Written questions

3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Mar 2024 · Home Office

Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by all police officers in (a) 2010 and (b) 2024.

7 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2024 to Question 15620 on Health Services: Postal Services, whether his Department collects information on the reasons for missed NHS appointments.

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of student midwives left their university courses in each of the last five years.

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many student midwives graduated from pre-registration midwifery courses in each of the last five years.

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people enrolled onto midwifery (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate courses in each year of study in each of the last five academic years.

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the cost of training a student midwife is paid by (a) the student, (b) the public purse and (c) other sources; and what the cost to the public purse was for training

1 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Sterling: Exchange Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to increase the relative value of the Sterling to ease cost of living pressures.

1 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 15436, whether assaults by razor are counted under (a) knife/blade or (b) other sharp instrument.

1 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 15436 on Prison Officers: Crimes of Violence, if he will publish the data on method of attack against (a) prison officers and (b) all staff, broken down by v

27 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: County Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has received representations from Durham County Council on the conversion of family homes into houses of multiple occupation for the accommodation of asylum seekers by the Mears

27 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the publication entitled Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry: 2023, published on 22 February 2024, if he will make an estimate of the number of UK seafarers working at sea on merchant ships

27 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Section 4 of his Department's dataset entitled Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry: 2023, published on 22 February 2024, what discussions he is having with (a) employers in the shipping indu

27 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Section 3 of his Department's dataset entitled Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry: 2023, published on 22 February 2024, if he will make it his policy to increase the (a) number and (b) prop

27 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's statistical dataset entitled Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry, published on 22 February 2024, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the annual increase in seafar

27 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on prison officers involving razors have resulted in prison officers leaving the service in the last year.

27 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on prison officers involving razors have resulted in hospitalisation in the last year.

27 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on prison officers have involved razors in the last year.

26 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Postal Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the NHS caused by Royal Mail (a) delays and (b) failures to deliver appointment letters.

26 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Offensive Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been (a) found in and (b) prosecuted for possession of a bladed article in the last year.

23 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information does his Department collect on the method of attack used against prison officers following an assault.

23 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been successfully prosecuted for attacks on prison officers with razors in the last year.

20 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Fraud: Bank Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure banks follow the Banking Protocol to protect vulnerable adults from fraud.

19 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Fraud: Retail Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will have discussions with representatives of Apple on potential steps to tackle fraud relating to Apple Gift cards.

19 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Fraud: Retail Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to tackle fraud using gift cards.

19 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Bank Services: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require banks to compensate victims of fraud in circumstances in which anti-fraud banking protocols have not been followed.

16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of ending the supply of razors to prisoners.

16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of assaults on prison officers involving razors.

16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been successfully prosecuted for attacks on prison officers with razors in each of the last 24 months.

16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on prison officers involving razors have resulted in (a) hospitalisation and (b) prison officers leaving the service in each of the last 24 months.

16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on prison officers have involved razors in each of the last 24 months.

Source: official written-questions record.