Written questions

1,682 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Mar 2018 · Home Office

Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will certify the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury on 4 March 2018 as an act of terrorism.

16 Mar 2018 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Department for Exiting the European Union: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how much his Department has spent on (a) Ministerial salaries, (b) staff salaries, (c) travel and transport costs, (d) accommodation, (e) staff expenses, (f) hospitality, (g) publicity and inf

6 Mar 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that water companies prepare for cold weather; whether his Department plans to improve the provision of information to consumers on disrup

5 Mar 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the members of the Government's Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel were selected.

22 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the Deloitte report on the financial liability for sleep-in overnight care in the social care sector.

22 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department has calculated the figures for the financial liability for sleep-in overnight care in the social care sector.

20 Feb 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Trinidad and Tobago: British Nationals Abroad

What support his Department is providing to the families of British citizens murdered in Trinidad and Tobago and to the investigating authorities in that country.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many tribunal hearings for appeals against the award of Employment Support Allowance were attended by presenting officers; and how many of the original decisions were (a) upheld and (b) overturned b

7 Feb 2018 · Department for International Development

Jordan: Migrant Camps

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to improve the humanitarian situation for (a) refugees and (b) displaced persons in the informal al-Rukban camp at the Jordan-Syria border.

7 Feb 2018 · Home Office

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the number of deaths of detainees held in immigration detention centres.

7 Feb 2018 · HM Treasury

VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses to adhere to changes to VAT reporting from 2019.

7 Feb 2018 · HM Treasury

Insurance: Terrorism

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to introduce legislation to update the Reinsurance (Acts of Terrorism) Act 1993 to enable insurance companies to pay compensation to businesses after terrorism attacks when there is no d

7 Feb 2018 · HM Treasury

Business: Terrorism

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of terrorism insurance in compensating businesses after an act of terror.

7 Feb 2018 · HM Treasury

Insurance: Terrorism

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to update the Reinsurance (Acts of Terrorism) Act 1993 to enable insurance companies to pay compensation to businesses after terrorism attacks when there is no damage to property.

7 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase funding for the national NHS ophthalmic services contract for adults and children with learning disabilities and for people who are homeless.

7 Feb 2018 · Home Office

British Nationality: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much parents with no recourse to public funds must pay to establish that their children are UK nationals.

6 Feb 2018 · HM Treasury

Insurance: Terrorism

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings his Department has held with terrorism insurance providers in the last 12 months.

6 Feb 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Insurance: Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings his Department has held with providers of terrorism insurance in the last 12 months.

2 Feb 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department is making on developing its policy on imposing a ban on lion trophy imports.

30 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the Universal Credit landlord portal to be fully accessible to all housing associations, mutuals and co-operatives.

15 Jan 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Africa

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons his Department was not represented at the UN Regional Meeting on People of African Descent of 23 to 24 November 2017 in Geneva.

15 Jan 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Africa

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans his Department has to mark the UN International Decade for People of African Descent.

10 Jan 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eyesight: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons people who (a) have a learning disability and (b) are homeless are not specified as eligible for NHS sight tests under the Primary Ophthalmic Services Regulations 2008.

10 Jan 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eyesight: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the NHS sight test fee on the accessibility of sight tests for people with severe learning disabilities.

8 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the written guidance issued to presenting officers for tribunal hearings of appeals against the refusal of (a) employment support allowance, (b) disability livi

8 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many presenting officers have been recruited to represent his Department at tribunal appeals against the refusal of disability benefit in each of the last five years.

8 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many tribunal hearings for appeals against the refusal of disability benefits have been attended by presenting officers; and how many of the original tribunal decisions were (a) upheld and (b) overt

20 Dec 2017 · Department of Health

Suicide: Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons his Department's report, Preventing suicide in England: third progress report of the cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives, published in January 2017 does not prioritise employment and

20 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recommendations advanced in independent reviews of the operation of (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment support allowance his Department has (i) accepted and (ii) implemented.

20 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what cost benefit analysis his Department uses to measure the effectiveness of the Access to Work programme.

Source: official written-questions record.