Written questions
1,447 written questions tabled, most recent first.
9 Jan 2019 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Brexit
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a full list of companies that his Department has engaged in contracts with for work relating to preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
8 Jan 2019 · Department for Transport
Railways: Overcrowding
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of trains that will run overcapacity and (b) the amount by which they will exceed their capacity on average by 2025 on currents trends in funding and passenger growth
8 Jan 2019 · Department for Transport
Level Crossings
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the end of two tone horn warnings at whistle boards on trends in the level of fatalities at railway level crossings.
8 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October to Question 182843 on Universal Credit, if she will publish he Department's review of research carried out by organisations including the Trussell Trust on food bank
7 Jan 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Nationals Abroad: Forced Marriage
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of its emergency loan policy on economically vulnerable British citizens seeking to leave forced marriages abroad; and if he will mak
7 Jan 2019 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Vacancies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many vacant posts there are across the Civil Service.
7 Jan 2019 · Department for Transport
Railways: Overcrowding
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the number and proportion of trains running over capacity in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
7 Jan 2019 · Department for Transport
Seaborne Freight
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of all documents and emails held by his Department on the due diligence undertaken on Seaborne Freight Ltd. before the awarding of a freight moving contract to them as par
7 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of people using uncharted boats and ships to arrive in the UK in December 2018.
19 Dec 2018 · Department for Transport
Ports: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library the Government's full plans to facilitate traffic flows (a) into, (b) through and (c) around Welsh ports after 29 March 2019 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal
19 Dec 2018 · Treasury
Brexit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been allocated to the devolved administrations to help them prepare for the possibility that the UK does not agree a Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.
19 Dec 2018 · Wales Office
Wales Office: Brexit
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of funding it requires to plan for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and if he will place any documentation on such estimates in the Library.
19 Dec 2018 · Wales Office
Migrant Workers: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, with reference to the White Paper, The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, published on 19 December 2018, what discussions his Department has had with the Home Secretary on the effect of the proposed minim
14 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office
Emigration: EEA Nationals and EU Nationals
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of non-UK (a) EU and (b) EEA citizens leaving the UK in each of the last three years.
13 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice
Toads: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many public prosecutions have been brought for (a) killing, (b) injuring, (c) disturbing the habitat and (d) sale of natterjack toads in each of the last 10 years.
13 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Toads: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of trends in biodiversity and habitat degradation in the habitat of the natterjack toad in the last five years.
13 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tigers: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning the commercial (a) internal trade and (b) import and export of tigers that have been bred in captivity after the UK lea
13 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tigers: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect tigers by (a) helping to curtail the illegal international trade in tiger body parts and (b) promoting UK conservation expertise to count
13 Dec 2018 · Home Office
Ivory: Seized Articles
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the seizure of illegal ivory by the UK Border Force since 2015.
12 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Owner Occupation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of inequalities in home ownership by (a) social class, (b) age and (c) ethnicity.
12 Dec 2018 · Home Office
Migration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on 27 November 2018, what steps his Department is taking to achieve the Government's target for net migration with regard to (a) skill
12 Dec 2018 · Home Office
ICT: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of trends in level of applications for extensions of Tier 2 stay and work visas in the information and communications Sector in the first three quarters of this
11 Dec 2018 · Department for Transport
Railways: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what performance indicators his Department uses to measure the number of times that trains run by franchise operators have not stopped at a station as a result of a service already being late running.
11 Dec 2018 · Home Office
Deportation: British Nationality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK citizens have been wrongly deported by his Department since 2010.
11 Dec 2018 · Department for Education
Academies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost to the public purse has been of converting local authority schools to academy schools since 2010.
11 Dec 2018 · Department for Transport
Railways: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what methodology his Department uses to assess the performance of franchises in relation to delivering a good service for disabled users.
11 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Energy Performance Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new Energy Performance Certificates band (a) A, (b) B and (c) C were issued in each of the last eight years.
10 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office
Students: Suicide
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of suicides among students of further and higher education in the 2017-18 academic year.
10 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice
Young Offenders: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of suicides in (a) young offenders institutes and (b) juvenile wings of prisons in 2017.
10 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of cases related to EHIC fraud that were (a) investigated, (b) determined to be a probable case of fraud and (c) determined to be a definite case
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