Written questions

1,113 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Commonwealth: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to promote LGBT rights in (a) Commonwealth nations in which homosexuality is a criminal offence and (b) other Commonwealth nations.

4 Feb 2020 · Department for International Development

Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the UN's warning that Gaza may be unlivable by 2020, what steps he is taking to tackle the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the US Administration’s Peace to Prosperity plan in supporting a return to negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the Palestinian state proposed in the US Administration’s Peace to Prosperity plan would be viable and sovereign.

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it remains the policy of the UK Government to support a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would lead to Jerusalem as a shared capital of the Israeli and Palestinia

30 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time is between the listing of a case to a first hearing for non-custody trials in each court circuit in England and Wales.

30 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court sitting days there were in each of the court circuits in England and Wales in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.

30 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court sitting days there were in each month of (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.

29 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Debts: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he is taking steps to compensate debtors who have been charged VAT on debts under the incorrect application of the Taking Control of Goods (Fees) 2014 Regulations.

29 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Public Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ban smoking at the entrances of public buildings.

29 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Bolton

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress he made in rolling out gigabit broadband to every home and business by 2025; and when it is planned to be rolled out in Bolton.

29 Jan 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to reintroduce the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill.

29 Jan 2020 · Attorney General

Prosecutions

To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2020 to Question 6633 on Prosecutions, how many defendants had prosecutions (a) carried forward and (b) finalised in each year since 2014.

29 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases had to be rescheduled on the day of a hearing in that case due to insufficient availability of court space in each month of 2017.

29 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases had to be rescheduled on the day of a hearing in that case due to insufficient availability of court space in each month of 2018.

29 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases had to be rescheduled on the day of a hearing in that case as a result of insufficient availability of court space in each month of 2019.

29 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time was between a three day trial being listed and the first hearing of that case at (a) Hove Crown Court and (b) Southwark Court Court in each of the last three years.

29 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Courts and Tribunals Service conducts comparative assessments of the time from cases first being listed in the Crown court to first hearing dates for each court centre.

27 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what methodology HM Courts and Tribunals Service uses for comparing the length of time taken at each court between the first listing of a case and the first hearing; and if he will publish that data.

27 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Trials: Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of cases were heard in more than one Crown Court in 2019.

27 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Trials: Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was between the first appearance of a case in the Crown Court to the commencement of the trial in (a) Southwark Crown Court, (b) Lancaster Crown Court and (c) Brighton Crown Court in 2019.

27 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of listed cases are listed as floaters each month.

27 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Trials: Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department uses to assess whether the average time from first listing of a case to trial in a Crown court is (a) increasing and (b) decreasing; and whether the length of that period is assessed

24 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Modern Slavery Act 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 17 October 2019 to Question 261 on China: Uighurs, which body oversees compliance by companies with the Modern Slavery Act 2015; and how many companies tha

24 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Uyghurs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 17 October 2019 to question 261 on China: Uighurs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that items for sale in the UK do not originate from source

22 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were listed in each court in England in each month in 2019.

22 Jan 2020 · Attorney General

Prosecutions

To ask the Attorney General, how many cases in which the CPS has made a decision to charge are waiting to be (a) completed and (b) resolved.

22 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Judiciary

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 20 January to Questions 3722 and 3721, whether a timetable has been set by when the correct statistics will be made available for (a) judge and (b) recorder sitting hours; and whether h

15 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Recorders: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many recorder hours were (a) sat in each month of 2019 and (b) are expected to be sat in 2020.

15 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Judges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days judges sat in total in England in each month of 2019.

Source: official written-questions record.