Written questions
807 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Feb 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes his Department has agreed to enable housing associations to be informed when tenants migrate to universal credit.
10 Feb 2015 · Wales Office
Borderlands Line: Electrification
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government and Merseyrail on electrification of the Wrexham to Bidston railway line.
10 Feb 2015 · Department for Transport
Travel: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the change in real terms of the cost of travelling by (a) private car, (b) bus, (c) train and (d) domestic air flight between (i) 2000 and 2010 and (ii) 2010 and 2014.
10 Feb 2015 · Department for Transport
Borderlands Line: Electrification
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government and Merseyrail on electrification of the Wrexham to Bidston railway line.
10 Feb 2015 · Home Office
Passports
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the guaranteed fulfilment period is for (a) issuing new and (b) renewing (i) children's and (ii) adult passports.
10 Feb 2015 · Department of Health
NHS: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of fresh produce supplied to the NHS through NHS supply chain contracts in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 was produced in the UK.
10 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Football
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to adopt the measures contained in the Football Governance Bill.
10 Feb 2015 · Women and Equalities
Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people have applied for the Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund in each year since its establishment; and what estimate she has made of the total grants from that date to May 2015.
25 Nov 2014 · Department for Transport
Cycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2014 to Question 213147, if he will take steps to reflect the percentage journey share for cycling in the proportion of his Department's spending that is made on cycling.
18 Nov 2014 · Department for Transport
Transport Direct
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many individual visits there were to the Transport Direct website in each of the last five years.
18 Nov 2014 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the proportion of workers in the childcare sector who are employed on zero-hour contracts.
18 Nov 2014 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) median and (b) mean wage was for childcare workers in each of the last five years.
18 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Defence
West Africa: Ebola
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will introduce a medal for service personnel and medical staff deployed to West Africa as part of the fight against Ebola.
3 Nov 2014 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Housing: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
3 Nov 2014 · Department for Transport
Cycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of passenger journeys in the UK were made by bicycle in each of the last five years; and what share of his Department's spending related to cycling in that time period.
13 Oct 2014 · Department for International Development
Conflict Pool
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library the annual reports of the Conflict Pool for 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14.
13 Oct 2014 · HM Treasury
Public Sector Debt: UN Resolutions
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the UK voted against UN Resolution A/68/L.57/Rev.1, entitled Towards the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes, on 9 September 2014.
11 Sep 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Burkina Faso
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effects of political instability in Burkina Faso on (a) the Sahelian region and (b) the Ebola outbreak.
11 Sep 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Burkina Faso
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what presence his Department has in Burkina Faso; and what steps his Department is taking to support a peaceful transition of presidential power in Burkina Faso in 2015.
26 Aug 2014 · HM Treasury
Banks: Pay
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has made to institutions of the EU on the cap on bank bonuses.
8 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes his Department has agreed to enable housing associations to be informed when tenants migrate to universal credit.
4 Jun 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing a BSL interpreter for each individual needing one to fill an access to work position adequately.
4 Jun 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of applicants who have faced delays to their personal independence payment claim because of partial PA4 IT failures in the past 12 months.
4 Jun 2014 · Home Office
Passports
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Immigration and Passport Service on (a) the service's ability to meet the three-week timescale for processing an application for a child passport and (b) possible
4 Jun 2014 · Department for International Development
India
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to investigate allegations that employees of programmes in Bihar State funded by her Department are not receiving their salaries.
4 Jun 2014 · Department for International Development
Nigeria
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, columns 549-50W, on Nigeria, whether her Department collects this data on a state-by-state basis.
4 Jun 2014 · Ministry of Defence
Nigeria
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide an update on the use of his Department's resources to help efforts to locate abducted girls in northern Nigeria.
Source: official written-questions record.