Written answers

Mawrth, 6 Awst 2024

  • Home Office

  • Department for Business and Trade

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Sepsis: Ambulance Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the criteria for ambulance dispatch to ensure that suspected sepsis cases are prioritised; and if he will take steps to...

    • Maternity Services: Nurses

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of neonatal nurses in (a) England and (b) Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin integrated care...

      Abortion: Demonstrations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the national provision of safe access zones...

  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what underspends there are within (a) her Department and (b) each of her Department's arms length bodies in this (a)...

    • Planning Permission

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 8 July 2024, for which other sectors spatial plans...

      Antisemitism

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to tackle anti-Semitism.

  • Ministry of Defence

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Silicosis: Composite Materials

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to protect workers from silicosis, in particular the risk posed by the installation of engineered stone countertops.

    • Universal Credit: Care Leavers

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish the data, routinely collected since February 2022, on care leavers claiming Universal Credit.

      State Retirement Pensions

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stedman-Scott on 6 December 2021 (HL4310), what is the median state pension for (1) men, and (2) women, for...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Government Departments: Reorganisation

      To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total cost of machinery-of-government changes, including renaming and rebranding of departments, during the recent change of Government, broken...

    • Ministers: Training

      To ask His Majesty's Government which (1) Secretaries of State, and (2) ministers, had not undertaken anti-money laundering and sanctions courses by 21 July 2024; and whether the Prime Minister...

      Broadcasting and Conferences: Sign Language

      To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to including British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation in Government broadcast communication; and what discussions they have...

  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    • Social Rented Housing: Construction

      To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of the target for building new homes over the next five years will be for social housing.

    • Travellers: Caravan Sites

      To ask His Majesty's Government by what mechanism their proposed planning and infrastructure bill will ensure the provision of new local-authority-owned Gypsy and Traveller sites.

      Construction: Skilled Workers

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that there are adequate skilled employees in all construction trades necessary for infrastructure and housebuilding projects in...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Climate Change

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to remarks by the Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 18 July that "the biggest threat to nature and food...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 12 May 2022 (HCWS23), what plans are in plans to publish the...

    • Health Services: Disclosure of Information

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many NHS whistleblowers were heeded and were satisfied with the response of their employers.

      Trazodone: Sexual Dysfunction

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many prescriptions for trazodone have been issued in each year since 2014; how many 'Yellow Card' reports of sexual dysfunction and persistent sexual...

      Health Services: Disclosure of Information

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many cases of whistleblowing there have been in the past five years across all the health and care services that are within the remit of the Department of...

      General Practitioners: Attendance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to enable people with work and family responsibilities to communicate flexibly with their NHS GP practice, and to make and attend appointments...

      Vaccination

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will establish an Industry-NHS vaccine working group to consider how best to accelerate the National Immunisation Programme.

      Fractures: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will maintain existing transformation fund commitments to support the rollout of Fracture Liaison Services.

      NHS Foundation Trusts: Standards

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the scrutiny of NHS Foundation Trusts in cases where the chair of the board of directors is the same person...

      NHS: Disclosure of Information

      To ask His Majesty's Government what payments they have made to whistleblowers in the NHS in each of the last five years (1) as part of non-disclosure agreements reached through out-of-court...

      NHS: Reviews

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many responses they have received to the Department for Health and Social Care's consultation, NHS Constitution: 10 year review, and when they plan to publish...

      Abortion: Drugs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that any risks to a woman's health are accurately assessed before she may be sent abortion pills to be taken at home.

      Drugs: Packaging

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to encourage sustainable packaging for all medication distributed by the NHS, including sustainable alternatives to plastic blister packs for...

      Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: Licensing

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 5 April (HL3640), when they intend to publish feedback to the licensing of non-surgical cosmetic procedures...

      NHS: Ict

      To ask His Majesty's Government what lessons the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS have learned from the recent global IT outage, and what plans they have to issue guidance to ensure...

      Health: Children

      To ask His Majesty's Government what actions they are taking to deliver Labour’s Child Health Action Plan, and in particular what actions they will take to improve access to...

      Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the expected coverage rates of maternal respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in the first year of the programme.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Horticulture: Finance

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to provide longer-term core funding to some research and development institutions for advances in edible and ornamental horticulture.

    • Horticulture

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce a strategy for (1) the edible, and (2) the environmental, horticultural sectors in England.

      Food: Contamination

      To ask His Majesty's Government what measures they are implementing to (1) assess, and (2) mitigate the risk of, any lead contamination in the UK food chain.

      Badgers: Disease Control

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they continue to view badger culls as being “for the purposes of preventing the spread of disease” within the meaning of...

  • Home Office

    • Climate Change: Fires

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the increase in the risk of wildfires as a result of climate change, what plans they have to ensure the safety of firefighters...

    • Asylum: Human Rights

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many people in each of the last three years have been allowed to remain in the United Kingdom as a consequence of a country having been declared unsafe on...

      Visas: Palestinians

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of proposals for a temporary Palestinians visa scheme.

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport

    • Public Bodies: Lobbying

      To ask His Majesty's Government what restrictions they place on taxpayer-funded bodies in terms of their lobbying of parliamentarians and Government in relation to public policy affecting them,...

    • Foreign Investment in UK: Exemptions

      To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to make regulations under Schedule 7 to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 to provide limited exemptions for permissible...

      Gambling: Licensing

      To ask His Majesty's Government how much revenue the Treasury received from gambling operator application fees, operator annual licence fees, and personal licence fees in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3)...

      Gambling

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the latest statistics released by the Gambling Commission, suggesting that gambling harms may be eight times higher than previously thought.

      Sports: Sponsorship

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce levels of advertising and marketing of gambling, as well as the sponsorship of sporting bodies by gambling companies.

  • Treasury

    • Private Education: Fees and Charges

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will exempt the children of UK armed forces personnel and diplomats who receive sponsorship for private education from their plan to impose VAT...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Armed Forces: Northern Ireland

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether Armed Forces personnel engaged in military operations in Northern Ireland will be eligible to receive the Wider Service Medal; and if not, why.

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