Written questions
6,533 written questions tabled, most recent first.
19 Oct 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Small Businesses: Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the introduction of the National Living Wage does not have a detrimental effect on small businesses.
16 Oct 2015 · Home Office
Refugees: Essex and Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been made available to each local authority in London and Essex to resettle refugees in each of the next three years.
16 Oct 2015 · Department for International Development
Syria: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support refugee camps near the Syrian border in order to tackle the root causes of migration to Europe.
16 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Middle East: Peace Negotiations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Israeli/Palestine peace process of Mahmoud Abbas's speech at the United Nations on 30 September 2015.
16 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Egypt: Travel Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the implications for his Department's advice on travel to Egypt are of the accidental killing of foreign tourists in that country on 13 September 2015.
16 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Middle East: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to assist Middle East countries in learning lessons from Tunisia in overcoming political instability.
16 Oct 2015 · Ministry of Defence
F-35 Aircraft
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the memorandum from the Director of the US Office of the Secretary of Defense on Observations on the Marine Corps F-35B Demonstration on USS Wasp, published by Project on Government Oversight on
14 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Afghanistan: Bombings
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent a similar incident to the airstrikes in Afghanistan which killed Medecins Sans Frontieres doctors occurring in future.
14 Oct 2015 · Department for Education
National Identity: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to promote patriotism in schools.
13 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport
Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that automotive manufacturers have not falsified emissions data in the same manner as Volkswagen has done.
13 Oct 2015 · Northern Ireland Office
Northern Ireland Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress she has made in resolving the political situation in Northern Ireland.
13 Oct 2015 · Department for International Development
Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa.
13 Oct 2015 · Department for International Development
Syria: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how UK aid has been used to assist refugees near the Syrian border to date; and if she will make a statement.
13 Oct 2015 · Home Office
Extradition: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to amend the US-UK extradition treaty to make the legal requirements for extradition the same for US and UK citizens.
13 Oct 2015 · Home Office
Refugees: Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to help Syrian refugees assimilate into British society.
13 Oct 2015 · Home Office
Refugees: Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Syrian refugees coming to Britain do not have criminal records or connections to extremist groups.
13 Oct 2015 · Department of Health
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: Care UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the arbitration dispute between the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trusts and Care UK, over which institution will deliver services from the King George Elective Care Cen
13 Oct 2015 · Department of Health
Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policy of the potential link between the HPV Vaccine and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome; and what assessment he has made of the effect
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
USA: Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of John Boehner's resignation as US Congress Speaker on US-UK relations.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
UK Membership of EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress was made during the recent visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on negotiations on the UK's relationship with the EU.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Gibraltar: Spain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Spanish counterpart on incursions into Gibraltarian waters by Spanish ships in recent months.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
UN General Assembly
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what policy aims his Department achieved at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Syria: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to encourage other nations in the Levant and Arabian peninsula to accept refugees from Syria.
13 Oct 2015 · Home Office
Afghanistan: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to prevent the export of illegal drugs from Afghanistan.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Jerusalem: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on the recent conflict at Temple Mount.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Afghanistan: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policy of recent military defeats by Afghan forces; and what discussions he has had with his Afghan counterparts on the insurgency
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Japan: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Japanese counterparts on security reforms in that country.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Afghanistan: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the attack on UK military vehicles in Kabul on 11 October 2015.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Mediterranean Region: People Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of recent UK efforts to prevent people smuggling in the Mediterranean.
13 Oct 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Overseas Territories: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the current level of representation of the British Overseas Territories at Westminster; and whether his Department plans to increase such representation and
Source: official written-questions record.