Written questions
927 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Apr 2020 · Department for Education
Universities: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether universities that have closed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak will require their students to pay their fees in full.
20 Apr 2020 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Nannies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether nannies are eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
20 Apr 2020 · Department for Education
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Supply Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to support supply teachers who are employed through an agency and are not eligible for furlough via the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward proposals to amend Regulation B13 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 to create an exemption for people who live in Sanctuary Schemes after the decision of the Grand Chambe
2 Mar 2020 · Home Office
Immigration Controls: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2020 to Question 18815 on Immigration Controls: Equality, if she will place in the Library a copy of the analysis of the equalities impacts of the points-based im
28 Feb 2020 · Home Office
European Arrest Warrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's policy on implementation of European Arrest Warrants (EAW) will be maintained during the transition period; and whether she plans to take steps before the end of that period t
27 Feb 2020 · Home Office
European Arrest Warrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether European Arrest Warrants issued to British citizens while the UK was a member of the EU will remain valid at the end of the transition period.
27 Feb 2020 · Home Office
European Arrest Warrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2020 to Question 3740 on European Arrest Warrants, whether European Arrest Warrants issued after 31 January 2020 in respect of British citizens will continue to be
24 Feb 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, further to the Answer of 16 January 2020 to Question 2530, on Pay, if he will publish data on the minimum wage (a) arrears and (b) penalties issued in each constituency in each of
21 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Migrant Workers: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she will take to ensure the Government's proposed immigration policy for EU migration after the transition period does not adversely affect the care sector.
21 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to undertake an assessment of the effect of the points-based system for immigration announced by her Department on 19 February 2020 on (a) gender equality, (b) sectors that employ a
21 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an equality assessment of the points-based system for immigration announced by her Department on 19 February 2020.
21 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Immigration Controls: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to undertake an equality impact assessment of the points-based system announced by her Department on 19 February 2020 in line with the Public Sector Equality Duty.
21 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2020 to Question 14677, on Local Housing Allowance, whether he plans to allocate additional funding to support claimants that are at risk of becoming homeless as a
21 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Bereavement Support Payment: Cohabitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to implement the ruling of the Supreme Court of 30 August 2018, [2018] UKSC 48, on extending bereavement support payments to unmarried couples.
21 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available during the three month wait for eligibility for limited capability for work and work-related activity for a person who was eligible for employment and support allowance but who
21 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that EU citizens who are homeless and living in the UK complete the settled status application process.
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is in place for parents (a) who are in work to cover the cost of childcare costs during school holidays and (b) who have accessed the Flexible Support Fund in the month following that claim
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received support for upfront childcare costs under the Flexible Support Fund; and what proportion of the Flexible Support Fund is used to pay for childcare.
12 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the effect of the limits on childcare costs claimable through universal credit on (a) women and (b) maternal employment rates.
12 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of universal credit credit claimants whose childcare costs exceed the upper threshold for (a) one child and (b) two or more children.
11 Feb 2020 · Treasury
Credit Cards: Debts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has received from consumer groups on unintended consequences of the Financial Conduct Authority’s persistent credit card debt remedies; and if he will ask the FCA to (i) bring for
11 Feb 2020 · Treasury
Credit Cards: Debts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Financial Conduct Authority to determine the effect of the persistent credit card debt remedies introduced in February 2018, and what steps his Department is taking to ensure tha
10 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Naturalisation: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for naturalisation have been outstanding for longer than six months.
10 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to extend automatic priority need for housing to survivors of domestic abuse in need of a safe and permanent home.
10 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of uprating local housing allowance in line with inflation in areas where private rents have risen above CPI.
4 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether funding is available to existing universal credit claimants to pay for childcare so that they are not required to pay up front and claim the money back.
31 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Bereavement Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on Bereaved Support Payments, published on 22 October 2019, what the expected publication date is of the Government response to that repor
30 Jan 2020 · Home Office
European Arrest Warrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the status of European arrest warrants issued prior to the UK leaving the EU will be after the UK's withdrawal.
23 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice
European Convention on Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many declarations of incompatibility the Supreme Court has issued, and how many declarations of incompatibility the Government has acted on.
Source: official written-questions record.