Written questions

1,480 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Thousands of asylum seekers to be moved out of hotels, published on 5 June 2023, what site in West London is being used to house asylum seeker

2 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of his Department holding data on time spent out of cell across all prisons in England and Wales.

2 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2023 to Question 183237 on Prison Accommodation, what guidance his Department issues on the appropriate amount of time out of cell for prisoners.

17 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the article by Dr Nick Thoburn of the University of Manchester entitled Razing the neighbourhood: consequences and alternatives to council estate demolition, publis

28 Apr 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish data on the average time spent out of cell in each prison in England and Wales.

28 Apr 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department expects to have completed its implementation of local regime leads across the entire prison estate through the National Regime Model.

6 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Hire Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2023 to Question 150416 on Bicycles and Electric Vehicles: Safety, whether the proposed rental framework to allow local transport authorities to manage rental services of c

6 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Hire Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2023 to Question 150416 on Bicycles and Electric Vehicles: Safety, what his planned timetable is for introducing a rental framework for local transport authorities to manag

6 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2023 to Question 150416 on regulation of e-scooters, what his Department's timeframe is for (a) the consultation process and (b) agreeing potential consequential regulatory

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport

Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Hire Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department plans to take to prevent dockless rental bikes and e-scooters from being abandoned on pathways and roadways.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential risks to safety of trends in the level of fires caused by e-bikes and e-scooters.

22 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to introduce legislative proposals which regulate the safety of (a) e-bikes and (b) e-scooters.

8 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Liability

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 137767 on Ministry of Justice: Liability, what specific legal challenge caused the increase in value.

7 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Leasehold: Derelict Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Justice Committee's oral evidence session on the work of the Ministry of Justice on 31 January 2023 and Question 59 on the £73.7 million attributed to a lease of undeveloped land, whether his De

1 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Liability

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's annual report and accounts for 2021-22, for what reason his Department has increased the contingent liability for injuries to staff, prisoners and the public.

31 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probate: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on how many property sales were held up in England and Wales due to delays to probate decisions in 2021-22.

27 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of (a) legislation and (b) regulatory guidance on the forcible installation of prepayment meters by energy suppliers; and whethe

26 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to ban the forcible installation of prepayment meters.

20 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Trials: Crown Court and Magistrates' Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hearings for trials in (a) magistrates' and (b) Crown courts could not take place when listed due to a prosecutor not being available for those hearings in (i) 2018, (ii) 2019, (iii) 2020, (iv) 2021 and

15 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Probate: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the causes of delays within the Probate Service; and what steps he is taking tackle those delays.

15 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the names of hotels in Hammersmith constituency that have contractual agreements with the Home Office to house refugees; how many refugees are currently housed in hotels in Hammersmit

3 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office

BBC: Injunctions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Security Group conducted an investigation into release of information relating to Government plans to seek an injunction against the BBC over concerns of national security.

2 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he plans to answer named day Question 65661 on Israel: Embassies, tabled by the hon. Member for Hammersmith on 18 October 2022.

1 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Home Office: Electronic Messaging

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether save as detailed in paragraph 33 of her letter of 31 October 2022 to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee she has sent any official Government documents using any non-secure messagin

27 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rayan Suleiman

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on holding an independent investigation into the death during a military activity carried out by Israeli forces of Ra

27 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Haitham Hani Mohammad Mubarak and Odai Trad Hisham Salah

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on holding independent investigations into the use of live ammunition and killing of (a) Haitham Hani Mohammad Mubara

27 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) night-time and (b) daytime Israeli military raids there have been on Palestinian homes in the West Bank in 2022.

25 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she will answer Question 61785 from the hon. Member for Hammersmith constituency as previously requested.

18 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Embassies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the announcement that the Government is reviewing the location of Britain's embassy in Israel, what the terms of reference are for the review; and if that r

14 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bahrain: Capital Punishment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has held discussions with her counterpart in Bharain on individual cases of death row inmates.

Source: official written-questions record.