Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jun 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Postal Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to ensure that the six days a week universal Royal Mail service continues in rural areas.

19 Jun 2014 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Cadets

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what change there was in the number of (a) sea cadets and (b) army cadets in Northern Ireland between January 2004 and 2014.

18 Jun 2014 · Home Office

Violent and Sex Offender Register

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who were convicted of a sexual offence have been prosecuted for having failed to notify their personal details to the police in the last 10 years.

18 Jun 2014 · HM Treasury

Income Tax: Northern Ireland

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what change there was in the numbers of taxpayers in Northern Ireland who had employment income in the last four years for which figures are available.

18 Jun 2014 · HM Treasury

Delegated Legislation

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department takes to ensure that delegated legislation brought forward by his Department is consistent with EU Directives.

18 Jun 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many premium rate type telephone lines were in use for members of the public to contact his Department in (a) June 2010 and (b) June 2014.

18 Jun 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Consultation Papers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many consultation documents his Department issued which received fewer than 100 separate responses in each of the last four years.

17 Jun 2014 · Northern Ireland Office

Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether invoices for legal or other work carried out in connection with the Savile Inquiry have been submitted for payment since January 2013.

17 Jun 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Iraq: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent offers of assistance his Department has made to the government of Iraq.

17 Jun 2014 · HM Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Northern Ireland

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the last assessment was carried out of the perceived community background of HM Revenue and Customs staff recruited in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years.

17 Jun 2014 · HM Treasury

Tax Avoidance: Northern Ireland

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HM Revenue and Customs has made of changes in the extent of (a) fuel smuggling and (b) other organised revenue avoidance schemes in Northern Ireland in the last three years.

17 Jun 2014 · Cabinet Office

Debts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in the level of household (a) borrowing and (b) debt since May 2010.

11 Jun 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress is being made in ensuring that all eligible employees have been offered automatic enrolment into a workplace pension scheme with minimum employer contributions.

11 Jun 2014 · Home Office

HM Passport Office: Belfast

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will urgently increase the number of personnel working in the Belfast Passport Office.

11 Jun 2014 · Home Office

Passports

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied to the UK Embassy in Dublin for British Passports between 2011 and 2014.

11 Jun 2014 · HM Treasury

Off-payroll Working

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a statutory definition of a personal service company to enable HM Revenue and Customs to make a better informed assessment of those using such devices to ar

11 Jun 2014 · HM Treasury

Child Benefit: Northern Ireland

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in each constituency in Northern Ireland were in receipt of child benefit during 2013.

10 Jun 2014 · Department of Health

Muscular Dystrophy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in licensing drugs to deal with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

10 Jun 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Sign Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people have begun learning British Sign Language in each of the last three years.

10 Jun 2014 · Cabinet Office

Charities: Directors

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many directors of national charities were in receipt of annual salaries, pensions and other payments in excess of £150,000 in 2012-13.

10 Jun 2014 · Home Office

Police: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has issued to police forces on ensuring constituency and flexibility in policing of parades and demonstrations ensuring the smooth flow of traffic and safety of participants, motoris

10 Jun 2014 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Fracking: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has had any discussions with his counterpart in the United States Department of Energy as to any change in the estimated levels of recoverable shale gas reserves which has occurred in

10 Jun 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ash Dieback Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the state of health of the UK tree population following the recent Ash Dieback epidemic.

9 Jun 2014 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was raised through the implementation of the UK HGV Road User Levy Act 2013 in Northern Ireland in April 2014.

9 Jun 2014 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Climate Change: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what future discussions he has planned with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive on climate change.

9 Jun 2014 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Fracking

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what representations he has received on fracking in 2014.

9 Jun 2014 · HM Treasury

Taxation: Self-assessment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, columns 113-4W, on taxation, how much is owed in penalties and interest for failure to meet the deadline set for self assessment returns in the year ending

Source: official written-questions record.