Written questions
1,903 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Help to Grow Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what has been the total expenditure on the Help To Grow: Digital scheme in financial years (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.
20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Small Businesses: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she will publish the independent evaluation of the Peer Networks Programme reported in paragraph 111 of the Industrial Development Act 1982: Annual Report 2021 to 2022.
20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Growth Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much core funding her Department plans to provide to Growth Hubs in each remaining year of the Spending Review period (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25.
20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Exports: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2023 to Question 121033 on Trade Promotion, when she will publish the evidence on the Export Support Team’s services’ performance and satisfaction that the Departme
20 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the impact of inflation on local authority budgets for (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24; and if he will make an estimate of what the impact of inflation on 20
20 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional support has been provided to local authorities where asylum seekers, unaccompanied children and families have been moved into hotels in the local authority's area by the Home Office.
17 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Audit: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to progress the Government's proposed Audit Reform Bill.
8 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Palestinians: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on the situation in Jenin.
8 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Palestinians: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the situation in Jenin.
8 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Office for Product Safety and Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) regulatory and (b) prosecution powers have been lost by the Office for Product Safety and Standards following the UK's exit from the EU.
8 Feb 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Heat Network Efficiency Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many applications there have been for (a) revenue and (b) capital grants under the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme.
6 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for humanitarian protection have been declared inadmissible in the last six months.
6 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many notice of intent letters have been sent to applicants for humanitarian protection in the last six months.
3 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Consumers: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies have been the subject of private legal action for breach of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in each of the last five years.
3 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Consumer Goods: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies have been fined for a breach of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 in each year since 2018.
3 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the level of excess demand for (a) hybrid and (b) electric vehicles.
3 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Schools: Feltham and Heston
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 37614 on Schools: Buildings, which schools had at least one construction element in condition grade (a) C and (b) D in Feltham and Heston constituency when tha
2 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Afghanistan: Resettlement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February to Q132577 on Afghanistan: Refugees, for how many of the applicants awaiting decisions who (a) have had requests for information from his Department, (b) have sent information
1 Feb 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2023 to Question 129805 on Asylum: Children, how many of the risks in the risk register are scored as (a) red, (b) amber and (c) green as of 31 January 2023.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the proportion of invoices his Department paid to small and medium-sized enterprises within five days in the 2021-2022 financial year.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the policy paper entitled BEIS small and medium enterprises (SME) action plan: 2022 to 2025, published on 26 January 2023, what recent estimate his Department ha
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of tier-one suppliers to his Department with contracts worth more than £1 million published relevant sub-contract opportunities on Contracts Finder in the financial year 20
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of his Department's tenders were awarded by direct award in the financial year 2021-2022.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average number of months' notice given for new tender opportunities through the BEIS Commercial Pipeline was in each calendar year since 2019.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all claimants are made aware of permitted work and the PW1 form.
31 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Consumer Goods: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many enforcement actions taken by the Office for Product Safety and Standards concerned products available to purchase on third party online marketplaces in 2022.
31 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Consumer Goods: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many enforcement actions the Office for Product Safety and Standards took against (a) Amazon, (b) Ebay, (c) AliExpress and (d) Wish in 2022.
31 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Consumer Goods: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses the Office for Product Safety and Standards have taken prosecution action against as a result of (a) serious and (b) recurrent non-compliance with product safe
30 Jan 2023 · Home Office
British Citizenship: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many citizenship certificate requests were on hold due to IT issues preventing mandatory checks being completed as of 30 January 2023.
27 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his timetable is for publishing the Government's Enterprise Strategy.
Source: official written-questions record.