Written questions

1,066 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Government's memorandum submitted to the Lords Secondary Legislation Committee on 28 January 2016, what the evidential basis is for the statement that there will be no cash losers from the reduc

25 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.122 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what estimate his Department has made of the average change in tax credit award as a result of reducing the income rise disregard fo

25 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 20332, if he will place in the Library all case studies his Department undertook for the purpose of establishing the effect of reducing the income rise disregard f

25 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average change in tax credit awards was as a result of an increase in yearly household income above the income rise disregard in each financial year since 2006.

25 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value of tax credit overpayments has been in each financial year since 2010; and how much of that amount HM Revenue and Customs has recovered in each such year.

19 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Arts: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the number of pupils taking creative subjects does not fall as a result of the introduction of the English Baccalaureate.

9 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to improve the current waiting time after referral for a diagnostic assessment for autism.

4 Feb 2016 · Home Office

Sleeping Rough

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the police take to ensure the safety of people sleeping rough.

2 Feb 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Salford

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much central government funding has been allocated to programmes in (a) Salford City Council and (b) Salford and Eccles constituency to reduce and prevent homelessness in (i) 2014-15

2 Feb 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which national homelessness prevention and reduction schemes received direct funding from central government (a) in 2015-16 to date and (b) in each financial year since 2009-10; and what

2 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people are employed by his Department in (a) Salford and Eccles constituency and (b) Greater Manchester.

2 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for his Department's offices in Manchester.

28 Jan 2016 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to safeguard 16 and 17 year olds from child sexual exploitation.

28 Jan 2016 · Department for Education

16-19 Bursary Fund: Young Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider including young adult carers in the vulnerable bursary criteria for the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund.

26 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Landfill Communities Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy to implement the proposal to legally require Landfill Operators to provide 10 per cent match funding to release Landfill Communities Fund monies and to remove the Contributing Third Party.

25 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Landfill Communities Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from environmental bodies about the future of the Landfill Communities Fund.

25 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Landfill Communities Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many respondents to his Department's consultation, Reform of the Landfill Communities Fund, suggested making it mandatory for Landfill Operators to provide the 10 per cent match funding usually provided by a cont

25 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Landfill Communities Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Landfill Operators contributed to the Landfill Communities Fund in financial year (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to date.

25 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Landfill Communities Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.73 of his Department's publication, Reform of the Landfill Communities Fund: Summary of Responses, for what reasons his Department intends to make it mandatory for landfill operators to

22 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

India: Commonwealth Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had during the visit of President Narendra Modi to the UK in November 2015 on outstanding payments to British companies for services provided during the 2010 Commonwea

8 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Burundi: Peacekeeping Operations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the 5,000 peacekeepers proposed by the African Union to protect civilians within Burundi will be safely accepted by the Burundian govern

8 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Burundi: Peacekeeping Operations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contingency plans he has to respond in the event that the Burundian government does not peacefully accept the presence of 5,000 peacekeepers proposed by the African Union in December

7 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Yemen: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance his Department provides for members of the Yemeni community in the UK to contact or find out information on relatives in Yemen affected by the civil war in that country.

7 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Vulnerable Adults: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department provides for vulnerable adult transport.

7 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Vulnerable Adults: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of local authority funding reductions on the provision of transport for vulnerable adults.

7 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans that the two per cent social care precept will be ring-fenced for particular items of expenditure.

7 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Vulnerable Adults: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy that vulnerable adult transport can be funded through the two per cent Social Care Precept.

7 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Vulnerable Adults: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding his Department provides for local authorities to discharge their responsibilities for vulnerable adult transport.

7 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury

Electronic Commerce: VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2015 to Question 17211, how much revenue has been recovered by actively targeting operational and intelligence activity to tackle the issues of online VAT fraud in the last six m

6 Jan 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding will be made available to Salford City Council in financial years (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 to develop flood defences along the river Irwell.

Source: official written-questions record.