Written questions

4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Dec 2017 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether businesses can transfer their apprentice levy vouchers to smaller businesses in their supply chain.

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what involvement local authorities will have in the development and delivery of the Local Industrial Strategies referred to in the Industrial Strategy White Paper.

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

ICT: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to encourage the commercialisation of UK innovations in (a) cybersecurity, (b) machine learning, (c) microelectronics, (d) compound chip techno

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Regulation: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which UK regulators will be eligible to receive funding from the proposed Regulators' Pioneer Fund.

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Productivity

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for publication of his review into improving the productivity and growth of small and medium-sized businesses.

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the (a) business case and (b) funding details for wave 2 projects funded through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

28 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a timetable for the publication of the additional sector deals referenced in the Industrial Strategy.

28 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Independent Industrial Strategy Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that the proposed Industrial Strategy Council will be (a) independent of Government and (b) able to hold Government to account for the implementa

28 Nov 2017 · Department for Education

Arts: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to provide funding for creative skills education.

28 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Productivity

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what productivity growth targets he has set for the Industrial Strategy over the course of the 2017 Parliament.

28 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with local government representatives on his decision to give Local Economic Partnerships primary control for strategic economic planning in places whe

27 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Independent Industrial Strategy Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria will be used by the Industrial Strategy Council to monitor the implementation of the Industrial Strategy.

27 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Independent Industrial Strategy Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for the creation of the new independent Industrial Strategy Council.

27 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industry: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 13 of the Government's paper, Industrial Strategy: Building a Britain fit for the future, whether the biggest ever increase in public investment is measured

27 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he received from industry representatives on the Artificial Intelligence sector deal.

27 Nov 2017 · Department for International Development

Lake Chad Basin: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to support (a) humanitarian and (b) stabilisation programmes in the Lake Chad region.

27 Nov 2017 · Department for International Development

Lake Chad Basin: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the current humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad region?

22 Nov 2017 · Department for International Development

Lake Chad Basin: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much she plans to contribute to the UN humanitarian appeal for the Lake Chad region.

22 Nov 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Lake Chad Basin: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the potential risk to the UK of political, ecologic, and economic destabilization in the Lake Chad Basin.

22 Nov 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Lake Chad Basin

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to tackle the influence of Boko Haram and what support it provides to assist in the development of the Lake Chad region.

22 Nov 2017 · Department for International Development

Lake Chad Basin: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian aid her Department (a) has recently provided and (b) plans to provide to the Lake Chad region.

21 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of how its industrial strategy will work in tandem with regional devolution deals.

21 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2017 to Question 107986, whether the Government provides any guidance to local authorities on assessing the effect of local council business s

21 Nov 2017 · HM Treasury

European Investment Bank: North East

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that European Investment Bank funds are made available as soon as possible for disbursal to businesses in the North East through the North East Fund.

21 Nov 2017 · HM Treasury

European Investment Bank

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of the UK’s decision to exit the EU on the release of European Investment Bank funds to UK businesses.

21 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Nuclear Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what engagement the Government has had with small businesses in the nuclear sector on a sector deal for the nuclear industry.

16 Nov 2017 · Department of Health

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department offers or is otherwise publicly available of the (a) availability and (b) proximity of smear testing facilities in hospital trusts.

15 Nov 2017 · Department for International Trade

Trade Missions: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of funding to help the North East join trade missions and grasp export opportunities.

15 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how resources from the new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund will be allocated across the country to challenge regional economic inequality.

15 Nov 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Nuclear Power: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109395, what steps the Nuclear Sills Strategy Group is taking to remove barriers to entry into the nuclear industry.

Source: official written-questions record.