Written questions

1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Aug 2021 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the news story entitled Bespoke resettlement route for Afghan refugees announced, published by her Department on 18 August 2021, whether the 20,000 Afghan nationals who will be reset

18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Home Country Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that staff and volunteers working for or with UK NGOs in Afghanistan will be supported to leave Afghanistan and enter the UK.

18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Home Country Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Afghan nationals have worked for or with UK diplomatic staff posted in Afghanistan since 2001.

18 Aug 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Home Country Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan nationals have worked for or with UK forces posted in Afghanistan since 2001.

22 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the suitability of hotel detention for people seeking asylum.

22 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Horn of Africa: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of threat posed by the tripartite relationship between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia to destabilising the Horn of Africa.

22 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tigray: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the presence of Somali troops fighting alongside Eritrean forces in Tigray, Ethiopia; and if he will make a statement.

19 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of delays to post-Grenfell fire safety works on the level of costs incurred by (a) the London Fire Brigade and (b) other local fire authorities.

19 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Immigration: EEA Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many EEA nationals in receipt of in work, out of work, or health and impairment-related benefit have yet to apply for Settled Status.

19 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sierra Leone: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to (a) monitor political unrest and (b) help ensure democracy is upheld in Sierra Leone.

16 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Eritrea

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 6.11 of Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2019 Human Rights and Democracy report on the use of national service in Eritrea, what assessment her Department has made of the rea

15 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Eritrea: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps is his Department is taking to support (a) journalists, (b) political figures, (c) students and (d) other human rights defenders in Eritrea who have been detained

13 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died with covid-19 after receiving (a) one and (b) two doses of a covid-19 vaccine since the covid-19 outbreak began.

12 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish all the responses it has received to its New Plan for Immigration, including those from (a) the UNHCR and (b) representatives of civil society groups via Britain T

6 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tigray: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to bring together all sides in the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia to a negotiating table to help find a lasting political solution to that co

6 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tigray: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has sent any experts from the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative to the Tigray region in Ethiopia.

6 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure Afghan nationals who have worked (a) with and (b) for the British (i) diplomatic or (ii) military effort in their country will be supported to flee persec

28 Jun 2021 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Ministers’ connected parties have been granted Government contacts under the Government’s procurement policy since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic.

25 Jun 2021 · Department for Transport

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to publish the data used to inform the covid-19 traffic light system to help the travel industry to plan for reopening.

25 Jun 2021 · Department for Transport

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support he is providing to maintain jobs in the travel industry during the covid-19 outbreak.

25 Jun 2021 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Redundancy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential number of jobs that will be lost in the event that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is ended before all firms can reopen.

23 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that citizens from EU member states living in the UK and in receipt of in-work social security payments, including universal credit do not stop receiving su

23 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Windrush Generation: Southwark

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the London Borough of Southwark have under the terms of the Windrush Compensation Scheme been refused (a) British citizenship, (b) indefinite leave to enter the UK, (c) indefinite l

23 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Windrush Generation: Southwark

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the London Borough of Southwark have received a grant letter, certificate or residence permit under the Windrush Compensation Scheme confirming (a) their existing status, (b) a new

23 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme: Southwark

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people resident in the London Borough of Southwark have (a) applied for and (b) received compensation under the Windrush Compensation Scheme; and how much compensation has been paid out to So

18 Jun 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to publish the Pathway to Net Zero strategy.

18 Jun 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Construction: Apprentices and Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support training and apprenticeships in the construction sector to increase the number of qualified insulators to help meet targets to reduc

18 Jun 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to insulate its housing stock to help meet Government targets to reduce carbon emissions.

18 Jun 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Cars

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will introduce a car scrappage scheme which incentivises people to replace their higher-polluting vehicle with an electric or hybrid vehicle.

18 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to work with (a) employers and (b) landlords to ensure that people who (i) applied for the EU Settlement Scheme before the June 2021 deadline and (ii) do not receiv

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