Written questions
3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Railways: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate she has made of the value of rail exports in (a) 2023, (b) 2024, (c) 2025 and (d) 2026.
23 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Railway Signals: Cambridge
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) cost of and (b) timeframe for the re-signalling of Cambridge junction.
23 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an estimate of the (a) proportion of the UK population that never or rarely uses the railway and (b) the revenue potential of that group.
23 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Passengers
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the change in the number of people travelling by passenger rail from 2024 to (a) 2030, (b) 2040 and (c) 2050.
23 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
London North Eastern Railway: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department was involved in the decision of LNER to introduce its Simpler Fares pilot scheme, as announced on 16 January 2024.
22 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Oral Cancer: North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the early detection of mouth cancer in the North East.
19 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to reply to Question 8408 on Offences against Children tabled on 8 January 2024 by the hon. Member for Easington for answer on 11 January 2024.
18 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diabetes: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase the number of people living with diabetes who receive their NICE recommended care processes.
18 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Shipping: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how his Department calculates labour costs for the contracts it puts out to tender in the maritime sector.
18 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Merchant Shipping: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department stipulates employment conditions on private companies that supply merchant navy seafarers to deliver public sector contracts.
18 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list all commercial contracts his Department has with external contractors in the maritime industry including what the (a) value and (b) full-time equivalent staffing is for each contract.
18 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Community Protection Notices
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2024 to Question 8727 on Community Protection Notices, what information does his Department hold on the use of Community Protection Warnings by (a) the police, (b)
16 Jan 2024 · House of Commons Commission
Parliament: Educational Visits
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, how often the House of Commons Commission reviews the terms and conditions of the travel subsidy setting out funding available for school trips to Parliament.
16 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Ebbsfleet International Station: Tunnels
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the rail industry’s plans to review Ebbsfleet tunnel flooding that occurred on 29 December 2023.
16 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the amount of additional rail capacity which will be available at the end of Network Rail’s Control Period 7 funding settlement between 2024 and 2029.
15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Kidney Diseases: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are undergoing dialysis treatment in Easington constituency.
12 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison Service: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people who were rejected for operational support grade roles were subsequently recruited as prison officers in each of the last eight quarters.
12 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison Service: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) prison officers and (b) operational support grades are required to have a face-to-face interview as part of the recruitment process.
11 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing First: County Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to support Durham County Council to deliver a Housing First approach to address long term homelessness.
10 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she had with Cabinet colleagues about improving processing times for dental overseas registration exams.
9 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: North of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department held discussions with the rail industry before the publication of Network North.
9 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Multiple Occupation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on their powers to control the conversion of families homes into houses in multiple occupation.
9 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Community Protection Notices
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Community Protection (a) Warnings and (b) Notices were issued in each of the last five years.
9 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Horden and Seaham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is he taking to improve rail services at (a) Horden and (b) Seaham.
8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Midwives
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a breakdown of the NHS midwifery workforce in England by length of service for (a) 2010, (b) 2015, (c) 2017, (d) 2019 and (e) the most recent year for which she has figures.
8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: County Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2023 to Question 6458 on Special Educational Needs: County Durham, whether she is providing additional resources to Durham County Council to meet demand for Education, Heal
8 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child adopting General Comment 26, what steps he plans to take to incorporate into UK law Article 19 on the Right to
8 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Length of Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by prison officers in each year since 2010.
5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Resignations
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the prevalence of reasons other than retirement for maternity staff leaving NHS employment.
5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many maternity support workers there were in the NHS in each of the last five years.
Source: official written-questions record.