Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Oil

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure that oil from Russia is not imported to the UK through a third party.

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to introduce a licensing scheme for short term holiday lets.

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tourism: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the introduction of a tourism tax.

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Museums and Galleries: Concrete

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete being present on heritage buildings that serve as (a) museums and (b) galleries; and if she will tak

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

World Heritage Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she plans to take to help support locations that are on the tentative list for designation as a world heritage site.

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment: Bullying

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including measures to enable targets of bullying at work to take cases to an employment tribunal in the proposed Employment Rights Bill.

23 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she plans to take to consult stakeholders on her Department's proposed policy to implement VAT on private school fees.

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of (a) children and (b) young people not in school; and if she will commission a review into the reasons behind such absences.

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Universities: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with Universities on the financial viability of the sector.

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Further Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will commission a review into the funding of further education.

22 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Directors of Public Health to ensure there is adequate funding for sexual health services.

22 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexually Transmitted Infections

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of (a) early interventions to help tackle sexually transmitted diseases and (b) other sexual health services.

22 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will maintain levels of funding for sexual health services.

22 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nitazenes: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help reduce the use of (a) nitazenes and (b) other illicit substances in areas where there is growing use of such synthetic substances.

22 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Nitazenes: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) tackle the use of nitazenes and (b) help ensure that drug users are safe in the context of trends in the use of those drugs.

22 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Drugs: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing harm reduction centres for drug users.

22 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of local government expenditure on tackling (a) child poverty and (b) poverty.

22 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities to find additional accommodation for refugees that have been granted leave to remain.

22 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing First

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for assessing the effectiveness of the Housing First pilot schemes.

22 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to help ensure that families are able to access emergency accommodation in areas where capacity for accommodation has been exceeded by demand during the su

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Food Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to assess the adequacy of the supply of food for people in poverty in summer 2024; and whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of t

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that children with (a) SEND, (b) anxiety and (c) trauma can access (i) support and (ii) therapeutic services during the school holidays.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Academic Year

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the funding for children with SEND to help provide access to (a) activities and (b) childcare during school holidays.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Academic Year

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure there is adequate provision for children with SEND to access activities during school holidays.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Holiday Activities Fund on children living in poverty.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to extend the Holiday Activities Fund.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to extend the Housing Support Fund.

22 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to ensure that legal aid is available to people using the family courts who have been subject to (a) financial control and (b) domestic abuse.

22 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that the family court system (a) provides adequate support for court users who have experienced abuse by their (i) partner and (ii) former partner and (b) cannot be misused by p

19 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will respond to the letter from the former Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee on the Men's health inquiry to his predecessor, published on 23 May 2024.

Source: official written-questions record.