Written questions

1,507 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Jul 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter of 13 June 2023 from the Minister for Development and Africa to the Chair of the International Development Committee on the provisional statistic

4 Jul 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter of 13 June 2023 from the Minister for Development and Africa to the Chair of the International Development Committee on the provisional statistic

29 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter of 13 June 2023 from the Minister for Development and Africa to the Chair of the International Development Committee on the provisional statistic

28 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Carbon Emissions: EU Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of linking the UK carbon border adjustment mechanism to the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism.

20 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ethiopia: Peace Negotiations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the transitional justice process implemented in Ethiopia following the Pretoria peace agreement; and if he will make a sta

20 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sexually Transmitted Infections: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) HIV/AIDS and (b) sexually transmitted diseases' control under the OECD’s DAC code 13040 (i) bilaterally and (ii) multilaterally in ea

8 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much official development assistance has been disbursed under the Rapid Response Facility in each of the last five years.

24 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Chapter 1, paragraph 4 of the UK Government’s Strategy for International Development, published in May 2022, what steps his Department plans to take to mobi

24 May 2023 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to collect data on the number of parents who have had children removed from their care on multiple occasions.

23 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Education: Teenage Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to embed support and advocacy for pregnant girls and teenage mothers into the UK’s global education priorities.

23 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled International women and girls strategy 2023 to 2030, published on 8 March 2023, what steps his Department is taking with (a) girls

5 May 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential preference erosion impact of accession to CPTPP; and if she will make a statement.

27 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Sudan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending visit visas for Sudanese nationals who are in the UK.

25 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish a list of the disability-inclusive activities in each of his Department’s development programmes in (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.

25 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Written Statement of 30 March 2023 entitled FCDO Programme Allocations, HCWS705, whether each programme reviewed during the revision process was subject

25 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the oral Answer by the Minister of State (Development and Africa) of 31 January 2023, Official Report, column 203, what the evidential basis is for the statement

20 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Pets

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's White Paper entitled A Fairer Private Rented Sector, published on 16 June 2022, what support his Department plans to provide to landlords to help f

20 Apr 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Palm Oil: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of tariff liberalisation for palm oil imports on deforestation in palm oil supplying countries; and if she will make an assessment of the pot

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to extend the carry-over motion to the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill before 8 June 2023.

19 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Water: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of the number of Water Action Agenda pledges that the UK Government has made in response to Water Action Agenda agree

19 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Water: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Water Action Agenda agreed at the UN 2023 Water Conference in March 2023, how many of the Water Action Agenda pledges the UK Government has committed to

18 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Pets

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is taking steps to abolish blanket bans on pets in the private rented sector.

28 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hong Kong: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help address concerns raised by the UN Human Rights Council on lack of accountability for human rights abuses in Hong Kong; and whether

28 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times the National Highways CHARM system has suffered an outage lasting in excess of ten minutes in the last 12 months.

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Commodities

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce mandatory due diligence for forest risk commodities as set out in the Consultation on implementing due diligence on f

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Palm Oil: Import Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Government plans to remove import tariffs on Malaysian palm oil in connection with negotiations over UK membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnersh

22 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British International Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the value was of British International Investment’s (BII) revaluations for its (a) total investment portfolio and (b) intermediated fund investments in each of the last

21 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2023 to Question 158934 and the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 163764 on Road Traffic Control, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of redundancy systems for N

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how may traffic officer vehicles have been involved in an accident in a live lane on smart motorways in the last 12 months.

13 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gender: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the target to spend 80 per cent of Official Development Aid on gender equality will meet Gender Equality (a) marker 1 or (b) marker 2.

Source: official written-questions record.