Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jul 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

MV Seaman Guard Ohio

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Indian counterpart on the release of the British citizens detained after anti-piracy operations by the MV Seaman Guard Ohio.

6 Jul 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Islamic State

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to seek a referral to the International Criminal Court of acts committed against religious and ethnic minorities in Syria and Iraq as genocide.

7 Jun 2016 · Department for Transport

Biofuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will commission a study into the potential merits of the use of E10 petrol.

7 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Older People: Payments

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce a payment of £1,000 to each person reaching the age of 100.

7 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Taxation

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure people are not assigned incorrect tax codes.

7 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Lloyds Banking Group: Government Shareholding

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to launch the next Lloyds Bank share offer; and what incentives he plans to include in that offer to encourage small shareholders to retain shares that they purchase.

7 Jun 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Cars: Hire Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to (a) improve the transparency of car hire firms and (b) ensure people hiring cars are not incorrectly charged for damage to such cars.

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Laos: Churches

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Vietnamese counterpart on the reported arrest of two people on 14 May 2016 for distributing hymnals in Southern Laos.

24 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Military Bases: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions Ministers of his Department visited military establishments in Northern Ireland during 2015.

24 May 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Hooliganism

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will hold urgent discussions with the football authorities in England and Scotland on the implications of the events at Hampden Park, Glasgow at the Scottish Cup final in May 2016 for his D

24 May 2016 · HM Treasury

Annuities: Equality

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the compliance of annuity offers to male and female retirees since December 2012 with the Equalities Act 2010.

24 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

British Irish Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many meetings of the British-Irish Council Ministers of his Department took part in since May 2013.

18 May 2016 · Prime Minister

Prime Minister: Northern Ireland

To ask the Prime Minister, if he will visit Northern Ireland before 23 June 2016.

18 May 2016 · Department of Health

Strokes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for a National Stroke Strategy after the end of the ten year strategy plan in 2017.

18 May 2016 · Department of Health

Diabetes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many adults on GP registers had been diagnosed with diabetes in (a) 2000 and (b) 2015.

18 May 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will set the emissions target recommended by the Independent Committee on Climate Change in the Fifth Carbon Budget.

18 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Day: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what Armed Forces Day events in Northern Ireland during June 2016 his Department plans to support.

18 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Cadets

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will visit Army and Sea Cadet detachments in Northern Ireland.

18 May 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the proposals in his Department's White Paper, A BBC for the future, published in May 2016, if he will take steps to ensure that employees earning above £450,000 will not be abl

18 May 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many households in Northern Ireland held black and white television licences in (a) 2005 and (b) 2015.

18 May 2016 · HM Treasury

Tax Allowances: Personal Pensions

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) average amount in tax relief paid per higher rate tax relief payer and (b) total amount of tax relief for personal pension payments was in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15.

18 May 2016 · HM Treasury

Television Licences: Older People

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the BBC of maintaining free television licences for people over 75 for the remainder of the current Parliament.

18 May 2016 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there was in the proportion of the working age population employed by the public sector in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland between 2005 and 2015.

4 May 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

White Fish

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what has been the change in sea bass stocks available to the UK fishing industry since the Council of European Fisheries Ministers meeting in 2014.

4 May 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Northern Ireland Executive has been allocated for the improvement of broadband delivery for 2016-17.

4 May 2016 · HM Treasury

Personal Pensions

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people accessed personal pensions between (a) April 2015 and April 2016 and (b) April 2014 and April 2015.

3 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Algeria: Churches

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise with his Algerian counterpart threats of legal proceedings being instituted against a church in the North Eastern province of that country for conducting religious servic

3 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise the murder of the Korean-Chinese pastor Han Choong Yeol on 30 April 2016 in China with his Chinese counterpart; and if he will request that his Chinese counterpart invest

3 May 2016 · Cabinet Office

Voluntary Work: Young People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will raise with the responsible Minister of the Northern Ireland Executive the ways in which the National Citizen Service will be promoted in Northern Ireland in the next five years immediately after the f

20 Apr 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has to consult more widely on potential reduction of the regional Electoral Office presence and local services throughout Northern Ireland.

Source: official written-questions record.