Written questions

1,625 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Apr 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of a third runway at Heathrow Airport on compliance with EU Air Quality limits.

8 Apr 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, at what stage in the decision making process regarding a third runway at Heathrow Airport he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on that matter.

8 Apr 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the proposed new flightpaths before a decision is taken on a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

8 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups and local authorities are jointly commissioning children's palliative care as set out in the Children and Families Act 2014.

8 Apr 2016 · Department of Health

Gosport War Memorial Hospital

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to further investigate the deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital; and whether any future inquiry will be statutory in nature.

24 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to increase capacity on public transport links to Heathrow Airport from central London.

24 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many emergency landings there have been at Heathrow Airport in the last five years.

24 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the effect on traffic congestion in (a) Brentford and Isleworth constituency and (b) the London borough of Hounslow of the proposed third runway at Heathrow.

23 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what he expects the decision-making process after any announcement regarding a third runway at Heathrow to be.

23 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Heathrow Hub runway extension is being considered as an alternative to a third runway.

23 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public and private hospitals lie under the Heathrow final approach flight paths; and how many such hospitals would lie under the proposed flightpaths should the third runway be approved.

22 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the availability of housing of plans to demolish homes in the event of a third runway being built at Heathrow Airport.

18 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many air pollution monitors there are in which location within Heathrow Airport's perimeter from which official data on air quality is collected.

18 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 5.13 of the Airports Commission: Final Report, published in July 2015, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding that 431 hectares of green belt

18 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 8.18 of the Airports Commission Final Report, July 2015, what the estimated cost is of the tunnelling work required for the M25; and whether that cost would be incurred by the public

17 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made on the effect of a potential third runway at Heathrow on insurance premiums for (a) business and (b) residential properties under the proposed new flightpath.

17 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

London Airports

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department's work on assessing the three airport options proposed by the Airport's Commission includes a review of the safety and security risks associated with an (a) additional or extended runway

17 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many reports of lasers being shone into the cockpits of passenger aircraft landing or taking off from Heathrow Airport there have been in the last three years.

17 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable he has set for a consultation on the night flight operations perimeters at Heathrow Airport to replace the existing agreement after October 2017.

17 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many schools are located under the current Heathrow Airport final approach flight paths; and what projection he has made of the number of schools that would be located under proposed flight paths in the eve

14 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

London Airports: Environmental Impact Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which organisation or company has been commissioned to conduct further environmental impact studies regarding possible expansions at (a) Heathrow and (b) Gatwick Airport.

9 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Cycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Highways England plans to publish its cycling design standards.

9 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport

Cycle to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Cycle to Work scheme on (a) levels of participation in cycling and (b) the bicycle industry.

8 Mar 2016 · Department for Education

Arts: Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) promote the study of creative subjects in secondary schools and (b) address the skills shortage in the UK creative industry sector.

7 Mar 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward measures to incentivise businesses to use recyclable materials in their packaging; and if she will give consideration to whether businesses which choose to us

22 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Fuel Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department is taking to tackle fuel poverty in the UK.

19 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of days was for a determination to be made by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator after an objection to a school's admission arrangements was submitted in each the last four years.

19 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that charities or other civil society organisations who wish to object to the admission arrangements of a school can do so on behalf of parents local to that school.

19 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she received from religious organisations on steps to prevent civil society organisations from objecting to school admission arrangements prior to her announcing proposals to limit such obj

4 Feb 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Africa: Ivory

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support the Government (a) has provided and (b) plans to provide to governments in Africa for eradicating the killing of animals for the ivory trade.

Source: official written-questions record.