Written questions
6,533 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Feb 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Hungary: Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Hungarian government on the sale of residency bonds to non-EU citizens.
29 Feb 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Ukraine: Cybercrime
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the security implications for the UK and the US of the recent cyber-attack on Ukraine's electricity network.
29 Feb 2016 · Department for Education
Teachers: Languages
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of foreign language teachers are native speakers.
29 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Graduates: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of foreign students who completed medicine degrees in the UK have taken up employment in the NHS after graduating in each of the last five years.
29 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Medicine: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the average cost to the public of each Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree.
29 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new apprenticeships were created in East London in 2015.
29 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that a greater proportion of people who start apprenticeships see them through to completion.
29 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices: British Nationality
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of apprenticeships created in 2015 were taken up by British citizens.
24 Feb 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
UK Membership of EU: Referendums
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the agreement reached at the February European Council is not amended by the European Parliament after the date of the EU referendum.
24 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Defence
Military Intervention
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military operations the UK has undertaken against (a) Daesh and (b) al-Qaeda in the last 12 months.
24 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Probate: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with (a) members of the public and (b) law professionals on proposed changes to the system of probate fees charged to activate a will.
24 Feb 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate (a) public and (b) private sector involvement in developing ultra-fast FTTH broadband in 2014-15.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to provide British pensioners living overseas with the same annual uprating of their state pension as British pensioners who are resident in the UK.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the effect is on the public purse of not annually uprating the UK state pensions of British pensioners living overseas.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the effect on black taxi drivers of the operation of Uber in London.
23 Feb 2016 · Prime Minister
UK Membership of EU: Referendums
To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make representations to bodies campaigning on the EU referendum to ensure that members of the Royal Family are not referred to in the debate on that referendum; and if he will make a statement.
23 Feb 2016 · Home Office
Right of Abode: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2016 to Questions 24490 and 24491, when her Department expects to have made a decision on whether to grant the right of abode to former British-Hong Kong serviceme
23 Feb 2016 · Home Office
Right of Abode: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2016 to Questions 24490 and 24491, on right of abode, what the process is for her Department's assessment on granting the right of abode to former British-Hong Kon
23 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Social Services: Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on the care industry of the implementation of the living wage.
23 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Personal Health Budgets
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to increase public awareness of personal health budgets.
23 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Social Services: Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will provide additional financial support to providers in the care industry to support such providers affected by the introduction of the living wage; and if he will make a statement.
23 Feb 2016 · Home Office
Health Services: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will reverse its decision to impose an annual charge to Australian and New Zealand citizens for use of the NHS.
23 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Health Services: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions the Government has had with the governments of Australia and New Zealand on the proposed introduction of an annual change to Australian and New Zealand citizens for use of the NHS.
23 Feb 2016 · Home Office
Health Services: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government expects to accrue to the public purse from the planned annual charge on Australian and New Zealand citizens for use of the NHS.
23 Feb 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Al-Qaeda
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the effect on national security of members of al-Qaeda (a) in Saudi Arabia, (b) in refugee camps near the Syrian border and (c) among migrants traveling t
23 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Defence
Russia: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times Russian military (a) aircraft and (b) ships have entered British territory in the last 12 months; what the average response time was for the armed forces on each of those occasions; and what the ty
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
World War I: Anniversaries
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Theatre: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what criteria Arts Council England uses to allocate funding to theatre companies; and how much such funding has been disbursed to theatre companies in each of the last three years.
23 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's policy is on funding for the Equitable Life Payment Scheme that has not been disbursed.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of student loans provided by the Government are to students from other EU states; what proportion of those loans are repaid in full; and what the average amount repaid is o
Source: official written-questions record.