Written questions

814 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 May 2024 · Home Office

Radicalism: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of when the report of the independent review of political violence and disruption will be published.

25 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Warrior Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Warrior infantry fighting vehicles are (a) held by the armed forces and (b) awaiting disposal.

25 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) are (a) held by the armed forces and (b) awaiting disposal.

25 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many FV107 Scimitar vehicles are (a) in use and (b) waiting for disposal by the Army.

17 Apr 2024 · Treasury

Climate Change: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has had discussions with the Bank of England on incorporating the impact of climate change in inflation modelling.

12 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Shell

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 15307 on Shell: Nigeria, if he will publish the (a) dates (b) attendee lists, (c) minutes and (d) any other relevant details

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Age

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria the Government uses to assess whether to amend the state pension age.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Age

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) physical and (b) mental feasibility of people being able to continue working (i) until the existing state pension age and (ii) beyond that age.

1 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Academies: Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2024 to Question 15463 on Academies: Sports, what steps her Department takes to monitor compliance by academy trusts with her Department's conditions of consent for the sal

1 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Academies: Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2024 to Question 15463 on Academies: Sports, if she will publish a list of academy trusts where consent was granted by her Department of freehold sale of publicly funded la

29 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2024 to Question 15306, which organisations (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have met on reforms to the leasehold system; and w

29 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Transport: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the second National Infrastructure Report, published on 18 October 2023, what progress his Department has made on responding to the recommendation to (a) review action on transport decarbonisa

29 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Multinational Companies: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help ensure that British multinationals operate to domestic environmental standards when operating overseas.

29 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Shell: Nigeria

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to help ensure that Shell has in place plans for the safe decommissioning of its infrastructure in Nigeria prior to selling its Nigerian operation SPDC.

29 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Shell: Nigeria

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will request that Shell publishes its environmental impact assessments in respect of the areas of the Niger Delta where SPDC currently operates.

23 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Income Support: Disability and Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the level of the minimum income guarantee on (a) the quality of life of disabled people and (b) local authority budgets.

23 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Income Support: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 1 February 2023 to Question 133573 on Income Support, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the level of the minimum income guarantee on the (a)

23 Feb 2024 · Department for Education

Academies: Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2024 to Question 13588, on Academies, how her Department monitors whether capital receipts from the disposal of publicly funded playing fields by an academy trust are reinv

22 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Shell

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the policy paper entitled UK National Action Plan on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: progress update, published in May 2020,

22 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Leasehold

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what organisations have made representations to his Department requesting that the leasehold system is maintained.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Transport: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to introduce new measures to help reduce emissions from surface transport by 2030.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Ofwat about water companies at risk of bankruptcy.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Education

Academies: Norwich

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications by academy trusts in Norwich to her Department to sell school grounds have been successful.

7 Feb 2024 · Department for Education

Academies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications by academy trusts to her Department to sell school grounds have been successful.

1 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people whose application for an award under the Windrush Compensation Scheme has been denied have appealed in each quarter since that scheme was launched.

11 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Armoured Fighting Vehicles and Military Aircraft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what types of (a) vehicles, (b) tanks, and (c) aircraft have been disposed of via (i) sale, (ii) donation, (iii) auction and (iv) scrapping since 24 February 2022; and if he will publish a list of the number (A)

11 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Military Aircraft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what type of (a) aircraft and (b) helicopters (i) have been and (ii) are scheduled to be donated to Ukraine.

11 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Typhoon Aircraft: Decommissioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has plans to dispose of any Typhoon Tranche 1 planes before 31 March 2025.

11 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Typhoon Aircraft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Typhoon Tranche 1's have been (a) retired from service and (b) donated to Ukraine since February 2022; and what his Department's policy is for disposing of these planes.

11 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Ukraine: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has plans to donate further Minefield Breaching Systems to Ukraine.

Source: official written-questions record.