Written questions

1,768 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Taxis

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2016 to Question 44675, if he will carry out an assessment of the effect of an increase in the number of private hire vehicles on (a) congestion and (b) consumer safety.

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Exiting the European Union

European Medicines Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what discussions he has had with the Department of Health on the UK's relationship with the European Medicines Agency since the vote to leave the EU.

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Space Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October 2016 to Question 44431, which businesses related to the space sector his Department has had discussions with since the vote to leave the EU; w

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Students: Cambridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many further education institutions in Cambridge are in receipt of an advanced learner loans facility agreement with the Skills Funding Agency.

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of further education institutions in England offer courses funded by advanced learner loans.

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage (a) further education institutions to apply for an advanced learner loans facility agreement with the Skills Funding Agency and (b) further education institutions to accept

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Students: Cambridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students in Cambridge have completed courses funded by advanced learner loans in the last five years.

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Bus Service Operators Grant

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, House of Lords Official Report, 12 October 2016, column 1897, what the format is of the review the Government is undertakin

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Taxis

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October to Question 46630, if his Department will amend train franchising contracts to regulate train operating companies charging taxi drivers to pick up passengers at train statio

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Competition

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the recommendations made to the Government by the Competition and Markets Authority regarding the Bus Services Bill, published on 29 June 2016, what assessment he has made of the powers of the

25 Oct 2016 · Department for Education

Faith Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 10 of her Department's consultation, Schools that work for everyone, whether the suggestion that the 50 per cent cap on faith-based schools admissions does not achieve inclusivity de

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2016 to Question 44873, in what month he expects the cycling and walking investment strategy to be published.

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2016 to Question 44873, how many civil servants are currently analysing the responses to the draft cycling and walking strategy.

18 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's bus statistics table BUS0208, what the supported bus service mileage has been by local authority in each year since 2010.

12 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to publish its Accessibility Action Plan.

12 Oct 2016 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the outcomes of its proposed Accessibility Action Plan will improve the accessibility of public transport for autistic people.

12 Oct 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the efficacy of her Department's communication with the public regarding minor penalty offences.

12 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Cambridge

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum cases are being processed by her Department in the City of Cambridge.

12 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Cambridge

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum cases have been referred to the Case Assurance and Audit Unit that related to asylum seekers in the City of Cambridge in each of the last three years.

12 Oct 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to resettle the unaccompanied child refugees in Calais entitled to be in the UK.

12 Oct 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Nationals Abroad: Administration of Justice

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his policy differs between countries on his Department's intervention in the judicial and legal affairs in cases abroad involving British nationals.

10 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Organic Farming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will commission research into the economic, social and environmental contribution of the organic farming sector in England to assist in informing policy and funding o

10 Oct 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will commission research into the economic, social and environmental contributions of small farms in England to inform policy and funding of this sector once the UK l

15 Sep 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Technology: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to prevent the loss of technologies being developed in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.

15 Sep 2016 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Taxis

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on rail companies charging taxi drivers to use taxi ranks at train stations.

13 Sep 2016 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will increase investment in decentralised renewable energy to benefit the world's poorest people.

12 Sep 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

ICT: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to increase the number of people in the UK with high-level specialist skills in data science.

12 Sep 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Reaction Engines: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the Government's £60 million investment in Reaction Engines to help support the development of SABRE, as announced on 16 July 2013, has been delayed.

12 Sep 2016 · Department for Education

Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the examination boards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland collect data on the number of private candidates who sit GCSE and A-Level examinations.

12 Sep 2016 · Department for Education

Adult Education: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review proposed arrangements for the non-examined assessment elements of new GCSEs and A-level examinations to enable adult learners who wish to sit those qualifications as private candidates to do

Source: official written-questions record.