Written questions
9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 Apr 2021 · Home Office
Extradition: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that EU nations continue to extradite criminals to the UK.
14 Apr 2021 · Department for Transport
British Airways: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with British Airways on greenhouse gas emissions; and what steps he is taking to promote more fuel efficient aircraft.
14 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what reason his planned timescale for temporarily reducing Official Development Assistance to 0.5 per cent GNI has changed.
14 Apr 2021 · Department for Education
School Day
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 38 of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report, published in March 2021, what plans he has to extend the school day to help white working-class boys and those from disadvantag
14 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of how many men have not sought medical treatment for prostate cancer during the covid-19 outbreak; and what steps his Department is taking to promote aw
13 Apr 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Air Pollution: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to put in place stricter guidelines to ensure that the UK meets its Clean Air Target.
13 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Developing Countries: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with UNICEF on its VaccinAid campaign; and what steps he is taking to ensure that countries that require vaccines receive them.
13 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether certain variants of covid-19 are less susceptible to vaccines.
13 Apr 2021 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that proposed changes to asylum policy do not lead to the stigmatisation of people who enter the UK illegally to claim asylum.
13 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sub-Saharan Africa: Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has conducted a risk assessment on the potential effect of reductions in Official Development Assistance spending in Sub-Saharan Africa on levels of armed violence
13 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Religion
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposed reductions in Official Development Assistance on support for marginalised religious or belief communities affe
13 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Religious Freedom: Hate Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle online hate speech towards minority religious and belief communities that have been blamed for spreading covid-19 in many countries.
12 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Pakistan: Religious Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Pakistani counterpart on the introduction of legislation to tackle forced conversion.
12 Apr 2021 · Northern Ireland Office
Northern Ireland Protocol
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his plans are for the future of the Northern Ireland protocol; and what steps he is taking to consult unionist communities in Northern Ireland on those plans.
12 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases and Strokes: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research is being undertaken on personalised medicine to detect genes that make people more vulnerable to strokes and heart attacks.
12 Apr 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the condition of housing offered to asylum seekers as part of Operation Oak.
12 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Developing Countries: Religious Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to support marginalised religious and belief communities in developing countries that have been affected by the covid-19 pandemic.
12 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iran: Aviation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help bring to justice the people responsible for the shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 over Tehran in January 2020.
12 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hearing Impairment: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have suffered from hearing loss or tinnitus as a result of being infected with covid-19.
12 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nigeria: Abduction
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Nigerian counterpart on helping to prevent the kidnap of children from school in that country.
12 Apr 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Papua New Guinea: Astrazeneca
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Australian counterpart on the effect of the EU's decision to apply export controls to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on the covid-19 situ
12 Apr 2021 · Church Commissioners
Church of England: Farms
To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what the average length of term agreed on farm business tenancies let by the Church Commissioners, other than in cases where a tenancy is replacing a previous tenancy le
25 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to prioritise elite level athletes for early covid-19 vaccinations in light of the progress of the vaccination programme.
25 Mar 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the risk of transmission of covid-19 as a result of moving families of asylum seekers under his Department's programme entitled Operation Oak.
25 Mar 2021 · Treasury
Public Sector Debt: China
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of the UK's national debt is owed to Chinese financial institutions.
25 Mar 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Religious Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report published in 2020 by the APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief e
25 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pregnancy: Caffeine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the recent study by the University of Rochester that caffeine consumed during pregnancy can alter the struc
24 Mar 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Syria: Humanitarian Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to relieve sanctions on Syria in order to improve the humanitarian situation in that country.
24 Mar 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Papua New Guinea: EU External Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps with EU representatives to increase support for Papua New Guinea and other resource-constrained nations.
24 Mar 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Furs: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ban the sale of fur in the UK.
Source: official written-questions record.