Written answers

Tuesday, 27 September 2022

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • District Heating: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish additional detail on his Department's fund for support people on heat networks.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Protective Clothing: Storage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions since 1 January 2022 has (a) he or (b) his predecessor received requests from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to...

    • Addenbrookes Hospital: Cancer

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to support the construction of new (a) children’s and (b) specialist cancer hospitals at...

      Hospitals: Hertfordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timescale is for delivery of a new hospital in West Hertfordshire.

      Hyperactivity: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that patients who require treatment for Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and...

      Allergies: Medical Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of supply of EpiPen/epinephrine; and what steps his Department takes to help ensure...

      Coronavirus: Immunosuppression

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) improve the effectiveness of and (b) increase access to Covid-19 treatments for people...

      Southend Hospital NHS Trust: Capital Investment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much new capital funding has been made available for capital works at Southend Hospital as of 6 September 2022; what his planned...

      Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help evaluate future effectiveness of prophylactic covid-19 treatments.

      Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of access to antiviral treatments for people who are acutely vulnerable to...

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish national guidelines for the prescription of Evusheld.

      Darent Valley Hospital

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the ONS publication entitled How the population changed in Dartford: Census 2021, published on 28 June 2022, if he will...

      Gastrointestinal System: Diseases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of patients with (a) chronic and (b) benign bowel conditions waiting for long...

      NHS: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to help improve the energy efficiency of (a) NHS buildings and (b) other healthcare facilities.

      Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the salary bands are for the (a) Interim Chief Executive, (b) Chief Financial Officer, (c) Chief Operating Officer, (d) Managing...

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the findings to date from the Department's review of the efficacy of Evusheld.

      Diagnosis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2021 to Question 85238 on Diagnosis, when he plans to publish NHS England’s evaluation report...

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish (a) the full clinical and scientific advice that his Department received on Evusheld and (b) his Department's...

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has (a) met and (b) plans to meet any campaign groups to discuss the provision of Evusheld.

      Department of Health and Social Care: EU Law

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials in their Department are working on Retained EU Law legislation.

      Doctors: Workplace Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the British Medical Association on the (a) level of taxation of and (b) annual...

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons his Department has not made Evusheld available to immunocompromised people; and if he will make a statement.

      Doctors: Workplace Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of inflation on the pension (a) scheme and (b) annual allowance for NHS doctors.

      NHS: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the average pay of NHS staff working in (a) Newham and (b) Tower Hamlets.

      Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding her Department has made available to Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to help tackle health...

      NHS Digital: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total budget is for NHS Digital in (a) the 2022-23 financial year and (b) in each of the last five years.

      Department of Health and Social Care: India

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department were based permanently in (a) Gujarat, (b) Delhi and (c) other states in India in...

      Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for a person arriving at an emergency department in the (a) UK, (b) London Borough of Havering and (c)...

      Junior Doctors: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the 2022-23 salary increase for trainee doctors at levels ST6 and above will commence.

      Queen's Hospital Romford: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will commission an independent review of waiting times at Queen’s Hospital in Romford.

      Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process is undertaken by t5he (a) NHS and (b) his Department to evaluate potential future prophylactic covid-19 treatments.

      Barts Health NHS Trust: Patient Choice Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's guidance, The NHS Choice Framework: what choices are available to me in the NHS?, updated 14 January...

      Dentistry: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentistry training places have been funded by Health Education England in each of the last five years.

      NHS Trusts: Taxation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2022 to Question 36694 on NHS Trusts: Apprentices, if he will make it his policy to centrally collect...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letters of 8 July and 8 August 2022 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of his...

      Lung Diseases: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) increasing funding and (b) implementing a strategy for the...

      General Practitioners and Hospitals: Attendance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of missed GP and hospital appointments in (a) England, (b) Romford and (c) the London Borough...

      Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to meet uptake targets for the five highest health gain categories; and who is accountable for...

      Hospitals: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the information her Department holds on instances of GPs attempting to book procedures but are refused as a result of...

      Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average response time was for NHS Covid-19 medicines delivery units to provide antiviral treatments to patients at home in the...

      Health Services: North West

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on tackling backlogs in NHS provision in the North-West as a result of the outbreak of covid-19.

      Strokes: Mechanical Thrombectomy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is her policy that all stroke patients should have access to thrombectomy services.

      Health Professions: Solihull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the provision of healthcare workers in Solihull constituency.

      Long Covid: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to prevent unlicensed private Long Covid clinics from issuing unproven and potentially dangerous treatments.

      Fungi: Infectious Diseases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current level of funding for research into fungal infections is; and what the projected budget for such research is for the next...

      Dental Services: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to bring forward a workforce strategy for the dental sector which includes (a) NHS, (b) mixed and (c) private...

      Infectious Diseases: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, through which consultation process or processes, have (a) relevant stakeholders and (b) members of the public been given the opportunity...

      Rare Diseases: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many whole exome sequencing tests were carried out by the NHS in order to detect rare diseases in individuals in each of the last...

      NHS England: Complaints

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ensure that NHS England deal with complaints and other issues raised with them by hon. Members in a speedy and...

      NHS and Care Workers: Migrant Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of current vacancies within (a) the NHS and (b) the social care workforce the Government expects to be...

      Ambulance Services: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce ambulance handover delays.

      Dental Services: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made for the implications of her policies of the level of recruitment and retention of dentists in Northern Ireland.

      Ambulance Services: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times.

      Strokes: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for stroke patients to be admitted to a stroke unit.

      Ambulance Services: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent (a) steps his Department has taken and (b) research his Department has commissioned to understand the (i) causes and (ii)...

      Ambulance Services: Dorset

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle increased waiting times for ambulances in Dorset.

      Evusheld: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's decision not to procure Evusheld, what steps she will take to help ensure that immunocompromised...

      NHS: Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the accessibility of NHS dentist appointments.

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her Department's policy to not procure Evusheld.

      NHS: Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase access to NHS dentists.

      Cancer: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a tsar role to oversee improvements in cancer services...

      Long Covid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to support people with long covid.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 25 July 2022 from the hon. Member for Sefton Central on the subject of funding for a...

      Medicine: Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of university places for UK medical students.

      Protective Clothing: Storage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) Government officials and (b) officials in her Department are employed to oversee the storage of personal protective equipment.

      Ambulance Services: Ashfield

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact on response times for ambulances in Ashfield and Eastwood of ambulances being sent...

      Trimethylaminuria

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of funding for research into methods for (a) treating and (b) curing...

      Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Life sciences vision published on 6 July 2021, what steps (a) the Government and (b) the NHS plan to take to reduce...

      Paxlovid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doses of Paxlovid procured by the Government are due to reach their expiry date in the next two months.

      Hospitals: Television

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of TV service costs in hospitals for low-income patients.

      Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to expand the number of hospitals providing transcatheter aortic valve implantation for aortic stenosis...

      Doctors: Registration

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September to Question 45643, what data her Department regularly requires from the GMC on the number of...

      Immunosuppression: Ministerial Responsibility

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Minister in her Department will have responsibility for (a) clinically vulnerable, (b) clinically extremely vulnerable and (c)...

      Coronavirus: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will meet with (a) clinically vulnerable, (b) clinically extremely vulnerable and (c) immunosuppressed patient access groups to...

      Ambulance Services: Private Sector

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total spend is by NHS England ambulance trusts on (a) private ambulances and (b) taxis in the each of the last five years.

      NHS Trusts: Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS England Trusts offer pension recycling, in which additional salary is offered in place of employer pension contributions,...

      Brain: Surgery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the longest waiting time was for brain surgery in NHS England in the last 12 months.

      Antimicrobials: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with her international counterparts on the subscription deal for two antimicrobials, cefiderocol...

      Gastrointestinal System: Surgery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of mandatory reporting for NHS Trusts on the (a) number of patients that have stomas...

      Dementia: Clinical Trials

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what further measures she will take to raise awareness of the importance of (a) improving the clinical research infrastructure in the UK;...

      NHS and Care Workers: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS and (b) social care staff have died from covid-19 since 9 March 2020.

      Muscular Dystrophy: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research is being undertaken into the (a) cause of and (b) potential treatments for Distal Myopathy-5 and ADSSL1 Myopathy.

      Cystic Fibrosis: Prescriptions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to provide free prescriptions to people with cystic fibrosis; and if she will consider the potential...

      Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding her Department has made available to Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to tackle care backlogs...

      NHS Digital: Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS Digital has spent on advertisements that raise awareness of serious medical conditions in each of the last three years.

      NHS: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is her policy to allow NHS bodies to invoice a patient for hospital care not excluded from the Charging Regulations prior to...

      Occupational Therapy: NHS England

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many occupational therapists were employed by NHS England in (a) 2010 and (b) 2022.

      Diabetes: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have accessed NHS accident and emergency services with Type 2 diabetes symptoms in each of the last five years.

      Evusheld: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the Government decided not to procure Evusheld.

      NHS: Vacancies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to reduce potential risks to patient safety driving from unfilled NHS job vacancies.

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to extend the availability of Evusheld as a covid-19 prophylactic treatment through clinical trials for...

      Speech and Language Therapy: Vacancies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to address the shortage of speech and language therapists in (a) schools and (b) hospitals.

      Speech and Language Therapy: NHS England

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many speech and language therapists were employed by NHS England in (a) 2010 and (b) 2022.

      Dermatology: NHS England

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dermatologists were employed by the NHS in England in (a) 2017 and (b) 2022.

      Dementia: Clinical Trials

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many phase (a) I, (b) II and (c) III dementia clinical trials have been hosted in England in each of the last ten years; and how many...

      Nurses: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of qualified nurses trained in England who have graduated in each of the last six years.

      NHS: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing investment for mental health support for NHS staff.

      Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data the Government is using to assess whether the recommended IBD standards' 18-week quality indicator for bowel conditions are...

      NHS: Medical Records

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there is no single centralised system for holding NHS records; and whether she plans to introduce such a system.

      Dementia: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has systems in place to monitor developments in global life sciences for new dementia treatments; and if she will...

  • Department for Education

    • Apprentices: British National (Overseas)

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether young people from Hong Kong on the extended British National (Overseas) visa will be able to immediately access apprenticeship schemes in the...

    • BTEC Qualifications and T-levels: Assessments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library of the House a copy of directions given by (a) his Department and (b) the Chief Regulator of Ofqual to examination...

      Children: Day Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to increase Government funding for early years providers.

      Special Educational Needs: Devon

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the forecast on 13 July 2022 by Devon County Council of a Dedicated Schools Grant overspend of £32.1 million, what assessment...

      Primary Education: Admissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to issue renewed guidance in relation to summer-born children; and if he will take steps to allow parents a greater...

      Further Education: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had discussions with further education college principals on the adequacy of the level of college budgets in autumn 2022.

      Schools: Uniforms

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the rising cost of (a) food and (b) domestic bills, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a...

      Further Education: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to support further education colleges with energy payments this winter.

      BTEC Qualifications: Assessments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons BTEC students studying with multiple examination boards had delays in receiving their results in summer 2022; and if he will make a...

      Schools: Buildings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2022 to Question 42001 on Academies and Maintained Schools: Health and Safety, if he will place in the Library a...

      Schools: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will increase funding for schools and colleges in the context of rising inflation.

      Schools: Football

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to help increase access to football training for girls in schools.

      BTEC Qualifications

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of phasing out BTEC qualifications on the number of (a) young people and (b) young...

      Pupils: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support Ukrainian refugee children into education in Hertfordshire.

      Higher Education: Admissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications were there for places on the Higher Education Short Courses trial; how many and what proportion of these applications were...

      Children: Day Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has he made of trends in the availability of childcare places (a) nationally and (b) in York.

      Children: Care Homes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference the BBC Radio 4 File on Four programme on private children's residential care companies on 3 July 2022, what steps he is taking to...

      Schools: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that schools are not substantially impacted by rising energy prices.

      Nurseries: Cost of Living

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on nurseries.

      Special Educational Needs: Transport

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of rises in the cost of fuel on the (a) provision and (b) cost of school transport for (i)...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of Ukrainian pupils attending secondary school in (a) England, (b) the North West England region and...

      Free School Meals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to analysis by Child Poverty Action Group, published in June 2022, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his...

      Children and Young People: Mental Capacity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people under the age of (a) 16 and (b) 18 who have been subject to a Deprivation of Liberty Order in (i) England and (ii) Wales were placed...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Probate Service: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Probate Office plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of (a) 11 July and (b) 12 August 2022 on...

    • Redundant Churches

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of redundant churchyards that have been made the responsibility of the local authority in the each of the last...

      Television Licences: Non-payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were sent to prison for non-payment of the TV licence in each of the last ten years.

      Debt Collection: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to help raise standards in the debt enforcement sector.

      Rape: Convictions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) males and (b) females have been convicted of the offence of rape in England in each of the last three years.

  • Treasury

    • Debts: Pakistan

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with his international counterparts on the potential merits of (a) suspending, (b) restructuring and (c) cancelling...

    • Debts: Climate Change

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislation to protect (a) Pakistan and (b) other countries affected by climate disasters from being sued in English courts for...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member from Kilmarnock and Loudoun of 25 June 2022 on help to buy ISAs, reference ZA15894.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress she made with her G7 counterparts following the summit in Bavaria, Germany on tackling the global...

    • Development Aid: Climate Change

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assistance her Department is providing to help tackle climate change in (a) India, (b) Sri Lanka, (c) Nepal...

      Somaliland: English Language

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will take diplomatic steps to help support the use of the English language in its role as an official...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the press release entitled UK to donate 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses, published on 11...

      Vicky Bowman

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking with the international community to help ensure the release of Vicky Bowman,...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Reserve Forces: Blackpool

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to provide additional investment into the facilities at the Blackpool Reserve Centre.

    • Ministry of Defence: India

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department were based permanently in (a) Gujarat, (b) Delhi and (c) other states in India in each of the last...

      Defence: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department places contractual obligations on prime contractors to meet social value investments; and what proportion of supply chain...

      Defence: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department will publish a league table of the proportion of SMEs in the supply chains for MOD contracts.

      Guided Weapons: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) original cost expectations and (b) cost expectations as at 16 September 2022 were for the Spearcap 3 programme.

      Armed Forces: Paternity Leave

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether paternity leave is available for male members of the Armed Forces if his spouse is (a) a serving member of the Armed Forces and (b) a civilian.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Welfare State: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the devolution of welfare powers to Wales to permit the Welsh Government to provide...

    • Access to Work Programme: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the delays customers are experiencing to the Access to Work Scheme; and what further measures her...

      Carers: Employment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to provide further resources to carers to help (a) remain in or (b) return to work.

      Personal Independence Payment: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to ensure the accuracy of phone-based assessments for Personal Independence Payments claimants.

      Farms: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many inspections were conducted by the Health and Safety Executive on farms in each of the past five annual reporting periods.

      State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the freeze on the state pensions of people living abroad on levels of poverty amongst those people.

      State Retirement Pensions: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s provisional...

      Social Security Benefits: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's waiting time targets are for answering calls to the helpline for benefits claimants; and what the average waiting time...

      Universal Credit: Equality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has assessed the equalities impacts of the planned rise in the Administration Earnings Threshold for Universal Credit.

      Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a regional breakdown of the number of people on Universal Credit who will be moved to the Intensive Work Search programme...

      Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial savings her Department expects to make following the managed migration to Universal Credit in 2023-2024.

      Jobcentres

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish (a) a list of all (i) permanent and (ii) temporary jobcentres and (b) details of when all existing temporary job centres...

      Jobcentres

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is making preparations to increase the capacity of the Jobcentre network in the context of forecasts that unemployment...

      Discretionary Housing Payments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the Discretionary Housing Payment budget for 2022/23 has been spent.

      Universal Credit: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of claimants who did not receive a Cost of Living payment in July 2022 following...

      Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, under what contractual terms her Department...

      Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, if she will publish the comprehensive...

      Universal Credit: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many decisions were made about Universal Credit sanctions at (a) Original Decision, (b) Mandatory Reconsideration and (c) Appeal stage;...

      Employment: Hearing Impairment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the (a) potential return on investment in terms of employment prospects for deaf people who...

      Household Support Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing emergency relief funding through the Housing Support Fund for local...

      Food Banks: Food Supply

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of foodbanks which (a) do not have enough food to meet demand as on 12 September 2022 and (b) will...

      Personal Independence Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the average back payment due to new Personal Independence Payment claimants at the point the social security benefit was awarded in...

      Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to revise the assessment process for Personal Independence Payment to make it more accessible for those who live with ME...

      Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, how much financial compensation her...

      Universal Credit: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish available data on the number of Universal Credit claimants who received nil payments as a result of a sanction having...

      Social Security Benefits and State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will uprate all benefit and state pension rates by at least the September 2022 rate of CPI inflation for the 2023-24...

      Disability: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the research by Sense entitled Complex disabilities in the UK which found that 318,000 children have complex disabilities,...

      Personal Independence Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for new Personal Independence Payment claims.

      Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that accessibility requirements are fully taken into account when making a decision on the most...

      Energy and Food: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of providing funding to local authorities...

      Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, what contract management processes are in...

      Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's letter to the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee dated 15 July 2022, for what reason her Department...

      Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of benefit sanctions on the behaviour of benefit claimants.

      Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what work her Department has undertaken to evaluate the use of benefit sanctions.

      Maternity Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the changes to the number of women claiming Statutory Maternity Pay returning to work within 39 weeks of...

      Cost of Living Payments: Housing Benefit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to answer of 8 July 2022 to Question 26876 on Cost of Living Payments: Housing Benefit, what assessment he has been made of (a) how...

      Universal Credit: Cost of Living Payments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants were ineligible for the first cost of living payment as a result of having received two paychecks within...

      Employment and Support Allowance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2022 to Question 45008 on Employment Support Allowance, where the information on the total value of...

      Universal Credit: Veterans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2022 to Question 36699 on Universal Credit: Veterans, how many Universal Credit claimants have been...

      Universal Credit: Veterans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2022 to Question 36699 on Universal Credit: Veterans, how many Universal Credit claimants have been...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Nature Conservation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of supporting the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature and the G7 2030...

    • Nature Conservation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to create more habitat for nature in the UK.

      Water Supply

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce leakages in the UK’s water infrastructure.

  • Home Office

    • Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2022 to Question 46210, when she expects Afghan refugees to begin arriving in the UK under Pathway 2...

    • Abortion: Protest

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government’s position on buffer zones around abortion clinics has changed since the outcome of the Abortion Clinic Protest...

      Police: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers by 2023: and how many additional officers have been recruited...

      Fire and Rescue Services: Strikes

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the 18 May 2022 White Paper on the Fire and Rescue Service, what assessment the Government has made of the potential...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Shared Ownership: Rents

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) prevent, and (b) provide support for annual rent increases for shared...

    • Leasehold: Reform

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to help tackle ground...

      Social Security Benefits

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) raising Local Housing Allowance so that it covers the cheapest...

  • Department for International Trade

    • Trade Agreements: Israel

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether provisions will be in place within any free trade deal between the UK and Israel on ensuring that preferential treatment does not...

    • Import Duties: USA

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to lift US tariffs on imports from the UK.

      Trade Agreements: Gulf Cooperation Council

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many officials in her Department are working on the trade negotiations with the Gulf Cooperation Council.

      Trade Agreements: Japan

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Answer of 18 May 2021 to Question 146 on Trade Agreements: Japan, whether she plans to correct her Department’s...

      Trade Agreements: Israel

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the intended contents of the UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement include provisions for arms trade.

      Trade Agreements: Australia and New Zealand

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential environmental impact of the trade agreements with (a) Australia and (b) New Zealand.

      Urine Storage Bags: Import Duties

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reasons her Department is reintroducing the six per cent import duty for urine drainage bags following the covid-19 duty suspension.

      Trade Agreements: India

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent progress she has made in the negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Government of India; and if she will make a statement.

      Racal Acoustics: Export Controls

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of Open Individual Export Licence (OIEL) applications are not concluded after 120 working days as of 20 July 2022; and what...

      Trade Agreements: Israel

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has sought advice from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on how a UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement could...

      Department for International Trade: India

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department are based permanently in (a) Gujarat, (b) Delhi and (c) other states in India as on 7...

      Trade Barriers: USA

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will make it her policy to hold discussions with her US counterpart on reducing market barriers with the US.

      Dolphins and Whales: Faroe Islands

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the debate on Dolphin and Whale Hunting: Faroe Islands on 11 July 2022, what diplomatic steps her Department has taken since...

      Trade Agreements

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has a target for 80 per cent of the UK's trade to be covered by Free Trade Agreements by the end of 2022.

      Trade Agreements: Israel

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress her Department has made towards negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement with Israel.

      Coffee: Import Duties

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether any tariffs apply to imports of processed coffee as of 2 September 2022.

      Trade Agreements: Faroe Islands

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what legal advice she has received on whether the Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and...

      Department for International Trade: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many payments were fraudulently charged to the budgets of (a) her Department and (b) UK Export Finance using electronic purchasing cards...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Telecommunications: National Security

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason her Department is yet to respond to the Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021 draft designated vendor...

    • Arts: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of provision of core funding to community arts organisations through (a) local...

      Press: Conduct

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to safeguard bereaved families from abusive press attention.

      Channel Four Television: Privatisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what her policy is on the proposed privatisation of Channel 4.

      Reach: Industrial Disputes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the dates of any meetings her Department has had with Reach Plc since 1 January 2022 in which requests by...

      Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions the provision of mandatory training for her Departmental staff regarding their obligations under the...

      Nuisance Calls

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of (a) the Telephone Preference Service and (b) the powers of the...

      Digital Technology: Proof of Identity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the facilitation of digital technology for formal age or other...

      Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Work Experience

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many young people aged eighteen or younger have undertaken work experience in her Department in the last 12 months; and...

      Public Service Broadcasting: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that the (a) fees and (b) penalties relating to the funding of public...

      Holiday Accommodation: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of regulating short-term holiday lets to help support the sustainability...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any working group was set up at the International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief in July to address cultural...

    • Tigray: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure humanitarian assistance reaches rural areas in Tigray.

      Tigray: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the status of the humanitarian truce between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front.

      Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in securing an international convention prohibiting the use of rape or sexual violence as a weapon of war, including enforceable and...

      Kenya: Development Aid

      To ask His Majesty's Government how much UK overseas aid they provided to Kenya in (1) 2017, (2) 2018, (3) 2019, (4) 2020, and (5) 2021.

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