Written questions

6,533 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

East Africa: Diplomatic Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to improve diplomatic relations with the nations that make up the East African Community.

12 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Quotas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will remove the existing fishing quotas in 2019 if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

11 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

Whether her Department has plans to redesign the reassessment process for benefit recipients with severe mental or physical disabilities.

5 Feb 2019 · Department for International Trade

Department for International Trade: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve communications with the Department for Exiting the European Union to ensure that areas of dual responsibility are most effectively addressed.

5 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Japan: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to strengthen the defence and security relationship between the UK and Japan.

5 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Navy

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the size of the Royal Navy fleet (a) was in 2013 and (b) is in 2019.

5 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government is taking steps to ensure that EU companies will no longer have an automatic right to bid on defence and security contracts after the 29 March 2019 in the event that the UK leaves the EU wi

5 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Venezuela: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the UK Government's official recognition of Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela, what steps the UK Government is taking to support the promotion of peace in th

5 Feb 2019 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Borders: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment he has made of the potential financial effects of the backstop on UK trading opportunities with the rest of the world after the UK leaves the EU.

5 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Ascension Island and St Helena: Airports

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department is making on improving communications with the Department for International Development on matters relating to the British Overseas Territories of St Helena and Ascension Island airpo

5 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Ascension Island: Airports

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to ask the US Air Force to speed up repairs of the runway on Ascension Island.

5 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development

Montserrat: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she has plans to provide financial assistance for a new parliament in the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat.

5 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Identification of Criminals: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the outcomes of the live facial recognition trial recently undertaken by police forces.

5 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Radicalism: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences involving religious extremism have been committed in (a) London and (b) Havering Borough in each year since 2010.

5 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Acids

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences involving acid attacks have been committed in (a) London and (b) Havering Borough in each year since 2010.

5 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Police: Havering

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have served in Havering in each year since 2010.

5 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Female Genital Mutilation: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of FGM offences in the last three years.

5 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Technology: New Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to support tech start-ups.

5 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to increase the cyber skill capability of the armed forces.

5 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Uber

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) he, (b) ministers of his Department and (c) officials of his Department have met representatives of Uber in the last two years.

5 Feb 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Mobile Phones: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to work with mobile phone network providers to help minimise disruption to those networks for British customers in the EU after the UK leaves the EU.

5 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on the restriction of vehicle exhaust fumes close to school premises at the opening and closing times of those premises.

4 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the article in the Express entitled A fifth of British troops are too unfit to fight warns former Armed Forces chief, published on 25 February 2018, whether a fifth of soldiers are unfit for ove

28 Jan 2019 · Department for International Trade

Trade Missions: Africa

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what international trade missions to Africa his Department has planned for the next 12 months.

28 Jan 2019 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions he had with Prime Minister Abe during his recent visit to the UK on the potential for a comprehensive trade deal with Japan in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

28 Jan 2019 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on a future trade deal with the US of maintaining the (a) common rulebook and (b) common external tariff with the EU after the UK leaves the EU.

28 Jan 2019 · Department for International Trade

Import Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the economic effect on consumers of the UK removing all trade tariffs after the UK leaves the EU.

28 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development

Zimbabwe: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has plans to send emergency aid to Zimbabwe as a result of violence in that country.

28 Jan 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Zimbabwe: Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps the Government is taking to support efforts to end the violence in Zimbabwe.

28 Jan 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Juan Guaidó

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government will recognise Juan Guaido as the Interim President of Venezuela.

Source: official written-questions record.