Written answers

Wednesday, 11 January 2023

  • Department for Transport

    • Aviation: Fines

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to give the Civil Aviation Authority power to directly fine airlines who break consumer law.

    • Driving Tests

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the impact of driving test centre closures on the availability of driving tests in each year since 2015.

      Bus Services: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help ensure that there is adequate bus service provision in rural areas.

      Train Operating Companies: Investment Income

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 Dec 2022 to Question 111701 on Train Operating Companies: Investment Income, if he will publish this information with...

      Union Connectivity Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will publish his full response to Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review.

      Department for Transport: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is his Department's policy that government procurement cards should not be used for purchases (a) of alcohol and (b) that could be made via...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • UK Trade with EU: Small Businesses

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what (a) support and (b) advice the Government provides to small businesses facing higher costs when importing from the...

    • Trading Standards: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding has been provided to Trading Standards (a) nationally and (b) by local authority in each of the last...

      Wines: Industry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he will bring forward legislative proposals to allow English Sparkling Wine to be sold in pint and half litre bottles.

      Energy: Meters

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussion he has had with Ofgem about the potential merits of a ban on the forcible installation of...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of additional costs incurred by households...

      Energy Bill Relief Scheme: Charities

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of extending the Energy Bill...

      Energy: Debt Collection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to prevent debt collectors and bailiffs from making demands on people who are...

      Energy: Debt Collection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of households that have been visited by (a) debt collectors and (b) bailiffs...

      Energy Bills Rebate

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his department has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Energy Bills Support Scheme to...

      Disability: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide additional support to those disabled people who are disproportionally affected by higher energy...

  • Northern Ireland Office

    • Housing: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will have discussions with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the withdrawal of tenders for home maintenance contracts.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Mortality Rates

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of ONS data showing that excess deaths in England and Wales...

    • Diabetes: Children and Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for the trend in the level of type two diabetes in (a) young adults and (b) children in the...

      Streptococcus: Antibiotics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle supply issues affecting antibiotics for the treatment of Strep A.

      Ambulance Services: Shropshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the reasons for delays to category 1 and 2 ambulance responses in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.

      NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Statement 2022, published on 17 November 2022, CP 751, how much and what proportion of the additional...

      Antibiotics: Erith and Thamesmead

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pharmacies in Erith and Thamesmead constituency have an adequate antibiotics,...

      Topiramate: Shortages

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect on public health of shortages of the prescription drug Topamax; and if he will make a statement.

      Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce A&E waiting times in NHS hospitals.

      Pectus Excavatum: Surgery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing corrective surgery for pectus excavatum through the NHS.

      Hospital Beds

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to increase the number of beds in NHS hospitals.

      Hospital Beds and Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospital beds are occupied by medically-fit patients who cannot be discharged due to a lack of social care.

      Hospitals: Buildings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospital buildings were built before 1948 in England; what the ten oldest NHS hospital buildings are in England; and to...

      Nurses: Industrial Disputes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to negotiate with nursing unions on (a) resolving the strikes and (b) other issues affecting the sector.

      Prescription Drugs: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will conduct a review of the types of prescription drugs which are (a) exempt and (b) are not exempt from payment for people with...

      NHS: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to increase the budget available for the NHS pay settlement for...

      NHS: Pay Settlements

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the recent NHS pay offer on NHS staff morale.

      Epilepsy: Cannabis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure the availability of cannabis-based medicines on the NHS for patients with epilepsy.

      Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) update the policy paper entitled Alcohol Strategy, published on 23 March 2012, CM 8336 and (b) commission a new...

      Health: Cost of Living

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on the nation's health.

      Life Expectancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his Department’s policy to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy between areas where it is highest and...

      Meat: Inspections

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the qualified meat inspectors working for the Food Standards Agency are employees; and how many of these are (a) permanent,...

      Dental Services: Slough

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase NHS dental provision for vulnerable NHS patients in Slough constituency.

      Oral Tobacco: Health Hazards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of when the Committee on Toxicity of Food, Consumer Products and the Environment will publish its final...

      Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many units of dental activity were delivered in each of the last five years.

      Dental Services: Vulnerable Adults

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that vulnerable NHS patients who experience difficulties with communication have adequate access to NHS...

      Food: Advertising

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of delaying the introduction of legislation to protect...

      Food: Advertising

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of delaying the implementation of the TV and online unhealthy food advertising...

      Cancer: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for research into (a) prevention and (b) the treatment of cancer in each of the last 12 years.

      Care Homes: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring (a) Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire Integrated Care...

      Diabetes: Disadvantaged

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the National Diabetes Audit Young People with Type 2 Diabetes Report 2019-20, published by NHS Digital...

      Influenza: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS staff have received the flu vaccination in (a) 2022 and (b) each of the last five years.

      Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for Children and Adolescent Mental Health services assessments in Feltham and Heston...

      Health Services: Racial Discrimination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by The Traveller Movement entitled The last acceptable form of racism, published in September 2017, what...

      Emergency Calls and NHS 111: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the commitments made in his Department's policy paper Our plan for patients, published on 22 September 2022, how many...

  • Department for Education

    • Free School Meals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2022 to Question 98899 on Free School Meals, what estimate she has made of the proportion of children in each...

    • Sixth Form Colleges: Inflation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support sixth-form colleges with costs associated with increases in the level of inflation.

      Sixth Form Colleges: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support sixth-form colleges with rises in the cost of energy.

      Further Education: Infrastructure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many further education college infrastructure projects are affected by the reclassification of colleges.

      Special Educational Needs: Public Consultation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish the responses it received to the public consultation on the SEND and AP Provision Green Paper.

      Special Educational Needs: Birmingham Selly Oak

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the level of demand for school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities in...

      Vocational Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to improve access to vocational courses.

      Children in Care: Missing Persons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s data release Children looked after in England including adoptions, how many of the children missing or away...

      Mathematics: Teachers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the speech made by the Prime Minister on 4 January 2023, what estimate she has made of the number of additional maths teachers...

      Department for Education: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the energy used by (a) her Department, (b) Ofsted and (c) Ofqual came from (i) renewable and (ii) non-renewable energy...

      Schools: Buildings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the table of key risks contained at page 103 of the Department for Education's Annual Report published on 19 December 2022, whether...

      Schools: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an estimate of the average cost of building a new school.

      Department for Education: Parking

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2022 to Question 151074 on Department for Education: Parking, if she will take steps to update and publish...

      Department for Education: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff at (a) her Department, (b) Ofsted and (c) Ofqual have (i) PRINCE2 certification, (ii) another project management certification and...

      Education: Trade Unions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will meet with representatives of education sector trade unions before the Budget on 15 March.

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Homicide: Sentencing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of murderers failed to attend court for their sentencing in the latest period for which data is available.

    • Victims' Commissioner

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings he held with Dame Vera Baird during her tenure as Victims Commissioner.

      Duncan Lewis Solicitors: Legal Aid Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public funds in the form legal aid were paid to Duncan Lewis Solicitors for immigration cases in each of the last 5 years.

      Prison Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many operational prison cells were there in each year since 2010.

      Prison Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made on the availability of prison places in 2023.

      Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many overseas nationals are imprisoned in the UK by nationality.

      County Courts: Personal Records

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what safeguards his Department has in place within the County Court system to help ensure that the names of parties to court cases are accurately...

      Medomsley Detention Centre

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking an inquiry into historic abuse at Medomsley Detention Centre.

      Powers of Entry: Meters

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the burden of proof required by an energy supplier is to demonstrate they are acting as a last resort in seeking a warrant to install a prepayment...

      Police Custody: Legal Opinion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to review the Joint Interim Interview Protocol.

      Police Custody: Legal Opinion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of using remote legal advice in police custody on the (a) uptake of legal advice, (b) client...

      Civil Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil legal aid offices with a civil legal aid contract started zero cases by each (a) local authority and (b) area of law in the (i) 2020-21,...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Human Trafficking: English Channel

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he holds any information on how many people traffickers operating in the English Channel the French...

    • Trust Fund for Victims

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of potential merits of using the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund...

      Trust Fund for Victims

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what financial contributions the Government has made to the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims...

      Afghanistan: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of the places available in the first year under ACRS Pathway 3 have been filled,...

      Russia: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential long-term impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on global...

      Cuba: USA

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of migration of people...

      EU Countries: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has with his counterparts in the European Union on the impact of the Islamic...

      Afghanistan: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help reverse the Taliban's ban on (a) female aid workers and (b)...

      Kosovo: Serbia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of tensions between Serbia and Kosovo; and...

      Food Supply

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of potential impact of (a) 2022 supply constraints and (b) fertiliser costs on...

      British Overseas Territories: Undocumented Migrants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on illegal migration to the British Overseas Territories.

      Iran: Demonstrations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the consequences for his policies of the continued (a) use of violence and...

      Iran: Hezbollah

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of Iran's financial support for Hezbollah.

      Iran: Demonstrations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Iranian counterpart about the imposition of the death penalty on...

      Palestinians: Intelligence Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2022 to Question 97558 on Palestinians: Intelligence Services, what the total...

      Transcaucasus: Roads

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Azerbaijani counterpart on the blocking of the Lachin corridor...

      Transcaucasus: Roads

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has taken recent steps to join initiatives of other Western countries relating to the Azerbaijani...

      Mexico: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is providing support to UK citizens in Culiacan, Mexico following reports of cartel...

      Mexico: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to provide assistance to the Mexican government following reports of cartel...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Armed Forces

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish Land Forces Standing Order 3208.

    • Annington Homes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October to Question 67845 on Annington Homes, what proportion of appointments Regional Accommodation Maintenance Services...

      Armed Forces: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December to Question 111517 on Armed Forces: Housing, how many calls related to (a) damp and (b) mould in Forces...

      Ministry of Defence: Travel

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October to Question 59548on Ministry of Defence: Travel, how much of the net expenditure of (a) £91,607,334 in...

      Armed Forces: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many fines for poor performance his Department issued to contractors providing services related to the maintenance and management of (a) Service...

      Chinook Helicopters

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the contribution of the Chinook force for the wider capability of our Armed Forces; and what his plans are for the...

      Turkey: Armed Forces

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 108450 on Turkey: Armed Forces, whether the 51 troops include troops serving with NATO.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made additional financial support available to pensioners who are not eligible for Pension Credit during the cost...

    • Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish guidance on other sources of financial support for people who are not eligible for Pension Credit due to the level of their...

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the maximum income eligibility criteria for Pension Credit in the context...

      Cost of Living Payments and Winter Fuel Payments: Solihull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Winter Fuel Payments and Pensioner Cost of Living Payments were awarded within the Solihull constituency.

      Job Centres: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which topics are included in initial training for work coaches.

      Cold Weather Payments: Solihull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Cold Weather Payments were issued to pensioners in Solihull constituency in 2022.

      Pension Credit: Kingston upon Hull North

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help pensioners in Kingston upon Hull North constituency access (a) information about their eligibility...

      Department for Work and Pensions: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 19 December to Question 107067 and his Department's 2021 data entitled DWP and CMG: spending over £500,...

      Job Centres: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether work coaches receive training on (a) potential barriers to employment for disabled people and (b) how to support disabled jobseekers...

      Unemployment: Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on youth employment of the abolition of traineeships, announced on 12 December 2022.

      Cost of Living Payments: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the cost of living support for disabled people.

      Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Personal Independence Payment assessments carried out by (a) Atos and (b) Capita were found to have been of an unacceptable...

      Personal Independence Payment: Sleep Apnoea

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps he has taken to encourage people with sleep apnoea to apply for the Personal Independence Payment.

      Universal Credit: Kingston upon Hull North

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit decisions were subject to an appeal by the claimant in 2022 in Kingston upon Hull North constituency.

      Cost of Living Payments: Medical Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 8 December 2022 to Question 103036 on Cost of Living Payments: Medical Equipment, if he will increase the...

      Cost of Living Payments: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made on the adequacy of the Cost of Living Payments for disabled people who have higher energy usage and are not on...

      Employment Support Allowance: Cost of Living Payments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has plans to extend the eligibility criteria for the Cost of Living payment to include people in receipt of...

      Employment Support Allowance: Cost of Living Payments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact that excluding those in receipt of contribution-based Employment Support Allowance...

      Employment Support Allowance: Cost of Living Payments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department has decided that those in receipt of contribution-based Employment Support Allowance and who do not receive...

  • Home Office

    • Asylum: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken (a) to process asylum claims and (b) between asylum claims and (i) interviews...

    • Civil Partnerships: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that children are given British citizenship when they are born outside the UK to British parents in...

      Visas: Skilled Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of permitting Tier 2 ICT visa holders, who had switched to a Skilled Worker visa, to be...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decision makers in her Department were fully trained to make decisions on unaccompanied asylum seeking children’s claims as...

      HM Passport Office: Email

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many email enquiries from hon. Members are awaiting a response from the Passport Office as of 6 January 2023.

      Asylum: Finance and Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have had their applications rejected in each of the last five years have (a) accommodation and (b) financial...

      Gangs: Arrests

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests for gang related activity there were in (a) Romford, (b) Havering and (c) nationally in the last five years.

      Human Trafficking: Syria

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department (a) issued and (b) used a standard operating procedure to help prevent the trafficking of vulnerable individuals from...

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to process security and other checks for British Council contractors in Afghanistan under...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Council Tax and Non-domestic Rates: Non-payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much (a) council tax (b) business rates remained uncollected in England at the end of (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020/21 and...

    • Building Safety Fund: Leeds

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is having discussions with the owners of Cartier House in Leeds Dock on remediating unsafe cladding...

      Waking Watch Relief Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of local authorities allocating funding to waking watches in tower blocks.

      Sleeping Rough

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of progress on the target to end rough sleeping by 2024; and if he will make a...

      Empty Property

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department has made of the number of empty residential properties in England.

  • Scotland Office

    • Defence: Scotland

      What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on Scotland’s role in the defence and security of the UK.

  • Cabinet Office

    • Government Departments: Telephone Services

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has made a recent estimate of the average waiting time for calls made to helplines run by Government departments; and if he will...

    • Blood: Contamination

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to recommendation 16 of the Compensation and redress for the victims of infected blood: recommendations for a framework report,...

      Disability and Unemployed People

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 13 December 2022 to Question 102902 on Unemployment: Energy and Question 102903 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, how...

      Electronic Government

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that people without access to online and mobile banking can make payments for services provided...

  • Treasury

    • Off-payroll Working

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the House of Commons Library a summary of responses and Government response to the call for evidence: umbrella company market, which...

    • Business: Training

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Spring Statement Tax Plan published 23 March 2022, if he will publish the results of Department's work on whether the current tax...

      Business: Investment

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Spring Statement Tax Plan published on 23 March 2022, if he will publish a summary of the discussions he has had with businesses on...

      Banks: Incentives

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of uncapping bankers bonuses on tax revenue.

      Financial Services: Environment Protection

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the report on the UK Green Taxonomy published by the APPG on...

      Credit Rating

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will make an assessment of the level of potential (a) inefficiencies and (b) inequalities in credit scoring systems.

      Insurance: Racial Discrimination

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of potential trends in the level of discrimination of people from ethnic minority backgrounds in the...

      Trusts: Assets

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require that assets which (a) are held by and (b) have...

      Pension Funds: Investment

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the underlying causes of concerns relating to liability driven investment funds in the pensions industry in...

      Cryptoassets: Taxation

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the House of Commons Library a summary of responses and government response to the taxation of decentralised finance involving the...

      Private Rented Housing: Rents

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of rent increases in the private rented sector on the rate of inflation.

      Banks: Incentives

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 17 October 2022 to Question 61263 on Financial Services: Incentives, if he will take steps to conduct an impact assessment of the...

      Parkinson's Disease

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the research by Parkinson's UK on the estimated additional heating costs...

      High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason his Department has decided not to uprate the threshold for the High Income Child Benefit Charge in line with inflation.

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Swimming: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps she has taken with her Cabinet colleagues to ensure that all children of (a) primary and (b) secondary...

  • Women and Equalities

    • Disability: Parking

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of legislation requiring landlords to designate a disabled parking bay for residents who...

    • Sikhs

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Government's website entitled Ethnicity Facts and Figures, how many and what proportion of the datasets which appear on that...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Afghanistan: Females

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that women in Afghanistan will no longer be allowed to continue their university education.

    • Rainforests: Brazil

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to encourage the government of Brazil to avoid the destruction of the Amazon forest.

  • Cabinet Office

    • Gambling: Suicide

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many customer suicides have been reported by gambling operators in each of the past five years.

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