Written questions

1,447 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Nov 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) due diligence was undertaken on and (b) assessment was made of the pronouncements on equality and diversity of the Chair of the Commission on Beauty in the Built Environ

5 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department is planning for an increase in enforcement activity against EU citizens after the UK leaves the EU.

5 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Home Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of staff that will be employed by his Department on 29 March 2019.

5 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the total staff hours it will take to process all of the applications for settled status from EU citizens living in the UK.

5 Nov 2018 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: South Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2018 to Question 184982 on UK Visas and Immigration: South Wales, whether the contract with Sopra Steria includes any requirement on (a) opening and (b) access hou

1 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of staff hours it will take to process applications for settled status by non-UK EU citizens living in the UK.

1 Nov 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horses: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to review its policy on the tethering of horses, donkeys, ponies and their hybrids; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of

1 Nov 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Cameroon: Ethnic Groups and Languages

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department made of trends in the level of reported ethnic and linguistic tensions in Cameroon in the last three years.

31 Oct 2018 · Wales Office

European Regional Development Fund: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what specific and technical guidance has been provided to (a) charities, (b) local authorities and (c) the Welsh Government on how to apply for money under the funding guarantee for ERDF programmes in the event no

31 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UK Shared Prosperity Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the consultation on the Shared Prosperity Fund has not yet been launched; and if he will make a statement.

31 Oct 2018 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Brexit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made HMRC's readiness for the UK to leave the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement.

31 Oct 2018 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of support to asylum seekers whose case has taken more than 52 weeks to resolve in the 2017-18 financial year.

31 Oct 2018 · Department for Education

Academic Freedom: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, of 17 May 2018, Official Report, column 241WH, what information his Department holds on the (a) number

30 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2018 to Question 182841 on Social Security Benefits: Mental Health, what metrics her Department is using to measure the success of those safeguards.

30 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2018 to Question 182841 on Social Security Benefits: Mental Health, what the safeguards are that were referred to in that Answer.

30 Oct 2018 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2018 to Question 183507 on Visas: Tourism, what information his Department holds on the number of visitor visa requests that have been refused in each of the last

30 Oct 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of disabled people who previously received a disability premium that have been migrated onto universal credit without transitional protections.

30 Oct 2018 · Treasury

Debts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of personal debt over the last five years.

29 Oct 2018 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: South Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where in South Wales applicants will be able to have appointments to upload biometric information under the Sopra Steria outsourcing contract for UKVI biometric services.

26 Oct 2018 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what risk assessment his Department undertook of the placement of UKVI biometric services in local libraries under the contract with Sopra Steria.

26 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Shared Business Services: Lost Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library, copies of the internal (a) reviews and (b) documents in relation to the (i) loss of personal documents and (ii) failure to disclose the loss of personal documents b

26 Oct 2018 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many libraries in Wales will host UKVI biometric services under the contract for the provision of those services by Sopra Steria.

26 Oct 2018 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the what date the Sopra Steria contract for the delivery of UKVI biometric services commences.

26 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Shared Business Services: Lost Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the performance of Steria UK in the delivery of NHS Special Business Service (NHS SBS) the failure of NHS SBS to disclose in a timely mann

24 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Marketing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) number and (b) distribution of medicines approved as centrally authorised products which do not have a UK marketing authorisation.

24 Oct 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish its technical notices on the delivery of medicines into the UK from the EU in that no withdrawal agreement is reached with the EU.

24 Oct 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Social Mobility

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has plans to incentivise sporting bodies to engage in social change programmes.

24 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) service personnel and (b) support staff were born in (a) non-UK EU states (b) commonwealth countries and (c) the rest of the world.

24 Oct 2018 · Home Office

Visas: Tourism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many tourist visas were refused in each of the last five years.

23 Oct 2018 · Home Office

Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student study visas were refused in each of the last five years.

Source: official written-questions record.