Written questions

1,525 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Jun 2019 · Home Office

Home Office: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what further steps his Department plans to take to be fully prepared for the UK leaving the EU on 31 October 2019 without a withdrawal agreement.

12 Jun 2019 · Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Working Hours

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what steps he is taking to help ensure that IPSA has sufficient resources to extend its working hours so that (a) telephone

12 Jun 2019 · Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Members: Email

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what estimate he has made of the number of emails from hon. Members sent to IPSA in June 2019 that have not received a respo

12 Jun 2019 · Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Members: Allowances

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the system for reimbursing MPs expenses; and if IPSA will make it its

16 May 2019 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Bournemouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test appointments were rearranged as a result of the temporary closure of Bournemouth driving test centre.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Chemical Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of medical measures to protect members of the armed forces against nerve agents following the incidents in Salisbury and Amesbury last year.

16 May 2019 · Home Office

Chemical Weapons: Salisbury

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reviews his Department has commissioned into the 2018 Salisbury Novichok nerve agent incident; and what the timeframe is for those reviews to be (a) completed and (b) published.

16 May 2019 · Prime Minister

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Prime Minister, when she plans reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Christchurch, dated 18 February 2019.

16 May 2019 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Bournemouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the repairs at the Driving Test Centre in Gillam Road, Bournemouth are planned to be completed; and on what date that centre plans to reopen.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Chemical Weapons: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library the findings of the inquiry by the Wiltshire Local Resilience Forum into exposure to nerve agents following the incidents in Salisbury and Amesbur

16 May 2019 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the application for a driving licence by Anne Duggan, Ref: 36333622, when the DVLA plans to reach a decision on this application; and if he will make a statement.

16 May 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chemical Weapons: Salisbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission a review of the public health response to the Salisbury and Amesbury Novichok incidents in 2018 to inform future policy on the protection of public health.

14 May 2019 · Cabinet Office

Committee on Standards in Public Life

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what response the Prime Minister has given to the Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life submitted to her on 3 July 2018; and if he will make a statement.

14 May 2019 · Leader of the House

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

To ask the Leader of the House, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Committee on Standards is supplied with sufficient information to enable its members to fulfil their remit under Standing Order 149(1) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Com

1 May 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Circuses: Wildlife

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many travelling circuses are currently licensed to use wild animals in England; and how many licences for such use have been breached in each of the last five years.

1 May 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Circuses: Wildlife

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many wild animals of each species are currently licensed for use in travelling circuses in England; and which of those wild animals are classified as dangerous.

1 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Coroners: Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will direct the Coroner for Dorset conducting the investigation into the death of the late Gordon Munday who died on 11 October 2017 to issue a notice under Schedule 5 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 t

1 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Coroners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many notices were issued by coroners in England and Wales under Schedule 5 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 requiring the production of documents in each of the last three years for which information is a

1 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Parole

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps are being taken to ensure that the probation reports required for the parole hearing of Liam Vare A9035AH scheduled for 10 May 2019 are available in time for that hearing.

13 Mar 2019 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse was of exit payments paid to civil servants in excess of £95,000 in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.

13 Mar 2019 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants received exit payments in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018; and what the (i) average and (ii) highest payment was in each of those years.

13 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS employees received exit payments in excess of £95,000 in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.

13 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local government employees have received exit payments in excess of £95,000 since 1 January 2017.

13 Mar 2019 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants received exit payments in excess of £95,000 in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.

13 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Void Reduction Plan; and if he will make a statement.

31 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Trimethylaminuria: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to address the need for research into Trimethylaminuria; and if he will make a statement.

31 Jan 2019 · Treasury

Fuels: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money accrued to the public purse from VAT on (a) domestic and (b) other fuel in 2017-18.

31 Jan 2019 · Treasury

VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of money accrued to the public purse from VAT in 2018-19; and what proportion of that amount will be payable to the European Union.

31 Jan 2019 · Treasury

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money accrued to the public purse from VAT from insulating materials for home improvement in 2018-19.

31 Jan 2019 · Treasury

VAT: Tax Thresholds

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential effect on the money accrued to the public purse of raising the maximum threshold for VAT by (a) 5 and (b) 10 per cent.

Source: official written-questions record.