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.