Written questions
3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance: Prosecutions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has received legal advice that supports the view that HMRC can pursue employees and not employers for use of loan schemes.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to announce a further review of the loan charge.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate his Department has made of the amount that will accrue to the Exchequer from the loan charge.
23 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Financial Ombudsman Service: Accountability
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) framework and (b) processes for holding the financial ombudsman to account.
22 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Defence
World War II: Military Decorations
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government plans to mark the service of the 125,000 Bomber Command volunteers during the Second World War with a dedicated campaign medal for their service.
9 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Cemeteries
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of burial space in England and Wales; and whether the Government has plans to bring forward legislative proposals on the re-use of graves, similar to the reg
9 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Cemeteries
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is for the re-use of graves across England and Wales.
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Trains: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether long distance high speed passenger rolling stock has been displaced as a result of (a) the Intercity Express Programme and (b) steps taken to encourage more services and competition for passengers acros
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Trains: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to encourage new and existing open access rail services to examine the future potential use of long distance high speed passenger rolling stock which has been displaced as a result of the Inte
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Trains: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which Intercity 225 fleets and other high speed passenger rolling stock fleets have been displaced as a result of the Intercity Express Programme; and which of those fleets are available for continued and futur
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Trains: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) rewarding passengers for using trains with a low carbon footprint and (b) incentivising operators of diesel powered trains to make the switch to
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Trains: Alternative Fuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to encourage freight and passenger operators of diesel powered trains and rolling stock to switch to drop-in HVO green diesel.
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Shaw report published in 2016, what plans his Department has to deliver more competitive tendering for the supply of rail maintenance and infrastructure support by Network Rail; and if he
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a rail miles award provision for future rail travel.
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Land
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what surplus land owned by the railway estate has his Department identified as suitable for sale and development; and what steps he is taking to expedite that process.
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what financial support his Department has provided to the railways sector for the continuance of rail services since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak.
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many applications for new open access rail operations have been submitted to the Office of Rail and Road since 2010; how many and what proportion of those applications were successful; and if he will publis
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of long distance high speed train services in Great Britain are delivered by open access operators; and if he will publish the proportion of operator capacity currently in use for each of those
8 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport
East Coast Main Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of long distance high speed train services on the East Coast Main Line are delivered by open access operators as of 8 March 2022; and if he will publish details of (a) those services and (b) the
8 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Financial Ombudsman Service: Accountability
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role the National Audit Office has in holding the Financial Ombudsman Service to account.
8 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Cancer: Nurses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce ringfenced funding for training cancer specialist nurses.
8 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cancer specialist nurses.
8 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release dated 8 September 2021, Innovation and new technology to help reduce NHS waiting lists, whether the 9 million additional scans introduced by the Gov
8 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Hedges and Ditches
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what ecological assessment his Department has made of the impact of reduced hedgerow coverage in the UK.
8 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Hedges and Ditches: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce a national hedgerow planting target to restore the 50 per cent of hedgerow coverage lost since World War 2.
8 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Hedges and Ditches
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his comments at the speech to the Oxford farming Conference on 6 January 2022 that hedgerows are probably the single most important ecological building block in the f
26 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Abortion: Down's Syndrome
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to review the occurrence of abortion in the cases of a prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome.
26 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Abortion: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to review the occurrence of abortion in cases of (a) disability and (b) correctible conditions including cleft lip, cleft palate and club foot up to birth.
12 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Foetal Tissue: Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what pain relief guidelines are in place regarding the performance of surgeries by the NHS on fetuses.
12 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Abortion: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases have occurred of medical abortion pills being sent for home use to unintended recipients since March 2020.
Source: official written-questions record.