Written questions
3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Internal Drainage Boards: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to reform the funding of internal drainage board levies.
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Internal Drainage Boards: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to increase funding for Internal Drainage Boards in the 2024/2025 local government finance settlement.
15 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Visas: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the threshold for family visas will be raised to £34,500.
15 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels used to provide housing for asylum seekers on 1 January 2024 were contracted out to Mears Group.
15 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Legacy backlog cleared as plan to stop the boats delivers, published on 2 January 2024, how many of the 112,000 were granted permanent right t
15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Measles: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve vaccination rates for measles for children in England.
15 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels used to provide housing for asylum seekers on 1 January 2024 were contracted out to Serco.
15 Jan 2024 · Cabinet Office
World Economic Forum
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Ministers have represented the UK at the World Economic Forum in Davos in each year since 2015.
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average funding allocation per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire in the 2023-24 financial year; and what the projected funding allo
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Education and Skills Funding Agency: South Holland and the Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated by the Education and Skills Funding Agency in South Holland and the Deepings constituency in each year since 2019.
12 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations in England have tactile paving on platforms to help visually impaired people.
12 Jan 2024 · Women and Equalities
Hospitality Industry: Visual Impairment
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department issues guidance to the hospitality sector on the statutory entitlement of visually impaired people to access premises with their guide dogs.
12 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a dedicated cancer strategy to work in conjunction with the Major Conditions Strategy.
11 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Solar Power: Land Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information her Department holds on the percentage of large ground mounted solar installations that are on grade (a) 1 (b) 2 and (c) grade 3a land.
11 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to accede to the UNESCO Convention for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
11 Jan 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Training
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of diversity and inclusion training programs in the civil service.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diphtheria
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to monitor levels of diptheria; and whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on testing people arriving in the UK for diptheria.
9 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers awaiting their claims to be processed were housed in (a) hotels and (b) other locations at public expense as of 1 January 2024.
9 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Telegraph Media Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions (a) she and (b) ministers in her Department have had with Ofcom on the proposed acquisition of the Telegraph Media Group by RedBird IMI.
9 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dogs: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help reduce puppy smuggling between Northern Ireland and England.
9 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people registered for the first time with an NHS dentist in 2023.
8 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Arts Council England: Lincolnshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Arts Council has spent in Lincolnshire in each year since 2019.
8 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
East Coast Main Line: Peterborough
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of direct trains from Peterborough to London Kings Cross have been cancelled in the last six months.
8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Arthritis: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with NHS England on including arthritis in NHS health screening programmes.
19 Dec 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of homes that have been built in areas deemed to be at high risk of flooding from (a) rivers and (b) the sea since 2019.
19 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Maps
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Environment Agency on the (a) accuracy of flood maps and (b) extent to which those maps take into account an area's flood defences.
19 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Crimes of Violence: Emergency Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were sentenced to prison for assaulting an emergency worker in each year since 2019.
19 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Crimes of Violence: Prison Sentences
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were sentenced to prison for (a) common assault and (b) battery in each year since 2019.
19 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were sentenced to prison for theft in each year since 2019.
18 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mosquitos: Infectious Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the UK Health Security Agency on the prevalence of mosquito-transmitted diseases in the UK.
Source: official written-questions record.