Written questions
3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Jul 2023 · Home Office
Sudan: Entry Clearances
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Sudanese and (b) non-Sudanese nationals have been granted entry clearance since 15 April 2023; and how many of those granted clearance came to the UK.
5 Jul 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sudan: Aviation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether there have been evacuation flights from the Sudan since 1 May; and how many (a) British and (b) other nationals have been evacuated from the Sudan to the UK since tha
5 Jul 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to provide funding for the Inter Faith Network in the 2023-2024 financial year; and if he will make a statement.
22 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether local authorities are able to use funds from the Local Authority Tariff and Household Costs Fund to help secure private rented accommodation for an Afghan household in the UK through the (a) A
22 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2023 to Question 184558 on Refugees: Afghanistan, whether people from Afghanistan who arrived in the UK through the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b
22 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Bangladesh: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Bangladeshi counterpart on the freedom and fairness of the forthcoming General Election in that country; and if he will make a stateme
19 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to page 128 of the Levelling Up White Paper, published on 2 February 2022, CP 604, what progress he has made on streamlining grants to local authorities; and if he wil
19 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Public Sector: Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has plans to ensure that outsourced staff in the public sector receive (a) at least the Living Wage and (b) certainty over hours of work.
19 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Public Sector: Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has plans to ensure every public sector employee receives at least the Living Wage.
15 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of excluding any legacy benefit claimant due to qualify for Pension Credit before April 2025 from having to migrate to Universal Credit; and if
15 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to amend Universal Credit regulations to allow claimants of legacy benefits to be eligible for transitional protection if their initial claim was rejected due to a lack of information b
15 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that legacy benefit claimants (a) are aware of and (b) have access to managed payments to landlord in the managed migration to Universal Credit.
15 Jun 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timetable is for consulting on options for a new approach to consumer protection in energy markets after April 2024.
13 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with social landlords who are in the discovery areas of the managed migration to Universal Credit on taking steps to ensure that the landlord portal supports tenant
13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Kidney Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the work of the London Kidney Network on outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease in London.
13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Kidney Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including chronic kidney disease in the Primary Care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Diagn
13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Kidney Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of increases in the prevalence of comorbidities in people with chronic kidney disease; and if he will make a statement.
13 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Migrants: English Language
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Question 187877 on Overseas Students: English Language, how many students suspected by ETS of cheating in its TOEIC English language test were (a) offered (i) the
12 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Active Travel: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on delivering the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.
12 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Indian Ocean Territory: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of conditions for asylum seekers in Diego Garcia; and if he will make a statement.
12 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
World Bank: Agriculture
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of World Bank (a) policies on and (b) investment in agriculture on (i) reducing poverty and (ii) increasing food securit
12 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
World Bank: Agriculture
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding his Department provides to the World Bank to support a shift to sustainable agricultural production in low-income countries.
12 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
World Bank: Seeds
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that World Bank negotiation of Development Policy Financing takes account of seed laws.
9 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Active Travel England: Levelling Up Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many successful Levelling Up Fund bids were assessed by Active Travel England in the last 12 months.
9 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Walking
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's publication entitled The second cycling and walking investment strategy, published 10 March 2023, what progress his Department has made on completing its objective of increasi
6 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Overseas Students: English Language
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many students suspected by ETS of cheating in its TOEIC English language test were (a) offered (i) the opportunity to retake the test or (ii) a credibility interview and (b) granted leave on the b
2 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the new online application service for Personal Independence Payments will include a facility to update a current claim with (a) new address and (b) other information.
2 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the costs of delaying adoption of the recommendations of the 2022 Independent Review of Children’s Social Care; and if she will make a statement.
22 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May to Question 184871 on Personal Independence Payment: Applications, who is taking part in the small-scale test of the digital PIP service; and whether organisations suppo
22 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the waiting time for the Independent Case Examiner to commence an investigation of a complaint relating to the Child Maintenance Service was as of 22 May 2023; and if he will make a statement.
Source: official written-questions record.