Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Dec 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

South Korea: Corruption

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the South Korean authorities on transparency in dealing with allegations of corruption.

8 Dec 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Uzbekistan: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the authorities in Uzbekistan on reports of the prosecution of Christians and confiscation of religious material in that country.

8 Dec 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Azerbaijan: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Azerbaijan authorities on recent reports of the persecution, arrest and fining of Christians in that country.

8 Dec 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cats: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take further steps to prevent the sale of underage kittens.

29 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Cadets

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 May 2016 to Question 37401, if he will make arrangements to visit Cadet detachments in Northern Ireland.

29 Nov 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the football authorities in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland on alleged historical child abuse cases.

22 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps have been taken to make contact with people who had previously been enrolled automatically into a workplace pension scheme since 2012 but have since withdrawn from it.

22 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to assess the success of Pension Wise in ensuring that people have been sufficiently informed about their likely pension income in retirement.

22 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Off-payroll Working

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to announce the next steps in reforming IR35 investigations.

22 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Personal Savings

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the cash savings market study, published by the Financial Conduct Authority in January 2015, how quickly he expects any benefits to be experienced by savers as a result of changes introduced.

16 Nov 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Mexico: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Mexico on the alleged persecution of Christians in Chichiltepec, Chachalaca and other parts of that country.

16 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

PAYE

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the potential annual administrative savings resulting from a decision to combine national insurance and income tax deductions for those on PAYE.

16 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Lloyds Banking Group

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for offering the retail sale of Lloyds Banking Group shares to the public in 2016-17.

2 Nov 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Business: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will hold discussions with the Northern Ireland Executive and business leaders on the promotion in the Irish Republic of retailing opportunities in Northern Ireland.

2 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps are being taken to ensure appropriate sentencing for people convicted of attacks and assaults on police and all front line emergency officers.

2 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Enterprise Zones: Coleraine

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to clear all paperwork on the pilot Enterprise Zone near Coleraine, announced in 2014.

2 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Pensions: Fraud

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the level of fraud linked to the use of pension lump sum payments.

2 Nov 2016 · Cabinet Office

Part-time Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in the proportion of the part-time working population who earn less than £10,000 per annum in the last five years.

1 Nov 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Equality Commission for Northern Ireland: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's press release of 20 October 2016, entitled Appointment of new members to Equality Commission, what steps he is taking to ensure that the makeup of that Commission is re

26 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Lasers: Airports

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions laser pen type items have been seized in the vicinity of regional and international airports in the last five years.

26 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Hate Crime: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of offences relating to online hate content in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

19 Oct 2016 · Department for International Trade

Exports: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what Government assistance has been offered to businesses to take advantage of the lower pound in exporting products.

19 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Football Banning Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been banned from attending Premiership and Championship matches in England over the last five years.

19 Oct 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Corruption

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 7 March 2016 to Question 29379, whether she has had discussions with sporting bodies in the last six months on reducing instances of corruption in sport.

19 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

Self-assessment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the number of people who miss the 31 January 2017 deadline for tax returns is significantly less than for previous years.

18 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2016 to Question 48064, on child sexual abuse independent panel inquiry, how much public money the Government has allocated to the independent inquiry into child s

12 Oct 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Electoral Register: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what provision will be made under proposals to introduce electronic voter registration in Northern Ireland for people (a) living in rural areas not well served by broadband access and (b) in older age gr

12 Oct 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Yemen: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the UN Human Rights Council on protecting children in Yemen.

12 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will discuss with her counterparts in the devolved institutions ways to ensure that young people across the UK receive a similar level of assistance in accessing apprenticeships.

12 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

Concentrix: Standards

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the performance of Concentrix in resolving complaints regarding how they have dealt with tax credit claims.

Source: official written-questions record.