Friday, 23 June 2023
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission is taking steps to enable public access to Saint Stephen’s Cloisters at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of dog attacks in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of dog breed-specific legislation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has undertaken planning exercises in the last 10 years to test the UK's preparedness for managing a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on developing an avian influenza vaccination...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to take steps to (a) review and (b) update the notifiable avian disease control strategy,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to take steps to suspend the import of (a) animals and (b) animal products from France after the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of legislation to reduce the number of dog attacks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to publish its response to the Animal Welfare Committee's Opinion on the Welfare of Farmed Fish at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will work with the Environment Agency to develop a service level agreement with water abstraction licence...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) access to and (b) safety in parks for women and girls.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to tackle littering from cigarette butts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase recycling of chewing gum.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential presence of tuberculosis in badgers on land owned by the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's policy is on whether farmers whose cattle are permanently housed indoors with precautions to prevent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase rates of recycling of mattresses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating an extended producer responsibility scheme for (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to incentivise (a) recycling and (b) reuse of textiles.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has held discussions with the Environment Agency on its objections to plans for the North West Relief...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that disposable vape producers are contributing to the recycling of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with local government leaders on water and river quality.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral answer to the hon. Member for Bristol East of 12 January 2023, Official Report, column 702, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she made of the adequacy of Animal Plant and Health Agency veterinary resources; and if she will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding she plans to allocate to the Animal and Plant Health Agency in each of the next five financial years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether an Access to Work scheme has been implemented in their Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment their Department has made of the potential effect of the merger between Three and Vodafone on their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help support the refining capabilities of sustainable palm oil in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the provisions on National Development Management Policies of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether it is his Department's policy that people removed from the British Indian Ocean Territory in the 1960s...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to support the Indian Government following the Odisha train collision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many King’s Messenger Service passports his Department issued in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the government of Somaliland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the African Union on the hunger crisis in East Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of Zimbabwe's readmittance to the Commonwealth.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether Official Development Assistance spending by the devolved Governments is included in (a) reporting to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to visit Togo.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has plans to visit Zimbabwe.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Southern African Development Community on the hunger crisis in Southern Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the National Disability Strategy published on 28 July 2021, which of his Department’s commitments in that strategy that have...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide a list of all public bodies that have been delegated powers to (a) make amend or revoke, (b) enforce and (c) monitor compliance with...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of disqualifying late-paying companies from public procurement contracts.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment their Department has made of the potential effect of the merger between Three and Vodafone on their Department's contracts with Vodafone.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to extend infected blood compensation payments to the children of people affected who died before they were able to...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons the cost of living bonus for civil servants is pro rata.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has made for the celebrations of His Majesty the King’s 75th birthday in November 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications of the Three-Vodafone merger on his Department’s contracts with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) Allied Health Professionals...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency international...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which cancer medicines are being reviewed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency under Project Orbis as of 14 June 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase access to specialised psychology services for rheumatology patients.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the right care, right person model on availability of staff for (a) mental...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an Access to Work scheme has been implemented in their Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which cancer medicines have received (a) an innovation passport and (b) other support under the Medicines and Healthcare products...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February to Question 139217 on Mental Health: Preventive Medicine, what progress NHS England and the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of not centrally funding pay rises for NHS staff employed by third parties on levels...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will increase funding for outpatient (a) services and (b) staff training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that all Major Towns have both minor injury and emergency care units.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency plans to consult representatives of (a) patient organisations and (b) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that healthcare staff on the Agenda for Change contract should receive the new pay settlement...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of community diagnostic centres offer echocardiogram tests.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 187332 on Health Services, whether the 10-year plan for dementia forms part of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help ensure that patients do not have travel journeys of more than 45 minutes when attending radiotherapy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of implementing a radiotherapy strategy on waiting times for cancer treatment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the latest technology is being used in radiotherapy treatments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to improve diabetes care in the Major Conditions Strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the budgetary settlement by the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the dementia diagnosis rate in the London Borough of Havering.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of rheumatology care in Buckinghamshire in the last (a) 12 and (b) 24 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission an independent review of the provision of radiotherapy services for cancer care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce health inequalities for people with (a) rare, (b) genetic and (c) undiagnosed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority as an independent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure equality of access to mental health services for blind and partially-sighted people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of people with sight loss who have accessed NHS mental health support services between 1...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support couples access IVF treatment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that all children have access to dental health education before 31 December 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to (a) retain and (b) train and recruit dentists.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices in Oxford West and Abingdon constituency are not accepting new NHS patients.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the sale of vapes to school children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of children using (a) e-cigarettes and (b) vaping products.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the proportion of children between the ages of 11 and 15 who regularly used e-cigarettes in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to improve the testing and diagnosis of hearing impairment conditions in NHS hospitals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to remove asbestos from hospitals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the economic impact of the free-trade deals with (a) Australia and (b) New Zealand as of 14 June 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department plans to take to enhance trade relations with Malaysia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she plans to visit Malaysia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment their Department has made of the potential effect of the merger between Three and Vodafone on their Department's contracts...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential impact of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by Pregnant Then Screwed entitled Leave in the Lurch,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ensure that (a) all (i) visa and (ii) other immigration applications are processed within 12 months,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to table Asy_09a of the Asylum and Resettlement Summary tables for the year ending March 2023, for what reasons there was an...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure asylum seekers are given accurate information on the (a) expected processing times for and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Disability Strategy published on 28 July 2021, which of her Department’s commitments in that strategy...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals with a criminal record for driving offences were removed from the UK in each calendar year since 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an Access to Work scheme has been implemented in their Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has held discussions with law enforcement agencies on members of the public filming (a) police officers and (b) police station...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2023 to Question 173047 on Travellers, whether she plans to review the Equality Impact Assessment for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of requiring that scrapyards check the ownership of a vehicle before...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to raise public awareness of the potential fire risk of lithium batteries in residential buildings.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 59.g of the Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan, updated on 17 May, what discussions she has had with stakeholders...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress he has made on negotiating bilateral youth mobility schemes with countries in Europe.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support women who have sought asylum.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending statutory maternity pay to self-employed people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade to raise awareness among new mothers of all employment status...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps to ensure that all new mothers have access to maternity pay.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department holds searchable IT archives (a) of Regulatory Impact Analysis estimates for EU-sourced regulation and (b) employing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the rate of statutory maternity pay to the level of the national minimum wage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment their Department has made of the potential effect of the merger between Three and Vodafone on their Department's contracts...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people on housing benefits to claim Cost of Living payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit deductions for (a) households and (b) households with children in Enfield North constituency there were from (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial assistance (a) her Department and (b) schools provide to families on low incomes to help support them with the cost of school (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded schools have temporarily closed due to water shortages since December 2019; and which schools were affected.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to tackle funding gaps between rural and urban National Funding Formula Allocations per pupil.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has provided guidance to schools on whether they should enter into formal partnerships with Stonewall.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment their Department has made of the potential effect of the merger between Three and Vodafone on their Department's contracts with Vodafone.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has produced research on improving learning for boys at primary school.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department holds searchable IT archives (a) of Regulatory Impact Analysis estimates for EU-sourced regulation and (b) employing the search...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of higher education providers under investigation by the Office for Students relating to breaches of their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of universities deducting wages of staff that engage in industrial action on levels of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to encourage UK students to study at the University of Gibraltar.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the accuracy of decisions for applications to the Energy Support Fund made by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many applications to the Energy Support Scheme have been refused and later overturned.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress he has made on the review of the Warm Home Discount.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a single rate for electricity standing charges...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions he has had with water companies on the potential merits of using floating solar panels on (a) lakes, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the National Disability Strategy published on 28 July 2021, which of his Department’s commitments in that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether an Access to Work scheme has been implemented in their Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment their Department has made of the potential effect of the merger between Three and Vodafone on their Department's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to improve the availability of smart meters for properties which are unable to connect to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether an Access to Work scheme has been implemented in their Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what data her Department holds on the total value (a) public and (b) private investment in research and development by the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department is providing to unpaid carers in (a) Stockport constituency and (b) Greater Manchester to help deal with the effects of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he made of the causes of coach delays at the port of Dover.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing motorway speed limits to 80mph.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department have made an assessment of the potential impact of 20mph speed limits on air pollution.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of 20mph speed limits on the safety of motorists.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to take steps to allow (a) Birmingham City Council and (b) other local authorities to keep the revenue collected from speeding fines.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential ways rivers may be further utilised as urban transport routes (a) nationally and (b) on the River Ouse,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he held discussions with Midland Expressway Ltd on removing the higher rate Attendance Allowance from the list of benefits eligible for a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to publish its strategy for Low Carbon Fuels.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether an Access to Work scheme has been implemented in their Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department holds searchable IT archives (a) of Regulatory Impact Analysis estimates for EU-sourced regulation and (b) employing the search...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of HMRC processing times for (a) PAYE reference numbers and (b) VAT numbers on British theatre...
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Government of Wales on the need to establish a permanent environmental governance body to enable compliance with legal...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce waiting times for patients who have been diagnosed with cancer and are waiting for radiotherapy treatment.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many automated decision-making systems are currently used by the Department of Work and Pensions (partially or wholly) to make decisions that affect...
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