Written questions

2,064 written questions tabled, most recent first.

31 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Home Office: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials of her Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · Department of Health

Department of Health: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials of his Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials of his Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials of her Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many officials of her Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials of his Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials of her Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many officials of his Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

31 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

Treasury: Working Hours

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials of his Department have opted out of the EU Working Time Directive.

27 Oct 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Fracking: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether there is a process in place for local authorities to challenge central government decisions in relation to the allowing of hydraulic fracturing activities.

26 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Human Trafficking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide statistics on the number of individuals rescued from people trafficking in the UK who have subsequently fallen back into trafficking for each year since 2010.

26 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to provide local authorities with the appropriate facilities to enable them to recycle all kinds of plastics.

19 Oct 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Management Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on external management consultants' pay in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016 to date.

18 Oct 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many 999 calls were made over the last three calendar years from HM prisons.

18 Oct 2016 · Department of Health

Pharmacy: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of pharmacies that will close as a result of the proposed 12 per cent reduction in funding for pharmacies in England from December 2016 until March 2017.

18 Oct 2016 · Department of Health

Surgery: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS England operations were cancelled in 2015 due to doctor illness.

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers had still not received the money they are due from the Rural Payments Agency under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme by the end of 14 October 2016 in (a) England, (b) Cumb

13 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Payments Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the potential UK liability for EU disallowance penalties in relation to late payment by the Rural Payments Agency of Basic Payments in the 2015-16 CAP rou

13 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Pupils: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to hold discussions with parents on the effect on children's mental health of primary school SATs.

13 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Pupils: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will review the effect of SATs in primary schools on children's mental health.

12 Oct 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total financial deficit for the NHS in England was at the end of June 2016.

12 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farming Regulation Task Force

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which recommendations from the report of the independent farming regulation task force on better regulation in farming and food businesses have been implemented since that report was p

12 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of applications to the Farming Recovery Fund have been paid to farmers affected by flooding since December 2015.

12 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Pupils: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to address mental health issues in children potentially caused by pressure at school.

12 Oct 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Islamic State

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons he has not made a counter-Daesh quarterly update to the House since May 2016; and when he next plans to provide such an update.

10 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Goats: Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to negotiate with the Chinese government to seek concessions for UK companies affected by the recent decision of the Chinese General Administration of Qual

10 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much compensation her Department paid for the unlawful detention of individuals under immigration powers in each of the last three financial years; for what categories of reason such compensation

10 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

EU Solidarity Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the announcement by HM Treasury on EU regional funding, dated 3 October 2016, whether his Department plans to (a) guarantee and (b) replace European Solidarity Funding for flood relief.

10 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

EU Grants and Loans

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his announcement on EU regional funding dated 3 October 2016, what conditions will need to be passed by funding projects to ensure they are (i) good value for money and (ii) in line with domestic st

7 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to make available funding at the same level as currently received from the Asylum, Immigration and Integration Fund after the UK leaves the EU.

Source: official written-questions record.