Written questions

3,020 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timeframe is for opening the Afghan citizens' resettlement scheme.

21 Sep 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

School Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that the school milk subsidy scheme includes milk alternatives in the event that children have dairy allergies.

21 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that all (a) teaching and (b) support staff in schools are trained in handling children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

21 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to publish the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities review.

15 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Events Industry: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to encourage people to return to live events following the lifting of covid-19 public health restrictions.

15 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: South Yorkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial support he is providing to GP practices in South Yorkshire to help increase the number of face-to-face appointments.

15 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that minimum standards of performance and reliability are met by private-sector providers of covid-19 polymerase chain reaction tests for British nationals returni

14 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on reducing the cost of hotel quarantine accommodation and its impact on the accessibility of holidays.

14 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Afghan nationals evacuated during Operation Pitting will be resettled in the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme; and whether they will form part of the 5,000 target set for the first year o

14 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television: Privatisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of privatising Channel 4 on Yorkshire’s economy.

14 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Arts: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the (a) level of reduction in funding for Higher Education arts subjects in England and (b) potential effect of that change in funding on the future (i) accessibility and (ii) via

14 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Chevening Scholarships Programme: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2021 to Question 40586 on Afghanistan: Chevening Scholarships Programme, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the safe passage of 2021 Afghan Chevening

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Events Industry: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to use Event Research Programmes (ERP) to avoid complete closures of (a) venues and (b) events in the future.

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Culture: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with ministers in the Cabinet Office on the steps being taken by them to include the level of funding on culture in the North as part of the Levelling Up Whit

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Events Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to support venue and music organisations in booking international artists to perform in the UK.

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Arts and Musicians: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on providing additional financial support to touring (a) artists and (b) music organisations travelling to the European Union.

13 Sep 2021 · Cabinet Office

Coronavirus Certificates

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what definition his Department plans to use to define venues that will be required to make people show covid-19 vaccine certificates for entrance; when his Department pla

8 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial support she is providing to claimants over pension age who do not qualify for the mobility allowance of personal independence payment or the mobility scheme and who cannot claim attendanc

8 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of removing the upper age limit for Personal Independence Payment claimants on those with mobility issues who are over pension age.

8 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of civilian guards at UK military bases on Operational MGS Employment Contracts working at least (a) 60 and (b) 72 hours in a rolling 7-day period.

8 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence Guard Service: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what comparative assessment he has made of the (a) pay, (b) working hours and (c) other conditions of employment for civilian guards at UK military bases on (i) Operational MGS Employment Contracts and (ii) previ

8 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the level of funding awarded to Clinical Commissioning Groups on regional health inequalities.

7 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the level of funding provided to housing providers for homeless veterans.

7 Sep 2021 · Cabinet Office

Office for Veterans' Affairs: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans the Government has to increase the budget for the Office for Veterans' Affairs; and if he will make a statement.

7 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that people eligible to relocate to the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy are prioritised for safe passage to the UK.

7 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken to implement the Afghanistan Citizens Resettlement Scheme on the mortality rate in Afghanistan.

6 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support (a) locally employed staff from Afghanistan, (b) Afghan National Security Forces personnel and (c) their dependants with regularising their immigration status.

6 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what humanitarian support his Department is providing to Afghanistan.

6 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people eligible for relocation to the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy are in Afghanistan as at 6 September 2021.

6 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government has plans to award an Operational Service Medal Afghanistan to members of the Armed Forces who served on Operation Pitting but who are ineligible for that award because they have not comple

Source: official written-questions record.