Written questions

1,001 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment & Support: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the equity of pay increases awarded to civil servants working in Defence Equipment and Support.

9 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment & Support: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the proportion of Defence Equipment and Support employees at each new pay grade after it became a Bespoke Trading Entity in 2014.

9 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment & Support: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the proportion of Defence Equipment and Support employees at each pay grade before that organisation became a Bespoke Trading Entity in 2014.

9 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment & Support: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the methodology used by Willis Towers Watson to determine the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees.

9 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment & Support: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department paid Willis Towers Watson to calculate the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees.

31 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments, which closed on 15 June 2018, when his Department plans to re

23 Oct 2018 · Department for Transport

Severn River Crossing: Tolls

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff facing redundancy as a result of the removal of tolls have (a) been offered and (b) undertaken and completed retraining since Highways England took over control of the Severn bridges.

23 Oct 2018 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: Location

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2018 to Question 180674 on Home Office: staff, where each unit that processes post-decision casework in UK Visas and Immigration is located.

23 Oct 2018 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2018 to Question 180674 on Home Office: staff, how many units within UK Visas and Immigration process post-decision casework; and what category of application each

22 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the different rates for the standard allowance of universal credit for claimants aged (a) under 25, and (b) 25 and over; and what comparative assessment her Department has made

22 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department's classifies a student loan as income in the calculation of universal credit payments.

18 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 18 July on Employment and Support Allowance, WS877, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been underpaid; and what the averag

17 Oct 2018 · Home Office

Home Office: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average and (b) longest processing time was for documents to be issued following a decision by his Department's post-decision casework unit in each of the last eight years.

17 Oct 2018 · Home Office

Home Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) staffing and (b) caseload levels have been in his Department's post-decision casework unit in each of the last eight years.

8 Oct 2018 · Department for Transport

Lifeboats: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he intends to announce a new programme of funding for the inshore and inland rescue boat grant.

13 Sep 2018 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 133707 on parking: pedestrian areas, when his Department will publish its conclusions from its work on pavement parking including how it is addressed in curre

13 Sep 2018 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Government plans to complete its evidence gathering on the issue of pavement parking including how it is addressed in legislation.

11 Sep 2018 · Treasury

Living Wage

What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of the national living wage.

6 Sep 2018 · Treasury

Bank Services: Complaints

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the number of complaints made to the Financial Ombudsman Service on packaged bank accounts.

18 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many family court cases (a) one and (b) both defendants were without legal representation in Wales in each year since 2010.

18 Jul 2018 · Department for Transport

Severn River Crossing: Tolls

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, from what date the tolls on the Severn Bridges are planned to be removed.

18 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Property Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to publish the draft Law of Property Bill announced in the 2016 Queen's Speech; and if he will make a statement.

17 Jul 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Retail Trade: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to respond to the report of the Law Commission entitled Consumer Prepayments on Retailer Insolvency, HC 543, published on 13 July 2016.

17 Jul 2018 · Department for International Development

Afghanistan: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the availability of education for women and girls in Afghanistan.

17 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Dementia

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidelines his Department has issued to (a) private and (b) state-run prisons on the (i) treatment and (ii) accommodation of prisoners with a diagnosis of dementia.

16 Jul 2018 · Home Office

Interpreters: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful spousal visa applications there have been for the (a) spouses and (b) children of Afghan interpreters who relocated to the UK under the Government's Redundancy Scheme.

16 Jul 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of face-to-face appointments have been conducted to verify a claimant's identity; and what the average waiting time was from the point of claiming Universal Credit to receiv

16 Jul 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Industrial Health and Safety: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of including the reporting of work-related mental health problems as part of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences

16 Jul 2018 · Home Office

Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time is for the Disclosure and Barring Service to make decisions on DBS checks; and what he average time taken is to process a DBS application.

11 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Erythropoietic Protoporphyria

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with people diagnosed with Erythropoietic Protoporphyria on the decision by NICE not to license Scenesse for availability on the NHS.

Source: official written-questions record.