To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding allocated from the Cross-Government Prosperity Fund complies with her Department’s duty on poverty reduction.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of passenger compensation on the railway.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is he taking to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to introduce legally binding recycling targets after the UK leaves the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for mental health patients in the South East.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the second cancer workforce plan; and whether the Government plans to allocate funding to support the implementation of that plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taking to increase the recruitment and retention of doctors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason he did not publish a sustainable workforce strategy alongside the NHS Long Term Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS has an adequate number of specialist neuro-rehabilitation beds.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what policy options he is assessing in order to increase the number of people studying nursing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many habitual residency tests have been carried out for universal credit claimants at the Slough Job Centre in each month since April 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK moving from 4th to 9th in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index on the viability of small businesses.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that climate action is a priority for her Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of UK aid is committed to poverty reduction overseas.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to measure and monitor the standard and quality of the jobs created by UK development assistance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans she has for another international meeting on ending violence against women in conflict following the Global Summit to end sexual violence in conflict in 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking tackle global inequality.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the level of funding on the financial sustainability of the further education sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase awareness of the option to request more frequent universal credit payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of denying social security support to people affected by the Windrush scandal on their (a) rent arrears, (b) homelessness, and (c) personal debt.