Written answers

Mawrth, 11 Ebrill 2023

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Guide Dogs: Hudderfield

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that guide dog owners have equal access to businesses in Huddersfield in the last 12 months.

    • Department for Business and Trade: Public Consultation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which consultations published by their Department are awaiting a response; and when each of those responses (a) were initially planned to and...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Blood: Contamination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if it remains his Department's policy to increase the Infected Blood Support Schemes in line with inflation from 1 April 2023.

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the independent report entitled JCVI statement on the COVID-19 vaccination programme for 2023, updated on 27 January...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Hong Kong: Diplomatic Relations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic privileges will be available to officials from Hong Kong visiting the UK in April 2023.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • al-Aqsa Mosque

      To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the governments of (1) Israel, and (2) Jordan, regarding access to the Al-Aqsa mosque for Palestinians in East Jerusalem and...

    • Windsor Framework

      To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made on refining the specification of goods defined as "at risk" under the Windsor Framework; and what further discussions, if...

      Seeds: UK Internal Trade

      To ask His Majesty's Government why individuals in Northern Ireland buying vegetable and herb seeds for personal use direct from suppliers in Great Britain are required to have a...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Drugs: Advertising

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 21 March (HL5868), what steps they will take to uphold the provisions of Chapter 4 of the Medicines and...

    • Palantir: Databases

      To ask His Majesty's Government what was the process for selecting a company to provide the NHS England data platform; and which other companies they considered bids from before awarding the...

      General Practitioners: Pharmacy

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Evans of Rainow on 20 March (HL Deb col 1529), what is the source of their data for saying that six percent of GP services...

      Integrated Care Boards: Palliative Care

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that integrated care boards fulfil their obligations under the Health and Care Act 2022 to provide palliative care...

      Hospices: Hospital Beds

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of hospice beds that have been lost due to shortfalls in the funding through integrated care boards and where no...

      Mental Health: Women

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their Women’s Health Strategy for England, published on 30 August 2022, what steps they are taking to address the high rates of poor mental...

      Home Care Services: Drugs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ask NHS England to undertake a review into the safety and reliability of homecare medicines services in England.

      Coronavirus: Immunosuppression

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 1 March (HL5824), which body will assume responsibility for ensuring that the immunocompromised will...

      Medicine: Higher Education

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of places available at UK universities to study medicine to match demand from applicants.

  • Treasury

    • Trade Barriers: Isle of Wight

      To ask His Majesty's Government what information and paperwork need to be provided by a manufacturer, supplier or haulier in Southampton when transporting goods to the Isle of Wight, including...

    • Customs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what were the construction costs of each of the seven Inland Border Facilities; and for what purposes each of them have been used in the last year.

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Groceries Code Adjudicator

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the timetable for the review of the role of the Grocery Code adjudicator; and how Parliament will be notified of the outcome.

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

    • Artificial Intelligence

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the letter published by the Future of Life Institute Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter, published on 29 March;...

    • Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre

      To ask His Majesty's Government what evidence they have received about the impact of the loss of the Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre following its sale.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Commonhold Council

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many meetings of the Commonhold Council there have been since its formation; and how many scheduled meetings of the Council were cancelled.

    • Liverpool Strategic Futures Panel

      To ask His Majesty's Government how the Liverpool Strategic Futures Panel is supported by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

      Leasehold: Reform

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to make the leasehold enfranchisement process easier for residential leaseholders.

      Visas: British National (Overseas)

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the barriers faced by people from Hong Kong who have come to the UK under the British National Overseas (BNO) visa taking up...

  • Department for Education

    • Physical Education

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their response to the House of Lords National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee's report, A national plan for sport, health, and wellbeing, where...

    • Visas: British National (Overseas)

      To ask His Majesty's Government what support they are offering to people from Hong Kong who have come to the UK under the British National Overseas (BNO) visa to help them take up teaching positions.

  • Department for Transport

    • Public Transport: Key Workers

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to make special public transport arrangements to enable key workers to travel to work in the event that the National Union of Rail,...

    • High Speed 2 Line

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether the current HS2 rolling stock will be leased or purchased; what loading gauge(s) it will be built to; and on which routes a train of greater gauge than W6...

      Railways: Solar Power

      To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Swiss Federal Railways regarding its trial of laying solar panels in between railway tracks in order to generate electricity.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Oil: Poole

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost to public bodies of the oil spill in Poole.

    • Cats: Animal Welfare

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the draft Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023, what consideration they have given to the possibility of that legislation causing...

      Cats and Dogs: Animal Welfare

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the draft Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023, what assessment they have made of the necessity of considering cats and dogs...

      Cats: Animal Welfare

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the draft Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023, what consideration they have given to the possibility of that legislation causing...

      Cats: Animal Welfare

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the draft Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023, what consideration they have given to providing exemptions for (1) older cats, (2)...

      Cats: Animal Welfare

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the draft Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023, what consideration they have given to the issues surrounding the data...

      Honey: Standards

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the authenticity of British honey, following the investigation by the European Commission's Anti-Fraud Office and the Joint...

      Ash Dieback Disease: Disease Control

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 21 March (HL6421), how many grants they made to private landowners for support with the costs described...

      Rights of Way

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 29 March (HL6810), whether they will provide additional funding for local highway authorities to address (1) the...

      Fishing Vessels: Northern Ireland

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether fishing vessels from (1) Great Britain, and (2) Northern Ireland, landing fishing catches at Northern Ireland, will be treated as vessels from third...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Probate

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average time taken for His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to process probate applications.

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