Written questions

854 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Supply Estimates

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2024 to Question 16678 on Department for Business and Trade: Supply Estimates, for what reason she has not provided the explanatory memorandum on her Department's sup

14 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much and what proportion of the funding for Post Office redress schemes has been allocated to fund the Group Litigation Order scheme.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Office: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Supplementary Estimates, published on 27 February 2024, HC 500, how she plans to spend the additional £1.09 billion requested by her Department for the Post Office; and whether th

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Supply Estimates

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will publish an explanatory memorandum in relation to her Department’s supplementary estimates for 2023-24.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what her Departments budget was for internal resource allocation, broken down by year, for each year in which projections are available.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what budgetary provision her Department has allocated for payments of redress to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal in each financial year in which payments are estimated to be made.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals for overturning the convictions of subpostmasters.

29 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sanctions

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will publish his Department's review of sanctions architecture.

29 Jan 2024 · Treasury

Counter-terrorism and Money Laundering

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled Reforming anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing supervision, published on 30 June 2023, if he will (a) make an assessment of the level of pote

25 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Teesworks Joint Venture Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has received the final report of the independent review of the Teesworks Joint Venture.

22 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Freeports: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's online guidance on Freeports, last updated on 6 December 2023, whether (a) HMRC and (b) Border Force is responsible for conducting annual audits of

18 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

UK Health Security Agency: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will confirm whether (a) Simon Blagden declared his relationship with Larkspur International to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) before his appointment to its advisory board, (b) UKHSA

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Teesworks Joint Venture Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish the Independent Review of the Teesworks Joint Venture.

11 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what proportion of exports by (a) number of exporters and (b) value of exports used the tariff rates agreed in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership during the last

11 Dec 2023 · Cabinet Office

Foreign Investment in UK: National Security

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the G7 Japan 2023 Foreign Ministers’ Communiqué, published on 18 April 2023, whether the Government plans to take steps to align the UK's investment screening regime with that of the US as set

11 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Investment in UK and Overseas Trade: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which firms (a) based in China and (b) based outside China and with Chinese owners have been subject to restrictions on trade and investment under the (i) Import of Goods (Control) Order 1954, (ii) Exp

7 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will set out (a) the free trade agreements her Department is currently actively negotiating and (b) the number of FTE officials engaged in this work.

7 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what restrictions the Government has imposed on (a) Huawei, (b) ZTE, (c) Hikvision, (d) Hytera, (e) Alibaba, (f) Tencent, (g) Dahua, (h) China Telecom, (i) China Mobile, (j) DJI, (k) ByteDance, (l) Kin

6 Dec 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Semiconductors: Foreign Investment in UK

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of investments made by Beijing Jianguang Asset Management Co. Ltd in the UK semiconductor supply chain.

6 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Beijing Jianguang Asset Management

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what information his Department holds on the relationship between Beijing Jianguang Asset Management Co. Ltd and the State Council of China.

6 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Export Controls: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2023 to Question 2516 on Foreign Investment in UK and Overseas Trade: China, how many export control licences for (a) products and (b) services destined for China

4 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Investment: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the US President’s Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies

4 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Overseas Investment: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what her Department's policy is on investment from UK investors in (a) the production of (i) semiconductors and (ii) microelectronics, (b) quantum information technologies and (c) artificial intelligen

24 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

National Security Strategic Investment Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding was made available through the British Business Bank's National Security Strategic Investment Fund in each industrial sector in each year since its establishment.

24 Nov 2023 · Scotland Office

Scotland Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year for whic

24 Nov 2023 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year

24 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year for which

24 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year for which

24 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each ye

24 Nov 2023 · Treasury

Treasury: Public Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year for which bu

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