Written questions

963 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Orders and Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Orders and (b) Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders have been issued each year up to December 2020.

30 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Victim Support Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding from the Violence Reduction Unit programme has been allocated to organisations supporting victims.

30 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Offending Teams: Probation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of Youth Offending Teams offering Intensive Supervision and Surveillance as part of Youth Rehabilitation Orders.

17 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Remand in Custody: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of local authority accommodation for children on remand.

17 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Human Trafficking: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of days taken was to make conclusive grounds decisions in National Referral Mechanism cases relating to children, in each of the last five years.

16 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Rehabilitation Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to enact Paragraph 35 of Schedule 1 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 to allow sentencers to review Youth Rehabilitation Orders.

16 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Victim Support Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of the £40 million in funding for victim services announced in the Spending Review 2020.

11 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of rolling out the Sexual Violence Complainants' Advocate Scheme, piloted in Northumbria under the Home Office Violence Against Women & Girls Service Transforma

10 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many calls have been made using the Purple Visits app in youth custodial settings since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.

8 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2020 to Question 123639 on Buildings: Insulation, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of refining the definition of wha

8 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the backlog of 46,000 asylum cases where people have been waiting more than six months for an initial decision on their asylum application.

7 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the youth custodial estate (a) in total and (b) on consultants or third party contractors in each of the last five years.

7 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Self-harm

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has produced a forecast of the number of children who are considered potentially likely to self-harm in youth custodial settings over the Christmas 2020 period.

7 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Home Care Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making regular repeat covid-19 tests available to domiciliary care users.

1 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish updated figures from the Relative Rate Index (RRI) model for the measures specified in the 2016 Ministry of Justice paper entitled Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic disproportionality in the Cri

1 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that children in youth custodial settings do not have to spend Christmas alone as a result of ongoing covid-19 restrictions.

1 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the recent decision to reduce the Official Development Assistance budget on trends in the number of (a) economic migrants and (b) asy

1 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Parole: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has put in place to allow prisoners eligible for parole to access approved premises and leave prison during the covid-19 outbreak.

1 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Parole: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number prisoners who met the criteria for parole but who could not be released as approved premises were not accepting referrals as a result of covid-19 restrictions, in the last

1 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason tiling systems are classified as cladding according to his Department's Building Safety Programme guidance published on 21 Nov 2020; and if he will provide more i

27 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the (a) credit rating of renters and (b) rental market.

26 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Presumption of Parental Involvement Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will consult domestic abuse and sexual violence specialist lawyers and academics during his Review of the Presumption of Parental Involvement.

26 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representation there is on the advisory panel for his Ministry's Review of the Presumption of Parental Involvement for (a) Black and Minority Ethnic survivors, (b) Deaf and disabled survivors, (c) survivors

26 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Presumption of Parental Involvement Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps have been taken to use the findings from his Department’s Expert Panel on Harm in the Family Courts to inform the make-up of the advisory panel for the Review of the Presumption of Parental Involvement

18 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date ordinarily resident EU nationals will be able to apply for the new UK EHIC card.

18 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of queries from MPs which her Department does not answer within the 20 working-day target timeframe.

16 Nov 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of sanctions available to the Environmental Agency for water and sewerage companies which they assess as having performance sig

13 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what reports he has received on mortgage providers routinely requesting ESW1 forms for flats in buildings under 18 metres in height; and if the Government will publish guidance o

12 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a right to review for children held in custody cells for more than 20 hours per day.

12 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offender Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve contact between children in young offender institutions and their (a) parents, (b) carers and (c) friends.

Source: official written-questions record.