Written questions

387 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take urgent steps to implement the reforms set out in the white paper entitled High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age, published by the previous Administration on 27 April 2

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she plans to take to prevent gambling harms in the context of the findings of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain published on 25 July 2024.

26 Jul 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he intends to publish the Solar Roadmap report.

24 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Forced Labour

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues on whether products that have been made (a) entirely and (b) partially with forced labour should be sold in the UK.

24 Jul 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Xinjiang

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it is his policy that solar arrays produced using polysilicon mined in Xinjiang province should not be used in the UK.

22 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will commission an independent review into the loan charge.

22 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to recommendation 6 of the Bishop of Truro's Independent Review of FCDO support for persecuted Christians, published in 2019, whether he plans to appoint a Spe

29 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Uniforms

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to take steps to end the procurement from China of clothing for (a) the SAS, (b) snipers, (c) the Red Arrows and (d) other military units.

14 Mar 2024 · Home Office

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Government has not proscribed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; and what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on that issue.

14 Mar 2024 · Home Office

Iran: Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department plans to take to tackle hostile activities by the Iranian regime in the UK, in the context of recent reports of (a) threats to British journalists and human rights defenders

14 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Iran: Sanctions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to hold to account UK-based (a) entities and (b) people continuing to deal with the (i) Iranian Government and (ii) IRGC in breach of UK sanctions.

14 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Iran: Financial Institutions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK financial institutions comply with UK sanctions against Iran.

14 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Iran: Financial Institutions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to investigate (a) Bank Saderat PLC, (b) Melli Bank PLC and (c) other Iranian financial institutions based in the UK with links to the Iranian Government.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Codes of Practice

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the cross-sport Code of Conduct is (a) robust and (b) workable in practice; and what lessons she has learnt from the application of CAP code 2.1

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of gambling advertising on (a) gambling-related harms and (b) levels of (i) at-risk and (ii) problem gambling in young people.

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure that the sporting industry complies with voluntary or self-regulatory measures to prevent gambling harms.

22 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chelsea Football Club: Sales

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the delivery of £2.5 billion from the sale of Chelsea Football Club.

20 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sanctions

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) enabling Parliament to exercise oversight of sanctions policy and (b) imposing a duty on His Majesty's Government

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department will consider make an assessment of the potential merits of a precautionary approach to gambling advertising.

7 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Taiwan: Air Routes

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recent changes to the M503, W122, and W123 flight paths around Taiwan.

7 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Taiwan Strait: Air Routes

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what discussions he has had with the International Civil Aviation Organisation on changes to the M503, W122 and W123 flight paths in the Taiwan Strait.

7 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Taiwan Strait: Air Routes

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in China on changes to the M503, W122 and W123 flight paths around Taiwan Strait.

6 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Slavery: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will review declarations by UK companies on (a) slave and (b) forced labour in their supply chains.

6 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Slavery: China

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had recent discussions with businesses which operate in China on their legal obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Forced Labour: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings of the report entitled China: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor, published by Human Rights Watch on 1 F

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Forced Labour: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that the supply chains of UK car manufacturers do not include Uyghur slave labour.

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Forced Labour: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has taken steps in response to the findings in the Human Rights Watch report entitled Asleep at the Wheel: Car Companies' Complicity in Forced Labor in China, published on 1 Febr

1 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Jimmy Lai

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made on the implications for his policies of the press release of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights entitled, Hong Kong SAR: UN expert wa

1 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Jimmy Lai

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made on the implications for his policies of the press release of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights entitled, Hong Kong SAR: UN expert wa

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to regulate loot boxes.

Source: official written-questions record.