Written questions

673 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Presidents Club

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any Ministers in his Department attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educational Trust in an official capacity.

24 Jan 2018 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Presidents Club

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any Ministers in his Department attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educatonal Trust in an official capacity.

24 Jan 2018 · Scotland Office

Scotland Office: Presidents Club

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether any Ministers in his Department attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educational Trust in an official capacity.

24 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Home Office: Presidents Club

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any Ministers in her Department attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educational Trust in an official capacity.

24 Jan 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Presidents Club

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any Ministers in his Department attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educational Trust in an official capacity.

11 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Treaties

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the Government plans to support the effective adoption of a Convention on making women and men safe at work (a) within and (b) outside of the ambit of International Labour Organisation’s Questionnai

11 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Harassment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the status is of the Government’s response to the International Labour Organisation’s Questionnaire on the proposed Convention on Ending Violence and Harassment Against Women and Men in the World o

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Refuges: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the number the organisations that have received funding from the Department’s Abuse Fund; where those organisations are located; and the number of new refuge bed spaces

29 Nov 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Refuges: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in which locations the additional 2,200 bed spaces funded by his Department’s Domestic Abuse Fund have been created.

28 Nov 2017 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to provide funding equivalent to that currently provided by the EU for violence against women and girls organisations and specialist women’s services, and research relating to those

28 Nov 2017 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the amount of funding provided by any of the constituent organisations of the EU (a) to specialist violence against women and girls organisations and specialist women’s s

22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Income Support: Lone Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward proposals to amend income support rules to remove the requirement that women who have fled domestic violence with their children, and whose abusive ex-partner has been the recip

22 Nov 2017 · HM Treasury

Refuges: Domestic Abuse

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will issue guidance to HM Revenue and Customs staff that they should accept reasonable third party evidence that a woman lives with her children in a refuge, following domestic abuse, as sufficient to demonstra

16 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Women's prisons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the evidential basis was for his decision to establish five new community prisons for women.

16 Nov 2017 · Department of Health

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase the take-up of cervical screening.

15 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the introduction of the Female Offenders Strategy.

15 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the locations identified by his Department for the five new Community Prisons for Women.

23 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2017 to Question 108338, on universal credit, what information his Department holds on split payments for universal credit.

17 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2017 to Question 106034, on universal credit, for what reason that data is not available; and whether his Department has plans to make that data available.

17 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who in those areas where universal credit is being rolled out is receiving the payment by sex in each household.

6 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for universal credit have requested split payments on (a) any grounds and (b) the grounds of domestic abuse since the launch of universal credit in the pilot areas; and what proporti

18 Jul 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Voluntary Work: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department plans to take to publicise the independent review of full-time social action by young people in order to maximise participation in evidence gathering.

18 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women murdered in each year since 2010 had made contact with the police about abuse.

13 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Bombings: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take as a result of the admission and apology by Mick Hayes in relation to the Birmingham pub bombing in 1974.

4 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time is for an employment and support allowance claim to reach the assessment stage in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Birmingham, Yardley constituency.

4 Jul 2017 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Government will use to determine eligibility for free school meals after the roll-out of universal credit.

29 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that trustees of the organisations responsible for the dispersal of relief funding after the Grenfell Tower tragedy have no conflict of inter

29 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what oversight his Department has of the dispersal of relief funding being collected by different organisations for the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

27 Jun 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Grenfell Tower

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 22 June 2017, Official Report, column 168, on legal aid being available to families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, how that aid will be distributed; and

27 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Tenants: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information he holds on policies of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on compensating council tenants for loss of belongings.

Source: official written-questions record.