Written questions, answers and statements

Written questions allow MPs and Members of the House of Lords to ask government ministers for information on the work, policy and activities of government departments. Government Ministers may make oral or written statements to Parliament. Written statements are normally used to put the day-to-day business of government on the official record and in the public domain.

All oral statements and any written content from before 2014 can be found in Hansard.

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The most recent four written questions in the House of Commons

Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Emergency Calls: Coronavirus
Imran Ahmad Khan
Conservative, Wakefield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has put in place to ensure the safety of staff at emergency call operating centres as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked 13 October 2020
Answered 26 October 2020
By Edward Argar (Conservative, Charnwood)
102956
Answered
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Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments: Coronavirus and Influenza
Derek Twigg
Labour, Halton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2020 to Question 64076 on Accident and Emergency Departments: Coronavirus and Influenza, for what reasons the link to the operating framework for urgent and planned...

Asked 23 September 2020
Answered 26 October 2020
By Edward Argar (Conservative, Charnwood)
94337
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Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Urgent Treatment Centres: Coronavirus
Colleen Fletcher
Labour, Coventry North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage people to not delay seeking urgent medical care during the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked 19 October 2020
Answered 26 October 2020
By Edward Argar (Conservative, Charnwood)
105388
Named day
Answered
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Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Diagnosis: Standards
Christina Rees
Labour, Neath

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the capacity and effectiveness of diagnostics throughout the NHS.

Asked 7 October 2020
Answered 26 October 2020
By Edward Argar (Conservative, Charnwood)
100507
Answered
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Question for Department for Transport
Travel: Health
Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
Non-affiliated, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the impact digital health passes could have on international travel.

Asked 9 October 2020
Answered 23 October 2020
By Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Conservative, Life peer)
HL8973
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Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Labour, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Local Government Association Fragmented Funding, published on 22 September.

Asked 9 October 2020
Answered 23 October 2020
By Lord Greenhalgh (Conservative, Life peer)
HL8975
Answered
Lords
Question for Home Office
NRPF Network: Meetings
Lord Boateng
Labour, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will arrange for a Minister to meet representatives of the No Recourse to Public Funds Network, following a request for such a meeting in their letter to the Prime Minister on 1 October; and if not, why not.

Asked 9 October 2020
Answered 23 October 2020
By Baroness Williams of Trafford (Conservative, Life peer)
HL8968
Answered
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Question for Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
Lord Adonis
Labour, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the responsibilities of the Clandestine Channel Threat Commander.

Asked 9 October 2020
Answered 23 October 2020
By Baroness Williams of Trafford (Conservative, Life peer)
HL8961
Answered
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Citizens’ Rights: Update on Implementing the Withdrawal Agreement
Wendy Morton
Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas
Conservative, Aldridge-Brownhills
Statement made 23 October 2020
HCWS542
Commons
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
UK priorities and objectives for 2020 annual fisheries negotiations
Victoria Prentis
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Farming, Fisheries and Food)
Conservative, Banbury
Statement made 23 October 2020
HCWS541
Commons
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
CONTINGENCIES FUND ADVANCE
George Eustice
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Conservative, Camborne and Redruth
Statement made 23 October 2020
HCWS540
Commons
Department for Transport
2022 Commonwealth Games: Games Transport Plan
Grant Shapps
Secretary of State for Transport
Conservative, Welwyn Hatfield
Statement made 23 October 2020
HCWS539
Commons

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Department for International Trade
Signing of the UK-Japan Free Trade Agreement
Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
Minister for Investment
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 23 October 2020
HLWS532
Lords
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
UK priorities and objectives for 2020 annual fisheries negotiations
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity)
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 23 October 2020
HLWS531
Lords
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
CONTINGENCIES FUND ADVANCE
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
Minister of State (Minister for Pacific and the Environment)
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 23 October 2020
HLWS530
Lords
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Extension of decision deadline on Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility)
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 23 October 2020
HLWS529
Lords

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23 October 2020
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22 October 2020
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21 October 2020
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20 October 2020
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22 October 2020
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21 October 2020
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20 October 2020
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19 October 2020
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