Written questions

977 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department spent on consultancy costs in financial year 2019-20.

7 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diplomatic Service: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many complaints from the public his Department has received on consular support provided during the covid-19 pandemic.

7 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK citizens stranded abroad as a result of the covid-19 pandemic have been returned to the UK on charter flights arranged by the Governments of other countries.

7 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish the (a) membership and (b) remit of his Department’s Repatriation Taskforce.

7 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diplomatic Service: Telephones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Third Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Flying Home: The FCO’s consular response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HC 643, what steps he has taken to ens

7 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diplomatic Service: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to paragraph 30 of the Third Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Flying Home: The FCO’s consular response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HC 643, what plans he

4 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Third Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Flying Home: The FCO’s consular response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HC 643, what steps he has taken to imp

4 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the (a) allocated budget was to and (b) amount spent by the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in each financial year from 2015-16 to 2019-20.

3 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the reduction in funding allocation for the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund announced in the Spending Review 2020 is expected to result in staff redundancies.

3 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) programmes have been identified for a reduction in their budget following the reduction in the Spending Review 2020 of fund

3 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of the funding allocated to the Conflict, Security and Stability Fund in the (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22 financial years will be (i) Official Development Assi

3 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of the funding allocated to the Conflict, Stability and Security in the (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22 financial years is discretionary expenditure.

3 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the projected expenditure is of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in the (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22 financial years.

2 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether loan extensions have been granted to UK citizens who have been unable to repay in full within six months the emergency loans provided to them by the Government while

2 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK citizens have had their details passed onto Indesser debt management service as a result of failure to repay emergency loans provided to them by the Government wh

2 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK citizens have had their passports cancelled as a result of failing to repay emergency loans provided to them by the Government while stranded abroad as a result o

2 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of emergency loans provided to UK citizens stranded abroad as a result of the covid-19 pandemic have been repaid in full within the 6 month timef

2 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many emergency loans for (a) return travel to the UK and (b) essential living costs have been provided to UK citizens stranded abroad as a result of the covid-19 pandemic

1 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Travel Information: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee's Third Report of Session 2019–21, Flying Home: The FCO’s consular response to the COVID-19 pandemic (HC 643), whether

1 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Travel Information: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what improvements he has made to the gov.uk travel advice pages to tackle the problems reported in the Foreign Affairs Select Committee's Third Report of Session 2019–21, Fly

1 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of each of the 151 charter flights organised by his Department to bring UK travellers back to the UK during the covid-19 pandemic.

1 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to retain the remaining funds from the £75 million allocated to his Department to support the repatriation of UK citizens stranded abroad as a result of the

1 Dec 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much of the £75 million allocated to his Department to support the repatriation of UK citizens stranded abroad as a result of the covid-19 pandemic has been spent.

30 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2020 to Question 91634 on Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, what progress has been made by the Government in its assessment o

19 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in line with former Foreign and Commonwealth Office policy, non-UK nationals formerly employed by the Department for International Development and now working for the Foreign, Commonwealth an

17 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Harry Dunn

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he held discussions with President-elect of the US Joe Biden on the death of Harry Dunn on 10 November 2020.

16 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Babies: Neurology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support clinical research into infantile spasms.

16 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Babies: Neurology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve awareness among (a) healthcare professionals and (b) the general public of the symptoms of infantile spasms.

22 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2020 to Question 103495 on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Reorganisation, what estimate he has made of the costs to date o

14 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost has been of the merger of his Department with the Department for International Development to date.

Source: official written-questions record.