Monday, 12 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it remains his Department's policy to provide up to £60 million to help bus operators cap single fares on most services in England,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents have been reported on the A15 between Lincoln and the M180 in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all (i) contracts, (ii) consultancies and (iii) other services placed with the accountancy firms (A) Deloitte...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the (a) frequency and (b) disruption to service from weekend engineering works on rail services...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Avanti trains between Runcorn and London have been cancelled each month since November 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the potential merits of transport being an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of his Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) providing funding and (b) implementing mechanisms to help support sustainable aviation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many applications have been made to the rapid charging fund; how much of that fund has been allocated; and whether he is taking steps to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 28 November to Question 94697, when the road surface is scheduled for resurfing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November to Question 92300 on Postal Services: Standards, if he will outline the process...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many SMEs in Batley and Spen constituency have received Government funding for support in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps is he taking to address energy companies that are failing to deliver Energy Bills Support Scheme vouchers to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November to Question 92301 on Postal Services: Standards, what assessment he has made of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November to Question 92302 on Postal Services: Fees and Charges, what assessment he has...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Department for Health and Social Care on the impact on care...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who get their energy supply through a pre-payment metre...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Competition and Markets Authority on the potential merits of maintaining...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he will make an announcement on eligibility and delivery of energy bills support to park home residents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the £400 equivalent of the Energy Bills Support Scheme will be delivered to park home residents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons it is his Department's policy that heat network customers are receiving equivalent support under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the Government response to the consultation entitled Phasing out the installation of fossil...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, from which budget funds for the Group Litigation Compensation scheme will be taken from.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which legal firm will administer the Group Litigation Order compensation scheme for postmasters who helped expose the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the Product Safety review to which the Government committed in Spring 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that all regions of the UK benefit from hydrogen investment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that the low-carbon hydrogen production pipeline develops outside of the UK’s...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential role of hydrogen blending in supporting (a) investment in and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the number of installations of energy efficiency measures in homes...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had recent discussions with businesses in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency on the potential impact...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency have received Government funding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of homes in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency that have had external...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes have been upgraded to an Energy Performance Certificate level C through the Social Housing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what type of energy efficiency measure was most frequently installed in homes in Sefton Central constituency through...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, what plans they have to (a) replace, (b) revoke or (c) retain the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether housing associations will be included in the Treasury-led Review of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme to assess the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to provide support to households whose property value has depreciated because the property...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an estimate of the depreciation of the value of properties whose communal energy supply...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent on energy costs in each of the last 5 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has received the Director of Labour Market Enforcement's 2023-24 Strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help ensure that energy suppliers punctually and adequately refund the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that elderly people living in park homes who do not have internet access...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to provide energy support to mobile home park residents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing levels of Russian oil and gas imported into the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to increase the rate of energy efficiency measure installations in homes in Feltham...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the rate of energy efficiency measure installations in homes in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on fracking; and if he will make an assessment of the potential...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to bring forward the introduction of the ECO+ scheme to winter 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in Wirral South have had ECO scheme measures installed as of 24 November 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many hospitals are registered as a critical site or service in the Protected Sites List under the Electricity...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to increase funding for renewable energy sources in Wallasey constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing the number of medicine places available at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on the potential merits of extending the 30 hours free childcare...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the projects proposed under the new hospital programme will be complete by 31 December 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there has been an increase in the number of people with pancreatic cancer being prescribed Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many health clinicians are members of integrated care boards; and how many integrated care boards have health clinicians on them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of liver cancer patients were diagnosed at stages 3 and 4 in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with alopecia in each of the last 3 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to offer compensation to people effected by Valproate in pregnancy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to hold discussions with representatives of people with (a) cystic fibrosis and (b) other people likely to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) World Health Organisation Director General and (b) United Nations Secretary General on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide funding to review the cases of people recently diagnosed with HIV in order to identify any opportunities which may...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential correlation between trends in the level of (a) hospital admissions for (i) respiratory...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Answer of 6 December 2022 to Question 98842 on Hyperactivity: Alcoholic Drinks, if his Department will undertake such an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide resources to sexual health services to help relieve potential capacity issues, including targeting additional funding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, what plans the Government has to (a) replace, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Standardised...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a unique patient identifier for children to improve...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the income threshold for Healthy Start Vouchers in line...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to amend PrEP eligibility criteria to enable that drug to be more widely available to people at risk of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's Government Food Strategy, published on 13 June 2022, what progress his Department has made in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending free prescriptions to individuals with sickle cell disease.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on publicity for the Healthy Start Voucher scheme in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November to Question 93721 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, what conclusions have been reached as a result of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of potential funding streams to help support veterans with the cost of specialist (a) wheelchairs and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to recommendation 3 of the Care Quality Commission report Out of Sight – who cares? Restraint, segregation and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his policy to publish the 10-year plan for dementia before the end of the calendar year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a timeline for the start and anticipated finish date for the review into NICE guidelines on diagnosis and management...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is a long-term plan to tackle dementia; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many housing units have been provided through the Affordable Housing Programme and Care Specialist Support Housing Fund for people...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential correlation between the capacity in the severe asthma centre network and levels of uptake...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of (a) autistic children and (b) children with learning disabilities in inpatient units.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the potential merits of providing specific preventative support...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide updated timings for the publication of the 10 Year Cancer Plan; and what measures that plan will include on pancreatic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the (a) spend and (b) development of appropriate community services under the Building the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November to Question 89695, in what format the information requested about cavernous sinus thrombosis is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports of shortages of hormonal replacement therapies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many GP practices have been accredited as veteran friendly.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact on cancer patients of the Thames Valley of Rutherford Health Group going into liquidation; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Office for National Statics data on coronavirus related deaths by hearing and vision impairment status, England: 24...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what treatment is offered by the NHS in England to patients diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder; whether rehabilitation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the potential merits of introducing training for NHS frontline staff to (a) identify, (b) signpost and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the take up is of the flu vaccine for over 50s in the Halton local authority area compared to the same period in 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings on the proportion of people with cystic fibrosis who...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to tackle the shortages of HRT medication.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet Pancreatic Cancer UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to mitigate the impact of the rising cost of living on people with chronic conditions such as sickle...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of GP appointments; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in England employ a (a) play or (b) creative arts therapist.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times (a) Ministers and (b) officials from her Department met representatives of the (i) National Education Union, (ii) NASUWT, (iii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of removing the requirement to serve meat three times a week from the School Food Standards.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to announce the results of appeals made by initial teaching training providers who were unsuccessful in her Department's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, what plans she has to (a) replace, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure provision of skills-based employment training for employees aged over 60; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 5.64 of the Autumn Statement, whether Sir Michael Barber has been asked to provide an assessment of the adequacy of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help homeless young people access vocational courses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessments her Department has made regarding the adequacy of skills training opportunities in the local labour market to support the Sizewell C...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Confucius Institutes on UK universities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of his Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had discussions with representatives of the Greater Manchester Law Centre since the start of this financial year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many reported cases of fraud reported to the Office of the Public Guardian have been related to a Power of Attorney in the last five years; and how...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many weapons in each category were confiscated on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service estate in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted under the Hunting Act 2004 in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many prisons the Regime Management Plan under PSI 07/2017 requires prisoners to be engaged in work, education or other activities designed to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of prison maintenance requirements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prison places taken permanently out of action due to their condition in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of sexual assaults committed by prison escapees since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2022 to Question 88985 on Prisoner Escapes, what offences are categorised as miscellaneous crimes against society;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of cases heard at (a) Leeds Crown Court, (b) Newcastle Crown Court and (c) Snaresbrook Crown Court were rape cases in (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has plans to (a) reform, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Special Measures for Child Witnesses (Sexual Offences) Regulations 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will estimate the number of individuals convicted of an offence under section 1(1) of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 relating to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of people found guilty of the abduction, rape and murder of a stranger in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had discussions with the Welsh Government on the devolution of responsibility for assisted dying.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2022 to Question 101738 on Prisoners' Release: Maladministration and Prisoner Escapes, what estimate he has made of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of offenders granted (a) early release, (b) temporary license and (c) home detention curfew over Christmas in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2022 to Question 88987 on Prisons: Rehabilitation, how many prisoners completed an accredited programme in prison...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to Question 88987 on 21 November 2022, how many learners have been in the classroom each year since 2010.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much excise duty and VAT the Government collected from the sale of tobacco products in each financial year since 2018-19.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of a cashless society on vulnerable people.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to ask how much was paid to officials in his Department for overtime worked in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on energy bills in each of the last 5 years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses received National Insurance contributions holidays for employing armed service leavers.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question 94867 VAT: Repayments, what systems are in place to identify patterns of non-compliance with VAT...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many hours of overtime were worked by officials in his Department in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question 94867, how many (a) schools or (b) education trusts have received any demands for backdated VAT for each...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November from the Economic Secretary to the Treasury to Question 902288, Official Report column 513, and with reference to the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the additional tax deduction for research and development costs for small and medium enterprises will be cut from 130 to 86 per cent.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many organisations have been waiting for more than (a) six weeks, (b) three months and (c) six months to receive (i) theatre tax relief and (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to further increase defence, security, and trade partnerships on a bilateral basis with India.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to help improve food security around the world.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in the Indo-Pacific on disinformation in the region.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support Commonwealth nations with preventing trophy hunting in (a) Asia and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans he has to progress a comprehensive final Cyprus Settlement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his international counterparts on the detention of Vladimir Kara-Murza.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with regional partners on international engagement with Afghanistan over the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many ministerial red boxes his Department has bought in the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to (a) identify and (b) prevent human rights violations of the Baluch...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will set out the Government's position on the forthcoming vote in the United Nations on Iran's membership of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda on UK security...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the consequences for his policies of the letter to the Iranian...
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 the reported detention of Harem...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many trespassers have been evicted from the British Indian Overseas Territory (Chagos Islands) in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Government of Morocco on the imprisonment of Omar Radi.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the Southern African Development Community countries on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he plans to publish the imputed UK share of multilateral net Official Development Assistance for the 2021...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is taking steps to update defence plans following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to help develop innovative defence technology.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out his Department's forecast of (a) the total FTE and (b) the change in FTE staff deployed in the Indo-Pacific region, broken down by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has received a Military Aid to Civilian Authority (MACA) request from the Home Office for Armed Forces personnel to cover for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 37532 on Ukraine: Military Aid, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 April 2022 to Question 154515 on Ukraine: Military Aid, how many anti-tank Javelin missiles have been successfully...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Defence Accommodation Strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of housing accommodation for armed forces personnel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to reassess the retirement of the Tranche 1 Typhoon in the upcoming revised Integrated Review in the context of Russia's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment his Department has made of the performance of Pinnacle Service Families: and if he will seek the views of servicemen and women...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases of (a) mould and (b) damp have been reported in (i) Service Family Accommodation and (ii) Service Living Accommodation in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the financial implications of delaying the full operating capability of the E7 Wedgetail aircraft to 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the whole life cost for the E-7 aircraft will be given the full operating capability of that aircraft has been delayed until 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department plans for the F35 aircraft to be in full operating capability.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many ammunition rounds his Department receives from UK production in 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason there is a delay in the E-7 Wedgetail aircraft fleet reaching full operational capability.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December to Question 99720 on Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Procurement and with reference to page 20 of the NAO report on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the (a) in service and (b) out of service date for Stormer armoured vehicles.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving military personnel (a) are qualified paramedics and (b) meet the qualification requirements set out by the Health and Care Professions...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is taking steps to support veterans living in countries that do not have a reciprocal uprating agreement with the UK and whose...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) set up and (b) annual running costs of Victim and Witness Care Unit of the Defence Serious Crime Unit are; how many full-time equivalent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November to Question 70978 on Armed Forces: Huntington’s Disease, when the ban on those at risk of developing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November to Question 70978 on Armed Forces: Huntington’s Disease, when the ban for those at risk of developing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November to Question 70978 on Armed Forces: Huntington’s Disease, what criteria his Department uses to qualify a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November to Question 70978 on Armed Forces: Huntington’s Disease, how many people who applied to serve in the Armed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising the level of Bereavement Support Payment in line with inflation since 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of calculating child maintenance payments using income net of tax.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill on asbestos-related legislation;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing an ex gratia payment scheme to make sure that all families receive the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, what plans he has to (a) replace, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Management of Health and Safety at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the regulatory framework for renewable energy generation for (a) onshore and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the report by MMI Engineering Ltd for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) entitled Study and development of a methodology for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many offshore renewable incidents met the Health and Safety Executive's Incident Selection Criteria in the first six months of 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hydrocarbon releases were reported to HSE in the first six months of 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether offshore employees raised concerns relating to offshore employment to (a) HSE and (b) her Department in the first six months of 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of not uprating Local Housing Allowance on rates of (a) eviction and (b) homelessness...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claim Carer’s Allowance in a household where someone else claims Employment and Support Allowance as of 06 December 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claim Income Support and Carer’s Allowance but do not live in a household where someone else claims Employment and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, how many people whose main disability is Long Covid have (a) registered for,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure people (a) have access to information relating to available benefits and (b) are aware of their potential...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question UIN 95843, how many Universal Credit Official Error overpayments there were from 1 January...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department provides financial support to people with sleep apnea who use a (a) continuous positive airway pressure and (b) bilevel...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with representatives of Motability on deposits for electric vehicles for people receiving Personal Independent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the policies announced in the Autumn Statement 2022 on parents of children who have...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that people with Fetal valproate spectrum disorder can afford the deposit for an electric vehicle.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to calculate the amount of child maintenance payments owed in the UK by a person who is already paying child...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward the second £150 Disability Cost of Living Payment to winter...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people whose main disability is long Covid have (a) registered for, (b) been assessed for, (c) been awarded and (d) had their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people whose main disability is long covid have (a) registered for, (b) been assessed for, (c) been awarded and (d) been rejected for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people unable to work due to long Covid have (a) applied for, (b) been assessed for, (c) been awarded and (d) had their applications...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee on 30 November 2022, HC 549, if he will publish the outcomes of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people whose main disability is long Covid have (a) registered for, (b) been assessed for, (c) been awarded and (d) had their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people eligible for Pension Credit but who are not claiming it in each of the nations of the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Answer of 15 January 2021 to Question 133641 on Hen Harriers, whether she has made an assessment of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of canine fertility clinics operating in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to combat avian flu in the wild bird population.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she plans to implement the (a) review of the use of cages, (b) introduction of animal welfare labelling for food and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, whether she plans to (a) replace, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Invasive Alien...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of the proposal to replace the Wash Fishery Order 1992 made by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has received representations on the extension of the Wash Fishery Order 1992.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to implement the recommendation in the report by the Tenancy Working Group entitled The Rock Review,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the definition of non-native species in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, how many Species Control...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has plans to (a) reform, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Food Information Regulations 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of support for upland farmers moving to the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the value of upland farming to (a) sustainability goals and (b) the economy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the rate of Basic Payments to upland farmers on those...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Sustainable Farming Incentive for upland farmers with non-improved grassland.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for Turkish Businessperson visa extension applications in the latest period for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of skilled worker visa applicants who applied for a faster decision received a decision within the requested...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support survivors of domestic abuse in Nottingham South during the cost of living crisis.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the rates of approval for asylum claims made by people from Albania are different in the UK to those of other countries in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports of criminal damage at asylum seeker accommodation there have been since 1 January 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much repair to damage at asylum seeker accommodation has cost since 1 January 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to correspondence of 16 August 2022 from the Rt Hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead case number MP76084IU on a Formal...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visas in (a) September (b) October (c) November awaited an outcome for more than 6 weeks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2022 to Question 93437 on Council Tax: Christchurch constituency, if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent progress his Department has made on (a) allowing leaseholders to extend their leases to 990 years and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish the impact assessment for the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to (a) increase protections for owners of leasehold retirement properties and (b) ensure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, what plans the Government has to (a) replace (b) revoke or (c) retain the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many homes have Energy Performance Certificate below Level C, as of 24 November 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to increase community cohesion in rural communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has plans to (a) reform, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Representation of the People (England and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the press release entitled First Freeports launched in major economic boost, published on 7 December...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Spring Statement 2022 published 23 March 2022, whether the £400 million allocated to the UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all (i) contracts, (ii) consultancies and (iii) other services placed with the accountancy firms (A) Deloitte...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any cross-departmental (a) meetings and (b) other discussions on the UK's preparedness for cold weather during winter 2022-23 have taken place...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate his Department has made of office occupancy rates across the Whitehall estate.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the benefits of civil service secondments to local government.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Office for National Statistics will release (a) provisional figures for excess winter mortality in England and Wales for 2022 to 2022 and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she plans to take to promote exports from businesses in (a) St Helens, (b) Liverpool City Region and (c) the North West.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all (i) contracts, (ii) consultancies and (iii) other services placed with the accountancy firms...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many meetings (a) they and (b) other Ministers in their Department have had with the Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (i) 1...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Arts Council England's 2023-26 Investment Programme on the number of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the use of illicit substances in sport in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that BT (a) refunds in full late payment charges incurred by customers because of delays...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of bullying in cricket in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what grants for research and development are available to video game developers in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether a (a) procurement process was conducted and (b) contract has been signed for Starlink satellite internet constellation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee report on What next for the National Lottery?, published on...
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission had made of the reliability of the House of Commons Polycom telephone system;...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of Living Wage employers.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that any owners of a business that is to be dissolved are aware that if they do not withdraw any money from the bank accounts...
To ask His Majesty's Government (1) when, and (2) how, heat network customers will receive payments from the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Fund.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people they have employed as part of the Civil Service Fast Stream in the last three years; and of those, how many have since left the Civil Service;...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of written statements made in a case by the Crown Prosecution Service that the Bible contains references "which are simply no longer...
To ask His Majesty's Government how many non-grammar schools select pupils by a written test.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage children back into classroom education following the COVID-19 pandemic.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many schools in England do not have access to a swimming pool for their swimming lessons.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact that real-terms cuts to funding for further education are having on colleges.
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what assessment he has made of the installation of the telephone system on the parliamentary estate; and what procurement lessons have been learned for the...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 17 November (HC Deb col 853), whether they will set out the details of the upcoming trade...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent reports of the demolition of homes in Nawaz Sharif Colony, Islamabad, Pakistan, without warning to residents and...
To ask His Majesty's Government why they gave China £51.7 million in Official Development Assistance in the last year; and what assessment they have made of the continuing need to give China...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the ability for Palestinian adults in (1) the West Bank, (2) East Jerusalem, and (3) Gaza, to express their political wishes...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent any breaches of human rights by the Palestinian Authority; and what further steps they are taking to support the right of...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) airstrikes carried out by Turkey in Northern Syria, (2) the impact the airstrikes have had on civilians, (3) the best way to...
To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they made to the representatives of the government of Ethiopia during the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference;...
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the projected cost of the new Typhoon radar; and when it will enter frontline service.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the embarked trials for F35B shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) have been successfully achieved; and if not, when they will be completed.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the primary reason for the purchase of F35B fighter aircraft is to provide an air wing for the new aircraft carriers
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the planned cost of the Tempest Programme; and how many platforms it is based around.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they still intend that carrier strike will achieve full operating capability by December 2023; and whether this means one carrier fully operational...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stedman-Scott on 27 October (HL2434), on what basis a 70 per cent completion rate has been determined as a...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 23 November (HL3268), when they expect the relevant agencies to consider the recommendations of the United...
To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish a new life cycle assessment for disposable and reusable nappies to replace the assessment from 2008.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the availability of British eggs up to and including Christmas 2022.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many contributions to the consultation in respect of Amending the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 which closed on 23 November were received from each of the...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that the list of 1,192 affiliated and organisational groups mentioned in Special Demonstration Squad documentation, which was...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Analysis of the Legality and Appropriateness of the Transfer of Asylum...
To ask His Majesty's Government what have been their principal economic and political achievements in Northern Ireland since May 2010.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address the Northern Ireland Audit Office's comments in February that "Northern Ireland's planning system is not working efficiently...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Northern Ireland Planning Appeals Commission Annual Review 2021/22, published on 26 August, and the impact its findings are...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Caine on 23 November (HL Deb col 1465), whether they will reconsider current proposals for the timing of the committee stage of...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of recent tax changes on the supply of homes in the private rented sector.
To ask His Majesty's Government, given the projection by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that the UK will be the second weakest performer of the world's big...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 7 November (HL2798) and 24 November (HL3333), whether they have (1) monitored the...
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