Written questions
3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.
25 Nov 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Milk: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will hold discussions with the major supermarkets on measures to reduce the practice of suppressing retail milk price as a loss leader.
25 Nov 2014 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will commission, in conjunction with the devolved administrations, research into the penetration of high-speed broadband services in rural areas.
25 Nov 2014 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
BBC
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to propose to the BBC, as part of the forthcoming negotiations on renewal of its Royal Charter, that under a renewed Charter the BBC should be required to demonstrat
25 Nov 2014 · HM Treasury
Pensions
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will discuss with the Financial Conduct Authority ways of ensuring that people with personal pensions becoming payable from April 2015 are aware of the potential drawbacks as well as advantages of transferring
25 Nov 2014 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Petrol: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will hold discussions with representatives of the fuel industry to establish the reasons why the retail price differential between petrol and diesel (a) in the UK favours petrol vehicles a
20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Livestock: Antibiotics
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the use of antibiotics in farm animals is strictly for therapeutic purposes.
19 Nov 2014 · Home Office
National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with hon. Members from Sinn Fein and the SDLP on the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland.
19 Nov 2014 · Department of Health
Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies he has commissioned on the potential benefits of using dogs to establish early signs of cancer in humans.
19 Nov 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Egypt
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that UK visitors to Egypt are aware of the dangers of H5N1 bird flu virus.
17 Nov 2014 · Northern Ireland Office
Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the final costs were for each of the participating legal teams and individuals involved in the Saville Inquiry; and what costs in that inquiry were incurred after 2005.
17 Nov 2014 · Department of Health
Prostate Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, following the publication of the results of the ProtecT trial on localised prostate cancer diagnosis, what changes in diagnosis will be introduced for men aged between 50 and 69.
11 Nov 2014 · Department for International Development
Sudan
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department will monitor the forthcoming food voucher programme in Darfur to ensure it will be targeted at people in need and does not become a target of corruption.
11 Nov 2014 · Department for International Development
West Africa: Ebola
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many medical professionals, normally based in the UK, have volunteered to assist in West African countries regarding the Ebola crisis in the last six months.
11 Nov 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Pakistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Pakistan government regarding the Christian couple who were beaten to death, and whose bodies were burned in Eastern Punjab Province.
11 Nov 2014 · HM Treasury
Pensions
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who wish to take advantage of greater flexibilities in their personal pensions from April 2015, can do so without significant financial penalties being imposed by their p
4 Nov 2014 · Northern Ireland Office
Northern Ireland Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she expects the political talks that she is chairing in Northern Ireland to conclude; and if she will make it her policy to place a paper on the conclusions of those talks in the Library.
4 Nov 2014 · Department of Health
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to act upon the research by the National Institute for Health Research into idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
4 Nov 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Burkina Faso
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the African Union on the situation in Burkina Faso following the military coup in that country.
4 Nov 2014 · HM Treasury
Co-operative Bank
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress his Department has made on investigating the performance of the Co-operative Bank in 2013 under powers in the Financial Services Act 2012.
4 Nov 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Older People: Anniversaries
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a Government financial recognition payment to all citizens who reach the age of 100 years.
29 Oct 2014 · Northern Ireland Office
Electoral Register: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will take steps to ensure that the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland holds additional registration clinics before March 2015 in areas remote from any electoral offices.
29 Oct 2014 · Department of Health
Ebola
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support and screening facilities his Department has provided for health service volunteers assisting with the Ebola virus crisis in West Africa.
29 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Army: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will assess the merits of Army Technical Operations personnel in Northern Ireland being based closer to locations where the majority of explosive devices have been found in the last five years.
29 Oct 2014 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Television Licences: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what change there has been in the number of households in Northern Ireland holding a black and white television licence between 2003 and 2013.
29 Oct 2014 · Deputy Prime Minister
By-elections
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the average cost to the public purse was of parliamentary by-elections since May 2010.
22 Oct 2014 · Department for International Development
Internally Displaced People: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to assist displaced children under five.
22 Oct 2014 · HM Treasury
Income Tax
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate how many people would not be paying income tax and national insurance contributions if the threshold for both were equalised at the higher rate of the two.
22 Oct 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Foreign Investment in UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that inward investment and job creation is encouraged on an equal basis in all the regions of the UK.
20 Oct 2014 · Department for International Development
Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department has offered Syrian Kurds in exile in Turkey.
20 Oct 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rhinoceros: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will hold discussions at an international level on urgent action to prevent the extinction of northern white rhinos.
Source: official written-questions record.