Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Jan 2016 · Cabinet Office

Charities: Radicalism

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ensure that charity commissions across the UK collaborate to ensure that extremist groups are unable to obtain charitable status.

19 Jan 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Agriculture: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that best practice is shared with each of the devolved institutions on development among employers of agri-tech and skills strategies.

19 Jan 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Apprentices: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that UK citizens can take up apprenticeships in other EU states.

18 Jan 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Assembly: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions she has held with the Chief Electoral Officer on steps to ensure that the count of the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in May 2016 is carried out efficiently and is not subjec

18 Jan 2016 · Home Office

National Crime Agency: European Arrest Warrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the National Crime Agency has used the European Arrest Warrant system in the last two years.

18 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Credit Unions

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to help credit unions compete in the personal loans and savings market.

18 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses he expects to be built in the UK in 2016.

14 Jan 2016 · Department for International Development

EU Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion the UK contributed to the EU humanitarian and development budget in each of the last two years.

14 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on research being undertaken to assist those severely affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

14 Jan 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Neonicotinoids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on research taking place to find alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides.

14 Jan 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Royal Charters

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects (a) the public responses and (b) the Government's response to the Government consultation on the BBC Charter Review to be published.

14 Jan 2016 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Termination of Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the change in the number of civil servants who have had their employment terminated due to absence related to their sickness record has been in each of the last five years.

13 Jan 2016 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department plans to take in 2016 to ensure that young people under 16 understand road safety issues from the perspectives of pedestrians, cyclists and car users.

13 Jan 2016 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Lasers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the use of laser pen technology in proximity to aircraft and airports.

13 Jan 2016 · Department for Transport

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 20337, what steps he plans to take to improve the service offered by the DVLA to people resident in Northern Ireland.

13 Jan 2016 · Northern Ireland Office

Terrorism: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment her Department has made of the terrorist threat from dissident Irish Republicans to the UK mainland.

13 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Colombia: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Colombian government in the last three months on the security situation for human rights defenders in that country.

13 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Reserve Forces: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what change there has been in the number of personnel in the Maritime Reserves Units in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months.

13 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on compiling a definitive central list of all service personnel who lost their lives on operations in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 2007.

13 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Navy: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many women were recruited to the Royal Navy in each of the last three years.

13 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Debts

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of total household debt in the UK in the final quarter of 2015.

12 Jan 2016 · Department for Transport

Bus Service Operators Grant

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to take account of lower fuel costs in its reform of the Bus Service Operators Grant.

12 Jan 2016 · Home Office

Deportation: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders were removed from Northern Ireland in the last three years.

12 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2014 to Question 215220, what information his Department holds on further research on the use of dogs to detect cancer.

12 Jan 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what was the number of households with black and white television licences per thousand households in (a) the UK as a whole and (b) in Northern Ireland in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2015.

12 Jan 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what change there has been in the number of black and white television licences held in Northern Ireland between 1 January 2012 and 1 January 2015.

12 Jan 2016 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the accessibility of mobile broadband services and wifi on public transport was (a) on the last date for which figures are available and (b) in 2010.

12 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Overseas Loans: Republic of Ireland

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much is outstanding of the loan to the Irish Republic given in 2010; how much of that loan has been paid back; and what estimate he has made of when the balance of that loan will be repaid in full.

12 Jan 2016 · Cabinet Office

Older Workers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged 65 and over have continued to work in each of the last two years.

11 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Funeral Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has any plans to change the social fund funeral payment in the next 12 months.

Source: official written-questions record.