To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS' spend on unbranded generic or off-patent medicines has reduced since the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017 came into force.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times he has used his powers under the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017 to impose lower prices on unbranded generic or off-patent medicines sold to the NHS; and how many co...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any other Givernment Departments are informed when EEA nationals are unable to pass the Habitual Residency Test to facilitate (a) changes in immigration status and (b) other consequences.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of EEA National universal credit applicants have been asked to sit a habitual residency test in each year for which information is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of EEA national applicants have been refused universal credit in each year for which information is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has issued to Jobcentre staff on when it is appropriate to ask that an EEA national sit a habitual residency test when applying for universal credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has given to Jobcentre staff on EEA Nationals’ entitlement to universal credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government has taken to reduce the use of cold calling to obtain contractual agreements with pensioners.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Official Development Assistance was allocated to programmes run by (a) non-governmental organisations, (b) other private bodies, (c) charities and (d) international organisations in Ind...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken to issue payments to the receiving parent obtained by Child Support Agency as a result of deduction of earnings orders was during the period 2013-2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken to issue payments to the receiving parent obtained by Child Maintenance Service as a result of a deduction of earnings order has been in 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints have been received by the Child Maintenance Service as a result of delayed payments issued via deduction of earnings orders in each year for which information is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) longest and (b) shortest time scales were for issuing payments to receiving parents through deduction of earnings orders made by the Child Maintenance Service in 2018.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what systems are in place to distinguish people's National Insurance details when more than one person share the same name and date of birth.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what protection is in place to prevent fraudulent use of National Insurance numbers when individuals share the same name and date of birth.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to return a driving license revoked on the basis of a notifiable medical condition, after evidence that the individual is fit to drive has been recei...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average time taken has been to return a driving license revoked on the basis of a notifiable medical condition after evidence that the person is fit to drive has been received by the DVLA in each year ...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the cumulative effect on people with disabilities of the number of different assessments required to access benefits; and what steps she is taking to reduce that number.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the ability of Ethiopia to maintain its polio vaccine programme after the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in that country has ended.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints were received by HMRC from UK Businesses in relation to PDA1 (a) applications and (b) renewals in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017 and (iv) 2018.