To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2019 to Question 257458 on universal credit: overpayments, how her Department defines substantial financial and/or medical hardship.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to reduce levels of plastic consumption in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy to require that people applying for personal independence payments provide proof of identity prior to processing a completed application form.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the Green Paper on social care funding.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Community Trigger cases have been activated in each year since 2014 by local authority.
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what proportion of residential developments constructed since 2015 (a) on land owned by the Church of England under the direction of the strategic land team and (b) by privat...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of child tooth decay was in (a) Birkenhead, (b) Bootle and (c) Crewe in each of the last five years for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases involving universal credit overpayments have been pursued subsequent to an appeal on the grounds of hardship.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases involving universal credit overpayments have not been pursued on the grounds of hardship.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timescale is for her Department to publish the findings of the study it commissioned on the links between Government policy and demand on food banks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of tonnes of coal required to produce steel at current levels in the next five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the conclusion of negotiations between NHS England, NICE and Vertex on access to (a) Orkambi and (b) Symkevi for people with cystic fibrosis.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of waiving the recommencement of waiting times for the receipt of out-of-work benefits after the completion of a short-term contract; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2019 to Question 249855 on Blood: Contamination, whether any treatment is offered to donors whose blood donation tests are positive for infection.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of a ban on all caged farming.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for NHS prescription forms to be amended to include tick boxes for universal credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an estimate of the potential cost of amending annual Winter Fuel Payment letters to include a paragraph inviting recipients to donate their payment to a charitable cause.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects on competition of proposals in his Department's consultation on cleaner domestic burning of solid fuels and wood on fuel poverty in England; ...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the trends in the level of (a) abuse directed towards patients in social care and (b) the number of convictions as a result of that abuse.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Secretary of State for Defence on the annual tapered allowance and its effect on the recruitment and retention of doctors in...