Written and Oral Questions to Ministers

HEALTH SERVICES: FOREIGN NATIONALS

21st October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that those patients referred by a GP to a hospital for treatment who are not eligible for free secondary care are identified and appropriately charged.

HEALTH SERVICES: FOREIGN NATIONALS

21st October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients who should be charged for care are correctly identified.

HEALTH SERVICES: FOREIGN NATIONALS

21st October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS trusts (a) employ and (b) do not employ an Overseas Visitor Manager.

HEALTH SERVICES: FOREIGN NATIONALS

21st October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that every NHS trust employs an Overseas Visitor Manager.

ROAD WORKS

21st October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to make utility companies more accountable for traffic delays arising from their street works.

FOREIGN WORKERS: RECRUITMENT

20th October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of operation of the cap on recruitment of non-EU workers.

ASYLUM

20th October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were (a) granted refugee status, (b) granted Humanitarian Protection or Discretionary Leave and (c) refused asylum, Humanitarian Protection or Discretionary Leave at initial decision in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 cohorts of asylum applicants; how many appeals against those decisions were lodged in each of those years; and of those appeals how many were (A) allowed and (B) dismissed.

ARMY FAMILIES FEDERATION

20th October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last met the Armies Families Federation; and what was discussed at that meeting.

LIVESTOCK: TRANSPORT

17th October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the welfare of animals during transportation.

CHILDBIRTH

17th October 2014

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of births where one or both parents were born outside the UK there were in (a) London and (b) Greater London in 2013.

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT

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