Written questions
543 written questions tabled, most recent first.
9 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Arts: Secondary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to increase opportunities for (a) exposure to and (b) engagement with the arts in secondary schools.
8 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Arts: State Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing an arts premium to encourage state schools to increase the (a) range and (b) quality of arts provision.
8 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Arts: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to encourage the uptake of creative subjects at GCSE level.
8 Feb 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Arts: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to help increase skills in the creative and arts sector.
7 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will take steps to stop the remote switching of smart meters to prepayment mode for vulnerable households.
7 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will take steps to help ensure that prepayment meters are removed from vulnerable households.
1 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Metropolitan Police: Stop and Search
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the announcement by the Independent Office for Police Conduct in April 2022 that the officers involved in the stop and search of Bianca Williams and Ricardo de Santos in July 2020 wi
1 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Metropolitan Police: Stop and Search
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police Officers are working whilst under investigation for (a) misconduct, (b) gross misconduct and (c) discrimination in stop and search cases as of 1 February 2023.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
EU Law
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a list of the legislation he intends to repeal under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
11 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce a closing date for applications to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
10 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional resources to help the Windrush Compensation Scheme to process applications.
10 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Windrush Lessons Learned Review
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on implementing the 30 recommendations in the Windrush Lessons Learned Review independent review by Wendy Williams published in March 2020.
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2022 on Gambling, on what date the Gambling Act White Paper will be published.
12 Dec 2022 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Gender Recognition Certificates
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who will have access to the details of gender recognition certificates that trans individuals provide as part of the UK Civil Service People Survey 2022.
12 Dec 2022 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Gender Recognition Certificates
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the UK Civil Service People Survey 2022 requires trans individuals to provide details of their gender recognition certificate.
15 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Hate Crime: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the rise in hate crimes against trans people in England and Wales.
14 Oct 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Natural History Museum: Zimbabwe
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps with the Government of Zimbabwe to ensure the urgent repatriation of human remains held by the Natural History Museum.
16 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bills Rebate
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether people who live in residential flats and receive energy from communal energy and heat networks will be eligible for the Energy Bills Support Scheme; and if his Department
1 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Unispace Global: Protective Clothing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the value for money of purchases of PPE from Unispace Global Ltd; and if he will make a statement.
1 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Unispace Global: Protective Clothing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, from which companies Unispace Global Ltd purchased personal protective equipment in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Impact Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department undertook an equality impact assessment on the migration of claimants from legacy benefits to Universal Credit.
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of how many claimants who are expected to move from legacy benefits to Universal Credit will consequentially receive (a) more and (b) less in benefits between May 2022 and M
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what means her Department is contacting claimants on legacy benefits who are due to move to Universal Credit; what support is in place to assist claimants in this process; and if she will make a stat
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have been employed in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available, broken down by directorate.
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of benefits unclaimed by entitled claimants was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the amount of benefit overpayments due to fraud and error has been in each of the last five years for which figures are available, broken down by (a) official and (b) claimant error.
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Bank Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to give some officials in her Department greater access to claimants' banking data; and if she will make a statement.
20 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Powers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to give powers of arrest to some officials in her Department; and if she will make a statement.
18 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Political Parties: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that funding of UK political parties does not come from foreign citizens.
20 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Unispace Global: Protective Clothing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2022 to Question 117746 on Unispace Global: Protective Clothing, what proportion of the supplies purchased by the Government under the £603 million Unispace Globa
Source: official written-questions record.