Written questions
2,064 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Mar 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Retail Trade: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of retail crime on the price of goods.
6 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Business Rates: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the business rates revaluation increased business rates for shops that had a rateable value of (a) above and (b) below £51,000.
6 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Levelling Up Fund: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what proportion of projects that received money from the Levelling Up Fund: Round 2 aim to improve local high streets.
1 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 21 June 2022 to Question 16924 on Breast Cancer: Screening, what steps he is taking to incentivise Community Diagnostic Centres to offer of diagnostic mammography se
3 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many substantive asylum interviews were conducted in 2022; and how many of these were conducted by video conference.
3 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum decisions were made without substantive asylum interviews in 2022.
3 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials were responsible for (a) examining and (b) making decisions on asylum applications as of 31 December 2022.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of inflation on £5.2 billion for flood defence measures announced in 2020 on what that funding will cover.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the £5.2 billion funding for flood defence measures announced in 2020 has been spent as of 31 January 2023; and which projects have been supported through that funding.
1 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Mileage Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to regularly update mileage and fuel rates and allowances in line with the cost of using a vehicle for work.
24 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral statement of 9 January 2023 on NHS winter pressures, Official Report, column 287, what interventions using artificial intelligence his Department is considering for wider
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Livestock
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to increase or reduce livestock numbers in the next ten years.
18 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with Ministers in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on farmers' experiences of obtaining planning permission for agricultural pla
18 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) consult and (b) take steps with agencies that have experience of family reunion processes to design a mechanism that will enable family reunion for Afghans on Pathway One of the Afghan
18 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make (a) an estimate of the number of people awaiting and (b) an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to facilitate family reunion for Afghans on Pathway One of the Afghan Ci
17 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Lake Windermere: Sewage
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has plans to work with United Utilities to ensure that (a) treated and (b) untreated sewage is not discharged into Windermere lake.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which (a) flood protection schemes and (b) engineering works are (i) under construction and (ii) at the (A) planning and (B) other stage of development as of 16 January 2023; what the
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the reduction in her Department's real terms budget for flood defences on the adequacy of those defences.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on new equipment for dealing with flooding in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the number of properties at risk of flooding in winter 2022-23.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of inflation on the adequacy of the £5.2 billion funding announced in 2020 for flood defence measures.
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the £5.2 billion investment for flood defence measures announced in 2020 has been spent so far; and which projects have been supported by that funding.
9 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech on 4 January 2023 entitled building a better future, whether he plans to publish a strategy on reducing NHS waiting lists.
9 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Lighting: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dark Skies entitled Ten Dark Sky policies for the Government, published on 9 December 2020, if he will take steps
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Postal Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of letters handled by Royal Mail in England were not delivered within 5 days in the last year.
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Postal Services: Lancaster
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of letters bearing second class stamps were delivered by Royal Mail within three days in the LA postcode area in the last year.
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Postal Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of letters bearing first class stamps were delivered by Royal Mail the following day in the last year.
6 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Postal Services: Lancaster
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of letters bearing first class stamps were delivered by Royal Mail within three days in the LA postcode area in the last year.
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
6 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of prostate cancer patients are asymptomatic when they are first diagnosed.
Source: official written-questions record.