Written questions

3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to increase the level of funding for the supply of specialist housing to meet the needs of disabled people and wheelchair users.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Pedestrian Areas: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proposals his Department plans to put in place to ensure that disabled people are better able to move freely along street pavements without obstruction from cars, street furniture an

20 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

Transport: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward proposals on compulsory concessionary school travel tickets.

20 Jul 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will introduce new fine levels including a fixed amount and an amount variable according to an offender's crime.

20 Jul 2017 · Attorney General

Sentencing: Appeals

To ask the Attorney General, if he will provide funding to advertise and raise public awareness of the process to refer unduly lenient sentences.

20 Jul 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will end the discounting of sentences for repeat offenders.

20 Jul 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Probation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will end privatisation within the probation service, increase staffing and resources for the service, and give the service a greater role in managing and working with offenders in the community.

20 Jul 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that prison is reserved only for the most dangerous, violent and persistent offenders.

20 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it a criminal offence for a landlord to fail to stop or remove a tenant found to be using illegal drugs in their property and then to take no action following the police notifying the

20 Jul 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Drugs: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for the supply and production of Class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs in each of the last five years; and how many of those people received the maximum custodial sentence permitt

20 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Police: Powers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will give the police powers to recover costs from landlords in cases where the police are repeatedly required to deal with drug-related issues at the same premises.

20 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Drugs: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with her counterparts at the Department for Health and the Ministry of Justice on the potential merits of establishing a drugs rehabilitation programme to divert drug user

19 Jul 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he has received from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme Trustees on surplus-sharing arrangements.

19 Jul 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are in receipt of a pension from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme; and how many of those people are in each constituency.

19 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timetable is for the announcement of successful bids to the New Station Fund.

19 Jul 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Mining: Cultural Heritage

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what programmes or events her Department funds to celebrate, protect and promote the culture and heritage of former mining communities.

10 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to (a) ensure that the outcome of assessments conducted by his Department on people seeking to claim employment and support allowance are correct and (b) reduce the number of dec

10 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of (a) the cost-effectiveness and (b) resource efficiency of employment and support allowance claimants who have been found fit to work claiming jobseeker's allowance while w

10 Jul 2017 · House of Commons Commission

House of Commons: Cybercrime

To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the source of recent cyber attacks on the House has been identified; and what steps are being taken to deter future attacks.

10 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Hassan Yousef

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Written Statement, HCWS23, published on 3 July 2017, on resettlement, if she will review the case of Yousef Hasan.

10 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Refugees: Syria

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Written Statement, HCWS23, published on 3 July 2017, on resettlement, if the Government will take referrals from the UN Relief and Works Agency in order to ensure that people of

7 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent in 2016-17 on processing jobseeker's allowance claims that were subsequently withdrawn following mandatory reconsideration of an employment and support allowance claim.

7 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is by region to complete mandatory reconsiderations of employment and support allowance claims.

7 Jul 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will set a target date for the UK to become carbon neutral.

7 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will set target dates for phasing out (a) petrol and (b) diesel vehicles.

7 Jul 2017 · Department for Education

Erasmus+ Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to maintain the UK's involvement in the Erasmus scheme after the UK leaves the EU.

7 Jul 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fire Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2017 to Question 371, whether there is a requirement to remove polystyrene ceiling tiles from older buildings.

6 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will extend assessment rate payments to claimants of employment and support allowance who are waiting for the outcome of a mandatory reconsideration.

6 Jul 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Government will make representations at the United Nations on international cyber attacks by advancing a policy of sanctioning any state actors found to be involved in those attack

6 Jul 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybersecurity: Ministerial Duties

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Government will appoint a Minister with sole responsibility for cyber security.

Source: official written-questions record.