion of overseas aid...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to reinstate the overseas aid budget to 0.7 per cent of Gross National...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer on 9 December 2021 to Question 85212 on Palestinians: Health Services, whether her...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure access to clean water for (a) midwives and (b) other...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with authorities in Myanmar on the arrest of the UK's former ambassador to Myanmar,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 9 December 2021 to Question 85214 on Gaza: Demonstrations, what estimate her...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the public statement on Twitter from the Russian embassy in the UK issued on 29 July 2022 at...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help bring about a negotiated reunification of Cyprus on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK plans to put forward resolutions on Sri Lanka at the September session of the UNHRC regarding...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the equity of the recruiting process used by the RAF and whether positive discrimination has occurred in this process.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Armed Forces Careers Offices prioritised (a) BAME and (b) female candidates for RAF computer based aptitude tests between 26 October and 23...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reported positive discrimination recruitment practices in the RAF; and if he will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of his Department's capacity to support veteran survivors of military sexual trauma.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the RAF stopped undertaking selection and suitability interviews between December 2020 and March 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Armed Forces personnel have used food banks since January 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will review the policy which excludes the assessment of mitigating factors when automatically rejecting applications, as a result of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many PTSD claims under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme claims process have been delayed for more than (a) a year, (b) two years, (c) four...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a British army centre for urban warfare, similar to the British...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Government has plans to supply Ukraine with anti-radiation medication.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Defence Command Paper published on 22 March 2022, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reversing the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government has received a request from the Ukrainian government for anti-radiation medication.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many principals with confirmed eligibility under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme have not been relocated to the UK for more than...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spends each year on utility bills for the Defence estate.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the upper weight limit is for (a) qualified pilots and (b) other people occupying seats in an RAF F-35B.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the upper weight limit is for (a) qualified pilots and (b) other people occupying seats in RAF Hawk aircraft.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the width of a seat in a Typhoon fighter jet is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of offering the Government of Ukraine support in the training of Ukrainian armed forces personnel...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what further steps the Government is taking to support Ukraine and prevent further Russian advance into Ukraine.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to (a) inform armed forces personnel about monkeypox, (b) reduce transmission of the disease in the armed forces and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases of monkeypox have been diagnosed in armed forces personnel in 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to vaccinate higher risk members of the armed forces against monkeypox.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the letter of 31 May 2022 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire in relation to ESA deductions, reference ZA59073.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current average processing time is for applications for (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) Universal Credit under the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make it its policy to collect data on what sectors Universal Credit claimants work in, including the number of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 11 July 2022 from the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, reference POSCMP2022/53996.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to publish the remedial order on the eligibility criteria for bereavement support payments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she expects that the draft Bereavement Benefits Remedial Order will be laid before Parliament for a second period before December 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans for the Welsh language telephone service to be fully functioning.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unsuccessful applications for Bereavement Support Payments have been made since 2018.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to ensure claims for Pension Credit are processed in a timely manner.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time was for new Pension Credit claims made between 1 March 2022 and 1 September 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recent incident where state pensions paid to UK pensioners living in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of Canada’s recent request to discuss a reciprocal social security agreement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support for pension tracing she is providing to people who are (a) about to retire and (b) unaware of the details of the employers they...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of how much (a) Allied Steel and Wire pensioners have received collectively as of 2 September 2022 and since...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants of disability benefits who miss hospital appointments through being unable to afford to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much and what proportion of the Household Support Fund has been used to help renters pay off rent arrears by (a) region and (b) local...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has any plans to increase the take up of Pension Credit in light of the cost of living crisis.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan citizen refugees have entered the UK since August 2021; and through which schemes or pathways they have been admitted.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce service standards for the processing of asylum applications.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the judgments R (W) v SSHD [2020] EWHC1299 (Admin) of 20 May 2020 and ST and Anor v Secretary of State for the Home...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of female Afghan refugees who arrived in the UK since 15 August 2021 are in full-time education as on 2...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to exempt carriers from section 40 charges under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in relation to EEA...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of Afghan child refugees who arrived in the UK since 15 August 2021 are not in full-time education as on 2...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) permanent, (b) full-time equivalent, (c) agency and (d) other staff were recruited to HM Passport Office in the period between...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) permanent, (b) full-time equivalent, (c) agency and (d) other staff were recruited to HM Passport Office in the period between...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) permanent, (b) fixed term appointment, (c) agency and (d) other staff were working in HM Passport Office on 1 July 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to help create a more effective working relationship with the French Government to reduce deaths and...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to include entry-level permanent roles in the (a) agricultural and (b) horticultural sectors in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 28 June 2022 to Question 23755 on Central Africa: Armed Conflict and 26 July 2022 to Question 30051 on Asylum:...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons asylum seekers would be held at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are held at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre as on 2 September 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of potential risk that people deported to Rwanda under the Migration and Economic Development...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on photography (a) in 2019, (b) in 2020, (c) in 2021 and (d) to date in 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to tackle the recent increase in violence against women in North East London.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to help protect women and girls in (a) the home environment and (b) public places who are at risk of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of beagles being bred for use in laboratory experiments in the UK; and what steps she is taking to...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people awaiting trial for sexual offences charges have been (a) accused of and (ii) charged with further sexual offences during the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the Planning Inspector’s report for the West Cumbria mining planning application.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to reimburse local authorities that experience reduced business rates income following the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the £65 million support package for vulnerable renters announced by his Department on 23 October...

To ask the Minister of the Cabinet Office, whether MOONLIGHTING SYSTEMS LIMITED (a) holds any contracts and (b) has conducted any business with Government departments.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to provide (a) individuals and (b) companies with a certificate of compliance to prove they are IR35 compliant.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to (a) review inheritance policy and (b) increase the annual allowance for gifts.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the public purse of the Trader Support Scheme operated under the Northern Ireland Protocol between 1 January...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the British Medical Association briefing entitled NHS Workforce and the Pension Taxation Crisis, published in June 2022, what assessment...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he make will make it his policy to pause the Financial Services and Markets Bill.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential financial impact on local authorities of maintaining the present Approved Mileage Allowance Payment rate.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the 2022 Commonwealth Games delivers a legacy for people in (a) Newport West...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make representations (a) FIFA and (b) the Football Association and (c) Football Association Wales on the potential...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of legislation on the use of (a) lip syncing and (b) pre-recordings...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the level of support available to volunteers in the event of a workplace dispute.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to make it her policy to bring forward legislative proposals that will enable the Elgin Marbles to be...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide details on the fourth round of the Cultural Development Fund; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that young people can access volunteering opportunities and activities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps the Government has taken to help prevent the theft of dogs in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria, checks and procedures his Department used to decide where to site Automatic Urban and Rural Network units.