Written questions
251 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Jan 2015 · Ministry of Justice
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review the cross examination of witnesses in child abuse prosecutions.
23 Jan 2015 · Ministry of Justice
Bill of Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will implement a victim's bill of rights.
23 Jan 2015 · Ministry of Justice
Crime: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to implement the European Directive 2012/29/EU on victims of crime; and what assessment he has made of the implications of that Directive for the work of the police and Crown Prosecution Service.
8 Jan 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Indian Ocean Territory
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when and for what reasons permission was given to representatives of the Zoological Society of London to travel to the Chagos Islands.
8 Jan 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Indian Ocean Territory: Chagossians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that the Chagossians are taken to the Chagos Islands as soon as possible, since the cancellation by his Department of their scheduled annual trip in N
18 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many immigration tribunal decisions in favour of the applicant were subsequently overturned on appeal in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
18 Dec 2014 · Department of Health
Ambulance Services: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average time was that a patient spent receiving treatment in an ambulance in London in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15 to date.
18 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent meetings Ministers and officials in his Department have held with human rights organisations in Bahrain to discuss the detention of human rights activists in that country.
18 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Central African Republic
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department plans to give practical personnel support to the UN Multidiversional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic.
18 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Democratic Republic of Congo
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the implementation of the Rome statute in that country and training of its armed forces in human ri
18 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Ethiopia
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consular visits have been made to Andargachew Tsege in prison in Ethiopia; and what reports he has received on the state of Mr Tsege's health.
18 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Ethiopia
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent meetings he has held with his counterpart in Ethiopia to discuss the continued detention of Andargachew Tsege.
18 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the costs to the public purse of (a) establishing and (b) operating the proposed British military base in Bahrain; and what contribution to those costs will be made by the government
18 Dec 2014 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Private Rented Housing: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of private rented flats declared unfit for human habitation in each London borough in each year since 2010-11.
18 Dec 2014 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Homelessness: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of families that have been statutorily rehoused by each London borough (a) in that borough and (b) elsewhere in each year since 2010-11
18 Dec 2014 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Private Rented Housing: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on rent levels in the private rented sector in each London borough in each year since 2010-11.
18 Dec 2014 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new dwellings were (a) started and (b) completed in (i) the private rented, (ii) local authority, (iii) owner-occupied and (iv) housing association sectors in each year since 201
17 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential reputational or political risk to the Government of the decision to enter an agreement with Bahrain to establish a naval base in the Gulf.
17 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Nuclear Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish either as excerpts or in full official analysis of the destructive effect of the detonation of those UK nuclear warheads which were in service before the current Trident warhead.
17 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Nuclear Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2014 to Question 217946, for what reasons publishing an analysis of the effects of a UK nuclear weapon would prejudice the defence of the UK.
17 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Nuclear Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will commission and publish a report on the likely effect of a UK Trident warhead in time to allow this report to be presented at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in a level of detail
17 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish all correspondence and documentation held or produced by his Department on how the Government's Overseas Justice and Assistance Human Rights Guidance would affect the decision to enter an agree
17 Dec 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Defence Equipment: Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to institute additional scrutiny of sales of defence and security equipment to Bahrain; and if he will take additional measures to further prevent the sale to Bahrain
16 Dec 2014 · Home Office
Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the expected processing time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
16 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Papua
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential to hold the perpetrators of recent human rights violations in West Papua to account in international law; and if his Department will develop p
16 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Defence
UK Military Flying Training System: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what involvement his Department has had in the negotiations between Ascent Flight Training, comprising Lockheed Martin and Babcock, and the Elbit Systems and KBR Affinity Team to provide fixed-wing aircraft train
5 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Trident
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the titles and dates of publication are of all reports held by the Government on the impact of the detonation of a UK Trident warhead.
5 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Justice
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the UK plans to sign the International Convention for the Protection of all persons from Enforced Disappearances (2006).
3 Dec 2014 · Women and Equalities
Castes: Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 209041, when the final consultation on caste discrimination will be published.
3 Dec 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Indian Ocean Territory
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost to date has been of the Draft Feasibility Study for the Resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory Report; and what the expected final cost of that study is.
Source: official written-questions record.