Written questions

Sir Stephen Timms

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Jul 2022 · Cabinet Office

Business: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Procurement Bill on procurement opportunities for ethnic minority business owners.

4 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claims have been identified as not correct through the reverification exercise to date; and, of those, how many claimants have applied for mandatory reconsideration.

4 Jul 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her advice is to people wishing to leave Afghanistan who are family members of British nationals and likely to qualify for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, but who cannot afford to obtain

29 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she last reviewed the benefit cap.

27 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paediatrics: Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to increase the number of paediatric palliative care consultants in England; and if he will make a statement.

24 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee of the Change Director General and Senior Responsible Owner for universal credit, on 24 November 2021, Q34, HC728, how many cases

24 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had their leave to remain in the UK renewed and consequently no longer had the No Recourse to Public Funds condition applied to them in each quarter of the last five years.

24 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants who had leave to remain in the UK renewed applied successfully for a Change of Conditions in the same quarter in each quarter since 2017.

20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Salah Hamouri

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Israeli counterpart on that country's decision to revoke the permanent residency in Jerusalem of lawyer and human rights defender Salah

20 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

PE and Sport Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to renew Primary PE and Sport Premium funding for the academic year 2022-23.

20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Garry Pang

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, what assessment she has made of the implicatio

20 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Clothing: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his letter of 25 March 2021 to the Chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee, whether he has reached a conclusion in considering the idea of establishing

20 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Written Statement of 11 May 2022, HCWS1, on Low-income Workers: Exclusivity Clauses, whether he plans to undertake a consultation in advance of publishing th

13 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions officials in her Department have had with organisations representing the interests of children in preparing the Nationality and Borders Act 2022; and if she will make a statement.

13 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to issue guidance on the protection of children under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

13 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what protections for children are included in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022; and if she will make a statement.

6 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to support unpaid carers applying for Universal Credit on behalf of people with complex disabilities undergoing the process of managed migration.

1 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Immigration: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to allow applicants for the bereaved partner concession to make a fee waiver request; and if she will make a statement.

26 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government collects evidence on abuse of the civil damages system by people involved in terrorism-related activity; and if he will make a statement.

25 May 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Horn of Africa: Food Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to provide new and additional funding in the context of high levels of hunger in the Horn of Africa.

25 May 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Horn of Africa: Food Insecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the current hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa; and if she will make a statement.