Written questions

963 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 May 2022 · Home Office

HM Passport Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to increase capacity in Her Majesty's Passport Office to enable significant additional appointments for fast track applications to be made within the next six weeks

25 Apr 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if the Government will extend the Great British Rail sale over the school summer holidays.

25 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Apprenticeship Levy: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of the apprenticeship levy on businesses in Northern Ireland.

22 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Immigration: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2022 to Question 100624 on Immigration: Fees and Charges, when he plans to publish the revised policy on overseas fee waivers.

20 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Terrorism: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the potential merits of a public inquiry on the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.

19 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason there are delays between her Department deciding to approve permission to travel for an applicant to the Homes for Ukraine Scheme and that applicant receiving an email with confirmatio

19 Apr 2022 · Department for International Trade

Department for International Trade: Belfast

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress she has made on establishing a trade and investment hub in Belfast.

19 Apr 2022 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Protocol

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent estimate he has made of the number of companies in Great Britain that no longer service the Northern Ireland market following agreement of the Northern Ireland Protocol in October 2019.

14 Apr 2022 · Northern Ireland Office

Freeports: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions the Government has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the establishment of a freeport in Northern Ireland.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Fuel Oil: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help support consumers with the rising price of heating oil in Northern Ireland.

24 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homes for Ukraine Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his Department's expected timeframe is for applicants for the Homes for Ukraine visa sponsorship scheme to (a) have their application acknowledged, (b) have their application pr

24 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Naturalisation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) applications for British citizenship by naturalisation have been made and (b) applicants have been granted British citizenship by naturalisation in each of the last six years.

24 Mar 2022 · Northern Ireland Office

Schools: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent progress has been made on the establishment of a connected classroom programme for young people in Northern Ireland.

24 Mar 2022 · Northern Ireland Office

Castlereagh Foundation

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will publish the next steps of the Castlereagh Foundation in response to the written advice of the Advisory Committee.

22 Mar 2022 · Northern Ireland Office

Fuel Oil: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households that on heating oil for central heating in Northern Ireland.

16 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that applicants for housing a Ukrainian refugee under the Homes for Ukraine programme will be checked to a standard that will prevent sexual exploit

10 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Immigration: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2021 to Question 57193 on Immigration: Fees and Charges, when the revised policy on overseas fee waivers will be published.

6 Dec 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many of the commitments made in the New Decade, New Approach agreement have been fully implemented.

6 Dec 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Terrorism: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times he has met with victim groups as part of his consultation on the plans announced in the White Paper, Addressing the Legacy of Northern Ireland's Past.

6 Dec 2021 · Northern Ireland Office

Drugs: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress the Government has made on establishing an agreement with the EU to facilitate the supply of medicines to Northern Ireland under the Northern Ireland Protocol.

30 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2021 to Question 81078 on the revised policy on overseas fee waivers, whether any urgent applications have been granted a fee waiver since the policy was suspende

29 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Covid Pass: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will update the NHS App to enable children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old to provide evidence of their vaccination status for the purposes of international travel.

25 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Multi-academy Trusts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's estimate was of the level of cash reserves held by multi-academy trusts as of 25 November 2021.

25 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Condition Improvement Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many repair projects funded by the Condition Improvement Fund in 2021-22 (a) have been completed and (b) are on-track to be completed by summer 2022 as at 25 November 2021.

25 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost of (a) one school meal and (b) a year's worth of school meals was in each of the last ten years.

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

School Rebuilding Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools involved in Phase 1 of the School Rebuilding Programme have had construction work formally begin.

24 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 September 2021 to Question 51783 on the revised policy on overseas fee waivers, how many urgent applications have been granted a fee waiver since the policy was suspended

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Free Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new schools have opened since July 2019; and how many of those have been free schools.

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the £10 million funding for Behaviour Hubs has been allocated to schools as of 24 November 2021.

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have been supported by the Behaviour Hubs programme as of 24 November 2021.

Source: official written-questions record.