Written questions

621 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jan 2020 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether a country's record on human rights is a criterion in discussions on potential trade deals to be secured after the UK leaves the EU.

24 Jan 2020 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: China

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has held discussions with her Chinese counterpart on alleged human rights violations against Uighur Muslims as part of negotiation on a trade deal with that country.

24 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Uyghurs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the alleged detention of Uighur Muslims.

23 Jul 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Armenia: Genocide

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government plans to recognise the Ottoman Empire's killing of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 as genocide.

9 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department will be providing financial support to leaseholders replacing flammable cladding on buildings of less than 18 metres in height.

9 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to ensure that all residential properties are not cladded with flammable materials.

9 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the risk to public safety of flammable cladding materials on leasehold properties that are not covered by the Government's support scheme fo

9 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to provide financial support to leaseholders of properties cladded with non aluminium composite materials that are flammable.

9 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to provide financial support to leaseholders with properties cladded with a flammable material and which are less than 18 metres in height.

3 Jul 2019 · Home Office

British Nationality: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to ensure that a person eligible to apply for UK citizenship is not prevented from doing so as a result of the fee structure.

3 Jul 2019 · Home Office

British Nationality: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the equity of the fee structure for applying to become a UK citizen for people who have been (a) born and (b) raised in the UK.

3 Jul 2019 · Cabinet Office

European Parliament: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the level of voter turnout of EU citizens living in the UK at the 2019 European Parliament elections.

3 Jul 2019 · Cabinet Office

European Parliament: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions he has had with the Electoral Commission on EU citizens being unable to vote in the 2019 European Parliament elections.

3 Jul 2019 · Cabinet Office

European Parliament: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made on the assessment of the reasons that EU citizens living in the UK were unable to register and vote in the 2019 European Parliament elections.

20 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Television Licences: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure people over the age of 75 are supported financially to afford the TV licence fee.

20 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on promoting pension credit to people affected by the BBC's decision to end the provision of free TV licenc

19 Jun 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on increasing the uptake of pension credit to reduce the effect of limiting free TV licences fee for people

19 Jun 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether a person over the age of 75 who is in receipt of pension credit and living with a spouse who is under the age of 75 will have to pay for a TV licence.

19 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to increase the uptake of pension credit.

10 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards her Department have put in place to ensure that the system for child maintenance payments is not open to abuse by people who have left full time education.

10 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Child Benefit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what processes his Department uses with further education institutions to verify a child's full-time attendance in education in relation to the eligibility for child benefit payments.

10 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the process is through which eligibility for child maintenance payments is verified.

10 Jun 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Cyprus: Turkey

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on recent diplomatic relations between Turkey and Cyprus.

5 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of universal credit claimants who have sought legal aid have received such aid.

5 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many universal credit claimants have sought legal aid since the roll-out that benefit began.

4 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of access to legal aid by claimants of universal credit.

4 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the accessibility of legal aid by claimants of universal credit.

4 Jun 2019 · Cabinet Office

Legal Aid Scheme: Universal Credit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions and Justice on the accessibility of legal aid for universal credit claimants.

4 Jun 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Cameroon: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to tackle the anglophone situation in Cameroon.

4 Jun 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Company Cars: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on reducing the benefit in kind rate tax on electric vehicles before 2020.

Source: official written-questions record.