Written answers

Thursday, 28 September 2023

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Intensive Care: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review intensive care environments to identify (a) risk and (b) the potential ways in which greater scrutiny and oversight...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Dangerous Dogs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has met with the RSPCA to discuss the effectiveness of the Dangerous Dogs Act in 2023.

    • Dangerous Dogs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Responsible Dog Ownership working group has held recent discussions on the American Bully XL breed.

      Sick Leave: Stress

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many total working days were staff absent due to work-related stress in (a) her Department, (b) the Environment Agency...

  • House of Commons Commission

    • Legislation: Parliamentary Scrutiny

      To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission is considering new initiatives to increase public trust in the parliamentary...

  • Home Office

    • Electric Scooters

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) fires, and (2) deaths, were caused by e-bikes and e-scooters in each of the past five years for which figures are available.

    • Visas: Graduates

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 19 September (HL9920), what plans they have to evaluate the success of the High Potential Individual...

      UK Trade with EU

      To ask His Majesty's Government what level of physical checks are currently placed on goods travelling directly from Great Britain to (1) the Republic of Ireland, and (2) other parts of the EU.

      Refugees: Biometric Residence Permits

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average time for a Biometric Residence Permit to be issued after refugee status has been granted to an individual.

      Cobalt: Democratic Republic of Congo

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many companies in the UK subject to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 have disclosed (1) the use of cobalt, and (2) the use of cobalt from the...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Armenia: Azerbaijan

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the current security situation in Nagorno-Karabakh; and what recent discussions they have had, together with international...

    • West Africa: Politics and Government

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support democratic (1) government, and (2) processes, across West Africa following the recent military coups in Niger and Gabon; and...

      Africa: Conflict Prevention

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are promoting UK expertise in conflict prevention and reconciliation in Africa through academic study and training in the UK; and if so, how.

      Africa: Universities

      To ask His Majesty's Government what support they are providing to African universities and institutions specialising in conflict, in particular in (1) Sudan, (2) South Sudan, (3) Eritrea,...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to allow the private sector to provide COVID-19 vaccinations.

    • Fractures: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have conducted any studies into the savings which would accrue to the NHS from investment to enable universal, high-quality Fracture Liaison Services...

      Medical Records: Data Protection

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 19 September (HL10083), whether they intend to direct NHS England to change the name of the Advisory...

      Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) guidelines for cardiomyopathies.

      Coeliac Disease: Diagnosis

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the diagnostic pathway for coeliac disease.

      Maternity Services: Finance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current annual (1) maternity, and (2) neonatal, budget for NHS England; and how much NHS England has expended annually in clinical negligence...

      Health Services: Children

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have plans to introduce legislation which facilitates the improvement of parental rights in respect of seeking a second medical opinion of the...

      Public Health: Regulation

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce new regulations on public health that cover England if all retained EU regulations on public health are removed from UK law.

      Healthy Start Scheme

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many recipients of Healthy Start vouchers are not in receipt of prepaid cards despite remaining eligible for the scheme.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Disability

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Written Statement by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 18 September (HLWS1021), following the Court of Appeal judgment of 11 July, has...

    • National Insurance

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many national insurance numbers were issued in each of the past five years; and how many were outstanding at each year end.

  • Treasury

    • Apprentices: Taxation

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to review the Apprenticeship Levy; what assessment they have made of any imbalance between (1) the amount paid by logistics and transport...

    • Strikes: Economic Growth

      To ask His Majesty's Government what impact strikes in the (1) public, and (2) private, sector have had on gross domestic product growth in each of the past three years.

  • Department for Transport

    • Aviation: Energy

      To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to meet their ambition for aviation energy efficiency to increase by 2 per cent per year; and what assessment they have made of the...

    • Electric Vehicles: Vans

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of take-up of electric vans; what assessment they have made of the impact on the targets contained in their paper...

      Aviation: Carbon Emissions

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the current UK capacity to produce sustainable aviation fuel; what will be the capacity required to meet their Jet Zero Strategy...

      Transport

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to develop a National Transport Strategy.

      Shipping: Isles of Scilly

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 20 September (HL9964), whether they intend to place in the Library of the House a copy of the...

      NATS: Vacancies

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 19 September (HL Deb col 1332), why there are NATS staff shortages at Edinburgh, Manchester and...

      Air Traffic Control

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the statistics from Eurocontrol that on 28 August over 2,000 flights were cancelled; whether they have assessed why those figures...

      Shipping: Isles of Scilly

      To ask His Majesty's Government what reassurances they have had from the Council of the Isles of Scilly that their plans to establish a special purpose vehicle to manage the proposed £48...

      High Speed 2 Line: Construction

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to (1) stop, or (2) scale back, HS2; and what estimate they have made of the savings to the taxpayer in either case.

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

    • Broadband: Voucher Schemes

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the breakdown by constituency of the number of applications to the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme that are still outstanding.

    • Artificial Intelligence

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to help the Frontier AI Taskforce build safe and reliable frontier AI models.

  • The Senior Deputy Speaker

    • Peers: Leave of Absence

      To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker on how many occasions, and when, the Leave of Absence Sub-Committee has declined to recommend that leave of absence be granted.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Agriculture: Soil

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support regenerative agriculture.

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