Written questions

3,264 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Apr 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Letting Agents: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons no venue in the North East was chosen for a letting agents' fees ban workshop.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Transport

A19: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to reduce the number of accidents on the A19; and if he will make a statement.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Transport

A19: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents there have been on the A19 in each of the last five years.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Transport

A19: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents there have been on the A19 between Seaham and the Testos roundabout in each of the last five years.

30 Mar 2017 · Department of Health

NHS: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the potential effect of public sector pay restraint on recruitment and retention in the NHS.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Angling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions have there been for fishing without a valid rod licence in each of the last five years.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Angling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward proposals to abolish the fishing rod licence and provide an alternative means to raise funds for the Environment Agency.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Angling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has accrued to the public purse from the fishing rod license in each of the last five years.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Angling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the administration costs for issuing fishing rod licenses were in each of the last three years.

29 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to close down the IT systems for legacy benefits after the roll-out of universal credit.

29 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of building council housing as a means of reducing housing benefit expenditure.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for International Trade

Exports: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what support he plans to provide to assist first-time export businesses; and if he will make a statement.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for International Trade

Export Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what guidance is available to businesses on obtaining an export license.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of local enterprise partnerships in delivering employment, growth and investment (a) nationally, (b) in the North East and (c) in

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the Government's decision to abolish Class 2 national insurance contributions on the ability of self-employed people to access a full state pension.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce an interim payment for when a person opens a claim for universal credit.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that severely disabled people unable to work will not be financially disadvantaged by the introduction of universal credit.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Part-time Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of conditionality within universal credit in cases where part-time employees use holiday entitlement from work.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to review the waiting time between opening a new claim for universal credit and the receipt of an initial payment.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the time taken between opening a new claim for universal credit and receiving the first payment on people's (a) financial security, (b) housing s

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Age

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of regional variations in life expectancy when reviewing the state pension age.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to announce the list of conditions that would exempt a person from an employment and support allowance reassessment.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce the mandatory recording of capability assessments for employment and support allowance and personal independence payments.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many assessments Maximus completed within the first year of that company's employment and support allowance contract.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Centre for Health and Disability Assessments: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what penalty payments the Government received from Maximus related to that company's employment and support allowance contract.

28 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will write off overpayments of universal credit caused by official error.

28 Mar 2017 · Ministry of Justice

HM Prison Service: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2017 to Question 68484, on prisons: labour turnover, what assessment she has made of the causes of the recruitment and retention issues at the 31 most severely affected prisons.

28 Mar 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will give prison officers the right to take industrial action in cases where authorities refuse to address a health and safety grievance.

28 Mar 2017 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Easington of 15 February 2017, reference EN7643, relating to Mr Brown and the decision to overturn the Referred Cases Unit decision to

23 Mar 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Industrial Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mechanisms exist for prison officers and their representatives to raise health and safety concerns in prisons.

Source: official written-questions record.