To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to take steps to remove the non-dependent charge in Housing Benefit for disadvantaged groups.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on increasing (a) the number of people on and (b) the quality of the stem cell register; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that adequate numbers of high-quality donors are available for patients requiring a stem cell transplant.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) encourage more people aged 16-30 to join the stem cell register and (b) raise awareness of the need for stem cell donors from BAME communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of qualified health and safety inspectors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) powers of and (b) funding for the Health and Safety Executive to enable them to carry out investigations (i) quickly and (ii) effectively.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to consult on introducing minimum unit pricing in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the report by Public Health Scotland entitled Evaluating the impact of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in S...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she plans to (a) re-open and (b) extend the application deadline for the Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding for those who did not receive the support for winter last year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she plans to work with Ofgem to extend the Warm Homes Discount to households without a direct relationship with an electricity supplier.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the University of York publication entitled Who are the fuel poor?, published on 21 March 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the number of households that successfully applied for the Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have successfully challenged a rent increase at the Tribunal in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of a reduction in the hours of Royal Mail callers officers on levels of (a) service quality and (b) customer satisfaction.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2023 to Question 186725 on Naturalisation: Applications, what was the average processing time for non-straightforward applications in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for naturalisation have been submitted each year since 2010; and what has been the average processing time per year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2023 to Question 193032 onEnergy Charter Treaty, if he will publish all risk assessments held by his Department concerning the UK's membership of the Energy ...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of specialist alcohol teams on levels of alcohol harm.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure specialist alcohol care teams are provided in hospitals which serve the 25% of areas with the highest rates of (a) alcohol harm and (b) socioeconomic d...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he next plans to update the List of Ministerial responsibilities.