Written questions

1,507 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Sep 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to publish a road safety strategy.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trapping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 957 on Animal Welfare, what his planned timetable is for banning the use of snare traps.

30 Aug 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support his Department plans to offer to the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty launched by the G20 Brazilian Presidency.

30 Aug 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iraq: Islamic State

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of (a) UNITAD in September 2024 and (b) camps for internally displaced people in the Kurdistan region of Ir

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 12 August 2024 to Questions 1263 and 1675, what the most recent advice is that his Department has received from expert advisers on ending licenses for badger

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support GP surgeries (a) improve energy efficiency and (b) reduce their carbon footprint.

30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce overprescribing.

29 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horses: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) horses and (b) ponies smuggled from the United Kingdom in each of last five years.

26 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety Measures

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average distance between refuges will be across the Smart Motorway network following the conclusion of the retrofitting of new emergency refuges.

26 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Nature Conservation: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to make wildlife crimes notifiable; and whether she plans to include those crimes in national statistics.

26 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Badgers: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; whether he plans to continue with the cull of badgers in Derbyshire; and for what reason 1,675 badgers were to be culled.

25 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Badgers: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is his policy to end licenses for badger culling that have already been issued.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety Measures

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new emergency refuges will be constructed as part of the programme of retrofitting to existing smart motorways.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Housing: Pigs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ban the use of farrowing crates for pigs.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Furs: Imports and Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ban the import and sale of fur.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will produce an animal protection strategy.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to extend the £2 cap on bus fares after 31 December 2024.

14 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the number of veterans that have (a) died and (b) committed suicide whilst awaiting a final settlement of a claim to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme since 2019.

14 May 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: East Africa

To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that overseas development aid to (a) Sudan, (b) Ethiopia and (c) other East African countries reaches (i) local and (ii) national non-governmental (A) youth, (B) women

14 May 2024 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals were arrested in connection with suspected (a) live streamed online child sexual abuse and (b) exploitative behaviour in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2022 and (iv) 2023; and if he w

1 May 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Dog Legislation Officers there were on 15 September 2023; how many and what proportion of those Dog Legislation Officers have received training in the identification standard

30 Apr 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ethiopia and Sudan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, how much and what proportion of funding announced at the pledging conferences for (a) Sudan and (b) Ethiopia is new; and how will that funding be released.

15 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his Department calculated its estimate of the number of dogs which would be affected by a ban on XL Bully dogs.

15 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Responsible Dog Ownership Working Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects his Department’s Responsible Dog Ownership Working Group to report.

15 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what extra resource is being provided for police forces to support their increased caseloads in enforcing the ban on XL Bully dogs.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the income raised from charges for certificates of exemption to keep an XL Bully dog have been ringfenced to (a) cover the administrative costs of the exemption scheme and (b)

16 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Elizabeth Tsurkov

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help secure the release of Ms Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023.

16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health trusts are implementing smoking cessation services.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much revenue was raised from charging for an exemption certificate as part of the American XL Bully ban; and whether this money has been ring-fenced for dog control initiatives.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Bananas: Import Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what her Department's planned timescale is for the review of banana tariffs.

Source: official written-questions record.