Written questions

949 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to bilaterally facilitate the eradication to TB globally.

24 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure TB is eradicated globally by 2030 in line with SDG 3.3.2.

24 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the World Health Organisation’s 2022 Global Tuberculosis Report.

8 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Humanitarian Aid: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the £1.5 billion increase in the UK's climate finance pledge will result in a reduction of spending on international humanitarian programming.

8 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Climate Change: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the £1.5 billion increase in the UK's climate finance pledge will be allocated from previously announced funding.

8 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Short-term Holding Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of the foreign aid budget was spent on migrant processing (a) centres, (b) facilities and (c) procedures in the South East in the 2021-22 financial year.

2 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that girls of all ages can return to school in Afghanistan.

2 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken recent steps to resume development assistance to Afghanistan.

2 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Humanitarian Plan for Afghanistan is fully funded.

2 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

1 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Video Games: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the proposal by The Independent Game Developers’ Association to introduce a video games investment fund.

1 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Video Games: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposal by The Independent Game Developers’ Association to increase video games tax relief from 25 per cent to 32 per cent.

18 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mohammad El Halabi

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the charges brought against Mohammad El Halabi by the Israeli authorities.

18 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mohammad El Halabi

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made for the implications of his policies of the sentencing of Palestinian World Vision aid worker, Mohammad El Halabi, by the Israeli authorities.

18 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hafez Hureini

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of referring the case of Hafez Hureini to the International Criminal Court's investigation into alleged war crimes commi

18 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hafez Hureini

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department will call for an independent, international investigation into the treatment of Hafez Hureini by the Israeli authorities.

18 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hafez Hureini

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made for the implications of his policies of the treatment of 52-year-old Palestinian man, Hafez Hureini, by the Israeli authorities.

11 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress the Government has made on applications under all four categories of the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Programme.

11 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on processing applications under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy for former employees of Crown Agents and their families who remained in Afghanistan.

10 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Oxfam

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of lifting the funding suspension on providing aid to Oxfam; and whether that suspension will be lifted.

22 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress he has made on opening the third referral pathway in the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.

22 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department provides to people considered at-risk in Afghanistan who have family naturalised in the UK with resettlement in the UK.

22 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department provides to former serving Afghan military personnel who are still in Afghanistan with resettlement in the UK.

22 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department provides to at-risk (a) third sector and (b) non-governmental organisation staff in Afghanistan with resettlement in the UK.

20 Sep 2022 · COP26

Climate Change: International Cooperation

To ask the President of COP26, if he will make it his policy to support loss and damage finance at COP27, in the context of the damage caused by recent flooding in Pakistan.

20 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Debts: Climate Change

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislation to protect (a) Pakistan and (b) other countries affected by climate disasters from being sued in English courts for outstanding debts.

20 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Debts: Pakistan

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with his international counterparts on the potential merits of (a) suspending, (b) restructuring and (c) cancelling some of Pakistan’s external debt in the context of the recent

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact that the suspension of non-essential aid spend until September has had on developing countries where the FCDO

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether HM Treasury's suspension of non-essential aid spend until September applied to humanitarian aid spending.

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether HM Treasury's suspension of non-essential aid spend until September resulted in reductions to existing FCDO-funded programmes in developing countries.

Source: official written-questions record.