Written questions

322 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Oct 2014 · Home Office

Entry Clearances: Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people considered to be involved in corruption or organised crime from travelling to the UK in each year between 2005 and 2009, by country of

23 Oct 2014 · Department of Health

Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS was of (a) furniture, (b) crutches and (c) other equipment given out to people with a short-term need in each of the last three years.

22 Oct 2014 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempted clandestine entrants were identified at the UK's points of entry by means other than body scanning technology in each of the last 10 years.

22 Oct 2014 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many clandestine entrants were identified within the UK after passing through one of the UK's points of entry in each of the last 10 years.

22 Oct 2014 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempted clandestine entrants were identified through the use of body scanning technology at the UK's ports of entry in each of the last 10 years.

22 Oct 2014 · Home Office

Travel Restrictions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people from each country of origin considered to be involved in corruption or organised crime from travelling to the UK in each of the last fi

22 Oct 2014 · Home Office

Travel Restrictions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each country were (a) added to and (b) removed from the travel exclusion list in each of the last 10 years.

22 Oct 2014 · Home Office

UK Border Force

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget was for Border Force (a) total and (b) operations expenditure in 2013-14.

22 Oct 2014 · Home Office

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) total expenditure and (b) expenditure on operations by Border Force in 2014-15, including any allocation for the e-Borders arbitration costs.

22 Oct 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a comparative assessment of the criteria used to draw up the (a) UK, (b) US and (c) UN sanctions lists.

20 Oct 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons the UK has not applied sanctions to all individuals on the US and UN sanction lists.

20 Oct 2014 · HM Treasury

Terrorism

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) Abd al-Malik Abd al-Salam, (b) Ashraf Abd al-Salam, (c) Salim Hasen Khalifa Al Kawani, (d) Abdelrahman Imer al Jaber Al Nameh, (e) Ibrahim al-Bakr, (f) Abdullah Ghalib Mahfuz Muslim Al-Khawar and (g) al-S

10 Sep 2014 · Department for Transport

A47

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2014, to Question 207751, on repairs and maintenance, how many problems were identified at Stage 1 of the feasibility work undertaken into the A47, presented at the study r

10 Sep 2014 · Home Office

Borders: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) capital and (b) revenue costs are of operating a body scanning machine at a single point of entry over a 24-hour period.

10 Sep 2014 · Home Office

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 June 2013, Official Report, column 596W, on automatic number plate recognition, how many body-scanning machines UK Border Agency owns; and how many of these are oper

8 Sep 2014 · Home Office

Gangmasters: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many licences have been revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last three years.

8 Sep 2014 · Home Office

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time spent in detention for the purposes of immigration control by (a) women and (b) men in each category of detainee was in each of the last five years.

8 Sep 2014 · Home Office

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the maximum time spent in a detention centre for the purpose of immigration control by (a) women and (b) men in each category of detainee was in each of the last five years.

8 Sep 2014 · Attorney General

Gangmasters: Licensing

To ask the Attorney General, how many times prosecutions have been brought against those who have had their licence revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last three years.

8 Sep 2014 · Attorney General

Forced Labour: Prosecutions

To ask the Attorney General, how many successful prosecutions for forced labour there were in each of the last three financial years.

4 Sep 2014 · Home Office

Borders: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the statement by the Prime Minister of 1 September 2014, Official Report, column 24, on EU Council Security and Middle East, and with reference to the oral evidence of Mark Sedwill, Perman

4 Sep 2014 · Home Office

Crime: Maps

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including fraud data as notified to the National Intelligence Bureau in crime maps produced by her Department.

4 Sep 2014 · HM Treasury

Mobile Phones

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the statement by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, reported in The Sunday Times on 31 August 2014, what provision will be made in the Autumn Statement 2014 to double the funding for tackling mobi

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Transport

A14

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the methodology behind the benefit-cost ratios calculated for each of the schemes funded in the £1.5 billion works commissioned to improve the A14.

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Transport

A14

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what weighting was given to environmental benefits when calculating the benefit-cost ratio for each of the schemes funded in the £1.5 billion works commissioned to improve the A14.

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Transport

A14

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the benefit-cost ratios for each of the schemes funded in the £1.5 billion works commissioned to improve the A14.

3 Sep 2014 · Ministry of Justice

Network Rail

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons are for the time taken to lay regulations to make Network Rail subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Transport

Network Rail

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the National Rail framework agreement published on 1 September 2014, when the National Audit Office will have access to Network Rail's accounts.

3 Sep 2014 · Ministry of Justice

Network Rail

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the National Rail framework agreement published on 1 September 2014, when he plans to lay the draft regulations to make Network Rail subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and under wha

2 Sep 2014 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the scope for the Highways Agency and local highways authorities to share departments, plant and staff and other resources used by their contractors; and what estimate he has made

Source: official written-questions record.