Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Feb 2017 · Cabinet Office

Prostate Cancer

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of trends in prostate cancer detection rates since the publication of the first Annual Report of the National Prostate Cancer Audit in November 2014.

22 Feb 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

European City of Culture

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to promote cooperation between cities that have won UK or European City of Culture competitions to raise cultural awareness across the UK.

21 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase the amount which people individually save through auto-enrolment into pension schemes.

21 Feb 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Central African Republic: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Government of the Central African Republic on the recent murder of a pastor with the Eglise du Christ en Centrafrique and destruction of his church'

21 Feb 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Chinese Government on the recent expulsion of missionaries from the Chinese border region with North Korea.

21 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the ratio of men to women who have applied for auto-enrolment pensions.

21 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken to ensure that more women participate in pension schemes and company share ownerships.

7 Feb 2017 · HM Treasury

Living Wage: Enforcement

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employers have been convicted of paying staff less than the national living wage since its introduction.

7 Feb 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Sri Lankan Government on the destruction of a church building in Pahariya in North West Sri Lanka in January 2017.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Avian Influenza: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department's officials had with officials of the devolved institutions on preventing further outbreaks of avian influenza in the last three months.

7 Feb 2017 · HM Treasury

Personal Pensions

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a cap on early exit charges for people over the age of 55 seeking to transfer their personal pensions.

1 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the number of workers who will automatic enrolment in pension schemes by 2018.

1 Feb 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Government of Sudan on recent convictions of Christians in that country for spying and the sentences those people have received.

1 Feb 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Bomb Disposal: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions explosive ordnance disposal personnel were deployed in Northern Ireland between 1 August and 31 December 2016.

1 Feb 2017 · HM Treasury

Personal Pensions: Tax Allowances

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value of revenue forgone was of tax relief for personal pension contributions for (a) basic and (b) higher rate taxpayers in each of the last three financial years.

1 Feb 2017 · HM Treasury

Lloyds Banking Group

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the Government's stake in Lloyds Bank to be returned to the private sector.

11 Jan 2017 · Department of Health

Avian Influenza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken in response to the pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 outbreak in England and Wales.

11 Jan 2017 · Department for International Development

Foreign Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on their progress towards spending 0.7 per cent of their gross national income on overseas aid.

11 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury

Retirement: Advisory Services

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made under the terms of the Financial Advice Market Review on improving the quality of advice being offered to people preparing for retirement.

11 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury

Off-payroll Working

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made on implementing recent changes to legislation on IR35 with regard to intermediaries.

14 Dec 2016 · Home Office

Passports: Republic of Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in the Republic of Ireland on reported increases in the number of UK residents applying for Irish passports since June 2016.

14 Dec 2016 · Department of Health

Motor Neurone Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent changes have been made to clinical guidance on the assessment and management of motor neurone disease.

14 Dec 2016 · Department of Health

Obesity: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change has been recorded in rates of childhood obesity in each year from 2000 to 2015.

14 Dec 2016 · HM Treasury

Self-assessment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to encourage the maximum number of people to meet the 31 January 2017 deadline for making a tax return.

14 Dec 2016 · HM Treasury

Sovereign Wealth Funds

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will respond to the recommendations made in the Social Market Foundation's report on the potential benefits of creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund, published on 7 November 2016.

13 Dec 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Independent Reporting Commission: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects the Independent Reporting Commission on paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland to begin its work; and how many full-time personnel he expects it to comprise initially.

13 Dec 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Indonesian government on the trial of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the Governor of Jakarta.

13 Dec 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Egypt: Bombings

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Egyptian government on the recent Coptic church bomb attack in Cairo.

8 Dec 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Lough Foyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he plans to take steps to resolve the ownership of the waters and seabed of Lough Foyle before 1 April 2019.

8 Dec 2016 · Home Office

Visas: Clergy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to grant short-term pastoral visas to Christian church ministers from countries where their members are suffering persecution for their faith.

Source: official written-questions record.