Written questions

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

31 Jan 2019 · Department for Transport

Gospel Oak-Barking Railway Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure that services on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line continue at their published frequency after the trains running on the line are due to be withdrawn in March.

31 Jan 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on freedom of religion and belief in Sudan of recent human rights violations in that country.

31 Jan 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to raise the matter of human rights of protesters and medical staff in Sudan at the next UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue.

29 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Civil Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions each local authority has been subject to legal action for the provision of inaccurate advice on universal credit to claimants in each of the last two years.

29 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department’s policy to sanction claimants of jobseeker's allowance who decline to accept a job with a zero hours contract; and if she will make a statement.

29 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department uses to override a decision of a magistrates' court in relation to the value of deductions in claimants’ universal credit awards; and if she will make a statement.

29 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have (a) been removed and (b) have left the UK as a result of English language tests administered by ETS in each of the last 12 months.

29 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the accuracy of advice given to claimants by Jobcentre staff on moving on to universal credit.

28 Jan 2019 · Department for Education

Education Funding Agency: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answers of 15 September 2016 to Question 45976, of 29 March 2017 to Question 68740 and of 19 December 2017 to Question 120437, what plans his Department has to bring the former East Ham po

28 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Design

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2019 to Question 206212, what steps he is planning to take to prevent adverse effects on design from any expansion of permitted development t

28 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Design

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Answer dated 11 January 2019 to Question 206212, whether additional resources will be made available to local authorities to produce and enforce local design code

28 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Design

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Answer of 11 January 2019 to Question 206212, what plans he has to review the effect on design quality of permitted development for office to residential conversi

28 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2018 to Question 193360 on Access to Work Programme, what proportion of individuals who report their main health condition as problems with their (a) hands or arms,

25 Jan 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Products: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether EU law requires the export of animal-based products from the EU to be via a designated border inspection point; and if will he make a statement.

24 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Immigration and Nationality: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) indefinite leave to remain, (b) naturalisation and (c) asylum were lost by his Department in each year since 2010.

24 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of premium service applications for indefinite leave to remain were processed on the same day in each year since 2010.

23 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Educational Testing Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department took to verify that ETS implemented the security requirements specified in its licence.

23 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Overseas Students: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions officials from his Department visited centres delivering the Toeic test while ETS held its licence for English language tests for overseas students.

23 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Educational Testing Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the amount of money paid to proxies who took Toeic English language tests in place of the actual candidates.

23 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Overseas Students: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department made any payment to ETS while it held its licence for English language tests for overseas students.

23 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Overseas Students: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the commencement date for the licence awarded to ETS to provide English language tests for overseas students.

23 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Educational Testing Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether anyone has been prosecuted for taking a Toeic English language test as a proxy in place of the actual candidate.

22 Jan 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) the supplier contribution, (b) estimated take-up; (c) actual take-up, and (d) associated take-up clawback are for each project involved in the roll-out of rural broadband.

22 Jan 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Heat Networks: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to regulate district heating systems.

22 Jan 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animals: Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made in developing a replacement for the Trade Control and Expert System required after the UK leaves the EU.

22 Jan 2019 · Department for Education

Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to increase the number of international students choosing to study in the UK.

17 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the current time interval between initial screening and invitation for the next screening at Central and East London Breast Screening Service; and what that interval wa

17 Jan 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2019 to Question 206713 on Broadband: Rural Answers, what steps his Department takes to measure and report on (a) BT's capital contribution to the ru

17 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Overseas Students: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many bidders other than ETS were awarded contracts to provide English language tests for overseas students on behalf of his Department.

17 Jan 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Zimbabwe: Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of reports of recent violence in Zimbabwe.

Source: official written-questions record.