Written questions

1,037 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Jan 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Boko Haram

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the capacity of the Economic Community of West African States to tackle the threat from Boko Haram.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation: Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what targets the National Wildlife Crime Unit has been set for dealing with wildlife cybercrime.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from nature bodies about the introduction of a Nature and Well-Being Bill.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Parks

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to encourage more children to use national parks.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dairy Farming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will take steps to ensure that all milk labelling clearly states the farming methods used in production of that milk.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dairy Farming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of milk sold in Britain comes from intensively farmed cows.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Education

Schools: Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on the use of asbestos in school buildings.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Education

Schools: Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which organisations and individuals were consulted as part of her Department's review of asbestos policy in schools.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Property Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what safeguards are in place to ensure that prospective home-ownership deals do not collapse as a result of centralising local land charges registers.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Property Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many local authorities were involved in trials of the new local land charges register scheme.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government Services: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from small business owners about unfair competitive practices from local authorities trading under the general power of competence granted by the Loca

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government Services: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that local authorities trading under the general power of competence granted by the Localism Act 2011 do not unfairly compete with existing local small bus

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Property Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what secondary legislation would be required, in addition to the Infrastructure Bill, in order to extend centralisation of local land charges register data to CON29 searches.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Property Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on small and micro businesses of centralising local land charges registers.

14 Jan 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to publish figures for pre-slaughter mortality of animals in the food industry.

14 Jan 2015 · Department of Health

Malnutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients with diseases relating to malnutrition were treated in the NHS in each year since 2005.

5 Jan 2015 · Deputy Prime Minister

Electoral Register: Transgender People

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether transgendered people, confirming that they have previously had a different name when completing the new online voter registration form, will have this information protected under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

5 Jan 2015 · Deputy Prime Minister

Electoral Register: Transgender People

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he has received on the effect on transgendered people of the new online voter registration system.

5 Jan 2015 · Deputy Prime Minister

Electoral Register

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what equalities impact assessment was made before the introduction of the new online voter registration system.

5 Jan 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Telephone Preference Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to ensure that telephone preference services are able to block international nuisance calls as well as domestic ones.

2 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury

Foreign Companies: VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the economy of overseas firms not registering for VAT in the UK; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that such companies do register for VAT.

16 Dec 2014 · Home Office

Email: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of phishing there have been in each of the last five years.

16 Dec 2014 · HM Treasury

eBay

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that all online retailers trading on eBay in the UK display VAT numbers.

16 Dec 2014 · HM Treasury

Electronic Commerce: VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that overseas retailers trading online stock which is located in the UK pay the appropriate level of VAT.

15 Dec 2014 · Home Office

Email: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money obtained unlawfully through phishing scams was recovered in (a) 2014 to date, (b) 2013, (c) 2012, (d) 2011 and (e) 2010.

15 Dec 2014 · Home Office

Email: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to tackle phishing.

15 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Justice

Email: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for organising online phishing scams in each of the last five years.

15 Dec 2014 · Home Office

Email: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Government's approach to tackling online phishing scams.

9 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants have received an (a) second, (b) third and (c) fourth sanction in each quarter since January 2010.

8 Dec 2014 · Department of Health

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the annual registration fee for dentists to the General Dental Council was in each year since 1984 in which that fee was levied.

Source: official written-questions record.