Written questions
196 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Feb 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his speech at the Institute for Government’s Annual Conference 2024, published on 23 January 2024, with whom the Minister of State Without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office has held meetings on i
22 Feb 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his speech at the Institute for Government’s Annual Conference 2024, published on 23 January 2024, what steps the Minister of State Without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office has undertaken to ide
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which non-departmental public bodies sponsored by her Department are using legacy IT system which are no longer receiving updates from their original software developers.
13 Nov 2023 · Cabinet Office
National Security: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the planned timeline is for implementing the National Security Unit for Procurement within his Department; and who will be responsible for leading that unit.
1 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Offensive Weapons: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled Government bans machetes and zombie knives, published by her Department on 30 August 2023, whether her proposal to ban the online sale of machetes and other
1 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Offensive Weapons: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's proposals to ban the online sale of machetes and other bladed weapons published on 30 August 2023 includes banning the online sale of swords.
1 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Offensive Weapons: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government response to the Consultation on new knife legislation proposals to tackle the use of machetes and other bladed articles in crime, published on 30 August 2023, which (a
1 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled New Plan for Immigration Sovereign Borders Programme, published 22 May 2022, what estimate she has made of the spending for the (a) total progra
6 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Treasury: Economic Analysis
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a list of the policies announced by His Majesty’s Opposition since 4 April 2020 in respect of which officials in his Department have produced formal analysis of the potential fiscal and economic i
15 May 2023 · Treasury
Central Bank of the Russian Federation: Freezing of Assets
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a breakdown by quantity and type of the Russian Central Bank assets frozen assets in the UK.
15 May 2023 · Treasury
Central Bank of the Russian Federation: Freezing of Assets
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many assets of the Russian Central Bank assets the Government has frozen.
15 May 2023 · Treasury
Central Bank of the Russian Federation: Freezing of Assets
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value is of the frozen assets of the Russian Central Bank in the UK.
1 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Sanctions: Russia
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the (a) total number and (b) combined value of all specific licences granted by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation for purposes of legal services under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendme
1 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Sanctions: Russia
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the (a) total number and (b) combined value of all specific licences granted by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation for purposes of legal services under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendme
1 Mar 2023 · Cabinet Office
Coronavirus: Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the total cost of (a) fraud and (b) error arising from (i) purchases of personal protective equipment, (ii) NHS Test and Trace, (iii) Government business support schemes, (iv) the
1 Mar 2023 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the total cost of fraud and error to government departments in the latest year for which figures are available.
1 Mar 2023 · Cabinet Office
Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate with Cabinet colleagues of the total cost to the public purse of (a) fraud and (b) waste arising from (i) benefit fraud, (ii) contracts signed during the covid-19 pandemic and (iii) t
8 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many financial penalties have been issued by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation for breaches of sanctions under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2022; and what is the total
8 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the total value of authorised waivers or exemptions to any sanction regime agreed by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation in each of the last five years, broken down by sanctions regime.
8 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Sanctions: Russia
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times Ministers in his Department were (a) consulted on and (b) asked to authorise, waivers or exemptions for designations under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 sanctions regime and subseq
8 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation: Staff
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation in each of the last 5 years in each grade.
27 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Cryptocurrencies: Antisemitism
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report by the Antisemitism Policy Trust entitled Antisemitism and Cryptocurrency: A perfect Union, published in 2022, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the u
25 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many permissions for legal costs have been issued to Russian sanctioned individuals by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation.
25 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many permissions for legal costs have been issued to sanctioned individuals by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation.
24 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Yevgeny Prigozhin
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he is taking steps to investigate allegations that his Department assisted Yevgeny Prigozhin to pursue libel action against Eliot Higgins.
24 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Sanctions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what procedures his Department uses to investigate the merits of applications made by individuals subject to sanctions for licenses which allow them to use UK courts.
24 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government is taking steps to prevent the use of strategic lawsuits against public participation by sanctioned individuals.
24 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Sanctions: Russia
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has granted licenses to (a) any members of the Wagner Group or (b) any individuals who are subject to sanctions because of their association with the Kremlin to pursue legal actions in UK cour
12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in which sectors have non-domestic customers received funding under the Energy Bill Relief Scheme since its introduction.
12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much money has been paid under the Energy Bill Relief Scheme since its introduction.
Source: official written-questions record.