Written questions
1,971 written questions tabled, most recent first.
16 Apr 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Elbit Systems UK: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether an Elbit Systems UK (a) company, (b) subsidiary and (c) agent has been issued with a licence to export aero-engines for military use since 2008.
25 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Arms Trade
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his Canadian counterpart on the reasons for which that country has suspended arms exports to Israel.
22 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Official Visits
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many foreign officials have been granted special mission status to visit the UK in each year since 2011; and if he will list the (a) names and (b) country of origin of those o
19 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has investigated whether UK arms were used in the Israeli military airstrike on a residential compound in Al Mawasi in Gaza on 18 January 2024.
19 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the investigation by the UN into an Israeli military airstrike on a residential compound in Al Mawasi in Gaza
13 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UNRWA: Finance
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, to what date UK funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been transferred to that body; and whether any funding h
21 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what number and proportion of Personal Independence Payment decisions overturned at tribunal were due to (a) the tribunal panel drawing a different conclusion based on the same evidence, (b) oral eviden
1 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to Q639 of the oral evidence given by the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs to the Foreign Affairs Committee on 9 January 2024, H
1 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Arms Trade
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to paragraph 44 of the summary grounds of the Secretary of State in the case of The King (on the application of Al-Haq) v. Secretary of State for Business and Trade
1 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Arms Trade
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to paragraph 40 of the summary grounds of the Secretary of State in the case of The King (on the application of Al-Haq) v. Secretary of State for Business and Trade
30 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has received legal advice on the implications for his Department's policies of the International Court of Justice’s decision on the request for provisional measures in
24 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what legal advice he has received on the risk that UK manufactured (a) arms and (b) components have been used during the conflict in Gaza.
17 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the reasons for Personal Independence Payment decisions being overturned at mandatory reconsideration in 2022-23.
17 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against Personal Independence Payment decisions were lapsed by her Department in each of the last five years.
17 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Arms Trade: Export Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Answer of 8 July 2002 to Question 67534 on Export Licences, whether the guidance on incorporation of British weaponry components is still current; whether that guidance has been (
15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the potential impact of Israel's dual use policy on getting aid into Gaza.
18 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Older People
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to help support older people in Gaza.
17 Oct 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has received legal advice on the Israeli Government's (a) evacuation order issued on 12 October 2023 to civilians and (b) recent military operations in Gaza.
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospital Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) discharge patients from hospitals and (b) reduce the number of patients in hospital who do not meet residency criteria.
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the average ambulance response time to category two incidents is at least 30 minutes by the 2023-24 financial year.
12 Jul 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Ticket Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of closing train station ticket offices in Leeds East on the (a) safety and (b) accessibility of passenger rail travel in Yorkshire.
15 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an estimate of the total number of years' experience held by all NHS (a) nurses and (b) doctors in each year since 2010.
15 Jun 2023 · Department for Education
Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an estimate of the total number of years' experience held by all state (a) primary, and (b) secondary teachers in each year since 2010.
13 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Staff
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people worked in HMRC's High Net Worth Unit in (a) 2022-23 and (b) each year since 2009.
13 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Staff
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people worked on HMRC's High Risk Wealthy Programme in (a) financial year 2022-23 and (b) each financial year since that programme was created.
13 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Staff
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people worked in HMRC's Wealthy Team in (a) 2022-23 and (b) each year since its founding.
13 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been employed by his Department to investigate suspected benefit fraud in each year since 2017.
24 May 2023 · Treasury
Tax Evasion
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are employed by the Government to investigate tax evasion of people with assets worth over £10 million.
24 May 2023 · Department for Education
Students: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the median level of student debt.
23 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Bahrain: Technical Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government plans to continue to provide technical assistance to the (a) Ministry of Interior, (b) Ministry of Interior Ombudsman and (c) Special Investigations Un
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