Written questions
1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.
19 Oct 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time is between asylum claimants’ claims being suspended under the Inadmissibility Rules and those claims being admitted for substantive consideration.
19 Oct 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases there have been where an asylum claimant has had their claim suspended for longer than six months under the Inadmissibility Rules.
19 Oct 2021 · Home Office
Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claimants issued with Notices of Intent have since been admitted for substantive consideration before the six month long-stop as a result of there being no reasonable prospect of remov
19 Oct 2021 · Home Office
Deportation: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan nationals were issued with Notices of Intent under the inadmissibility rules in each month from June to September 2021 inclusive.
19 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the data for Kickstart scheme (a) applications, (b) business registrations and (c) placement starts for young people seeking work by (i) constituency and (ii) local authority.
19 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tigray: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she can request that the United Nations Secretary General send his Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict to the Tigray region in Ethiopia
19 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people acquired covid-19 in hospital in each of the last four weeks; and what steps is his Department is taking to prevent further cases.
19 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to avoid a winter crisis in hospitals given the associated additional risks of a potential rise in covid-19 cases.
19 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Health and Disability Green Paper and its focus on encouraging disabled people into work, what recent assessment she has made of levels of poverty amongst disabled people who are (
19 Oct 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Buildings: Insulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the Government plans to finalise and publish the full details of the loan scheme for leaseholders affected by cladding related issues.
18 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how people with a (a) medical and (b) other exemption from the covid-19 vaccine will be able to prove their status through the NHS apps.
18 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to extend access to legal aid.
18 Oct 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to lift No Recourse to Public Funds conditions on unaccompanied children seeking asylum.
22 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ethiopia: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of sanctioning (a) the Chief of Staff of the Eritrean Defence Forces, Filipos Woldeyohannes and (b)
16 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Post Office Card Account
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2021 to Question 43541 on Post Office Card Accounts, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the Payment Exception Service for benefit cl
8 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to inform claimants of the planned removal of the £20 per week uplift to the standard allowance of universal credit.
6 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Post Office Card Account
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants currently hold Post Office Card Accounts; what assessment her Department has made of the impact on claimants of ending their use for benefit and pension payments from November
6 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department can confirm the current whereabouts of the Afghans who guarded the British Embassy in Kabul; and when they will arrive in the UK.
6 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Asia and Iran: Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much each of the countries neighbouring Afghanistan will receive in Official Development Assistance in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022 as part of the UK aid uplift announced follow
6 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Buildings: Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department's Consolidated Advice Note, Building safety advice for building owners, including fire doors, published in January 2020 will be updated to ensure that the Roy
6 Sep 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to review and expediate all outstanding (a) asylum claims and (b) asylum appeals made by Afghan nationals currently living in the UK.
18 Aug 2021 · Department for Education
National School Breakfast Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the National School Breakfast Programme contract for provision up to July 2023 reaches children most at risk of hunger.
18 Aug 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who have been issued with a Notice of Intent since 1 January 2021 have been moved into the substantive asylum process to have their claim considered and decided in the UK before the en
18 Aug 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people seeking asylum who have been issued with a Notice of Intent since 1 January 2021 stating their asylum claim would be considered under the Government's guidance on inadmissibility have
18 Aug 2021 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of people seeking asylum issued with a Notice of Intent since 1st January 2021 stating their claim would be considered under the inadmissibility process, and for whom the long-stop per
18 Aug 2021 · Department for Transport
Rotherhithe Tunnel: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to provide Transport for London with funding for urgent renovations to the Rotherhithe Tunnel in order to prevent its potential closure.
18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Middle East: Piracy
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) tackle piracy and the disruption of commercial shipping routes in the Middle East and (b) establish proof in instances when piracy
18 Aug 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Wines: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Red tape cut for wine imports to save British wine lovers £130m a year, published on 25 July, what his timescale is for implem
18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish (a) advice and (b) briefings from the UK mission in Afghanistan to the UK Government in each of the last six months.
18 Aug 2021 · Home Office
Immigration: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan nationals have been (a) refused Leave to Remain in the UK and (b) returned to Afghanistan in each of the last 10 years.
Source: official written-questions record.