Written questions

3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on translation services from English to (a) Urdu, (b) Polish, (c) Panjabi and (d) Arabic in the last five years.

19 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Landlords: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many landlords have been convicted of renting properties to people without the right to reside in the country in the last five years.

19 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels have been used for housing asylum seekers in Lincolnshire since 2020.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Agency: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people are employed by the Environment Agency in roles relating to diversity, equality and inclusion.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Natural Gas: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what data her department holds on the number of households off the gas grid in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

19 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in England and Wales.

19 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many houses his Department (a) owns and (b) rents for housing asylum seekers.

19 Feb 2024 · Treasury

Banks: Closures

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with banks on the closure of bank branches in rural areas.

16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Magistrates' Courts: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many outstanding cases there are at (a) Grantham, (b) Boston and (c) Lincoln Magistrates Court.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been spent on translation services in schools from English to (a) Polish, (b) Arabic, (c) Urdu, (d) Panjabi and (e) Romanian in each of the last five years.

16 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Channel Tunnel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were caught attempting to enter the UK illegally through the Channel Tunnel in each year since 2021.

16 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Overseas Students: Albania

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas were issued to Albanian nationals in each year since 2021.

16 Feb 2024 · Home Office

UK Border Force: Patrol Craft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force vehicles have been used to patrol the English Channel in each year since 2015.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people convicted of crimes who are detained in secure hospitals are receiving benefits.

7 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Punjabi Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much police forces have spent on translation services from English to Panjabi in the last five years.

7 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Arabic

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much police forces have spent on English to Arabic translation services in each of the last five years.

7 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Polish Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much police forces have spent on English to Polish translation services in each of the last five years.

7 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Urdu

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much police forces in England and Wales have spent on translation services for English to Urdu in the last five years.

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Hedgehogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to help reduce hedgehog casualties on roads.

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hedgehogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of hedgehogs.

6 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Tumours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will increase the share of overall cancer research funding allocated to brain tumour research.

6 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with NHS England on introducing a promotional campaign to help patients recognise early symptoms of pancreatic cancer.

6 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum seekers who were given the right to remain in the UK had had a previous application for the right to remain denied in each of the last five years.

6 Feb 2024 · Home Office

UK Border Force: Termination of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force personnel have left the force since 2019.

6 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Liver Diseases: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the rate of liver disease in (a) South Holland district, (b) South Kesteven district, and (c) Lincolnshire.

6 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Measles: East Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of measles have been reported in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands in each of the last five years.

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: South Holland and the Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobcentre clients have been assisted by an Armed Forces Champion in South Holland and the Deepings constituency in the last five years.

6 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Gangmasters: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted under the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 in each year since 2015.

6 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Gangmasters: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority licences were issued in Lincolnshire in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

6 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Organised Crime: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help reduce levels of organised crime in Lincolnshire.

Source: official written-questions record.