Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
21 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Refugees: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of introducing a homes for refugees programme whereby UK residents are able to open their homes to refugees irrespective
21 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the policy of segregation at the proposed reception centre for asylum seekers at Linton on Ouse on (a) the asylum seekers at that centre and (b)
21 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of integrating asylum applicants in local communities while those people are waiting for their application to be processed.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Soil: Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for funding research into practical solutions to mitigate flood risk, including into improving soil health, in each of the next three years.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Soil: Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will establish pilot schemes to assess the effectiveness of using high quality soil health to (a) slow river flow and (b) reduce flooding risk.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Soil: Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking (a) through research and applied science to assess the extent to which good soil health reduces flood risk and (b) to help improve soil health.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Soil: Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the extent to which good soil health reduces flood risk.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: River Ouse (Yorkshire)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to take steps to help ensure that future flood risks on the River Ouse are tackled through installing upper catchment management measures now to meet future requiremen
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environmental Land Management Schemes: Water
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce incentives under the environmental land management schemes to hold water through (a) large and (b) small schemes.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Social Rented Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to assist local authorities with a significant deficit with the Housing Revenue Account to be able to borrow to build new social housing.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage local authorities to utilise the Housing Revenue Account to insulate and retrofit local authority housing stock to help improve
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals in the next Parliamentary session to regulate the short term holiday let market.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Evictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the prevalence of the use of section 21 notices for properties to subsequently be changed from a private rented or student rented house into a s
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the impact of short-term holiday lets on (a) bed and breakfasts, (b) guest houses, (c) hotels and (d) other businesses in the regulated short stay market.
20 Apr 2022 · Treasury
Holiday Accommodation: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment of the potential merits of applying additional taxation to short-term holiday lets; and what options he has considered as part of that assessment.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to grant powers to local authorities to control short-term holiday lets in residential areas where customers are (a) making excess noise and (b) using language or discu
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Holiday Accommodation: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that short-term holiday lets are subject to local taxation requirements; and what options are available in respect of that matter.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the impact of (a) short-term holiday lets on local communities and (b) those that are marketed for hosting parties.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will consult on licensing short-term holiday lets.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) the scheme operating in Nice and (b) other French schemes for regulating the short term holiday let market as part of an
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to enable local authorities to cap the number of short-term holiday lets in a given area as part of any registration scheme for short-term holiday lets.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2022 to Question 150212 on Holiday Accommodation, for what reason his Department is planning to consult on a registration scheme and not a licensing sc
19 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Refugees: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with relevant stakeholders on how York City of Sanctuary may be able to support refugees in Linton-on-Ouse.
19 Apr 2022 · Ministry of Defence
Afghanistan: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made on repurposing the Ministry of Defence estate for the resettlement of 12,000 Afghan refugees who remain in bridging hotels.
19 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Refugees: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that refugees identified for placement at Linton-on-Ouse who have a family connection in the UK are able choose where they stay in the UK.
19 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that applications for asylum from people placed in Linton-on-Ouse are processed in a timely manner to prevent deportation and subsequent re-patronisation to the
19 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Rwanda
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her proposal to transport asylum seekers to Rwanda of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
19 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Refugees: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that hon. Members are (a) briefed and (b) kept up to date with developments at Linton-on-Ouse relating to proposals for refugees.
19 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Health Services: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if York Hospital and health services will receive additional funding in the light of the proposals for Linton on Ouse centre for refugees.
19 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to (a) complete the negotiations over the NHS dental contract and (b) implement the new contract.
Source: official written-questions record.