Written questions

3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Question 9 of oral evidence taken before the Justice Committee on 24 October 2023, HC 1929, Session 2022–23, what the (a) leaving and (b) vacancy rates were of (i) prison officers and (ii) opera

23 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many miners' widows were recipients of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme (a) in Easington constituency and (b) nationally in October 2023.

23 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many miners were recipients of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme (a) in Easington Constituency and (b) nationally in October 2023.

23 Oct 2023 · House of Commons Commission

High Speed 2 Line: Parliamentary Scrutiny

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the cost of parliamentary scrutiny of sections of HS2 that have since been cancelled.

23 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Parliamentary Scrutiny

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of preparations by officials for parliamentary scrutiny of sections of HS2 that have since been cancelled.

23 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of planning sections of HS2 that have since been cancelled.

23 Oct 2023 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times Government departments answered Named Day written parliamentary questions stating that it would not be possible to answer a question within the usual time period in each of the last five years.

23 Oct 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Local Press: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of journalists on the sustainability of local media reporting.

19 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Land: Compulsory Purchase

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will undertake a review of the compulsory purchase rules for land identified as being suitable for house building.

18 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the transparency data entitled Train operating companies: Passenger’s Charter compensation, published on 25 August 2022, if he will provide updated data for the 2022-23 financial year.

18 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the eligibility criteria for the second stage of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 3.

18 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to take steps to ensure that freelance journalists who are threatened by the Afghan government will be eligible for resettlement under the second stage of pathway three of the Afghan

17 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons his Department has not responded to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's report on NHS dentistry within two months of its publication on 14 July 2023.

17 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is the Minister taking to increase access to NHS dental services in County Durham.

19 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprenticeships have been (a) offered, (b) completed and (c) started but not completed with (i) London North Eastern Railway, (ii) Transpennine Express, (iii) Northern Rail and (iv) Southeastern Railwa

19 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Ticket Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government issued guidance to Train Operating Companies to commence consulting on ticket offices.

15 Sep 2023 · Treasury

Shipping: Minimum Wage

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the press statement issued by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, published on 30 March 2022, if he will list the targeted enforcement activities that HMRC NMW Enforcement

15 Sep 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to the maintenance and renewal of school buildings.

15 Sep 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools closed classrooms due to (a) maintenance and (b) structural issues in the last 12 months.

15 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 196081 on Railway Stations, if he will publish a redacted copy of the mandate given to the train operating companies.

15 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Ticket Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 11 September to Question 196079 on Railway Stations: Tickets, if he will publish the Memorandum of Understanding for Modernising Retail between his Department and the Rail Delivery Gro

12 Sep 2023 · Home Office

Shoplifting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what statistical data her Department collects on the reasons and underlying causes of shoplifting incidents reported to the police.

11 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the intake dates for Network Rail apprentices.

11 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Network Rail (a) apprenticeships were offered and (b) how many cohorts of Network Rail apprenticeships have there been in for each of the last five years.

11 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Network Rail apprentices that have (a) completed and (b) dropped out of their apprenticeships in each of the last five years.

11 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what changes his Department plans to make to the (a) reporting of and (b) data collected by NHS England on cancer waiting times after 1 October 2023.

11 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that radiotherapy LINAC machines used in NHS Trusts are replaced once they go beyond their recommended 10-year lifespan; and what assessment he has mad

11 Sep 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Semaglutide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward proposals to ban the off-label prescribing of Ozempic.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Mining: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the environmental duties under the Companies Act 2006 relating to mining activities.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fundão Tailing Dam: Disasters

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the Mariana dam disaster .

Source: official written-questions record.