Written questions

688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

South Sudan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she has taken to ensure that the humanitarian response in South Sudan is scaled to meet the needs of those affected.

23 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Landmines

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much her Department (a) has spent in the last ten years and (b) plans to spend in each of the next three years on demining in (i) Iraq, (ii) Lebanon, (iii) Myanmar, (iv)

23 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

South Sudan: Landmines

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much her Department (a) has spent on demining activity in South Sudan in the last ten years and (b) plans to spend on demining in South Sudan in each of the next three ye

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport

A46

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department has received from Highways England on plans for the A46 between Teddington Hands roundabout and Evesham; and what records his Department holds on the number of (a) crashes and (b

9 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Madagascar: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what projects her Department is (a) funding or (b) helping to fund to support the people of Madagascar to adapt to the impact of climate change.

9 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tuvalu: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the progress of projects funded by her Department that are designed to improve the resilience and adaptation to climate change for the

9 Nov 2021 · Treasury

International Monetary System

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to draw down the Special Drawing Rights issued recently to the UK by the International Monetary Fund.

2 Nov 2021 · House of Commons Commission

House of Commons: Income

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the effect of trends in the number of visitors to the Parliamentary estate since the lifting of national covid-19 restrictions

2 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Malnutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of children under the age of 5 in low income countries who suffer from malnutrition in 2021 compared to (a)2020, (b) 2019 and (c) 201

2 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Overseas Development Assistance her Department allocated to nutrition programmes in the financial years (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21; and how much she pl

2 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the value for money of nutrition programmes in the Overseas Development Assistance budget allocation.

2 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has plans to allocate Overseas Development Assistance to nutrition at the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021.

20 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Overseas Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage trade links between the UK and Sudan.

20 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

South Sudan: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of reports that children in Warrap state in South Sudan were executed under the orders of the state governor in June 2021.

20 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help support the Sudanese people in response to the attempted coup in that country in September 2021.

22 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Warwickshire College: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Board of Warwickshire College Group on their policy on site closures.

21 Sep 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy

What steps his Department is taking to support the renewable energy sector.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers pilot scheme; and when he plans to publish evaluation information on the (a) first-year pilo

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hops: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to support hop growers affected by the covid-19 outbreak.

3 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of the pilot scheme for 30,000 seasonal agricultural workers in 2021.

13 Jul 2021 · Department for Transport

North Cotswold Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to progress plans to re-double the North Cotswold Line.

11 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of covid-19 lateral flow tests purchased by NHS Test and Trace are manufactured in China.

4 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Electroconvulsive Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to set up an independent review of the use of electro convulsive therapy.

4 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how long the personal information and references provided by volunteer covid-19 vaccinator applicants will be retained by the National Vaccination Programme.

4 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of successful applications from volunteer vaccinators who have not been deployed during the covid-19 vaccine rollout.

27 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Global Partnership for Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking ahead of the G7 to help ensure other key donors increase their contributions to the Global Partnership for Education.

20 May 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Choirs: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what advice he received from the Chief Medical Office on preventing amateur choral singing in groups of more than six people under covid-19 restrictions; and what plans he has for that a

19 May 2021 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish his response to the Alcohol Duty Review; and what representations has he received from small cider makers as part of that review.

12 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to reinstate research programmes which have been discontinued as a result of a reduction to Official Development Assistance (ODA) when ODA returns to 0.7 per

12 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

South Sudan: Peace Negotiations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to planned reductions in Official Development Assistance spending, what assessment has been made of the effects of changes in the level of funding to the South

Source: official written-questions record.