Written questions
1,750 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 Oct 2017 · Department for Transport
Driving Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people over the age of 18 hold a driving licence in each parliamentary constituency and local authority area.
17 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that members of the public without formal identification are able to vote in local elections in 2018 in those local authorities which are taking part in the voter ID
16 Oct 2017 · Department of Health
Mental Health Services: Lancashire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what extra resources the Government has given to CAMHS in Lancashire since the Manchester area attack of 22 May 2017.
16 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register: Homelessness
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that homeless people are (a) registered to vote and (b) participate in elections; and what assessment he has made of the effect on registration levels of the require
16 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Personation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases of impersonation took place in each parliamentary constituency and local authority in each of the last seven years.
16 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what safeguards are in place to ensure that people registered to vote outside of the UK do not register in more than one parliamentary constituency.
16 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure consistency in Unique Property Reference Numbers for the database used by councils and the gov.uk/register-to-vote website.
16 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding was allocated by the Government to support (a) the registration of UK electors overseas and (b) residents without a fixed address in advance of the (i) 2017 General Election, (ii) EU referendum
16 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent comparable assessment the Government has made in the volume of guidance produced by the Electoral Commission for the registration of UK citizens overseas and the registration of homeless people; and
16 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to establish an online service to enable people to check if they are registered to vote.
6 Oct 2017 · Department of Health
Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures the Government is taking to support children with birth defects as a result of valproate taken during pregnancy.
6 Oct 2017 · Department of Health
Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of babies harmed by Valproate in pregnancy.
6 Oct 2017 · Department of Health
Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will meet with INFACT to discuss a care plan compensation package for people harmed by Valproate in pregnancy since 1973.
6 Oct 2017 · Department of Health
Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission research into the care plan for people harmed by Valproate during pregnancy in France in order to identify potential benefits that such a plan could bring to the UK.
6 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government plans to take to reduce bureaucracy in voter registration processes during and outside canvass periods.
14 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the merits of clarifying the arrangements around deferring publication of the electoral register where an election occurs during the defined canvass period.
14 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Elections: Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to introduce a formal complaints system as recommended by the Law Commission to provide for a clearer and local system of accountability and challenge.
14 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Candidates: Expenditure
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review the process of recording candidates' expenses including the consideration of the return to, and subsequent reporting of, expenses to returning officers and the possible provision of online repo
14 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Elections: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will remove the requirement for election agents' home addresses to be published.
14 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Absent Voting
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the merits of introducing a process to cancel a postal ballot paper issued to an elector who is subsequently deleted from the electoral register during an election period.
14 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Candidates: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward proposals to extend the option for candidates to restrict publication of their home address to all polls.
14 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Referendums
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward proposals to provide for the appointment of sub-agents at any future national referendum.
13 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Elections: Costs
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that all costs properly incurred in (a) the administration of elections, including electoral registration costs directly attributable to the election, are reimbursed to returning
12 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Commonwealth: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to uphold its commitment in paragraph 19 of the final communiqué of the 9th Commonwealth Youth Ministers meeting on promoting youth work as a professi
12 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Elections: ICT
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the (a) current use of electronic forms of electoral counting and (b) potential merits of introducing such electronic forms of counting for other types of el
12 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Constituencies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to end the Boundary Commission's review of constituency boundaries.
12 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Constituencies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving (a) electoral registration officers the responsibility for the subdivision of UK parliamentary constituencies into polling districts and (b) return
12 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Elections
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Law Commissioners proposals of February 2016, on reforming electoral laws, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals for a single Elector
12 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will conduct a review of all election and electoral registration deadlines which includes the consideration of deadlines for the registration of electors, overseas electors and absent voting.
12 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office
Elections: Finance
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that expenses claims submitted to the Election Claims Unit are audited and settled within six months of their receipt.
Source: official written-questions record.