Written questions

1,507 written questions tabled, most recent first.

31 Oct 2019 · Home Office

Human Trafficking: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship scheme will be rolled out across all regions of England and Wales; and if she will make a statement.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Overseas aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to which (a) projects, (b) sectors and (c) regions the £7.9 million of Conflict, Stability and Security Fund monies allocated to Sri Lanka was disbursed.

30 Oct 2019 · Home Office

Asylum: Sri Lanka

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sri Lankan nationals have been granted asylum in the UK on the grounds of torture since 2015.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: War Crimes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the extent of the government of Sri Lanka's engagement with war crimes investigations; and what plans the Government has to refer cases of alleg

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how the £10.75 million that has been allocated to Sri Lanka from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund over the next three years will be disbursed.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Crosby Textor Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether British High Commission staff in Colombo have held meetings with employees of the Crosby-Textor strategy group; and whether the Government has (a) allocated and (b) disbursed fund

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Administration of Justice

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding he plans to allocate to help promote accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Chevening Scholarships Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many applications were received by the British High Commission in Sri Lanka for the Chevening scholarship; and what criteria were used to evaluate the applicants in 2018-19.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Tamils

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) meetings and (b) discussions officials from the UK High Commission in Sri Lanka have had with Tamil community protests on (i) the resettlement of military occupied land and (ii)

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Diplomatic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which (a) individuals and (b) organisations received disbursements from the British High Commission in Colombo through the Small Grants Scheme in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) male and (b) female victims of sexual violence in Sri Lanka that are now in the UK will have a role in events for the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative five years on that

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the level of compliance with human rights law of the UK's security assistance to Sri Lanka after the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking an independent audit of the adequacy of the UK’s security sector reform program in Sri Lanka.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Diplomatic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the British High Commission has invited Sri Lanka’s Chief of Army Staff to events at the High Commission in the last 12 months.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has allocated funding to train officials from Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Diplomatic Service: War Crimes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department takes steps to ensure that the credentials of foreign diplomats posted to the UK do not have military records linking those diplomats to suspected war crimes.

30 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to UN Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1, what criteria the Government uses to (a) vet and (b) screen Sri Lankan (i) public and (ii) security officials.

30 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Ethics

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to implement the recommendations in the report entitled, Local Government Ethical Standards published by the Committee

29 Oct 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Gender Identity Services patients identified as (a) binary and (b) non-binary in each of the last five years.

29 Oct 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what provisions he has put in place for those who define as non-binary in the new NHS Gender Identity Services specification.

29 Oct 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct Clinical Commissioning Groups to fund the cost of prescribing products related to gender identity for transgender and non-binary patients to ensure compliance with the Equalitie

29 Oct 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to clinical commissioning groups was of prescribing products related to gender identity for transgender and non-binary patients in each of the last five years.

29 Oct 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the procurement of the new NHS England Gender Identity Services for Adults will build sufficient capacity to ensure that the NHS 18 week first referral to treatment target will be met.

29 Oct 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date it is planned that the process for the procurements of the new NHS Gender Identity Services for Adults will be completed.

29 Oct 2019 · Department for Transport

M1

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what public consultation was undertaken prior to the decision to proceed with the conversion of junctions 34 to 35A of the M1 to an all lane running scheme; and on what date that all lane running scheme became

24 Oct 2019 · Home Office

Criminal Investigation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-sexual offence cases were subject to digital disclosure of mobile phone data in each month since May 2019.

24 Oct 2019 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Criminal Investigation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual offence cases, excluding rape, were subject to digital disclosure of mobile phone data in each month since May 2019.

24 Oct 2019 · Home Office

Rape: Criminal Investigation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of rape flagged cases were subject to digital disclosure of mobile phone data in each month since May 2019.

17 Oct 2019 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information he holds on the number of serious incidents associated with all-lane-running motorway schemes.

16 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Ethics

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment basis he has made of the potential effectiveness of implementing the recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life report entitled Local Government

Source: official written-questions record.