Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Feb 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to promote the sharing of facilities between different areas of the arts.

9 Feb 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many times payment providers (a) were asked by the Gambling Commission to block payments to online gambling websites not licenced in the UK and (b) blocked such payments between the Gambling

9 Feb 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Gambling Commission remote-operating licences are held by gambling websites based in the UK.

9 Feb 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Gambling Commission remote-operating licences are held by gambling websites based outside of the UK; and in which jurisdictions such websites are located.

9 Feb 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many online gambling websites located outside the UK and without a Gambling Commission remote-operating licence were sent letters reminding them of the legal position on licensing in the UK b

7 Feb 2017 · Women and Equalities

Racial Violence

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent discussions she has had with the Home Secretary on the handling of racially motivated attacks.

7 Feb 2017 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what educational programmes the Government makes available to youth bodies to help support young people who are the victims of domestic abuse.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Pregnancy: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to tackle discrimination against women who are expecting or have children; and what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation on ma

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of new apprenticeships resulting from the expansion of Heathrow airport; and what assessment he has made of the effect of that expansion on the skill bank of

7 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Hygiene

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the NHS is taking to disseminate guidance on the benefits to hygiene of people in hospitals washing their hands.

7 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Ketamine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether an assessment has been made of the potential merits of making ketamine available on the NHS to help tackle alcohol dependency.

7 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Hypertension

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the NHS has taken to tackle trends in blood pressure related complaints among people in their 50s.

7 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

China and Pakistan: Organs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has made to the Governments of (a) Pakistan and (b) China on the trafficking of human organs from those countries; and if he will make a statement.

7 Feb 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Kenya: Farms and Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Kenya on the incidence of home and farm seizures in that country.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Online Dating: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has undertaken an assessment of the potential merits of introducing proposals for the regulation of online dating sites.

7 Feb 2017 · Attorney General

Witnesses: Older People

To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to ensure that the CPS deal sensitively with elderly witnesses who are afraid of giving evidence in court.

7 Feb 2017 · Attorney General

Dangerous Driving: Sentencing

To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the Government's consultation on sentences for dangerous driving.

6 Feb 2017 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to incentivise the use of electric cars.

6 Feb 2017 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Offences: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that drivers from other EU member states who are charged with traffic offences in the UK are dealt with effectively by their national authorities.

6 Feb 2017 · Home Office

Passports: Republic of Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of forged or illegally-obtained UK passports in the Republic of Ireland.

6 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Polymyalgia Rheumatica

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for availability on the NHS of new treatments to tackle polymyalgia rheumatica.

6 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Blepharospasm

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with blephorospasm in each of the last five years.

6 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Hypertension and Sepsis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for availability on the NHS of a calcium channel blocker to tackle high blood pressure and sepsis.

6 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Heart Diseases: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the NHS is taking to prevent technological faults in equipment used in heart operations from causing harm or fatality.

6 Feb 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Islamic State: Military Intervention

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made on steps to retake Mosul from Daesh.

6 Feb 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Shellfish: Non-native Species

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the spread of the invasive species of demon shrimp, dikerogammarus haemobaphes.

6 Feb 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to protect breeding habitats for woodcock.

6 Feb 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Arable Farming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's plans are for the operation of the three crop rule after the UK leaves the EU.

1 Feb 2017 · Department of Health

Epilepsy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS has been of treating people with a diagnosis of epilepsy in each of the last five years.

1 Feb 2017 · Cabinet Office

Epilepsy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died as a result of symptoms relating to epilepsy in each of the last five years.

Source: official written-questions record.