Monday, 16 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the cost of delays on the A5 corridor; and what assessment he has made of the implications of those costs for his policies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of applying regulations on the use of mopeds to e-scooters.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicle charging points there has been in each region of the UK in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of Aer Lingus ceasing to provide a Belfast to London service on air connectivity between...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many applications for vehicle details by private car parking companies were received by the DVLA in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the average weekly level of cancellations and delays from Lockerbie railway station for (a) Transpennine Express...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicles were purchased in London in each of the last five years; and what proportion of all electric vehicles purchased in that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Jet Zero Council includes representatives of trades unions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the number of speed-related traffic accidents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for December 2021, what was the (a) nature...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 107064, how many purchases with a value less than £500 were made against his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the High-Level Output Specification and Statement of Funds Available for the railways, published on 1 December 2022, on what date he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for November 2021, for which team were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of their Department’s employees work from home at least one day a week.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents involving both buses and pedestrians were recorded in England in the 12 months preceding (a) January 2023 and (b) each preceding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of 20mph zones on levels of traffic congestion.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of smart motorways on (a) levels of congestion and (b) driver safety.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the brightness of modern LED vehicle headlights on people who have vision difficulties...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of drivers taking the trailer safety accreditation scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of creating a single point of contact for the removals and storage sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if rail operating companies are indemnified and receive compensation when strikes occur among (a) train drivers and (b) signalmen.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of building new roads on climate targets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the southbound carriage of the A1M near junction 5 to be resurfaced and the potholes and current rough road surface to be addressed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2023 to Question 113160 on Large Goods Vehicles: Dorset, whether it is the policy of Highways England to retain...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had recent discussions with the Minister for Women and Equalities on improving accessibility to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department has held with the Home Office on the offshore wind labour market following the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of homes that have been retrofitted through the Social Housing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that energy prices are affordable for residents affected by communal heating charges.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of rising energy bills on residents affected by communal heating charges.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to implement the recommendations of the report by the Socio-Economic Diversity...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason it is his Department's policy that intellectual property practitioners who represent businesses before...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the planned transition to electric vehicles on the capacity of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether he has plans to (a) revoke, (b) replace or...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps his Department has taken to assess the EU retained law it wishes to (a) keep, (b) amend and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2022 to Question 99945 on Alternative Fuel Payments: Biofuels, when the fixed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the allocated percentage of ECO+ funding was targeted at the low-income eligibility group; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to improve (a) procurement and (b) delivery of Net Zero project investment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of funds lost due to fraud and error in covid-19 loans schemes have been recovered; and what steps his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to UK100's report entitled End the wait. Insulate. Social housing energy efficiency and the energy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of whether the transmission grid would be capable of handling the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of the Hinkley Connection Project.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that eligible households are aware of (a) how and (b) when to apply...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of (a) whether the Post Office is providing and (b) the potential impact of the temporary...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2022 to Question 106436, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2022 to Question 106439, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2022 to Question 106433, if he will estimate how many workers who have a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2022 to Question 106432 on Zero Hours Contracts, if he will make an assessment of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2022 to Question 106432 on Zero Hours Contracts, which stakeholders considered...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people to choose whether to receive the Warm Home...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) tackle exploitation and (b) improve sustainability in the UK garment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of letters bearing first class stamps were delivered by Royal Mail within three days in the LA postcode...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many new gas and oil fields in the UK have received production licences in the last six months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to (a) engage with regulators on and (b) develop a market for investment in green industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of delivering the hydrogen village trial.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an estimate of the numbers of consumers switched to prepayment meters without consultation in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to improve gas storage capacity in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he will review trends in the level of costs charged by insolvency practitioners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2022 to Question 92266 on Climate Change Convention, if he will make an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has provided to each Local Enterprise Partnership to finance the development of local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding the Government has provided to Local Enterprise Partnerships in each financial year since 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes have had Energy Company Obligation scheme measures installed in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of jobs supported by the Green Homes Grant support in Dulwich and West...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what was the average grant given to homeowners with successful applications under Green Homes Grant voucher scheme in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes have been retrofitted as a result of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator in Dulwich and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes have been retrofitted as a result of the Local Authority Delivery Scheme in Dulwich and West Norwood...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many energy-saving home improvement projects have been completed through the Green Deal in Dulwich and West Norwood...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of the 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships submitted local economic plans; and how many and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps is his Department taking to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises Dulwich and West Norwood...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to increase funding to renewable energy sources in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency.
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 Dulwich...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with businesses in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency on the potential impacts of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many small and medium sized enterprises in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency have received Government funding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to make further funding available to households who do not qualify for the Energy Bill Support Scheme,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an estimate of the total funding provided through the Energy Bill Support Scheme in Kingston upon Hull.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of businesses are owned by women in Kingston upon Hull North constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what is the maximum electricity output from all coal and biomass generating plants in the UK that would be able to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason (a) sports and leisure centres and (b) swimming pools were not included in the list of sectors eligible...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to include public sector swimming pools within the scope of the energy and trade intensive...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding, when the online portal for applications for that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Retain EU Law Bill, whether he intends to (a) retain, (b) revoke or (c) replace the Consumer...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of declines in the amount of steel produced in the UK on the (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made a recent assessment of whether there are potential national security implications of allowing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on reducing national carbon emissions and tackling the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has considered introducing a floor mechanism for the development of geothermal energy schemes as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the level of carbon emissions from the steelworks in (a) Scunthorpe and (b) Port Talbot.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding scheme will open.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will review the list of Energy and Trade Intensive Industries eligible for increased support under the Energy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 114793 on Health: Energy, if he will make an assessment of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department has had with Ofgem on any actions they plan to take to prevent energy companies from...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of energy company compliance in instances when customers ask for a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure customer deposits with energy companies are protected in the event...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he expects to announce the outcome of the Government's review of electricity market arrangements (REMA).
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to encourage more UK-based late-stage investment in (a) semiconductor manufacturing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the (a) level of strategic importance of the UK steel sector as a British sovereign...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Written Statement of 19 December 2022 on Energy Schemes Update, HCWS466, when he plans to (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure energy companies notify customers before increasing direct debit payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department is taking steps to help minimise the number of staff in voluntary organisations who have been given a protective notice...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the current status is of the outstanding (a) development proposals affecting integrated schools and (b) other Northern Ireland Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding the cost of medicines regulation undertaken by the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of those who attended the NHS Recovery Forum meeting at Downing Street on Saturday 7 January 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the review of NICE diagnostics guidance on tumour profiling tests to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions in early breast cancer...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date he will publish a Tobacco Control Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department plans to spend on promoting the uptake of free (a) seasonal flu and (b) covid-19 booster vaccinations to eligible...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage by cohort of (a) children aged 2 and 3 years on 31 August 2022, (b) school-aged children including all primary school...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data sources his Department is using to monitor whether visits are taking place in line with the guidance on visiting in care settings.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment has his department made of the adequacy of the (a) number and (b) accessibility of public access automated...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to support to patients affected by hormone replacement therapy shortages.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with severe mental illness have adequate access to physical health checks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the diagnosis rate of cancer at stages one and two in adults aged between 18 and 50.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the vaccination rate for covid-19 for people who meet the eligibility criteria (a) was in 2021, (b) was in 2022 and (c) is so far in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help increase awareness amongst GPs of cancer symptoms in patients aged between 18 and 50.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds any data on the ratio of NHS dentists to the population; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to improve the (a) funding of, (b) research into and (c) waiting times for treatment of pancreatic cancer.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has held recent discussions with (a) the British Dental Association and (b) similar representative organisations...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) increasing funding for medical schools, (b) offering additional financial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that contracts awarded to HIV clinics require those clinics to conduct annual audits of (a) the number of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has (a) included and (b) made an assessment of the potential merits of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students have undertaken dental studies at (a) university or (b) medical colleges since 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding he plans to allocate to fund places at the Three Counties Medical School in Worcester.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the contractual terms of dentists to incentivise them to work in areas having difficulty providing NHS dentistry...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of NHS dental care provision in Ipswich constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on human respiratory health of (a) log burning stoves and (b) pellet boilers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to NHS dentistry in Ipswich constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help agree a negotiation framework on NHS staff pay with trade union representatives.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure that the National HIV action plan includes targeted work to ensure migrants and asylum seekers living with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will expand HIV opt-out testing to local authority areas where there are between two and five per 1,000 people living with HIV.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the potential merits of expanding the use of medical cannabis.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to require the UK Health Security Agency to produce more granular data on (a) HIV, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had recent discussions with representatives of the medical technology industry on supporting that industry to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve levels of staff (a) recruitment and (b) retention in the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of a UK-India free trade agreement on the availability...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to reduce the (a) pressure on and (b) workload of NHS staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of firms providing agency labour to the NHS on (a) the amount of profit generated...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps with (a) Cabinet colleagues, (b) the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and (c) the medical...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of NICE bringing forward proposals to support the introduction of next generation of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's budget was derived from the public purse in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prepare and implement an NHS workforce plan to ensure effective incontinence management for patients, including...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the NHS Staff Survey that ambulance staff have lower...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS England will resume collecting Dental Commissioning data.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurse apprentices are training in York as of 10 January 2023; and whether he is taking steps to increase the number of nursing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to discuss solutions with armed forces planners to delays in NHS discharges.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) ambulance handover times outside NHS hospitals and (b) A&E waiting times.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of incorporating education on female presentation of symptoms into the training of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help resolve pay disputes with NHS staff in relation to settlement for 2022/23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the communication of information on levels of cover during strikes across NHS Ambulance Trusts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) GP appointments, (b) Accident and Emergency treatment and (c) delayed medical (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December to Question 107082, for what reason he is concerned that the disclosure of the information...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS funding has increased in line with inflation in total since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help enable local authorities to provide more adult social care for patients in hospitals who cannot be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statement made by Daren Mochrie of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives in oral evidence to the Health and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to encourage NHS partner organisations including (a) businesses and (b) voluntary, community and social...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that specialist medical services are accessible in all regions of England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of prostate cancer patients are asymptomatic when they are first diagnosed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December to Question 99836, what penalties will be faced by companies that are not DTAC compliant as part of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK-South Africa health partnership; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December to Question 99836, how many DTAC-required NHS contracts have been awarded to companies that are not...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the membership of the Elective Recovery Taskforce.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what preventative health measures his Department is (a) taking and (b) planning in order to ease pressures on the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of expanding access to the drug Liothyronine T3 for people with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing Access rebate...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase staffing levels in A&E departments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December to Question 99836, if he will publish the directory of products meeting DTAC standards.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much public funds his Department has spent on the partnership with Moderna to produce a new Innovation and Technology Centre in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of classifying (a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction under the Mental Health Act 1983...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including early intervention measures within the upcoming Mental Health Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many flu vaccinations were given in England in (a) 2021, (b) 2022, and (c) 2023 as of 11 January; and if he will provide a breakdown...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the reasons for his decision to require people providing social contact within a care setting to wear face masks as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how regularly his Department is meeting with colleagues at NHS England to reduce the use of restrictive interventions in inpatient...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of current waiting times for (a) paediatric assessments and (b) initial paediatric appointments...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial support his Department provides to carers running medical equipment and devices.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) recruit staff to fill vacancies in the social care sector and (b) ensure high standards of care in that sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the CQC where visits have not been allowed into care settings.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities on increasing social care capacity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights' fourth report on Protecting Human Rights in Care...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on achieving the objectives of its 10-year cross-government mental health and wellbeing plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of 31 October 2022 and 2 December 2022 on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a timeline for the Pregnancy Loss Review; whether he expects the review to reflect the recommendations from...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral statement of 9 January 2023 on NHS winter pressures, what measures will be implemented to discharge mental...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Section 9 Conflicts of interest in the Policy paper entitled Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement on NHS Winter Pressures of 9 January 2023, Official Report, column 285, how much and what proportion...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will respond to correspondence of 18 October 2022 from the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys on the impact of rising...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in England suffering from Functional Neurological Disorder; and how many...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department plans to make the seasonal covid-19 booster vaccination available to people under the age of 50.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the HIV Action plan includes steps to (a) monitor (b) evaluate and (c) benchmark health-related...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to make mental health support part of the service specification for the treatment of young...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice his Department provides to parents if NHS dental services are not available for their children locally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) availability and (b) accessibility of NHS dental services in Newcastle for (i) adults and (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring providers of all mental health, learning disability and autism services...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle vaccine misinformation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 88799 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus, for how many of the 755 claims...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of Exchequer on potential options for resolving the pay dispute with NHS staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what proportion of his Department’s employees work from home at least one day a week.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reform children’s social care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of children in social care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support is available to help schools in (a) the North East and (b) Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency with rising energy costs;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the (a) recruitment, (b) retention and (c) morale of (i) teachers, (ii) teaching assistants and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of childcare providers in each region of England in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to place child asylum seekers in need of foster care into homes rather than temporary accommodation; and what support her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support local councils with the recruitment of foster carers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to improve the quality of school buildings.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of foster care placements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Departments guidance on Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete: estates published on 14 December 2022, if she will publish a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce the (a) level and (b) purpose of the funding awarded to each school selected for funding through the school rebuilding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of her Department's School Rebuilding Programme for Solihull constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the National School Breakfast Club Programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of pupil funding in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to reduce the attainment gap for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds at (a) Year 6, (b) GCSE and (c) A Level.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the apprenticeship levy on (a) opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas and (b) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of staff in early years settings in Bristol North West constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support children in foster care to attain a university education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential role of universities in helping to grow (a) social enterprises, (b) community interest...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary schools in England employ a (a) play and (b) creative arts therapist; and how many and what proportion of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2022 to Question 110853 on Religion: Secondary Education, if she will make an estimate of the number and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the extent of delays to Ofsted inspections of schools caused by the covid-19 pandemic; and what steps her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the criteria is for (a) registering for and (b) funding free school meals for children in non maintained but state funded schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to provide funding for the repair of school buildings in addition to that provided through the Priority School...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the total subject hours for (i) history, (ii) geography, (iii) English and (iv) religious education in key stages (a) three, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the impact of pay awards to (a) chief executives and (b) other leadership staff of multi academy trusts on school...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for the publication of a Government response to the report by the Competition and Markets Authority entitled...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve early years teacher training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to improve the quality of apprenticeships.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of prison maintenance in Wales in the latest 12 month period for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection recalled to prison in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022 after being charged with a new...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal cases were withdrawn due to (a) court delays and (b) case backlogs in Wales in the latest period for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to reply to the letter dated 6 October 2022 from the Rt Hon Member for East Ham.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was for rape cases to be completed in court in the latest period for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) affray, (b) wounding, (c) actual bodily harm and (d) possession of an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many rape trials were adjourned due to a defendant failing to attend court in each of the last twelve years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on victims of crime of the vacancy for the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of rape victims who withdrew from their cases in each of the last 12 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the scale of backlogs at County Courts in Wales; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce delays to hearing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the membership of the Criminal Legal Aid Advisory Board.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the diversity of the judiciary.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2022 to Question 95928 on the Lammy Review, how many of the accepted recommendations of that review have been...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to (a) publicise and (b) promote the (i) role and (ii) importance of lasting power of attorney orders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government is taking steps to ensure that the legal framework adequately allows grandparents to maintain relationships with their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the availability of qualified legal aid solicitors for asylum seekers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court warrants have been granted for energy companies to switch customers to pre-payment meters in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve prison safety for people from ethnic minorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on the prison population in England and Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of mental health support provision in the Prisons Estate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Prisons and Probation Service’s Pride in Prison and Probation staff network has (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff employed to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of courts backlogs on trends in the level of reoffending.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the appointment of the new Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time spent on bail has been in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions in absence have there been in each of the last 12 years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the Goods Vehicle Management System was not operational in January 2023; and how much it cost to fix that system.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the rate of VAT is for battery upgrades to existing domestic solar installations.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of extending VAT relief for home disability adaptions to self-installed adaptions when a recognised...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of temporarily pausing VAT on (a)domestic and (b) non-domestic energy bills.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of instructing energy utilities to include energy support payments in bills before VAT is calculated.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many hours the Goods Vehicle Movement Service has not been operational in January 2023.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 are within the scope of (a) Clause 1 or (b) any other section of the Retained EU Law...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many VAT de-registrations there were by VAT quarter between 2015 and 2022.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has a target for the maximum timescale between an application being submitted for VAT registration and it being granted.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by how much median household income per person has changed in absolute terms since 2010; and if he will make a comparative estimate of the level of change...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 12 December 2022 to Written Question 105279 on Orchestras and Theatre: Tax Allowances, what proportion of the 85 per cent...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 12 December 2022 to Written Question 105279 on Orchestras and Theatre: Tax Allowances, what the average wait time was for...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the time taken to process businesses' applications for VAT registration.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Secretary of State for Levelling...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by how much gross domestic product per hour of work has changed since 2010; and if he will make a comparative estimate of the level of change in other G7...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the £150 million additional energy support package for disabled people was calculated at the rate proposed.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether he plans to (a) revoke, (b) replace or (c) retain the Beer Regulations 1993.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue accrued to the Crown Estate from offshore wind leases in the last year.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, whether they intend to (a) retain, (b) revoke or (c) replace the Excise Duties (Deferred Payment) Regulations 1992.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether organisations which generate energy for their own use will be included in the Electricity Generator Levy.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using new and innovative methods to generate economic growth and revenue, in particular in relation...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to support the growth of blockchain innovation in the UK.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the decision by the Bank of England not to release gold deposited by the government of Venezuela...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of Government borrowing in the last five years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with the Welsh Government on its policy of offering one-off payments to health service workers; and if he will make an...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the review of the impact of private equity launched in July 2021 will conclude, and if he will place a copy of the findings of that review in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of 27 October 2022 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in India on access to justice for British nationals who...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any people invited to the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference were unable to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK-based staff from his Department have been deployed to the (a) Embassy and (b) relevant consulates in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK-based staff from his Department have been deployed to the (a) Embassy and (b) relevant consulates in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK-based staff from his Department have been deployed to the (a) Embassy and (b) relevant consulates in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK-based staff from his Department have been deployed to the (a) Embassy and (b) relevant consulates in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the implementation of the Preventing Sexual Violence in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many people attended the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference; and how many and what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department’s publication of spending over £500 with a Government procurement card...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether participants at the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference will be able to provide...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Iran on its need to (a) respect the right to peaceful...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Palestinian Authority on the potential smuggling of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the number of social activists who have been...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he plans to respond to the email letter of 16 December 2022 from the hon. Member for Wirral West.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of global food insecurity needs in 2023 compared to (a) 2019 and (b) 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish data on the diversity of (a) staff who have joined his Department in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Joint Submission by Human Rights Watch and Lawyers for Justice to the Committee Against...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to engage with authorities in Chad on the arrest of Baradine Berdei Targuio, president of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 105356, what representations he has made to (a) the UNFCCC...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the parliamentary ratification of the World Health...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has received evidence of the Russian Federation offering (a) financial, (b) arms, (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether ministers in his Department plan to visit Bulgaria.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his European Union counterparts on the subject of alleged lobbying activity in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the governments of (a) Tajikistan, (b) Uzbekistan and (c) Turkmenistan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he is taking steps to help ensure that international war crimes investigations are politically and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for East Londonderry of 15 November 2022 on a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Irish Government on the death of Pte Seán Rooney in Lebanon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the provisional findings of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Ukraine on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his European counterparts on the reasons for which the value of imports...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of humanitarian aid to East Africa was spent on nutrition support in the 2021-22...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) political and (b) economic situation in Burkina Faso.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Fijian Government on (a) bilateral relations and (b) regional stability.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which UK-funded aid programmes in East Africa have had reduced levels of funding since 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many full time equivalent staff his Department has in Eswatini.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications of Chinese investment in Nepalese infrastructure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Health and Social Care and (b) Business,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the democracy movement in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the political situation in The Gambia; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he will provide the Government's response to the First Report of the International Development Committee,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help provide resources to Somalia and Somaliland, in the context of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help support media freedom in Somalia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in (a) Somalia and (b) Somaliland on the status of Somaliland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Azerbaijani counterparts on the recent blockade in the Lachin corridor...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel are deployed to NATO’s mission in Kosovo.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January to Question 113210 on HMS Collingwood: Repairs and Maintenance, how many of the 393 reported maintenance issues were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's procurement spend was spent in each UK region in 2022; and what the per capita expenditure was for each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) service family accommodation and (b) single living accommodation units have an energy efficiency rating of C or above.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Defence Procurement on 20 December 2022, Official Report, column 150, how he is measuring...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on the New Medium Helicopter programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of legal advice sought by his Department in relation to the Armoured Cavalry programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the AJAX Lessons Learned Review will include reference to the role of contractual weaknesses which may have contributed to the delayed delivery...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel are training with the Watchkeeper platform.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many flight hours have been made by the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft fleet in each year since its first delivery.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 111519 on Armed Forces: Housing, for what reason the Regional Accommodation Maintenance Service...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he is taking steps to enable small and medium UK based engineering businesses to bid for work to provide waste management systems, including...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December to Question 97447 on Armed Forces: Housing, whether Regional Accommodation Maintenance Service contractors met...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many temporary heaters have been provided to armed forces families living in (a) service family accommodation and (b) single living accommodation in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces families living in (a) service family accommodation and (b) single living accommodation have been provided temporary accommodation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2022 to Question 111526 on Armed Forces: Housing, how many urgent repairs were completed in each month since 1...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have moved into (a) service family accommodation and (b) single living accommodation with non-habitable failures, in each year since 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 111520 on Armed Forces: Housing, what the average response time was for maintenance requests...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2022 to Question 97447 on Armed Forces: Housing, what proportion of properties were prepared to the required...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2022 to Question 97447 on Armed Forces: Housing, what the performance of the supplier in resolving stage 1...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2022 to Question 97447 on Armed Forces: Housing, what proportion of reactive maintenance tasks were completed to a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2022 to Question 97447 on Armed Forces: Housing, what proportion of reactive maintenance tasks were subject to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on the operation of Work Capability Assessments in each of the last five financial years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce barriers to older workers seeking to re-enter the workforce.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2022 to Question 74764, what data his Department holds on how many and what proportion of applicants for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support employment support groups in the West Midlands region.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in receipt of Universal Credit and subject to deductions (a) with and (b) without children had (i) up to five per cent,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of applicants for (a) Universal Credit and (b) Employment and Support Allowance had their claims rejected following a Work...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 September 2022 to Question 48353 on Universal Credit: Equality, if he will publish the equality analysis of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department are taking to help reduce the number of people who are out of work due to ill mental health.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on supporting disabled people into work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of support it provides to people out of work due to health problems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time is between an application being submitted for a Work Capability Assessment and decision being made for (a) Universal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department’s review into economic inactivity will take into account the (a) barriers to employment faced by disabled people...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2022 to Question 67074 on Jobcentres: Pay, what recent estimate he has made of when holiday pay will be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider the potential merits of providing support with essential living costs for people who have no recourse to public funds; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of take up of pension credit by women living in the London Borough of Hounslow; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that a) work coaches and b) disability employment advisors understand the barriers to employment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the treatment of 1950s born women affected by changes to the state pension age, what assessment he has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the cost of living crisis, if he will make it his policy to review the decision on frozen overseas pensions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 110773 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, if he will make an assessment of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle the (a) level of employment and (b) number of people who are out of work due to health...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the accuracy of decisions on the right to (a) Employment Support Allowance; (b) Universal Credit Limited...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for Access to Work grants for disabled people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people started employment following their participation in the Local Supported Employment programme in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department provides for young people in supported housing when they earn enough to take them off Universal Credit and lose...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether he has plans to (a) revoke, (b) replace or (c) retain the Confined...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with local government representatives on the impact of the Bristol Clean Air Zone.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that central government targets are adopted on air quality in line with the Environment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to integrate clean air and Net Zero policy development.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to integrate clean air and Net Zero policy development.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the (a) modelling reports produced by Imperial College London and the UK Centre for Ecology and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has taken steps to facilitate cross-departmental collaboration on tackling air pollution.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the monitoring and reporting of air pollution.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will respond to the recommendations of the report by UK100 Yes we CANZ! published in June 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of the (a) collection and (b) treatment of disposed vapes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is the value of payments made by importers and manufacturers of vapes per annum to finance the cost of collection and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the proportion of (a) disposable and (b) all vapes which are recycled.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the full guidance on the Extended Producer Responsibility measures will be published.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of importers and manufacturers of vapes in the UK are registered with the Environment Agency; and if she...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has plans to publish the analysis informing her proposed clean air targets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the Welsh Government on that government's announcement on single-use plastics in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress has been made by the panel investigating the mass die-offs of marine life on the North East coast.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to help communities to grow their own food.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce food prices.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the reporting deadline will be for the panel investigating the mass die-offs of marine life on the North East coast.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the remit is of the panel investigating the mass die-offs of marine life on the North East coast.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help tackle the increase in the cost of eggs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for International Trade on ensuring parity of (a) animal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that there will be an adequate supply of milk to meet consumer demand...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release of 16 December entitled Government provides boost to horticulture industry with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with stakeholders in the supermarket sector on trends in the level of food inflation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last had discussions with the US Climate Envoy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last had discussions with her Australian counterpart.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last had discussions with her French counterpart.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has plans to phase out the caging of laying hens by 2027.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has plans to introduce mandatory animal-welfare labelling on supermarket products.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve standards of animal welfare in abattoirs and (b) help ensure that farm...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether officials from her Department attended courses on (a) SPS agreements, (b) trade and the environment and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps through the World Trade Organisation to help restrict the size of the Chinese distant water...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on alcohol in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her department has spent on single use pens in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ban industrial fishing vessels from Marine Protected Areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure the availability of (a) urea and (b) other fertilisers for domestic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to review rules on the labelling of free range (a) eggs and (b) poultry, in the context of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to promote food growing cooperatives.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the advice from the International Council...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to promote community food growing projects.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential benefits of grants to encourage community food projects.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in her Department have been allocated to deal with issues related to international trade in (a) each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 21 November 2022 to Questions 84814 and 84816 on Pigs: Slaughterhouses, when she plans to respond...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what independent reports have been commissioned by her Department since December 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department will publish the analysis used to support the air quality targets developed for England under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many meetings (a) they and (b) other Ministers in their Department have had with the Department's Chief Scientific...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of contribution of allotments to (a) wellbeing and (b) growing food within communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what impact assessment has taken place on the requirements of the Extended Producer Responsibility measures on small retailers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the impact on businesses of the decision to run Extended Producer Responsibility...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants awaiting determination of status in the UK and subject to electronic tagging have broken the conditions of the tag in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy that internationally recruited nurses should not stay in the same hotels as refugees.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the performance of Action Fraud.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2022 to Question 111599 on Mears Group and Migrant Help: Contracts, whether her Department has...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken (a) to conduct an audit of positive results from the Warnings Index and Border Crossings systems during...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the rules on graduate visas in instances where international students are unable to apply...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason Border Forces detain people with valid student visas on arrival in the UK; and if she will take steps to end this practice.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency and (b) nationally Biometric Residence Permits have not been produced...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of biometric residence permits that were issued with the incorrect type of permit conditions...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish the results of its 2014 public consultation on the review of Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding from the public purse has been provided to charities that specialise in providing support to the families of survivors of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2022 to Question 11027 on Slavery, in what way her Department's new guidance and policy on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to prevent registered sex offenders changing their gender without the knowledge of the police.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Domestic Homicides and Suspected Victim Suicides report 2021-2022, published 25 August 2021, what methods her...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Independent report entitled IICSA: report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published 14 December...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to respond to (a) written parliamentary questions and (b) correspondence from...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral statement by the Prime Minister of 13 December 2022, Official Report, column 885, whether she plans to publish...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether she has plans to (a) revoke, (b) replace or (c) retain the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 109533 on Wind Power: Migrant Workers, if it is her Department’s policy not to...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the success rate is of visa and immigration applications when Members of Parliament intervene to help a constituent.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy to implement all the recommendations of the report by Wendy Williams entitled Windrush Lessons Learned Review,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vehicles were stopped by police on suspicion of being in breach of rules on tinted windows in England in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are housed in hotels in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the number of bail expiries due to a defendant not being charged within 28 days.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of illegal pony and trap racing were recorded by police forces in England in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with the Northern Ireland (a) Executive Office, (b) Department for Communities and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent employees are employed in equality, diversity and inclusions roles by police forces in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the success rate is of visa and immigration appeal applications to the Home Office (a) with Members of Parliament intervening and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to correspondence of (a) 10 November and (b) 12 December from the Hon. member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration entitled An inspection of the immigration system...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of reinstating the Community Housing Fund on levels of housing supply.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many expressions of interest his Department received for the establishment of Investment Zones.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an estimate of the number of unoccupied dwellings in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's plans to consult on a change to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has taken recent steps to increase the construction of (a) social housing and (b) affordable homes...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to launch the Task Force on Older People's Housing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent progress his Department has made on amending provisions within the Housing Act 1988 on the treatment of long...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the average cost per annum of ground rent for all categories of property under leasehold...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of new homes sold between 17 December 2019 and the introduction of the Leasehold Reform...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on leaseholders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Leasehold Advisory Service’s support for (a) leaseholders...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what support he is providing to local planning authorities to help them facilitate increased levels of physical activity...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to increase the speed of planning decisions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help protect Hindu communities from (a) religious- and (b) racially-motivated hate crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of instances of antisemitism towards the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the financial allocation was to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council through his Department's Homelessness...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring The Regulator of Social Housing to conduct routine...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the oral contribution of 9 January 2023 from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of taking steps to ensure social housing providers adopt priority...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the level of Local Housing Allowance on the affordability of local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance he has issued to providers of domestic violence refuges regarding the provision of single-sex facilities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has had recent discussions with the British Landlords Association on rent increases in London.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the average increase in rent for private properties in London following the increase in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, for what reasons the Government did not introduce legislative proposals to end Section 21 evictions in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the financial allocation was to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council as part of his Department's Local Authority...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of his Department's Night Shelter Transformation Fund for the West...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many landlords are registered on rogue landlords databases in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the he will respond to correspondence dated (a) 11 October 2022, (b) 31 October 2022, (c) 2 December 2022 regarding a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the effect of the cost of living crisis in trends of the level of homelessness.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2022 to Question 49746 on Buildings: Insulation, when he plans to publish further...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November to Question 90729 on Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, whether an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of utilising the sight loss registers to ensure that all blind and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has had recent discussions with the Valuation Office Agency on changes to the liability for council tax of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the financial allocation was to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council from his Department's Council Tax Support Fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the financial allocation was to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council from his Department's Services Grant.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps is he taking to reduce the inflationary pressures on local authority budgets.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department provides on the sizes of the audience at (a) his and (b) other official media events that require British Sign Language...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Security Group’s recommendation to protect government’s systems, people and estate from Chinese surveillance...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is his policy that the genomics industry is critical national infrastructure; and whether that industry should be included within the UK...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the value of imports from Russia was in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the Prime Minister's flight to and from Leeds on 9 January 2023.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of Genomic Surveillance on UK national security.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Office for National Statistics plans to publish detailed migration data from the 2021 Census.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he is taking steps to protect genetic data of civil servants from potential security threats posed by surveillance technology companies.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government plans to take steps to include international human rights safeguards in a Free Trade Agreement between the United...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she will take to enable parliamentary scrutiny of the proposed UK-India free trade agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, in reference to the answer to Question 454 in the oral evidence given to the International Trade Select Committee on 30 November 2022, if...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding has been allocated to (a) FareShare and (b) other food redistribution organisations from (i) the Dormant Assets...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether regulations exist that govern how close to existing residential properties telecommunication apparatus can be installed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to encourage more investment in the emerging blockchain gaming industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2022 to Question 110636 on Treasury: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, if she will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans that the report of the in-depth review into the future of domestic women’s football will be delivered..
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential benefits of establishing a National Volunteer Corps to support emergency services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 22 January 2022 to Question 111571 on Football: Safety, what recent progress her Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) the FA, (b) Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and (c) the Football Supporters...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had recent discussions with the International Cricket Council on the participation of Afghan women...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department's proposals for a new registration scheme for short term holiday lets will include a requirement for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's proposals for a new registration scheme for short term holiday lets, what assessment she...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the report by the Government Office for Science entitled Large-scale computing: the case for greater UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of gambling shops on high streets in London in each the last 5 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department plans to provide to develop the UK's flexible semiconductor market; and whether that support will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the attractiveness of the UK for investment in semiconductor fabrication facilities...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much from the public purse her Department spent on its proposals to privatise Channel 4.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) desktops, (b) laptops, (c) mobile phones and (d) other devices are discarded by her Department in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with Ofcom on the upcoming 11.1 percent price increase of wholesale broadband in April 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of phone and broadband providers on potential in-contract price rises...
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answers of 20 November 2022 to Question 110565 on Parliamentary Estate: Repairs and...
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what was the total cost of Operation Marquee; from which sources that funding was obtained; whether any other...
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she plans to take steps to enable opposite-sex couples to convert a civil partnership to marriage.
To ask His Majesty's Government how they intend to report any money returned to public funds from suppliers of defective personal protective equipment
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