Written questions

553 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reducing the refugee move-on period to 28 days on levels of risk to women of (a) homelessness and (b) exposure to violence and abuse.

11 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of suspending refugee family reunion applications on (a) women, (b) children and (c) other vulnerable groups.

11 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of (a) the Government’s commitment to halving levels of violence against women and girls within a decade and (b) the detention of women in immigration

11 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the criminalisation of asylum-seeking survivors of violence against women and girls.

11 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to provide community-based alternatives to immigration detention for women.

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 14 August 2025 from the hon. Member for Aberdeen North, reference ZA35390, CMS Reference: 121024945817 and 73911701.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aberdeen

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answers of 13 June 2025 to Questions (a) 57249, (b) 57250 and (c) 57251, how many departmental roles are based in Aberdeen; what additional roles are planned for the city foll

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill on levels of child poverty.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Fossil Fuels: Prices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when her Department plans to respond to the consultation on the Oil and gas price mechanism, which closed on 28 May 2025.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Offshore Industry: North Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to respond to the consultation on Building the North Sea’s Energy Future, which closed on 30 April 2025.

16 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) women-only and (b) family-only hotels staffed exclusively by women for female refugees.

16 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has produced for sub-contracted accommodation providers to (a) prevent and (b) better respond to the sexual violence and abuse faced by asylum-seeking women in hotel accom

16 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to (a) the Women for Refugee Women report entitled Coercion and Control, published in September 2024 and (b) the Imkaan and Rape Crisis England and Wales joint report entitled Not Safe

4 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aberdeen

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timeline is for establishing the UK Energy Campus in Aberdeen; and over what period departmental roles will be transferred or created there.

4 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aberdeen

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, which departmental roles are based in Aberdeen; and what kinds of additional roles he expects to be located there following the establishment of the UK Energy Campus.

4 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aberdeen

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many of his Department's jobs are based in Aberdeen; and how many additional Department roles will be based there once the UK has established its Energy Campus.

21 May 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential long-term impact of the work ban for people seeking asylum on (a) mental health, (b) barriers to future employment and (c) integration i

21 May 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the asylum system on the vulnerability to gender-based violence and exploitation of women seeking safety; and what steps she has taken to mitiga

21 May 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a ban on employment for women seeking asylum on levels of vulnerability of those women to gender-based (a) violence and (b) exploitation; and wh

14 May 2025 · Home Office

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decisions on statelessness applications made in 2024 were challenged through administrative review; how many of those reviews have been completed; and how many of those completed resulted in

14 May 2025 · Home Office

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many rejections of statelessness applications submitted in 2024 have been followed by renewed applications.

14 May 2025 · Home Office

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to data provided by her Department in relation to the court case Asylum Aid v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 316 (Admin), for what reason 170 statelessness appli

14 May 2025 · Home Office

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the most common grounds were for the rejection of statelessness applications submitted in 2024.

12 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the letter of 9 April 2025 from the hon. Member for Aberdeen North, reference ZA32718, case CMPT12025/33740.

1 May 2025 · Women and Equalities

Employment and Hospitality Industry: Sanitation

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the EHCR's Interim update on the practical implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment published on 25 April 2025, what guidance her Department has provided to (a) workplaces and (b) hospit

30 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many waiver requests from overpayment recovery of Universal Credit were (a) recorded and (b) granted (i) in full and (ii) partially for (A) each of the last two calendar years and (B) the current ca

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Deductions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5974 on Universal Credit: Children, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of deductions from Universal Credit payments

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Deductions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Public Law Project report entitled From pillar to post: barriers to dealing with deductions from Universal Credit, published on 19 September 2024, what steps her Department is taki

29 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36658 on Home Office: Training, whether the training described is specific to statelessness determination.

29 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36658 on Home Office: Training, how many technical specialists are employed by her Department to provide training on statelessness determination onl

Source: official written-questions record.