Written answers

Monday, 3 October 2022

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Buildings: Insulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of properties that have undergone heat insulation works in the West Midlands...

    • Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the independent review of the research, development and innovation landscape.

      Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the (a) Scoping Group and (b) Sounding Board to the review of the research, development and innovation...

      Housing: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes were upgraded to energy performance certificate band C in each year since 2010.

      Natural Gas: Production

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government has plans to strengthen the UK's energy security through an increase in domestic gas production.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Dentistry: Migrant Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she will take steps to promote the recruitment of dentists from overseas by the NHS.

    • Infectious Diseases: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to improve care and support for people following sepsis and severe infection.

      NHS: Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the average units of dental activity delivered by each NHS dentist in each Parliamentary constituency in...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish a timeline for the implementation of the recommendations made in the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid.

    • Legal Aid Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing legal aid fees for written work by 25 per cent.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Israeli Settlements

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps the Government has taken regarding the Israeli Government’s E1 settlement proposal.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he and his Department is taking steps to deliver a strategy for the reduction of Bovine TB in wildlife, including...

    • Avian Influenza: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice his Department (a) has issued and (b) is planning to issue to minimise the risk of future outbreaks of avian flu...

      Avian Influenza: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent outbreaks of avian flu.

      Marine Environment: International Cooperation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on working with other nations in the Global Ocean Alliance 30by30 initiative.

      Badgers: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to develop a (a) strategy for and (b) cost-benefit analysis of the delivery of...

      Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many payments were fraudulently charged to his Department’s budget using electronic purchasing cards in the...

      Food: Labelling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Consultation on amending domestic food legislation in England, closed in March 2021, what progress his...

      Pet Travel Scheme: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pets brought into Great Britain under the pet passport scheme do not...

      Pets: Cost of Living

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the increased costs facing families who own (a) dogs, (b)...

      Nature Conservation: Zoos

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the impact of zoos on support for conservation science.

  • Home Office

    • Homes for Ukraine Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken to approve applications to the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

  • Cabinet Office

    • Cabinet Office: Training

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions the provision of mandatory training for his Departmental staff regarding their obligations under the Equality Act 2010 has been...

    • Ministers: Redundancy Pay

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he will publish a full list of former Ministers who resigned in July 2022 who (a) accepted, (b) rejected or (c) donated to charity their...

      Ministers: Redundancy Pay

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any former Ministers in his Department accepted Ministerial severance pay after resigning in July 2022.

      Cabinet Office: Work Experience

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people aged eighteen or younger have undertaken work experience in his Department in the last 12 months; and what proportion of those...

      Boris Johnson

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a Ministerial Direction was issued in regards to the decision to award a contract to Peters and Peters in relation to the opinion published...

  • Department for International Trade

    • Trade Promotion: India

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department spent on funding British businesses to attend trade shows in India (a) in 2021 (b) to date in 2022; and if she will...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Forms: Personal Names

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to help ensure that online registration forms recognise the use of special characters in names,...

    • Gambling: Addictions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on what date the Gambling Commission advised her Department of its opinion that Public Health England’s cost estimates...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Elections

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to support the use of Bonn Powers by the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina in relation to (1) election law, and (2)...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Respiratory System: Infectious Diseases

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken, if any, to introduce rapid PCR testing for (1) influenza, and (2) other respiratory conditions, ahead of the winter.

    • Meat Products: Nitrates

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take, if any, to ban the use of nitrates in the preservation of processed foods and meats.

      Cancer: Children

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the study in PLOS Medicine, Cancer in children born after frozen-thawed embryo transfer: A cohort study, published on 1...

      Meat Products: Nitrates

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the use of nitrates in the preservation of processed meats.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Water Companies

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with (1) Ofwat, and (2) the Environment Agency, in 2022 about (a) leakages of potable water, (b) sewage discharge into rivers and...

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