Written questions

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

European External Action Service: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK diplomats have taken secondment to the European External Action Service in each year since 2010.

24 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EU Staff: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many permanent EU officials were passed through the Civil/Diplomatic Service European Fast Stream programme in each year since 2010.

24 May 2016 · Department for Education

Armed Forces: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether armed forces trainees are included in the policy of ensuring that by 2020 young people who do not achieve A* to C passes in English and mathematics GCSEs at age 16 resit their exams a year later.

23 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EU Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals have been on the staff of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in each year since 2010; and what proportion of such staff in each such year were of admin

23 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EU Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals have been on the staff of the European Commission in each year since 2010.

23 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EU Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals have been on the staff of the European Parliament in each year since 2010; and what proportion of such staff in each such year were of administrator grade.

23 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Basic Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 April 2016 to Question 34910, what qualifications are required by his Department for English and mathematics tutors teaching functional skills in numeracy and literacy.

23 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what opportunities the Department offers to trainee soldiers under the age of 18 to re-sit GCSEs as part of their elective personal development.

18 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 9 May 2016 to Question 36333, on employment schemes, how much was spent on each of the programmes referred to in that Answer in the most recent financial year for which d

18 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EU Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals were employed by the European Commission in each year since 2010.

18 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EU Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals were employed by the European Parliament in each year since 2010; and how many such people were employed at administrator grade.

18 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what opportunities his Department offers to trainee soldiers aged under 18 to resit GCSEs as part of their elective personal development.

18 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Basic Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 April 2016 to Question 34910, what qualifications are required by his Department for English and mathematics tutors who teach functional skills in numeracy and literacy.

9 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme: Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of offenders who joined the Work Programme on leaving prison secured a sustained job outcome within two years in each year since 2011.

9 May 2016 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2016 to Question 35126, on deportation, how many removals were cancelled after an assessment by a medical escorting officer in 2015.

9 May 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were resident in each London borough in 2015.

9 May 2016 · Home Office

Deportation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2016 to Question 35126, how many people who were refused leave to remain in 2015 were removed to India; and how many such people required a medical escorting contrac

9 May 2016 · Home Office

Deportation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2016 to Question 35127, what the average cost of removing to India a person who had been refused leave to remain by (a) sea and (b) air was in the last year for whic

5 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Rented Housing: Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social housing tenants with spare bedrooms have had their housing benefit reduced due to the removal of the under-occupancy penalty in each of the last three years.

5 May 2016 · Department for International Development

Bangladesh: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of UK development aid on increasing primary school attendance in Bangladesh since 2000.

5 May 2016 · Department for International Development

Bangladesh: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much UK development aid to Bangladesh has been spent on education in each year since 2000; and what information her Department holds on the proportion the total Bangladesh education budget t

5 May 2016 · Department for International Development

Bangladesh: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the UK has provided in development aid to Bangladesh in each year since 2000; and what information her Department holds on what proportion of total development aid to Bangladesh UK aid

5 May 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the school specific factors and historic grant factors elements of the payment by the Education Funding Authority to the King David School, Manchester, were reduced by over £1 million in 2013-14

5 May 2016 · HM Treasury

PAYE: Universal Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice his Department provides to employers on how to respond when advised by an employee that the Department for Work and Pensions has determined that their universal credit award has been affected by that empl

4 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Rented Housing: Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016, to Question 35962, what estimate he has made of the number of tenants with spare rooms who have moved to smaller accommodation following removal of the subsidy.

4 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2016 to Question 34910, what the completion rate is for recruits who start on an apprenticeship.

4 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2016 to Question 34910, how many Guided Learning Hours are required for recruits to complete a (a) GCSE and (b) Level 2 in numeracy or literacy.

4 May 2016 · HM Treasury

PAYE: Universal Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what checks his Department makes on PAYE real time information data before it is forwarded to the Department for Work and Pensions to calculate universal credit.

4 May 2016 · HM Treasury

PAYE: Universal Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to alert employers to the potential effect of failure to report PAYE correctly and on time on employee's families with relation to universal credit.

3 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how often parents claiming universal credit will be required to report their childcare costs to his Department; and if he will make a statement.

Source: official written-questions record.