Written questions
673 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Human Trafficking: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department on 28 June 2016, Official Report, WH47, for what reason the Independent Child Traffic
29 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Human Trafficking: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government is planning to expand Independent Child Trafficking Guardians to the local authorities that currently have none.
29 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Human Trafficking: EU Law
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to incorporate EU Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims into domestic law.
29 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Slavery: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the accessibility of the EU Settlement Scheme to victims of modern slavery and human trafficking.
29 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Slavery: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure victims of modern slavery with EU or EEA nationality, living in the UK before December 31 2020, can apply for settled status in the event they do not
29 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants for a change of conditions to no recourse to public funds in each quarter since the third quarter of 2017 identified themselves as victims of domestic abuse.
28 Aug 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Innovate UK: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of Innovate UK funding has been allocated to businesses led by women in financial year (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21 to date.
21 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Public Health: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office’s You Are Not Alone campaign, what plans her Department has for a long-term public health campaign to challenge public attitudes to domestic abuse.
21 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure the adequacy of funding for the effective provision of (a) services and (b) referrals in relation to incidences of violence against women and girls.
21 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ensure the adequacy of funding for (a) best practice and (b) evidence-based interventions throughout the health service for victi
21 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to ensure that the Statutory Guidance to the Domestic Abuse Act 2020 includes best practice on interventions in healt
21 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's announcement entitled, Migrant victims of domestic abuse: review factsheet and the £1.5 million pilot to support migrant victims with no recourse to public funds, wh
21 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) consult specialist BME organisations as part of her Department's violence against women and girls strategy refresh and (b) ensure that strategy contains a section on th
21 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a specific strategy on violence against migrant women.
21 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that Government's £1.5m Support for Migrant Victims pilot scheme will be led by specialist BME sector organisations with experience and expertise of working with mig
14 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions her department has (a) taken steps to (i) regularise the status and (ii) provide support to migrant survivors of domestic abuse who are not eligible to apply under the Domestic V
14 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government’s draft Statutory Guidance in relation to the Domestic Abuse Bill published 1 July 2020, what steps her Department is taking to help migrant survivors of domestic abus
14 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Homelessness: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department’s press release of 23 June 2020 entitled £105 million to keep rough sleepers safe and off the streets during coronavirus pandemic, what estimate
14 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to ensure that the Everyone In initiative provides temporary accommodation to (a) women survi
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with the Child Maintenance Service to ensure that victims of domestic abuse are protected from financial control.
19 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training is provided to staff at the Child Maintenance Service on domestic abuse.
19 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library any guidance or training materials that were issued by her Department to the Child Maintenance Service on how to manage changes in procedure in response to the covid-19
19 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps is the Child Maintenance Service taking to assess the finances of parents claiming they cannot pay due to the covid-19 outbreak.
8 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Forced Marriage
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) made reference to forced marriage in the last full reporting year; of those how many people were (a) accepted into the NRM and (b) had th
8 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Slavery: Victim Support Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish all correspondence between her Department and the contract provider for the Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract on the inclusion within that contract of support services
8 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to oral contributions from the Minister for Safeguarding and the hon. Member for the Cities of London and Westminster at the Public Bill Committee for the Domestic Abuse Bill on 4 June
8 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Sexual Offences: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the planned timescale is for the £5 million funding to be allocated through Police and Crime Commissioners to support sexual violence services during the covid-19 outbreak.
8 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Sexual Offences: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the £5 million allocated through Police and Crime Commissioners to support sexual violence services during the covid-19 outbreak.
1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Domestic Abuse: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) safeguarding documents and (b) risk assessments that were undertaken to ensure that the test, track, trace and isolate scheme would be safe for victim
1 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) risk assessment and (b) planning her Department has conducted on the potential increased risk to victims of (i) domestic abuse and (ii) sexual violence as covid-19 lockdown measures are lifte
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