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.