Written questions

902 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Apr 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to provide financial assistance to non-league football clubs impacted by weather related postponements.

18 Apr 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Sportsgrounds

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of playing home games at alternative venues on non-league football clubs.

18 Apr 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with the Football Association on an extension to the football season.

18 Apr 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the impact of weather related postponements on grassroots football clubs.

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Transport

Blue Badge Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to reduce processing times for blue badge applications.

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) allowing people that are moving from legacy benefits to Universal Credit to use a countersignature as proof of ID and (b) opening Job Centres

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people pay the full child maintenance costs for which they are liable.

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) classifying wildlife crimes as either-way offences with a maximum sentence of up to five years imprisonment, (b) giving wil

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to help increase access to grassroots football in deprived areas.

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Transport

Freight: Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of cargo is transported by train in the UK.

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Swimming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the guidance entitled Designate a bathing water: guidance on how to apply, published on 3 July 2023.

21 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Investment in UK: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to her Department's Inward investment results 2022 to 2023, published on 27 June 2023, what the value of the 67 foreign direct investments into renewable energy were, by technology type.

21 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Investment in UK: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to her Department's statistics entitled DBT inward investment results 2022 to 2023, published on 27 June 2023, if she will list the 67 Foreign Direct Investment renewable energy projects

21 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Investment in UK: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to her Department's statistics entitled DBT inward investment results 2022 to 2023, published on 27 June 2023, if she will publish a breakdown by technology of the 67 Foreign Direct Inve

20 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Concrete

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of schools affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete have had remedial work completed in the last 12 months.

29 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

P&O Ferries: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent progress the Insolvency Service has made on its civil investigation of P&O Ferries' dismissal of 786 employees on 17 March 2022.

20 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to meet its obligations under the International Labour Organisation Convention on Occupational Safety and Health 1981.

23 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Northumberland

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of pharmacies in Northumberland.

23 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Northumberland

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of pharmacies open in Northumberland in 2019.

23 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Northumberland

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of pharmacies in Northumberland that were contracted to be open for 100 hours a week on 23 January 2024.

23 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Northumberland

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of pharmacies contracted to be open for 100 hours a week in Northumberland in 2019.

19 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of medication for people with ADHD in Wansbeck constituency; and what recent estimate he has made of when supplies of this medicatio

19 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Wansbeck

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are housed in Wansbeck as of 19 December 2023.

19 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Wansbeck

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many properties are being used to house asylum seekers in Wansbeck as of 19 December 2023.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Northumberland

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in (a) Wansbeck constituency and (b) Northumberland require essential maintenance work as of 14 December 2023; and what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of that work.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are being home schooled due to a lack of SEND provision in (a) Wansbeck constituency, (b) Northumberland and (c) England as of 14 December 2023.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Wansbeck

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were unable to get a place at their catchment school for (a) primary and (b) secondary education in Wansbeck constituency in the 2023-2024 academic year.

11 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Swimming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many inland bathing water site applications were received in 2022; and how many and what proportion of those applications were accepted.

7 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Postal Services: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many of Royal Mail's delivery routes have changed as a result of the adoption of electric vehicles.

28 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to support rural bus services in (a) Wansbeck constituency, (b) Berwick-upon-Tweed constituency, (c) Blyth Valley constituency, (d) Hexham constituency, (e) Northumberland and (f)

Source: official written-questions record.