Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Police: Night-time Economy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of demand placed on police forces created by city centres with a high volume of night time economy venues.
22 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Urban Areas: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of hospitality venues serving alcohol on a high street on trends in the level of safety on those streets.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Offices: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps is he taking to ensure that any redevelopment of city centre office space for residential use, is used for (a) accommodation and (b) not Short Term Holiday Lets.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Buildings: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether she is taking steps to ensure that buildings designed to host offices are not repurposed as short term holiday lets.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hospitality Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to provide long term support to the hospitality sector.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Hospitality Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential challenges facing the hospitality sector in 2023.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Business: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on opportunities for investment in businesses in the cultural and arts sector
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Small Businesses: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department is providing to help support local business clusters.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
New Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that all businesses have access to business accelerators.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Business: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to assist businesses to grow; and how much funding his Department has allocated to financing business accelerators.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Business: Investment Returns
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when investing in business, what time period the Exchequer seeks for an economic return on its investment.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Social Enterprises
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has a target for the proportion of her Departmental budget that will be used to fund social enterprises by the end of this Parliament.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Business: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of levels of business investment on levels of (a) regional and (b) local equality.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Insects: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help protect insect populations in the UK.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nature Conservation: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to secure nature corridors in urban areas.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Music: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if the Government will take steps to maintain funding levels for the provision of (a) youth orchestras and (b) other local music activities for young people in the 2023-24 financial year
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Music: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that all children are able to learn any instrument of any cost.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the York Cost of Living Summit, held on 31 October 2022, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce levels of poverty in York in the context of the City of York Council estim
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
City of York Council
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the York Cost of Living Summit, held on 31 October 2022, and in the context of the City of York Council's estimate that Council will have a £15 million budget defic
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) future resilience of local authority funding.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Concert Halls: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to provide additional funding for the establishment of new concert halls.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Arts: Regional Planning and Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the contribution of the arts, music, film and the creative sectors to the Government's levelling up agenda; and if she will make an assessment of t
21 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office
Government Hubs: York
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his planned timetable is for setting out the Government's plans to create a Government hub in York Central.
21 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office
Government Hubs: York
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made on planning for facilities for a Government hub in York Central.
21 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office
Government Hubs: York
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to develop the Government hub in York Central with (a) conferencing space and (b) other facilities that benefit the local community.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Climate Change Convention
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what priorities he will set for COP28.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
BioYorkshire: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with UK Research and Innovation about the timetable for providing support to the BioYorkshire programme; and if he will make a statement.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Climate Change: Research and Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide increased funding for (a) scientific research into the climate and (b) investing in new technologies to help reduce climate change.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to support scientific research into ways to reduce methane emissions.
21 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Wind Power: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to invest more funding into the research and development of onshore wind power.
Source: official written-questions record.