Written questions

3,020 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the effect of the forecasts in the Office for Budget Responsibility's Economic and Fiscal Outlook, November 2016, on his Department's estimates of the financial effect on recipients

1 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Poverty Unit: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 7 November 2016 to Question 51676, on Child Poverty Unit: staff, if he will give a breakdown of the staff numbers provided by civil service pay grade in each of the last

1 Dec 2016 · Department for Education

Children's Centres: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start children's centres have closed in England in each year since 2010.

29 Nov 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Science

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU member states on UK participation in EU scientific programmes after the UK leaves the EU.

28 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Low Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to enable people in low-paid professions to move into positions with a higher salary.

28 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have moved into work and earn above the national minimum wage from receiving out-of-work benefits in each of the last five years.

28 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have moved into work from receiving out-of-work benefits in each of the last five years; and how many such people have moved into work with a salary above 60 per cent of median household

28 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Poverty Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2016 to Question 54256, what steps the Child Poverty Unit is taking to reduce poverty among children living in working households.

24 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Social Mobility Commission: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time equivalent staff worked in the Social Mobility Commission in each of the last five years.

24 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Death: Weather

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Autumn Statement 2016 on excess winter deaths.

24 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Children: Poverty

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Autumn Statement 2016 on child poverty.

24 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Children: Poverty

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with external organisations on the effect of the Autumn Statement 2016 on child poverty.

24 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Public Expenditure

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the full analysis undertaken by his Department's tax and benefit microsimulation model on the Autumn Statement 2016.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Autumn Statement

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to continue to publish the Autumn Statement on an annual basis for the remainder of the current Parliament.

22 Nov 2016 · Department for Exiting the European Union

UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether he intends to formally enter discussions on a future trade deal with the EU before the UK leaves the EU.

22 Nov 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Productivity: Low Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings he has had to discuss productivity with employers in low-paid sectors in each of the last six months.

22 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Poverty Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made by the Child Poverty Unit; and if he will make a statement.

22 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Awards for Valour (Protection) Bill 2016-17

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make the provisions contained in the Awards for Valour (Protection) Bill his Department's policy.

16 Nov 2016 · Department for International Development

Syria: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of renewed airstrikes in Aleppo on the humanitarian situation in that city; and if she will make a statement.

15 Nov 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Death: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent to limit excess winter deaths in each of the last five years.

15 Nov 2016 · Department of Health

Death: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent to limit excess winter deaths in each of the last five years.

15 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support BAME veterans into employment.

15 Nov 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Death: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent to limit excess winter deaths in each of the last five years.

11 Nov 2016 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for the Government's timetable for triggering the Article 50 process of the High Court ruling on 3 November 2016 relating to that matte

11 Nov 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Companies: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of recent recommendations by the TUC that allowing workers to sit on company boards would encourage the long-term success of in

11 Nov 2016 · Department for International Development

Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether it remains her Department's policy to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on official development assistance.

11 Nov 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Voluntary Work: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many National Citizen Service 2015 graduates were eligible for free school meals.

8 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Poverty Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual budget was of the Child Poverty Unit in each of the last five years.

8 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Economic Policy

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the analysis his Department published as HM Treasury analysis: the long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives, Cm 9250, published in April 2016, remains the basis for Government policy in

8 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

UK Trade with EU

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what analysis his Department has undertaken on the potential options for the future UK relationship with the single market once the UK leaves the EU subsequent to publication of the long-term economic impact of EU me

Source: official written-questions record.