Written questions

1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people from EU countries who have applied for EU Settled Status who will not be able to work in the UK from July 2021 as a result of a decision on th

10 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time is from submission to decision for her Department to process an EU Settlement Scheme application.

10 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to support employers whose employees are awaiting EU Settlement Scheme application decisions.

10 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) staff in her Department, (b) consultants and (c) temporary support staff have been working on assessing EU Settlement Scheme applications in each of the last 12 months.

10 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the backlog of applications to the EU Settlement Scheme before the deadline of 30 June 2021.

10 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Government's original estimate of 3 million EU Settlement Scheme applications has been surpassed by a further 2 million of those applications.

10 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department is making on completing the 300,000 pending applications to the EU Settlement Scheme prior to the deadline of 30 June 2021.

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference for her Department's transparency data, Immigration and Protection data: Q1 2021, published on 27 May 2021, for what reasons there has been an increase in pending applications for chang

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of pending applications for a change of conditions to lift the No Recourse to Public Funds restriction, as outlined in the Immigration and Prot

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a landlord could potentially be subject to a civil penalty for failing to check and subsequently evict a person who is an EU national who rented accommodation before and remained in the same t

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an employer could be subject to a criminal penalty for failing to dismiss an EU national if that employee started a period of employment after 1 July 2021 and the employer knows or has reason

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an EU national will need to prove pre or settled status to enter the UK if they are not entering for the purpose of visa free travel; and what documentation is required to allow them to enter.

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: European Economic Area

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance has been published to support border officials reviewing and making decisions with respect to people entering eGates from EEA countries.

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish further guidance on the Right to Work and rent checks for people with pending EU Settlement Scheme applications; and whether that guidance will include information

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that EU nationals living in the UK and working in health and social care will have secured their EU settled status by the 1 July 2021.

27 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to support EU nationals to access work and essential services in the event that their EU Settlement Scheme application is still pending after the 30 June 2021 d

11 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to ensure that Jobcentre users who are survivors of domestic abuse are able to choose the gender of their Work Coach.

11 May 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to prevent the full cost of fire safety remediation works from being passed on to leaseholders who do not own 100 per cent of their home.

11 May 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 19 April 2021 to Question 175876 on fire safety costs, when information on the (a) eligibility, (b) application process and (c) timeframe for issu

11 May 2021 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review her Department’s No Recourse to Public Funds policy in light of the High Court ruling of 29 April 2021.

11 May 2021 · Home Office

Migrants: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the High Court ruling of 29 April 2021 on the No Recourse to Public Funds policy, what steps she is taking to safeguard children's welfare.

11 May 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that all of the 320,000 pending applications for the EU Settlement Scheme are resolved before the deadline of 30 June 2021.

11 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS and Care Workers: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many health and social care workers who are required to register for the EU Settlement Scheme have not yet done so; and what estimate he has made of the number of people who are unlikely to do

11 May 2021 · Home Office

Windrush Lessons Learned Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 3 March 2021 to Question 158072 on Windrush Lessons Learned Review, if she will publish a progress report on that full evaluation of the compliant environment policy an

11 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary-Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions of 25 January 2021, Official Report, column 16,?if the Government will publish?(a)?the full li

11 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what?plans her Department?has to?(a) raise awareness and (b) promote uptake of pension credit through targeted communications aimed at people in receipt of universal credit approaching?state?pension age

26 Apr 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Stephen Hoey v The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs case, whether HMRC plans to accept the decision of that case relating to contactors with pre-2010 open years in respect of owed tax.

26 Apr 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with HMRC on its reported engagement with contractors who used disguised remuneration schemes.

26 Apr 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Employment Agencies: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure umbrella companies comply with legislation on the payment of holiday pay.

26 Apr 2021 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance: Prosecutions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) promoters and (b) operators of schemes now subject to the Loan Charge have been prosecuted.

Source: official written-questions record.