Written questions

977 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bilateral Aid: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2024 to Question 8417 on Bilateral Aid: Gender Based Violence, how much bilateral aid spending (a) his Department and (b) the predecessor Depa

9 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many experts in preventing sexual violence in conflict have been deployed in the field under that Initiative since February 2021.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative has a three-year funding cycle.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bilateral Aid: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much bilateral aid spending his Department used to address violence against women and girls between December 2022 and December 2023.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bilateral Aid: Equality

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what proportion of his Department's bilateral aid programmes include a focus on gender equality.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much of the £12.5 million allocated to the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative in November 2022 has been spent; and if he will publish a breakdown by project of

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, when the UK last raised global responses to Conflict-related Sexual Violence in the UN Security Council.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to meet each of the four priorities on preventing sexual violence in conflict.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bilateral Aid: Women

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much bilateral aid spending went on (a) women’s equality organisations and (b) violence against woman and girls programmes in the last financial year.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Women

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much his Department spent on aid projects relating to women and girls in (a) 2019-20 and (b) the last financial year.

12 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Platinum Jubilee 2022: Medals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for (a) the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal and (b) HM the King's Coronation Medal to include am

12 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Central Asia: Women

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps he has taken to support women and girls in Central Asia.

12 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

South America: Women

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps he has taken to support women and girls in South America.

12 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

South East Asia: Women

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps he has taken to support women and girls in South East Asia.

12 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sub-Saharan Africa: Women

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps he has taken to support women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa.

12 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Civil Servants

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the Government's news story entitled Plan to move government roles out of Westminster brought forward and new headquarters unveiled published on 12 December 2023

8 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Africa: LGBTQ+ People

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to support LGBT+ rights in Africa.

8 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rwanda: Asylum

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential use of the Official Development Assistance budget to fund the Migration and Eco

7 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Overseas Students

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he is taking steps with Ministers in the (a) Department for Education and (b) Home Office to help facilitate female Afghan medical students to study in the UK.

29 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department takes to ensure that UK aid is administered in a way which does not discriminate based on religion or belief.

23 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Belt and Road Initiative

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many UK Overseas Development Aid projects are involved in supporting the Belt and Road Initiative.

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armenia: Azerbaijan

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has provided humanitarian support to people in Armenia who have been displaced by the Azerbaijani offensive and reoccupation in Nagorno-Zarabakh.

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure the long-term stability of (a) NGOs and (b) aid agencies that (i) provide humanitarian support and (ii) have other operations

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Libya: Floods

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of (a) long-term humanitarian support and (b) reconstruction efforts following the flooding in Derna in Libya.

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Somalia: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps his Department has taken to support humanitarian projects in Somalia.

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Somalia

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many (a) FCO, (b) DFID and (c) FCDO staff have been deployed to Somalia in each financial year since 2010.

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Sierra Leone

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many (a) FCO, (b) DFID and (c) FCDO staff have been deployed to Sierra Leone in each financial year since 2010.

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to his Oral Statement of 14 November 2023 on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Official Report, column 508, what (a) aerial and (b) maritime continge

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Fuels

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps the Government has taken to facilitate supplies of fuel to Gaza.

20 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Charities

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to support medical charities operating in Gaza.

Source: official written-questions record.