Monday, 30 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper Government vision for the rapid chargepoint network in England, published on 14 May 2020, what progress his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the number of motorcycle or moped drivers driving on public roads unaccompanied and without a full UK driving...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to link up HS2 to the Midland Mainline through the East Midlands Hub.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the Government has not published the HS2 Local Growth Action Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the letter from the Minister of State for Transport to the Chair of the Transport Select Committee, dated 30 December 2022, whether...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether National Highways will be provided with additional funding to help (a) enable and (b) prioritise infrastructure to help facilitate freeports.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 111539 on Driving under Influence, if he will clarify (a) what is meant by the phrase no-cost...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether National Highways is planning any outages of its Dynac system.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral answer to the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun of 19 January, Official Report column 521, to which (a) railway unions...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will visit Levenshulme railway station to meet with users who struggle to access that station.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will update the driving license application process to replace the word gender and the options male and female with the word sex and the options...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing citizens of Trinidad and Tobago to swap their home country driving licences for full...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Levelling Up in the East of England report from the East of England APPG and East of England Local Government Association, if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of disparities in bus funding between neighbouring authorities on the East of England region's ability to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Department plans to give detailed feedback to local authorities which were not successful in securing Bus Service Improvement Plan Funding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason it is not his policy to replace Crosscountry train rollingstock with bi-mode multiple units for use with overhead electric wires.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to upgrade train rolling stock on Crosscountry services to (a) address overcrowding and poor accessibility and (b) meet 2050 net...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to (a) address overcrowding on and (b) improve connectivity of rail services between Manchester and Birmingham via Stoke-on-Trent.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing ownership records, alongside registered keeper details on V5C...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to launch an independent review of (a) Transport for London's zoning of Watford Junction railway station, Watford High...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2023 to Question 122286 on Train Operating Companies: Standards, what estimate he has made of how long it will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2023 to Question 122286 on Train Operating Companies: Standards, which of the listed companies will conduct the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of the 436 additional driving instructors announced have been recruited in Greater Manchester as of 24 January 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) pedestrians and (b) other people were (i) killed and (ii) seriously injured in collisions where the driver of the vehicle left the scene...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether it is his policy to (a) revoke, (b) retain or (c) replace the judgement in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date he last travelled on official business by train to the north of England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure cycling infrastructure is accessible to (a) cargo bikes and (b) bikes for disabled people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of employees in their Department are paid at the rate of the National Minimum Wage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many requests from NHS trusts for revenue cash support were approved by his Department in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the context of appointments published by NHS Digital as part of its Appointments in General Practice data, how many recorded GP...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to (a) help ensure that mothers have adequate supplies of formula milk where they are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to support the General Dental Council reduce the backlog in applicants waiting to sit the Overseas...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Appointments in General Practice report published in December 2022, how many of the GP appointments recorded were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to (a) identify and (b) manage potential conflicts of interest during the appointment process to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding for all 40 NHS Wellbeing Hubs will continue beyond March 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department has made a recent estimate of the cost of checking for human papillomavirus using (a) smear testing and (b) the human...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the level of pay of NHS workers in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure NHS staff are paid fairly.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of NHS dental practices accepting new (a) child and (b) adult patients.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of disparities in access to contraception experienced by women from (a) ethnic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of concerns raised by the British Society for Rheumatology with the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Plan will seek to improve women’s access to (a) contraception and (b) abortion; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his policy to work with (a) patient groups, (b) industry stakeholders and (c) other relevant parties on finding solutions...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of children under the age of 18 in St Helens who have been diagnosed with Tourette’s...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had discussions with relevant stakeholders on trends in the number of (a) nurse and (b) pharmaceutical staff...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the progress made in carrying out the October 2021 Plan for Improving Access to GP appointments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many commercial agreements NHS England has agreed with manufacturers of medicines that allow, support or result in non-uniform...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to help retain Health Visitors in the NHS workforce; and what estimate he has made of the number of Health...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of the NHS continuing to adopt uniform pricing by medicine on patient access...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether policies to improve patient access to combination therapies will be considered by his Department in upcoming negotiations for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report on Transforming lives, improving health outcomes:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that mental health professionals are integrated into the Government's work on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the uptake and availability of innovative medicines across the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent staff worked for NHS 111 in each year since 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage uptake of the NHS Breast Screening Programme in (a) Penrith and The Border constituency...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce ambulance response times for emergencies in East Yorkshire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy on the impact of the Voluntary...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access rebate...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the independent review of Reproductive Health, Sexual Health and HIV Innovation Fund will be published; and whether his Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) publish and (b) implement a PrEP Action Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment has he made of the adequacy of (a) access to and (b) availability of NHS dental care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to improve the recruitment and retention of GPs in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure (a) babies and (b) children are (i) well nourished and (ii) warm in all...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations his Department has had from the radiotherapy industry during the last 12 months; and how many meetings his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) improve diagnosis times for cervical cancer, (b) reduce backlogs for specialist referral for patients with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he last held discussions with representatives of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the level of delayed discharges...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 22 November 2022 to Question 94807 on Mechanical Thrombectomy, when financial plans will be announced to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on delivering the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions on Cancer.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many social care beds the Government funds in (a) St Helens and (b) Merseyside.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the NHS Long Term Plan milestone of diagnosing 75% of cancers at an early stage by 2028.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in (a) St Helens and (b) Merseyside have been diagnosed with cervical cancer in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using SNOMED-CT diagnostic codes to determine the number of (a) adults...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the plan for adult social care system reform.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with Cancer Research UK on the 10-Year Cancer Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had recent discussions with the ME Association on the ME/CFS Delivery Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the treatment of epilepsy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to use submissions to the 10 year cancer plan call for evidence to inform the Major Conditions Strategy.
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 19 November and 19 December 2022 on behalf...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many inpatient beds there were in NHS community hospitals in England in (a) 1997, (b) 2010 and (c) 2022; and if he will make an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on targeted energy support for families running lifesaving...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people with eating disorders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of beds in hospital trusts in (a) Wirral West constituency and (b) England were allocated to private patients in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital from A&E in 2022 in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made in delivering the 250,000 doses of the Mpox vaccine for the 125,000 people deemed to be in priority...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to roll out the Mpox vaccine; and if his Department will take steps to maintain supplies of that vaccine for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of patient safety at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 23 January on Mental Health Update, HCWS512, what estimate he has made of the cost of each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle cases of hypothermia in babies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to publish a joint external evaluation on the UK's capacity to (a) prevent, (b) detect and (c) rapidly respond to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, whether he plans to (a) revoke, (b) retain or (c) replace the Food Irradiation (England)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's Major Conditions and Diseases Strategy, whether public health charities and organisations were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentistry practices are providing NHS services in the city of Bristol.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency entitled Higher Education Student Statistics: UK 2021/22, published on 19...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of food price inflation on the (a) nutritional value and (b) portion size of school meals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the non-attendance statistics were for all primary school children resident in Warwick and Leamington in each year for which data as available...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the non-attendance statistics were for all secondary school children resident in Warwick and Leamington in each year for which data is available...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing teachers who are unwell on days of industrial action in the NHS to self-certify as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted were inspected again within four years as recommended by Department for Education...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Waste Management Policy of schools in England; and if she will make an estimate of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's timeframe is for reviewing relationship and sex education guidance; and what the process will be for that review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory duty of care for higher education institutions to students aged 18...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) community and (b) private training providers holding traineeship contracts are able to access 16-19 study programmes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of schools teach Domestic Science; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of academy trusts admissions policies and oversubscription criteria on the ability of local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure her Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and whether that monitoring data...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria are being used to determine when project delivery will begin for schools as part of the school rebuilding programme; and if she will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has provided recent guidance to schools on (a) the health and safety implications for and (b) school opening when school...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers took sickness absence in each local authority in England in this academic year as of 24 January 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools with costs associated with the removal of asbestos from school buildings where it is deemed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the cost to the public purse of each Criminal Justice Board in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court orders have been granted allowing energy companies to forcibly install prepayment meters in homes since (a) the start of January 2023 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question 125370 on Community Orders, how many hours of community service were given as part of community...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding his Department has provided for education in prisons in England and Wales in the 2022-23 financial year; and what this funding has been...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the annual training budget for the Probation Service, excluding costs related to the Professional Qualification in Probation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of Serious Further Offences committed in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will (a) make assessment of the effectiveness of existing funding and (b) take steps to establish a cross-Departmental fund for women’s...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 January 2023 to Question 125370 on Community Orders, how many hours of community service were not carried out in each (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) total and (b) effective trials for (i) rape and (ii) sexual offences excluding rape there were in each quarter between 1 October 2021 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the average length of time a (a) witness and (b) defendant is in a court witness box during a rape court case.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of number of defendants accused of (a) rape and (b) sexual assault who have been given conditional release on bail in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) rape and (b) other sexual assault cases disposed of through voluntary dismissal in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) total and (b) effective trials for fraud offences there were in each quarter from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what happens to the disciplinary records of (a) judges and (b) prison officers when they change (i) gender and (ii) name.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of employees in their Department are paid at the rate of the National Minimum Wage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and whether that monitoring data...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what human resources information their Department shares with trade unions on a regular basis.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to introduce an independent public advocate to support bereaved families.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how often her Department plans to conduct ex-post evaluations of the implementation of new free trade agreements.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2023 to Question 123935, on Trade Agreements: USA, whether any projects involving (a) new cooperation...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2023 to Question 119982 on Iron and Steel: Russia, if she will take steps to prevent steel exported...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has taken steps to consult with the UK based Indian diaspora during the process of choosing (a) trade envoys and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to help support participation by (a) African states, (b) the African Union and (c) the Secretariat of the African...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department will take to monitor the impact of newly implemented free trade agreements on (a) the climate, (b) labour rights...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ involvement in the (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps with the Home Secretary to accelerate the processing of Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterparts on recent deaths of activists and civilians in Hebron.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the approach adopted by Nicolas Maduro to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ban the (a) sale of arms to and (b) import of military technology from Israel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of impact of the resurgence of militant groups, including the Haqqani Network and the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department’s publication of Government procurement card spending over £500, for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has notified staff to (a) tell or (b) remind them that they can sell annual leave in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Mexican Government on the disappearance of people in that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to with NGOs to support programmes in Afghanistan affected by the Taliban...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the UK Government is taking to support Afghan civil society in delivering (a) humanitarian and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Israeli counterpart on (a) the ruling of the Israeli high court on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with women-led organisations in Afghanistan on those groups' involvement...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the £36 million committed to the humanitarian response to flooding in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will bring forward sanctions on individuals within the Russian orthodox church who are shown to be complicit...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help provide (a) medications and (b) medical equipment to hospitals in Ukraine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether training has been provided by the College of Policing to Egypt’s police force in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the European Union and (b) European Union member states on regional...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2023 to Question 117891, whether his Department is taking steps to offer...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the Moldovan Government in countering Russian (a) political...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the press release by his Department entitled UK announces support to Ethiopian drought and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to Answer of 23 January 2022 to Question 126580 on Developing Countries: Malaria and Tuberculosis, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in (a) Cameroon, (b) Central African Republic, (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of his Department's operating and frontline diplomacy expenditure has been attributed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the quality of service personnel and family accommodation for personnel based at Robertson Barracks in Norfolk.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help secure orders for the UK's shipbuilding supply chain.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if it remains his Department's policy to refresh the UK's Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has notified staff to (a) tell or (b) remind them that they can sell annual leave in the last four months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and which (a) boards and (b) committees he sits on.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of housing for armed forces personnel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and whether that monitoring data...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of employees in their Department are paid at the rate of the National Minimum Wage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the US government has made a commitment to pay the costs arising from a nuclear accident related to the (a) siting and (b) transportation of US...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the overall standard of accommodation offered to UK Armed Forces personnel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has for HMS Bristol following its decommissioning in 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate with Cabinet colleagues of how many jobs will be created in Spain as a result of the UK's Fleet Solid Support ship contract.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many days RAF Halton has been without heating in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK's satellite communications capacity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to replenish the UK's stock of (a) armoured vehicles (b) stormer vehicles (c) underwater mine-hunting vehicles and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has plans to restock support equipment for Challenger 2.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether it is his policy to (a) revoke, (b) retain or (c) replace the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the uptake of Pension Wise appointments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) defined benefit and (b) defined contribution pension schemes to invest in illiquid assets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he or a Minister in his Department next plans to meet with a representative from the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's Automatic enrolment review 2017, what his Department's timeline is for publishing proposals to extend...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward the payment date for Spring 2023 cost-of-living payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group Child of the North,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department has not updated its web page on Collection: DWP statistical FOI releases since 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and whether that monitoring...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Angus constituency did not receive the first Cost of Living Payment due to receiving a nil award during the relevant...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of potential trends in levels of poverty among women born in the 1950s in the context of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process new Housing Benefit claims since Q3 2020-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on which date his Department will publish the Households Below Average Income statistical release for financial years ending 1995 to 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to support workers experiencing menopause to stay in employment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question 127881 on Jobcentres: Closures, if he will list the locations and proposed closure dates...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that households entitled to social security benefits are claiming all they are entitled to.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of permitting Universal Credit claimants to receive their payments every two weeks...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants in Angus constituency are paid by their employers on a non-monthly cycle.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including within the monthly published Universal Credit statistics the number of people...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on the Disability Action Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support people with disabilities into employment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on awarding new contracts to carry out work capability assessments and Personal Independence...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of her Department's policy to suspend Personal Independence Payments when claimants are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure microchips in cats are scanned when found following a road traffic collision;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to provide a substantive response to the correspondence of 5 November 2022 from the hon. Member for Merthyr...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish an assessment of the potential (a) economic, (b) business, (c) environmental and (d) export impacts of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to provide (a) research and development and (b) other support to help the UK horticulture industry to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's findings in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to allow wild camping to take place in Dartmoor National Park.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Greening Government Commitments 2020 to 2021 report has not been published; and when the Government...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, whether she plans to (a) revoke, (b) retain or (c) replace the Environmental...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides will include a commitment to introduce pesticide use...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the Pets (Microchips) Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to ban temporary approvals for the use of bee-toxic neonicotinoids.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of sewage leaks reported by Thames Water in (a) Streatham constituency,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the financial impact on pet owners and assistance dog users transporting their pets to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to work with the (a) Environment Agency and (b) trade unions to provide a settlement to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, whether she plans to (a) revoke, (b) retain or (c) replace the Cocoa and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of rises in the price of food on the provision of public sector food.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much South Tyneside Council has returned to her Department from grants allocated in the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with UK food and drink wholesalers on the challenges faced by that sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of support available to UK food and drink wholesalers to assist the cost...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the transaction for £1,567.63 on 14 December 2021 included in her Department’s publication of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2022 to Question 40832 on Fish Farming: Animal Welfare, when she expects to receive...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to respond to Clean Air Greater Manchester's proposal for an investment-led, non-charging clean air zone in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ban the export of paraquat to India.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of (a) ordinary and (b) named-day written questions their Department answered on time in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has taken recent steps with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the rate of suicide of men in the farming community.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 18 January 2023 to Question 117854 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the Greening Government Commitments annual reports for (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to meet its statutory targets on environment protection; and if she will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of passport applications were not processed within 10 weeks in each calendar month of 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to recent reports of the abduction of unaccompanied children from a Home Office residence in Hove, what urgent steps her...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to ensure that children asylum seekers are not abducted from the hotels they are temporarily housed in.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many National Crime Agency officers were working on the issue of missing child asylum seekers as of 25 January 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has notified staff to (a) tell or (b) remind them that they can sell annual leave in the last four months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many military personnel were deployed at airports to cover those Border Force staff participating in the PCS trade union strike action...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will permit the creation of new asylum accommodation sites in areas which a local authority has deemed unsuitable.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees on missing asylum-seeking minors.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times she (a) predetermined an application before a person attended and (b) excused the requirement to attend a Visa Application...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on how many LGBT+ Afghans have been admitted to the UK since the end of Operation Pitting.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place a copy of the internal risk register on unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors in the Library of the House.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Myanmar nationals claimed asylum in the UK in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 117811, whether his Department is aware of any other technical IT faults with the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Home Office spent on employing caseworkers to make conclusive grounds decisions in the National Referral Mechanism in financial...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure her Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and whether that...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the delay in announcing the decision on the housing of asylum seekers in Pontins in Southport...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on subsistence payments for people awaiting a conclusive grounds decision in the National Referral Mechanism...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting key workers from fees for DBS checks.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle violence against women and girls.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the correspondence with the hon. Member for Glasgow Central of 5 January 2023, reference ZA24239, what the oldest allowed...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average processing times are for Refugee Family Reunion applications inside the rules.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications that were submitted before January 2018 are awaiting a decision as of 25 January 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' consumer cannabidiol products cover letter and report published on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were fined for not wearing seatbelts in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Border Control procedures are in place for British (a) Ambassadors and (b) High Commissioners when they re-enter the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to protect unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the powers of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing (a) swift blocks and (b) other biodiversity measures...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of management companies increasing ground rent by the retail price...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what advice he received from his officials before making the decision on the recently approved coal mine in Whitehaven,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has had recent discussions with relevant stakeholders on the potential merits of extending the Help to Buy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether a contract has been signed for unsafe cladding remediation work on Sesame apartments in Battersea.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many applications for Voter Authority Certificates have been submitted since 17 January 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when his Department informed local authorities of the information detailed in Section 4.4 of his Department's guidance...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question 127714 on Levelling Up Fund, if he will take steps to estimate the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 23 November 2022 from the hon. Member for Lewisham East, reference JD29336.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a specific levelling up fund for former coalfield...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance his Department has provided to local authorities on publishing their investment plans since local spending...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has notified staff to (a) tell or (b) remind them that they can sell annual leave in the last four...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to tackle damp and mould in social housing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what active remediation work is taking place on buildings with unsafe cladding in Battersea.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Ukrainian households in Wales received homelessness assistance from their local authority in each month of 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether their Department has purchased mobile UV virus irradiation units.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department has notified staff to (a) tell or (b) remind them that they can sell annual leave in the last four months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January to Question 126735 on European Union: Scotland, what evidence he used to determine that there is no desire in...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister was aware that HMRC were investigating the tax affairs of the Right Hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon when he appointed him...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the impact of public sector pay policy on civil service staff.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the Office for National Statistics stopped issuing mortality by vaccination status date statistics on 31 May 2022.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has had recent discussions with the (a) Prime Minister and (b) Chancellor of the Exchequer on Yevgeny Prigozhin and sanctions; and if he...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Prime Minister will publish the remit of the investigation by the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards into the Right Hon. Member for...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has notified staff to (a) tell or (b) remind them that they can sell annual leave in the last four months.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the (a) scope one, (b) scope two and (c) scope three carbon dioxide equivalent emissions for the flights taken by the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2023 to Question 125341 on Government Departments: ICT, where cloud providers publish information on their...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information her Department holds on how many (a) UK health workers have returned to UK from EU countries and (b) EU health workers have returned...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of the extension of the freeze on alcohol duty until August 2023 on levels of alcohol-specific deaths.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration he has given to increasing the (a) mileage rate and (b) 10,000 mile threshold of the Mileage Allowance Payments available to businesses;...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and whether that monitoring data...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data his Department holds on (a) estimated PAYE and National Insurance contributions tax receipts, (b) estimated receipt of incomes taxes other than...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of valid claims for Theatre Tax Relief were paid within 28 days of receipt in the period since 1 April 2022.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to my email correspondence of 9 November 2022 from a constituent on FairCharge.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases the High-Risk Wealth Programme has considered in each tax year since its introduction; and if he will publish information on how these cases...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Welsh Government will receive a Barnett consequential from the £500 million Local Authority Housing Fund announced by the Department for...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has provided funding for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of pension allowances on factors that may incentivise doctors to retire early.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to improve the UK’s financial services sector regulatory framework.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has had discussions with banks on the provision of a service to deal with unresolved business banking complaints for SMEs following...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to put in place a provision to deal with unresolved business banking complaints relating to SMEs following the planned...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of inflation on devolved assemblies' budgets for health services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will set up an emergency support fund to help provide support to public swimming pools in the context of the increases...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to provide targeted financial support for voluntary and faith groups in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the Community Life Survey 2021-2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has provided funding for energy reduction measures in theatres for reducing energy costs in winter 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether it is her policy to (a) revoke, (b) retain or (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the extent to which average public library opening hours have changed in the last (a) three,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many public libraries have closed in England since (a) 2000 and (b) 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure her Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps her Department has taken to help support public libraries.
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, on how many days Members of Parliament who have not taken their seats in Parliament used their parliamentary...
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much has been spent on air filtration systems on the Parliamentary estate in each of the last three years.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of using prepayment meters on users of such meters in (1) managing their finances, (2) meeting the increased cost...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Royal Mail Stamp Swap Out scheme; and what assessment they have made of the cost of that scheme so far.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the impact of the severe cold weather on vulnerable households, and (2) the ability of those residents on pre-payment meters...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have paid compensation to (1) individuals who were perpetrators of terrorist activities, and (2) family members of those who were perpetrators of...
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the cost of the traffic controllers stationed on the road between Black Rod's Entrance and New Palace Yard during the current building works; how...
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to withdraw from the 1951 Refugee Convention.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of UK-Bangladesh relations.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) press freedoms in Bangladesh, and (2) the extent to which British journalists may freely enter and leave that country.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) British Nationals, and (2) families containing a British National, in refugee camps in north-East Syria have asked to return to the UK; and how many...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the execution of anti-government protestors in Iran, and what discussions they have had with the government of Iran about...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of human rights in Qatar following the sentencing to life imprisonment of Qatari lawyers Hazza and Rashed bin Ali Abu Shurayda...
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Iran concerning their use of capital punishment; and in particular, the recent cases of Mohammad Mahdi...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Defence for Children International (Palestine) Year-in-review: A deadly year for Palestinian children,...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how well the agreed arrangements for the export of food from Ukraine are working; and what (1) steps, if any, they are taking,...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that Israeli authorities refused permission for medical equipment to enter the Gaza Strip; and what representations, if...
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Jordan to ensure safe visits by Jews to the Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif).
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the formation of the new government of Israel on 29 December 2022, what assessment have they made of the compliance of the government of Israel with...
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Israel regarding the killing of (1) Shireen Abu Akleh, (2) Jana Majdi Issam, (3) Adam Nasser Ayyad, (4) Dia...
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Pakistan, if any, about the (1) safety, and (2) well-being, of around two hundred Jews living in that country.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Oxfam International Fueling Conflict: Analyzing the human impact of the war in Yemen, published on 11 January.
To ask His Majesty's Government who has been appointed to the expert panel established to investigate pyridine in the River Tees.
To ask His Majesty's Government which honey producers have been prosecuted in each of the past five years for misrepresenting the honey they have sold.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the level of UK agriculture exports.
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in trialling alternatives to thiamethoxam on sugar beet.
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they are giving (1) to licensing professional dog walkers, and (2) to limiting them to a number of dogs that can be walked at any one time.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the contribution of village halls as community spaces, and (2) the risk of closures of such facilities; and what...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 13 December (HL4004), whether they have data for those regions that have suffered a decline of (1) plants,...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on their ability to halt biodiversity loss arising from the relevant officials being diverted to work on the Retained...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding by the United Nations Development Programme that $1.8 trillion in global subsidies are contributing towards the...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the measures requiring mandatory recycling labelling on packaging enable consumers to recycle easily and...
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of (1) land, and (2) sea, they currently classify as protected in regard to the 30by30 target.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken (1) to progress plans to introduce mandatory recycling labelling on packaging, and (2) to ensure businesses are able to implement these...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 8 November (HL3116), whether they have since asked the Migration Advisory Committee to...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that severely mentally impaired persons who are entitled to attendance allowance qualify for an exception or a discount on...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to provide (1) payment insurance to British exporters, and (2) war-risk insurance for those British entities making investments into...
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to offer tax credits on (1) a broader range of intellectual property, and (2) capital spending.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of weaknesses in the (1) banking, and (2) insurance, sectors.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether His Majesty’s Treasury has done any economic modelling on the impact of the new alcohol duty bands on the consumption of alcohol; and if so,...
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of unpaid tax for the last three fiscal years; and what plans they have to recover that money.
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