Written questions
1,113 written questions tabled, most recent first.
19 Jul 2019 · Home Office
Asylum: China
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum the Home Office has received from Uighurs since 2015; and what proportion of those applications have been successful.
19 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2019 to Question 263790 on HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Reform, whether the (a) content of and (b) responses to the Social Security and Child Support digital capability surve
19 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant the Answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 275723 on Translation Services, how much funding was allocated to each provider of translation services in each financial year since 2010-11.
19 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to Answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 275723, what the total spend of his Department was on translation services (a) in the 2017-18 financial year and (b) since 1 April 2018.
19 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2019 to Question 263790 on HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Reform, whether the academic research for evaluation of reform was made publicly available; and what plans he has for
10 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much HM Courts and Tribunals Service has spent on (a) courts translation services and (b) Capita Translation Services in each of the last 10 financial years.
4 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the sale price was of each (a) magistrates' court building, (b) youth court and (c) Crown court sold in the last two years.
3 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the (a) market value of courts sold as part of HM Courts and Tribunal reform programme and (b) the resale value of those courts after they entered private ownership.
2 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether specialised employees with training on how to support people with disabilities are available in each court.
2 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sitting days in courts were presided over by a recorder in (a) England, (b) Greater London and (c) Greater Manchester in (i) each of the last three financial years and (ii) the 2019-20 financial year.
1 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Recorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sitting days in courts in England were presided over by a recorder in each of the last 18 months.
1 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of court cases rescheduled due to problems with interpreting or translating services and (b) additional cost incurred from that rescheduling in each of the last three y
28 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to minimise the frequency of assessment for recipients of employment support allowance and personal independence payment; and what assessment her Department has made
26 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport
Railways: Bolton
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether there are plans to introduce a Sunday rail service for Moses Gate, Farnworth and Kearsley stations.
19 Jun 2019 · Home Office
Passports: Non-binary People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the International Civil Aviation Organisation's permitting of the use of X (unspecified) on passports, for what reasons the Government does not issue non-gendered X passports for peo
14 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Judiciary: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual budget is of the pre-application judicial education programme.
14 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Police: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the update to recommendation 10 on page 25 of the Lammy Review, what assessment his Department has made of the cost of each of the pilots in (a) London (North West Borough Command Unit), (b) Sur
14 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Justice Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the demographic breakdown of Youth Justice Boards in the UK.
14 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Lammy Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps have been taken to implement recommendation 12 of the Lammy Review on the Open Justice initiative.
14 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Lammy Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to implement recommendation 11 of the Lammy Review; and what information his Department holds on (a) racial and (b) gender breakdowns of (i) plea and (ii) remand decisions in m
14 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Race and Ethnicity Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are members of the Race and Ethnicity Board that was established as a result of the Lammy Review; how many hours the members of that Board have worked in the last 12 months; what the budget is of
12 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total spending was on (a) academic research and (b) public consultations undertaken by his Department to inform the HMCTS reform programme in each financial year since 2011-12.
12 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Opening Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of days sat by Crown Courts in England in the financial years (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
12 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the IT problems experienced in the week commencing 21 January 2019.
7 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2019 to Question 253551 on Ministry of Justice: telephone services, on what date that helpline was set up; how many calls that helpline received in each month from the date it was
6 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Failure to Appear warrants were issued (a) in each year between 2014 and 2018 and (b) from 1 January to 30 April 2019.
3 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Homicide: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of sentence was for (a) white, (b) BAME and (c) traveller defendants convicted of murder in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019 up to April 30.
3 Jun 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Opening Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of days (a) crown courts and (b) magistrates courts in England (i) sat in 2018 and (ii) are expected to sit 2019.
22 May 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Sri Lanka: Terrorism
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Sri Lankan counterpart on protection for the Muslim community from retaliatory attacks in that country; and if he will make a statement.
15 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Trials: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) BAME and (b) white defendants who enter guilty pleas.
Source: official written-questions record.