Written questions
2,704 written questions tabled, most recent first.
26 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Offences against Children: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the External Reference Group for the Review into group-based child sexual exploitation was appointed.
25 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff currently work for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency on signing-off medical assessments.
25 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the size of the backlog of medical assessment approvals at the Driver and Vehicle License Agency.
25 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
P&O Ferries: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Insolvency Service will report on the formal and civil investigations into the circumstances surrounding the redundancies made by P&O Ferries in March 2022.
25 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Music: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the updated National Plan for Music Education will be implemented ahead of the 2022-23 academic year.
25 Apr 2022 · Home Office
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the email of 12 April 2022 from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley regarding Ukraine refugee case LH20372.
25 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Office
Airports: Vetting
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average time taken is to process the government security checks required for a single employee of airport staff to begin employment.
25 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Office
Airports: Vetting
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many FTE staff are working on processing the security checks required for airport staff to begin employment.
22 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Ferries: Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) enforcement powers and (b) access to enforcement bodies the Government plans to provide to British ports that refuse access to ferry companies that do not pay the national minimum wage.
22 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Ferries: Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to provide new statutory powers to British ports to refuse access to regular ferry services which do not pay their crew the National Minimum Wage.
22 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the locations are of the proposed minimum wage corridors.
22 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the details are of the common level of seafarer protection that his Department is discussing with unions and operators.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which unions and operators his Department has contacted to agree a common level of seafarer protection.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what training and skills will be provided by the proposed global framework for maritime training and skills.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Shipping: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department plans to take to support seafarer mental health; and how that support will be made accessible.
21 Apr 2022 · Treasury
Shipping: Minimum Wage
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many vessels the HMRC has assessed for compliance with the minimum wage; and what resources HMRC has allocated to undertaking those compliance assessments.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria the Maritime and Coastguard Agency plans to apply to its review of enforcement policies to ensure that those policies are fit for purpose now and in future.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
High Speed 2 Line: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether UK-based firms have been shortlisted for the provision of the main civils works contract for phase 2a of HS2.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether UK-based firms have been shortlisted for the design and construction of the proposed automated people mover, carrying passengers from Birmingham Interchange Station to Birmingham International Airport v
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
High Speed 2 Line: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether there is a target for procuring from UK firms in respect of HS2 future contract opportunities.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Iron and Steel
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has set targets for the use of UK steel in respect of Integrated Rail Plan projects throughout the duration of those projects.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
High Speed 2 Line: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many individual contracts have been awarded by HS2 for (a) rolling stock, (b) construction, (c) railway systems and (d) corporate services; and what proportion of those contracts were awarded to businesses
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the public sector apprenticeships target, how many apprentices were employed in his Department in the financial year 2021-22; and what proportion of the total workforce in his Department in th
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
P&O Ferries: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2022 to Question 146535, on P&O Ferries: Redundancy, whether it was while standing at the Despatch Box that he first became aware of disruption with the potential to last up to
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
DP World and P&O Ferries: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2022 to Question 145938, on DP World and P&O Ferries: Contracts, whether that review of contracts in place with P&O Ferries and DP World has concluded.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
P&O Ferries: Temporary Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2022 to Question 145943, on P&O Ferries: Temporary Employment, whether it was while standing at the Despatch Box that he was first informed that P&O planned to use agency staff
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
P&O Ferries: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2022 to Question 145940, on P&O Ferries: Redundancy, whether it was while standing at the Despatch Box that he was first informed that the (a) Kent Resilience Forum or (b) Cabi
21 Apr 2022 · Treasury
Shipping: Minimum Wage
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2022 to Question 145936, on Shipping: Minimum Wage, how many inspections of businesses HMRC has undertaken to ensure that seafarers and other maritime persons who work or ordinarily
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
Buses: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of orders for zero emission buses using funding from the Zero Emission Buses Regional Area scheme have been secured by UK manufacturers.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport
London Gateway Port: Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his oral statement of 30 March 2022, Official Report, column 840, who the relevant port authorities are for the purposes of enforcement of proposed minimum wage legislation at the London Gatew
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