Written questions

2,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of the ban on overseas care workers bringing their dependents to the UK on (a) women and (b) men.

22 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Civilians

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to help support relatives of UK citizens to leave Gaza.

21 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Statement on Illegal Immigration on 15 November 2023, Official Report, column 649, whether he plans to lay the treaty with Rwanda on asylum processing before Parliament for 21 si

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Pornography: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to give people who feature in pornographic material the right to withdraw their consent to that material being (a) published and (b) dist

20 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Human Trafficking: Prostitution

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to discourage demand for trafficking for sexual exploitation.

20 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make it an offence to (a) enable and (b) profit from the commercial sexual exploitation of another person.

20 Nov 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Pornography

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require websites to verify that every person featured in pornographic content on their platform (a) is an adult and (b) gave their per

20 Nov 2023 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Second Interim Report of the Infected Blood Inquiry, published 5 April 2023, if he will take steps to establish an Arms Length Body to administer the compensation scheme for individuals (a)

20 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who arrived in the UK since 20 July 2023 are held in detention centres.

16 Nov 2023 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings (a) he and (b) his Department has had with individuals infected and affected by contaminated blood in each of the last five years.

16 Nov 2023 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Inquiry

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department will implement Recommendation 12 of the Second Interim Report of the Infected Blood Inquiry, published 5 April 2023.

16 Nov 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Pornography Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the terms of reference are for the Pornography Review announced on 3 July 2023; and which Minister has lead responsibility for that review.

16 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 12 September 2023 to Question 198095 on Asylum: Housing, what progress his Department has made on assessing the potential impact of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on Of

16 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 October 2022 to Question 202261 on Asylum: Applications, if he will make it his policy to routinely publish data on the attrition rate of (a) asylum application deci

15 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Spiking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 198094 on Spiking, on what date he plans to publish the statutory report on spiking.

15 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 October 2023 to Question 202265 on Asylum, if he will make heat maps on the geographical distribution of asylum seekers available to hon. Members.

15 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2023 to Question 202263 on Asylum, if he will disaggregate the data on the geographic spread of asylum seekers in receipt of support into (a) legacy backlog and (b

15 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government is contractually obligated to pay any further monies to the Rwandan Government as part of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership as of 15 November 2023.

15 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of responding to legal challenges to the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership as of 15 November 2023.

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide heatmaps detailing the national spread of asylum cases to local authorities.

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) geographic spread of asylum cases in the legacy backlog and (b) potential effect on local authorities of delivering decisions on all of those c

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the attrition rate was for (a) asylum application decision makers and (b) national referral mechanism case workers in the latest period for which data is available.

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses for designating whether reporting of departmental expenditure is commercially sensitive.

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests from select committees for details of Home Office expenditure her Department has declined over the past two years on the stated basis that the information was commercially sensitive.

13 Sep 2023 · Home Office

Joint Fraud Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times and on what dates the Joint Fraud Taskforce has met since October 2021.

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Pornography Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which Minister in which Department has lead responsibility for the pornography review.

13 Sep 2023 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when section 2 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 will come into force.

6 Sep 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on her Department's ability to access the Official Development Assistance budget for the purposes of paying for a

6 Sep 2023 · Home Office

Spiking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish her Department's statutory report on spiking.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Microplastics: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce new regulations to (a) monitor and (b) mitigate the presence of microplastics in the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.