Written questions
1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Prevent Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which recommendations of the Independent Review of Prevent, published on 8 February 2023, have been implemented.
20 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Private Rented Housing: Letting Agents
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of the Renters (Reform) Bill on relocation agents.
20 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
China: Foreign Relations
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he made representations on (a) repeal of the National Security Law and (b) release of all political prisoners in Hong Kong during his meeting with the Chinese Foreign Mini
20 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Sick Pay: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to help support women to meet the lower earnings limit for statutory sick pay.
20 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Counterfeit Manufacturing and Electric Bicycles: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to promote public safety messages on (a) dangerous, (b) counterfeit products and (c) e-bikes.
19 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobcentres: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps Jobcentre Plus takes to ensure that people with refugee status are recorded as such in its systems.
16 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Hong Kong: Human Rights
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he had discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the protection of people from Hong Kong who are in the UK from repression and intimidation during the Munich Security Co
16 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Jimmy Lai
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he had discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai at the Munich Security Conference in February 2024.
16 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will take steps to halt evictions from temporary asylum accommodation for the full duration that a severe weather emergency protocol is active.
16 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Sleeping Rough
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to extend the Rough Sleeping Initiative.
16 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UNRWA: Textbooks
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report published by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School E
8 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tucker Carlson
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make it his policy to impose Magnitsky sanctions against Tucker Carlson.
7 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Cannabis: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has commissioned research to assess potential links between cannabis misuse and violent crime.
7 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Government Departments: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure that Departments meet the legal requirements to ensure the prevention of (a) human trafficking and (b) slave labour in supply chains.
7 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Xinjiang: Uyghurs
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what his policy is on the use of the term genocide in reference to Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to allow Hong Kongers who are being processed as asylum seekers to apply for BNO visas at the same time.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Immigration: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to help protect Hong Kong (a) asylum seekers and (b) BNO visa holders who have settled in the UK from the Hong Kong authorities.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans his Department has to consider mitigating factors such as imprisonment under the National Security Law for Hong Kong citizens applying for British National (Overseas) visas.
18 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sierra Leone: Foreign Relations and Visits Abroad
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether Ministers have met their Sierra Leone counterparts (a) virtually and (b) in person since the elections in that country on 24 June 2023; and whether any Ministerial visits
18 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what review his Department is undertaking of asylum applications by people from Hong Kong who have been involved in pro-democracy campaigns; and what his planned timescale is for that review.
18 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sierra Leone: Politics and Government
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has summoned the ambassador of Sierra Leone to explain political developments in that country.
18 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sierra Leone: Elections and Rule of Law
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment his Department has made of the strength of the (a) rule of law and (b) electoral process in Sierra Leone.
18 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
International Red Cross: Finance
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the International Red Cross's processes in ensuring that funding is not distributed to projects that support proscribed organisati
11 Dec 2023 · Treasury
Self-employed: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department takes to help ensure that (a) companies and (b) other organisations accurately determine whether someone is self-employed for tax purposes under the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2
11 Dec 2023 · Treasury
Income Tax: Appeals
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the appeals process for the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.
11 Dec 2023 · Treasury
Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to clarify the guidance his Department has issued on the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.
11 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Jimmy Lai
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what support the British Consulate-General in Hong Kong has given to imprisoned 75-year-old British citizen, Jimmy Lai, in the lead up to his trial due to take place on 18th Decem
11 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Jimmy Lai
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether the British Consulate-General in Hong Kong has contacted Jimmy Lai during his detention in Stanley Prison.
11 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Demonstrations: Chinese Embassy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department is taking steps to help protect people from Hong Kong who want to protest near the Chinese (a) Embassy and (b) Consulate in advance of the national security trial of Jimmy Lai i
11 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Jimmy Lai
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether officials in his Department have visited Jimmy Lai in Stanley Prison in Hong Kong ahead of his national security trial on 18 December 2023.
Source: official written-questions record.