Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Passports

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were processed by each passport office in the UK in each year from 2013 to 2017.

20 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of changes in the rate of prostate cancer detection since publication of the report of the Prostate Cancer Audit in November 2014.

20 Nov 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the target of upgrading 200,000 homes per year with energy efficiency measures by 2022 will be met.

19 Nov 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of households in Northern Ireland that will receive the winter fuel payment in 2018-19.

19 Nov 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovate UK: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what technology and innovation projects have been supported by Innovate UK in Northern Ireland in the last two years.

19 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Cancer

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the five most common cancer diagnoses were among (a) men and (b) women in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2017.

19 Nov 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Kyrgyzstan: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Kyrgyzstan authorities on ensuring the promotion of freedom of religion by that country's State Commission for Religious Affairs.

19 Nov 2018 · Department for International Development

Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the cost in cash terms of maintaining Official Development Assistance at 0.7 per cent of gross national income in the next financial year.

16 Nov 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Oil: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will hold meetings with representatives of the oil industry on the recent reduction in the crude oil price that is not reflected in retail fuel prices.

16 Nov 2018 · Department for Transport

Transport: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the annual targets of his Department are for reducing transport emissions in the next 15 years.

16 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Violent and Sex Offender Register: Cross Border Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what liaison arrangements exist between the multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) framework in England and Wales and the MAPPA frameworks in (a) Scotland and (b) Northern Ireland.

16 Nov 2018 · Treasury

Foreign Investment in UK

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of foreign direct investment was in the 12 months from July 2017.

16 Nov 2018 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Polio

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of whether the global polio eradication initiative will be completed by September 2019.

15 Nov 2018 · Attorney General

Crown Prosecution Service: Staff

To ask the Attorney General, what the change has been in the number of (a) full-time and (b) part-time personnel employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in the last two years.

15 Nov 2018 · Treasury

Business: Exports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses have registered under the Registered Exporter system in the last two years.

15 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has targets for improvements to care and services for people with dementia over the period of this Parliament.

15 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review the sentencing guidelines for offences of assault against people delivering front line public services.

14 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Animal Welfare: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions people convicted of animal cruelty under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 were given a custodial sentence in each of the last three years.

14 Nov 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Middle East: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will undertake a review of the Magna Carta Fund to assess the potential merits of expanding the teaching of religious tolerance in Middle Eastern countries.

14 Nov 2018 · Treasury

VAT: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made on implementing the pilot system for VAT ahead of the introduction of the Making Tax Digital regime in April 2019.

14 Nov 2018 · Department for International Development

Foreign Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information she holds on the proportion of gross national income that other G8 member states allocate to official development assistance.

14 Nov 2018 · Department for International Development

Sub-Saharan Africa: Water

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Millennium Development Goal targets for clean water in sub-Saharan Africa will be met by 2020.

13 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Cadets

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when (a) he and (b) a Minister in his Department last visited a cadet detachment in the north west of Northern Ireland.

13 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children aged between 5 and 11 were diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in each of the last 10 years.

13 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Passports: Republic of Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for UK passports from citizens of the Republic of Ireland were processed at the Belfast Passport Office between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018.

13 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Knives: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps he has taken to tackle knife crime throughout the UK.

12 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of people being held in prisons by the expected end of this Parliament.

12 Nov 2018 · Department for International Trade

Overseas Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans his Department has to develop trade links with countries outside the EU in the next five years.

12 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Road Traffic Offences: Speed Limits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November to Question 186975 on Road Traffic Offences, whether the annual cost to the public purse of speed awareness courses is in the region of one hundred million pounds

12 Nov 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take to increase food (a) production and (b) security when the UK leaves the EU.

Source: official written-questions record.