Written questions

6,533 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on providing the Ukrainian army with (a) lethal and (b) non-lethal defensive military equipment.

2 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Russia: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the use of hybrid warfare in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

2 Mar 2022 · Cabinet Office

Platinum Jubilee 2022: Medals

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to honour the veterans during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

1 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to ensure that new guidelines to replace Tier 1 investor visas make provision for appropriate safeguarding of people who are deemed to be a threat to national securit

1 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the risk to national security between 2008 and 2015 of people awarded Tier 1 investor visas.

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Apprentices and Graduates: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment he has made of the average salary of a person who has completed (a) an apprenticeship and (b) a university degree; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure parity between th

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that young people are aware of the availability of apprenticeships in a range of sectors in the context of the finding from the Association of Accounting Technician

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will set out a (a) timeframe and (b) strategy for taking forward the recommendations set out in the report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, entitled Wildlife and Forest Crime

1 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people subject to short custodial prison sentences do not become homeless upon leaving prison.

1 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Remand in Custody: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what housing support is provided to women held on remand; and what steps his Department takes to help ensure that people with tenancies do not lose them while in custody.

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Travel Restrictions: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the sixth recommendations from the tenth meeting on covid-19 of the World Health Organisation's International Health Regulations (2005) Emerge

1 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Cycling: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to certify that the police in London enforce the rules for cyclists in The Highway Code to the same standard applied to motorised vehicles.

1 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Cayman Islands: Money Laundering

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take in response to the Cayman Island's addition to the EU’s list of high-risk countries for anti-money laundering.

1 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Platinum Jubilee 2022: Medals

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason Platinum Jubilee medals are to be awarded to people in service at the time of the Platinum Jubilee and not veterans.

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to increase housing security for retired pensioners.

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Equity

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to encourage landlords to offer housing credits or equity in the housing that they are renting t

1 Mar 2022 · Department for International Trade

Wines: Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to reduce global barriers to trade for the wine industry.

1 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Wines: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment for (a) taxation generation, (b) impact on business, and (c) health outcomes of using median points above or below 11.5 per cent for changes in duty on wine

1 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Wines: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish his assessment of the median point of ABV of wine sold in the UK by volume over the last five years.

1 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Wines: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the evidential basis for his Department's decision to use 11.5 per cent as the median Alcohol by Volume point for changes in duty on wine in the Alcohol Duty Review.

28 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Indian counterpart on India's neutrality on the UN Security Council Resolution condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine.

28 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Oxygen

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to supply Ukraine with oxygen cannisters.

28 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Russia: Disinformation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to prevent Russian disinformation in the UK.

28 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Food Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help support Ukraine's food supply.

24 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to provide defensive military equipment to Ukraine.

24 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Protective Clothing: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to reduce dependence on China for supplies of personal protective equipment.

24 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Natural Gas: Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to end British reliance on Russian gas.

24 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Belarus: Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if her Department will impose sanctions on Belarus for its involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

22 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Corporation Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what additional funding will be required by (a) his Department and (b) the OECD to ensure monitoring and compliance with the proposed Pillar 2 rules of BEPS 2.0.

22 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Corporation Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will confirm that Pillar 2 of the OECD Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting will not become operational in the UK in the event that international agreement is not reached on implementing Pillar 1.

Source: official written-questions record.