Written questions

3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what financial analysis his Department undertook prior to the decision to reject the Prison Service Pay Review Body’s recommendation 3.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what equality impact assessment his Department has undertaken on the decision to reject the Prison Service Pay Review Body’s recommendation 3.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on prison safety of the decision to reject the Prison Service Pay Review Body’s recommendation 3.

11 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Roll-on Roll-off Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the annual payments made by his Department to Foreland Shipping Limited under the terms of the current Strategic Sealift Service Concession Agreement.

11 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Roll-on Roll-off Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the use of Foreland Shipping Limited’s fleet on the Strategic Sealift contract with his Department to provide additional maritime fr

11 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Roll-on Roll-off Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Ratings and (b) Officers have been trained by Foreland Shipping Limited in each year of the current Strategic Sealift contract with his Department.

11 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Roll-on Roll-off Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to include the armed forces strategic need for roll-on roll-off sealift capacity to 2030 in the National Shipbuilding Strategy.

10 Feb 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Termination of Employment: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he bring forward proposals to ban employers dismissing workers on medical grounds where an employee is waiting for a medical procedure which has been delayed due to the covid-1

10 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward policy proposals to prioritise operations for people at risk of losing their employment on health grounds as a result of delays in receiving medical care during the covid-1

10 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many flights have been chartered by the shipping industry (a) to and (b) from UK airports in each month since 20 March 2020 to date to facilitate crew changeovers on merchant ships docked at UK ports.

10 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change; and whether it is still his policy to classify seafarers as key workers in the context of crew

8 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will prioritise (a) bus, (b) train and (c) taxi drivers for receipt of the covid-19 vaccine.

8 Feb 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Cosmetics: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of negotiating an agreement with China, similar to that recently agreed between the French Government, and China on allowing

8 Feb 2021 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Abuse and Violence

Whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals on protecting shopworkers from abuse, violence and threats.

5 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking support the (a) Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Authority and (b) other relevant regulatory authorities in the (i) EU and (ii) US to collaborate with

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the two taskforces established after the Stonehaven train derailment to examine Networks Rail’s response to climate change will report their findings.

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of inspections and works in relation to protecting Network Rail infrastructure assets is undertaken by staff (a) directly employed by Network Rail and (b) employed by sub-contractors.

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the effect of a reduction in enhancements for the 2019-24 control period on the protection of Network Rail infrastructure assets from weather-related effects.

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) budget and (b) spend is in real terms on protecting Network Rail infrastructure assets from weather-related impacts in each year of the control period 2019–24.

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the spend was in real terms on protecting Network Rail infrastructure assets from weather-related impacts for each year of the control period 2014–19.

3 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Freight: Irish Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's guidance on Category 1 goods that can be transported on government-secured freight capacity contracts, updated on 1 February 2021, what estimate he has made of the (a) volume

29 Jan 2021 · Department for Transport

Hitachi Rail Europe: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of potential redundancies at Hitachi Rail UK Ltd’s Bounds Green and Craigentinny Train Maintenance Centres on LNER; and what steps he is tak

28 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Supermarkets: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the seven participating supermarkets in the priority delivery slots scheme on reducing minimum spends on deliveries for people using those

28 Jan 2021 · Treasury

Credit Cards: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to cap credit card transaction fees to the level introduced by the EU in 2015.

27 Jan 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Western Sahara: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of application of the Geneva Conventions to the conflict between Western Sahara and Morocco.

25 Jan 2021 · Treasury

Charities: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2021 to Question 138922 on Charities: Finance, what the deadline is by which charities must have used grant funding.

25 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to end all sewage discharges into UK bathing waters by 2030.

22 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to extend the availability of school attendance to the children of people who are not classed as key workers but are expected to by their employers to attend the workplace.

22 Jan 2021 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Supply Teachers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to provide financial support to supply teachers who are ineligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the 2021 covid-19 lockdown.

21 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Representation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what statistical information his Department holds on trends in the number of litigants in person appearing in courts and tribunals since 2010.

Source: official written-questions record.