Written questions
3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Dec 2021 · Home Office
Drugs: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment she had made of (a) the increased funding for drug treatment and wider recovery support recommended by Dame Carol Black in the Independent Review of Drugs published on 27 J
10 Dec 2021 · Home Office
Drugs: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference the recommendations of the Independent Review of Drugs by Dame Carol Black published on 27 July 2021, whether all of those recommendations have been adopted and included in the policy p
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport
Shipping and Wind Power: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the annual impact that the (a) Operation Zero declaration and (b) Clean Maritime Demonstration Programme will have on (a) demand for and (b) supply of seafarers to 2030.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport
Shipping and Wind Power: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his officials have had with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy regarding seafarer employment standards in the maritime supply chain of the offshore wind industry
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport
Shipping and Wind Power: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Operation Zero declaration on shipping and offshore wind at COP26, what assessment he has made of suitable port locations for the infrastructure required for decarbonising the offshore win
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport
Shipping and Wind Power: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list (a) government and (b) industry signatories to the Operation Zero declaration on (a) shipping and (b) offshore wind launched at COP26.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to formally include maritime trade unions formally in the Operation Zero declaration on shipping and offshore wind at COP26.
3 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Electricity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it a statutory requirement for care homes to have backup electricity generators in order to manage power outages.
2 Dec 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Power Failures: North of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make representations to Northern Powergrid on creating a fast-track streamlined compensation system for residents left without power as a result of Storm Arwen.
2 Dec 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Weather: North of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, once power has been restored, if he will commission an independent public inquiry into the national and local response to Storm Arwen.
30 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Police: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2021 to Question 76646, what assessment she has made of the impact of Government policy on the increase in police response times since 2010.
29 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Telecommunications: Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to climate proof basic infrastructure, such as utility cabling, from extreme weather conditions by encouraging the use of underground ducting in preference t
29 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Landlords: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2021 to Question 56975 on Landlords: Licensing, how many days on average it takes to determine a selective licensing application.
19 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Regional Planning and Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish the timescale for (a) Round 2 and (b) Round 3 bidding process of the Levelling Up Fund.
17 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Motorcycles: Anti-social Behaviour and Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2021 to Question 70255: Motorcycles: Antisocial Behaviour and Crime, if he will make it his policy to introduce an off-road bike national strategy to consider and
17 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Police: County Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2021 to Question 70254 on Emergency Services: County Durham and with reference to data published in response to a Freedom of Information request to Durham Constab
16 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2021 to Question 44294 on Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment, what account the assessment took of the effect of fatigue on (a) concentration and (b)
16 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2021 to Question 44294, Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment, what evidence his Department holds that indicates the levels of security at UK military
16 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2021 to Question 44293 on Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment, whether a Health and Safety Executive Fatigue Risk Management system was established b
16 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2021 to Question 44293 on Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment, what assessment he has made of the merits of specifically assessing the potential effe
15 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2021 to Question 65406 on Shipping: Employment, if he will provide figures for UK domiciled (a) ratings and (b) officers employed on tonnage tax qualifying vessels registere
12 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport
Railways: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to require rail operators to have CCTV on all (a) train carriages and (b) station platforms.
8 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will raise with her Moroccan counterpart the matter of Morocco requiring MINURSO to use Moroccan vehicle number plates in occupied Western Sahara in contravention of t
8 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Western Sahara: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will ask the Moroccan Ambassador to explain the use of combat or surveillance drones over the Berm dividing Western Sahara.
5 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Motorcycles: Anti-social Behaviour and Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will produce a national police strategy for tackling anti-social behaviour and crime associated with off-road bikes.
5 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Emergency Services: County Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average 999 emergency police response times are for incidents in (a) Peterlee and (b) Seaham in the latest period for which data is available.
5 Nov 2021 · Home Office
General Practitioners: Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will expedite Skilled Worker Visas (Tier 2 Application) for GP surgeries in the Easington constituency that are seeking to employ and retain doctors.
4 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Arson: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that police forces are given an automatic right to access Fire and Rescue vehicle CCTV in order to facilitate the investigation of arson.
3 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Disability: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Disabled Children’s Partnership and Scope’s October 2021 report, The Gap Widens, what plans his Department has to use the £5.9 billion NHS covid recovery funding announced at
3 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Respite Care: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities over the use of the £4.8 billion additional grant funding for local authorities, announced at the Spending Revi
Source: official written-questions record.