Written questions

4,857 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Iran: Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to prevent Iran from producing nuclear-armed warheads that can be carried by that country's submarine-based cruise missiles.

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Iran: Cruise Missiles

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Iranian counterparts on their recent testing of submarine-based cruise missile technology.

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Slovenia: Foreign Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has plans to issue a formal apology to the Government of Slovenia for describing that country as a former Soviet vassal state.

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Middle East: Peace Negotiations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he considers it (a) accurate and (b) acceptable that the United States administration has still not shared the draft proposals in its Middle East Peace Plan with the governments o

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Middle East: Peace Negotiations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the US Administration has provided his Department with the Administration's draft proposals for a Middle East peace plan.

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Middle East: Peace Negotiations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it remains his Department’s policy to convene a summit of European and Arab foreign ministers to discuss the US Administration's proposed peace plan for that region.

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Venezuela: Military Intervention

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the US Administration on the possibility of military intervention in Venezuela by outside forces.

5 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

North Korea: Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps he plans to take to support the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula after the recent US-North Korean talks in Hanoi.

22 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

World War II: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department holds information on the (a) number and (b) identities of veterans of the East Africa Force who served alongside the British armed forces in the Second World War and are still alive.

22 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

World War II: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department holds information on the (a) number and (b) identities of veterans of the British Indian Army who served alongside the British armed forces in the Second World War and are still alive.

22 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

World War II: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department holds information on the (a) number and (b) identities of veterans of the Caribbean regiment who served alongside the British armed forces in the Second World War and are still alive.

22 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

World War I and World War II: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department holds information on war service gratuity payments made at the end of the First and Second World Wars to service personnel drawn from the British dominions and colo

22 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

World War I and World War II: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department holds information on war service gratuity payments that were made at the end of the First and Second World Wars to service personnel drawn from the British dominions and colonies.

12 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Giulio Regeni

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Egyptian counterpart on the refusal of the Egyptian authorities to allow Italian investigators to add members of its security services to the list

12 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Muhammed Fathi Abulkasem

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Egyptian counterpart on the (a) detention and (b) fair trial of Muhhamed Fathi Abulkasem for taking a photograph from a plane.

12 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

South Sudan: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his counterpart in South Sudan on recent reports of sexual assaults on women and girls in Northern Liech State in late November including by men in mil

12 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Antarctic: Marine Conservation Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his counterparts in (a) China, (b) Russia and (c) Norway on their recent veto of proposals to create marine conservation areas in the Weddell Sea and t

12 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Hamas: Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the terror capabilities of Hamas.

12 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Animal Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his counterpart in China on ensuring that the postponement of its decision to relax the ban on the sale of tiger bones and rhino horn will be ma

12 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Egypt: Press Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Egyptian counterpart on the legislation passed in that country to curb the freedom of the press and the activity of citizen journalists.

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Journalism and Press Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of calls from Reporters Without Borders for the creation of a UN Special Rapporteur with responsibility for monitoring the protection o

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Iran: Baha'i Faith

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart on the jailing of (a) Farajollah Bangaleh and (b) Mitra Badrnejad for practicing their Ba’hai faith; and whether he raised the

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart on the detention of Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee for insulting Islamic sanctities by advocating against the use of stoning as a punis

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Asia Bibi

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department instructed the Home Office not to offer asylum to Asia Bibi due to concerns for the safety of British consular staff in Pakistan.

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Pakistan: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Pakistani counterpart on the citizenship status of the 1.5 million children of Afghan refugees currently living in that country.

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

USA: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his US counterpart on the planned reduction in the number of refugees to be admitted to that country next year to 30,000 from the 90,000 admitte

11 Dec 2018 · Department for International Development

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what additional humanitarian aid the Government is giving in advance of the upcoming winter months to help Hazara families displaced by recent violence against their communities in Afghanistan.

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Afghanistan: Hazara

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help the Afghan authorities respond effectively to attacks on the Hazara community in Afghanistan and to prevent the occurrence of future attacks.

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Brazil: State Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's position is on providing a State Visit to President Bolsonaro of Brazil.

11 Dec 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Brazil: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Brazilian counterpart on that country’s commitment to the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

Source: official written-questions record.