Written questions
793 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Jun 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the two-child benefit cap.
20 Jun 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether training on domestic abuse will be provided for people working on the application and administration of universal credit.
19 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Gambling: Excise Duties
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has undertaken a comparative assessment of the levels of remote gaming duty in other European countries; and if he will make a statement.
19 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the revenue that will accrue to the public purse from category B2 machines between July 2018 and April 2020.
19 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue accrued to the public purse from category B2 machines in each of the last three financial years; and what estimate his Department has made of the sum that will accrue to the public purse from such ma
19 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Gaming Machines
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with machine manufacturers on the implementation period for reducing the stake on B2 gaming machines.
19 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Gaming Machines
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with bookmakers on the implementation period for reducing the stake on B2 machines.
19 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Gaming Machines
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons his Department decided not to implement the reduction on category B2 machines until April 2020; and if he will make a statement.
19 Jun 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming Machines
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons the implementation period for the B2 stake reduction is now expected to take longer than the 9 to 12 months set out in the Impact Assessment published alongside the Gove
19 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Gaming Machines
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of the costs to the public purse arising from the harm caused by fixed-odds betting terminals in each of the last three years.
19 Jun 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming Machines
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to prevent harm to vulnerable people until the £2 stake reduction for fixed-odds betting terminals is introduced.
19 Jun 2018 · Home Office
Prostitution
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support the Government provides to women wanting to exit prostitution.
19 Jun 2018 · Home Office
Prostitution
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help reduce demand for prostitution.
19 Jun 2018 · Home Office
Sexual Offences: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to tackle commercial websites that facilitate sexual exploitation.
19 Jun 2018 · Home Office
Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to combat organised sexual exploitation.
19 Jun 2018 · Home Office
Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help reduce demand for commercial sexual exploitation.
19 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities
Gender Recognition
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the views of non-binary people are taken into account in its forthcoming consultation on changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
19 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities
Gender Recognition: Young People
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of permitting access to the gender recognition process for 16 and 17 year olds.
19 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities
Gender Recognition
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how the Government plans to ensure that the future process for gender recognition is available to people regardless of their financial means or ability.
19 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities
Gender Recognition: Married People
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to ensure that the future process for gender recognition removes the possibility for spousal veto.
13 Jun 2018 · Treasury
Bookmakers
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which bookmaker organisations his Department has met with in 2018.
24 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Consumer Goods: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department plans to take to increase public awareness of the Government’s product recall website; and if he will make a statement.
24 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Office for Product Safety and Standards: Powers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what regulatory powers the Office for Product Safety and Standards has.
24 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Office for Product Safety and Standards: Powers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what powers he plans the Office for Product Safety and Standards to have to compel companies to issue recalls.
22 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Electrical Goods: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of prohibiting the sale of electrical goods online whose manufacture dates to before the introduction of the
22 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Electrical Goods: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to increase protection for the buyer in consumer-to-consumer private online sales of electrical goods.
16 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is still a principle of the Government that an individual should spend on average up to one third of their adult life above state pension age.
15 May 2018 · Treasury
Pensions: Taxation
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the viability of enabling men to contribute to the pension of their spouse on the same basis as the contribution that they make to their own and with the same tax advantages.
3 May 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming Machines
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the level of consistency between the recent advice of the Gambling Commission to his Department and the proposed reduction in the maximum stake for fixed-o
20 Apr 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming Machines
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have held meetings with representatives of bookmakers since the end of the consultation on proposals for changes to gaming machines and
Source: official written-questions record.