Written questions
6,533 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: British Overseas Territories
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support (a) primary and (b) secondary education for citizens of British overseas territories.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: British Overseas Territories
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to make tertiary education in the UK more accessible for British Overseas Territory citizens.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Truancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce unauthorised school absences.
15 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Argentina: Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Argentinian counterpart on the Falkland Islands.
15 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the British Indian Ocean Territory.
15 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the timescale is for implementing the agreement with Mauritius on sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
15 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Indian Ocean Territory: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many illegal immigrants are currently being detained by the United Kingdom within the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands).
15 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Aircraft Carriers
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Strategic Defence Review on the aircraft carrier capabilities of the Royal Navy.
15 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Ballistic Missile Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Strategic Defence Review on the ballistic missile defence capabilities of the Royal Navy.
15 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps with NHS England to expand access to indication-specific pricing agreements.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Renewable Energy: Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make supporting the growth of community-based renewable energy schemes an aim of Great British Energy.
15 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the powers of Trading Standards officers to tackle tobacco duty avoidance.
14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Trading Standards: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to increase funding for Trading Standards officers.
14 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's polices on rates of tobacco duty of the Office for Budget Responsibility's report entitled Dynamic scoring of policy measures in OBR fo
14 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to (a) reduce and (b) freeze tobacco excise duty.
14 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the annual tax revenue loss from (a) illicit and (b) non-duty paid tobacco.
14 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help tackle tobacco duty avoidance.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress she has made on increasing the number of potholes that are repaired in (a) Romford constituency and (b) England.
14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Amphibious Warships
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Albion-class amphibious assault ships are (a) operationally available and (b) undergoing upgrades.
14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Defence Equipment: Production
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase domestic defence production capabilities.
14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Temporary Accommodation: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of children living in temporary accommodation.
14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Sleeping Rough
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to extend funding for the (a) Night Shelter Transformation Fund and (b) Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme.
14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) encourage screening for and (b) increase the rate of early diagnosis of prostate cancer.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Public Transport: Essex
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to modernise public transport in Essex.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Biodiversity: Havering
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle biodiversity loss in the London Borough of Havering.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Birds: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the population of the bluebird species in England in the last 10 years.
14 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ghana: Christianity
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect Christians from persecution in Ghana.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Public Libraries: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help local authorities fund public libraries.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Havering
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for how many hours raw sewage was discharged into the River Ravensbourne in the London Borough of Havering in the first nine months of 2024.
14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Death: Statistics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to mandate that fact-of-death is reported to the Office for National Statistics in England within eig
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