Written answers

Thursday, 6 October 2022

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Energy Charter Treaty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the UK's membership of the Energy Charter Treaty does not affect...

    • Care Homes: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to include residential care homes in the domestic energy price cap.

      Torness Power Station: Closures

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether risk assessments have been undertaken to assess the risk of Torness nuclear power station having to go offline...

      Electricity Generation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Ofgem consultation document entitled RIIO-ED2 Draft Determinations, Overview Document, published...

      Solar Power: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2022 to Question 37516 on Solar Power, if he will take steps to increase the...

      Fracking: Cheshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential environmental impact of shale gas extraction on communities in (a) Weaver...

      Fossil Fuels

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer given on 10 March 2021 to Question 161735, on Fossil Fuels, what recent assessment he has...

      Heating Oil: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to support households in rural areas with the rising cost of domestic heating oil.

      Business: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the support needs of businesses after his proposed six months of Government support has...

      Business: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the support required to help businesses to improve their energy efficiency.

      Energy: Standing Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a cap on energy standing charges.

      Electricity and Natural Gas: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of decoupling gas and electricity wholesale prices.

      Heating Oil: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish details on the operation of the energy support scheme for households using home heating oil in...

      District Heating: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether heat network consumers not able to access the existing Default Tariff Price Cap will have access to the...

      Energy: Price Caps

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the energy price cap to business energy contracts...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Polio: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including a polio vaccination for children in London aged one to nine as part of...

    • Coronavirus: Immunosuppression

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to provide those clinically vulnerable people for whom covid-19 vaccines do not work with support with (a) the...

      NHS: Locums

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) removing locum caps and (b) ringfencing a new budget for NHS locum staff.

      Community Nurses

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS nurses are working in a community setting in England as on 12 September 2022.

      Diseases: Ethnic Groups

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the prevalence of (a) diabetes, (b) heart disease, (c) hypertension, (d) high cholesterol, (e) obesity,...

      Nurses: Temporary Employment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England has spent on agency nurses in each of the last five years.

      Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the document entitled Mental Health Support Teams for Children and Young People in Education: A Manual, published on...

      HIV Infection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled Towards zero - an action plan towards ending HIV transmission, AIDS and HIV-related deaths in...

      Hospitals: Sign Language

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when (a) NHS England and (b) NHS Improvement will receive the independent review report from the North East of England Commissioning...

      Abortion: Analgesics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 20 May 2022 to Question 604 and of 23 May 2022 to Question 2703, which stated that the Royal College of...

      Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with which other Departments her Department has had discussions on the storage of PPE since 1 January 2022.

      Surgical Mesh Implants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review entitled First Do No Harm, published on 8...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Pakistan: Disaster Relief

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's humanitarian support for Pakistan after the...

    • Development Aid: Climate Change

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what activities and programmes were funded through the International Climate Finance scheme in the 2022-23...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Air Force: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many RAF personnel are currently awaiting flying training.

    • Air Force: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long it takes on average to train (a) fast jet, (b) heavy lift and (c) rotary pilots.

      Air Force: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to improve the capacity of RAF fighter pilot training.

      Air Force: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average wait time is for a training slot for RAF trainee pilots for (a) Typhoons, (b) F35s, (c) Hawk jets and (d) Hercules aircraft.

  • Cabinet Office

    • Honours

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of prohibiting the bestowing of honours on individuals who have donated over one million pounds...

    • Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Rhondda dated 10 August 2022 on the (a) accuracy of and (b) delay in...

  • Department for International Trade

    • Foreign Investment in UK: Carbon Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to her Department’s inward investment results published on 28 June 2022, how many of the (a) 1,131 involved FDI projects...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Djibouti: Development Aid

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

    • South Sudan: Development Aid

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

      Zimbabwe: Maternal Mortality

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, together with partners in Zimbabwe, to help reduce the maternal mortality rate in that country.

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