Written questions

2,704 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Extended Ministerial Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2015 to Question 10866, when she next plans to publish the job titles and pay grades of appointments to extended ministerial offices.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are a

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Department of Energy and Climate Change: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Extended Ministerial Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2015 to Question 10866, when she next plans to publish the job titles and pay grades of appointments to extended ministerial offices.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Extended Ministerial Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2015 to Question 10866, when he plans to publish the job titles and pay grades of appointments to extended ministerial offices.

24 Nov 2015 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish information on the socio-economic status of appointees to the Senior Civil Service in 2015.

24 Nov 2015 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Extended Ministerial Offices

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2015 to Question 10866, when he will next publish the job titles and pay grades of appointments to extended ministerial offices.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to extend the entitlement to their late spouse's teacher's pension to the surviving spouses of teachers who retired or died prior to January 2007 and lost their entitlement to the

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many surviving spouses of teachers who retired or died prior to 1 January 2007 have lost their entitlement to their late spouse's pension on remarrying.

17 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Day Care Services: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to extend the remit of the Care Quality Commission to include the regulation of all day centres; and if he will make a statement.

17 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Learning Disability: Day Care Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of adults with learning disabilities using day centres which are not regulated by the Care Quality Commission.

17 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Learning Disability: Day Care Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints about day centres for adults with learning disabilities his Department has received since the establishment of the Care Quality Commission.

16 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Neurological Diseases: Sheffield Heeley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that people with rare neuromuscular conditions in Sheffield, Heeley constituency have access to the appropriate wheelchair for their condition.

16 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Wheelchairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 9 January 2015 to Question 219449, what progress has been made in improving wheelchair services following the NHS England review.

16 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Home Office: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 13442, what proportion of case workers in her Department received Keeping Children Safe Tier 3 training in 2014.

16 Nov 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment of Senior Civil posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

16 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Department of Health: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

16 Nov 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Business, Innovation and Skills: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are availa

16 Nov 2015 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Committees

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions the Reducing Regulation Sub-Committee has met.

16 Nov 2015 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Legal Costs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent in legal costs on the Information Rights Tribunal case on the Reducing Regulation Sub-Committee Freedom of Information request.

16 Nov 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are avail

10 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Independent Police Complaints Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to respond to the IPCC's proposals on governance reform as set out in its Annual Report and statement of accounts 2014-15, HC 286.

9 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Debts Written Off

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 13612, what the total monetary value is of the debts written off since 2010.

9 Nov 2015 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Electoral Register: Freedom of Information

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission has received from the Government on providing the latest electoral registration statistics in response to

9 Nov 2015 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Electoral Register: Freedom of Information

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission has issued to returning officers on responding to requests under the Freedom of Information Act for stati

9 Nov 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Nigeria: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has held with the government of Nigeria on the situation in Biafra.

9 Nov 2015 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many users are on the Verify identity verification system.

9 Nov 2015 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the Verify identity assurance system to be fully operational; and what services he expects to be included in that system.

Source: official written-questions record.