Written questions
1,298 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Apr 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Young Offenders: Academies
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to clause 138 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, whether providers running secure 16 to 19 academies will be required to apply to Ofsted to register those establishments as children’
12 Apr 2021 · Treasury
Soft Drinks: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Departments received funding from revenues from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy during Spending Review 2020.
12 Apr 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to import the plant-based covid-19 vaccine produced by Medicago in Canada; and whether his Department has plans to make a vegan-friendly covid-19
19 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence his Department used to calculate the total savings an individual can acquire before they are required to self-fund their own care.
19 Mar 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the consultation on the renewal of Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021, how many responses supported the extension.
15 Mar 2021 · Department for Education
School Meals: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding he plans to allocate to school breakfast provision in each of the next three years; whether the sugar tax levy will be used to fund that programme; how many schools that programme will provide
10 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Abortion
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many female service personnel had an abortion whilst serving between 2000 and 2020; and how many were subsequently discharged from service after the termination.
1 Mar 2021 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the expected (a) turnaround time and (b) service level is for recipients of child benefit who are pursuing outstanding claims and queries; and whether those (i) turnaround times and (ii) service levels have bee
26 Feb 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2021 to Question 155057, on Gaming: Coronavirus, for what reason licensed betting offices with gaming machines are a greater social and economic pri
25 Feb 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason the Government's policy is that adult gaming centres are unable to open on 12 April 2021; and what the evidential basis is for that policy.
25 Feb 2021 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Children's Social Care Review, how many applications were made to join the Experts by Experience Group; what criteria were used to assess those applicants; who decided which applications w
25 Feb 2021 · Department for Education
Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's press release, Unregulated accommodation banned for vulnerable children under 16, published on 19 February 2021, who made the decision to change policy on unregulated care; wh
24 Feb 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Additional Restrictions Grant
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much has been allocated to local authorities through the Additional Restrictions Grant; how much of that funding has (a) been spent and (b) remains unspent to date; and what t
24 Feb 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Fairgrounds: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the covid-19 roadmap guidance will be updated to cover fairgrounds and travelling fairgrounds; and whether that guidance will include discretionary guidance for local authorities.
22 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the new independent body proposed in the Armed Forces Bill will allow people and external organisations to review historical decisions made by the Military Police or Army Legal Services where the survivor
19 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Shipping: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions her Department has held with stakeholders on whether seafarers and other maritime key workers will be exempt from hotel quarantine measures relating to the covid-19 pandemic.
19 Feb 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether adult gaming centres will reopen at the same time as other retail venues listed in the Government’s shops and branches guidance when covid-19 restrictions are eased.
19 Feb 2021 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2021 to Question 148802 on Children's Social Care Independent Review, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the process of recruiting the others, as referred to in t
19 Feb 2021 · Department for International Trade
Arms Trade: Export Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2020 to Question 115685 on Arms Trade Export Controls; what those errors were; what period of time elapsed before those errors were identified and the licences re
10 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthy Start Scheme: Vitamins
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the length of the shelf life of Healthy Start vitamin supplies containing three months' worth of tablets that are provided by the Government to
5 Feb 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department has provided on the reopening of Adult Gaming Centres.
3 Feb 2021 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2021 to Question 138450 on Children's Social Care Independent Review, whether the chair of the review is working with a review team; and how and by whom will members of that
29 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there any ongoing investigations regarding maltreatment of recruits at any of the army training centres that host under-18s.
28 Jan 2021 · Treasury
Soft Drinks: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has been raised by the Soft Drinks Industrial Levy in each year since its inception; and how much of that revenue has been spent in each year.
27 Jan 2021 · Treasury
Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme: NatWest
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department is taking to support small business owners who have had their NatWest bank accounts suspended or closed after applying for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.
27 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been provided to schools for the provision of free school meals but has not been used.
27 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2020 to Question 84269 on Food Banks, what the timescale is for the publication of her Department's update of the literature review of the factors driving the use o
26 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Supply: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to publish the results of the responses to the 10 new food security questions introduced to the Family Resources Survey in 2019.
26 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2020 to Question 115686 on Children in Care, when his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England
21 Jan 2021 · Treasury
Amusement Arcades: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the VAT reduction to five per cent was not granted to amusement arcades.
Source: official written-questions record.