Written answers

Friday, 14 October 2022

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • NHS: Negligence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility to make claims for the deceased' s loss and suffering to...

    • Cancer: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the reduced rate of potential cancer sufferers seeing a consultant within two weeks of an...

      General Practitioners: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many trainee GPs in receipt of Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme funds remained in rural areas post-training.

      Cervical Cancer: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps she has taken to improve the rate of uptake in cervical screening.

      Cervical Cancer: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of eligible patients who attended cervical screenings in each of the past five years.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Democratic Republic of Congo: Politics and Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of progress by the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo in reducing the...

    • African Union

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding he plans to allocate to support the African Union in 2023.

      Cameroon: Peace Negotiations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he will take to work with partners at the UN and the African Union to support renewed talks between the...

      Iran: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of Iran signing a memorandum...

      Africa: Immigration Controls

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Algeria on border control in Africa.

      Hasan Mushaima

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Bahraini counterpart on the case of Hasan Mushaima; and will he make...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • State Retirement Pensions: Cost of Living

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment has she made of the potential merits of (a) lowering the state pension age and (b) increasing state pension payments in...

    • Jobcentre Plus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methodology her Department uses to determine the allocation of Jobcentre Plus (a) resources and (b) staff to each local area in the UK.

  • Home Office

    • Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 9 June, reference MY30876 and (b) 3 August, reference MY31701 from the hon. Member...

    • Visas: British National (Overseas)

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is still her Department's policy that eligibility for a British National (Overseas) visa will be extended to people born to at...

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 September 2022 to Question 53567, how many Afghans have arrived in the UK under Pathway 2; and on which dates...

      Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any unaccompanied minors seeking asylum are living in contingency accommodation sites.

      HM Passport Office: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the yearly change was in numbers of staff working in the Passport Office from (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-2017, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-2019,...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL12643.

      Passports: Postal Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports handled by the Passport Office have been lost in the post in each year since 2019.

      Biometric Residence Permits

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time is for her Department to issue a biometric residence permit after an application has been approved.

      Seasonal Workers: Agriculture

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to expand the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme and include within it Labour Market Enforcement's resourcing and work plans.

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase levels of staffing at HM Passport Office to help tackle the backlog of applications following the...

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals from the UNHCR to the Afghan Citizens Referral Scheme under Pathway 2 have been (a) received, (b) refused and (c)...

      Biometric Residence Permits

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people with lawful right of abode are (a) currently waiting for a biometric residence permit card and (b)...

  • Department for International Trade

    • Department for International Trade: Civil Servants

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many civil servants worked on assisting businesses with EU trade matters in each of the past three years.

    • Trade Agreements

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the letter from the Minister for Investment to the Chair of the International Arrangements Committee of 19 May 2022, how...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Digital Technology: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government response to the consultation entitled A new pro-competition regime for digital markets,...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Health: Equality

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether the white paper on health disparities will be published before the end of the year.

    • Health: Equality

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they still intend to publish a white paper on health disparities; and if so, when.

      Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likely impact on NHS services of the removal, on 30 September, from the General Medical Council’s Register of retired...

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