Written questions

1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Questionnaires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's definition is of a reasonable explanation for not returning an asylum claim questionnaire within 20 working days.

28 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Questionnaires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department takes to ensure asylum applicants receive the asylum claim questionnaire.

28 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Questionnaires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Streamlined asylum processing published on 23 February, for what reason her Department has chosen to publish the asylum claim questionnaire in English only.

28 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Questionnaires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions are in place for those asylum seekers unable to read or write English and who may be unable to access an immigration advisor within the 20-day time frame for submitting an asylum claim

28 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Questionnaires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential barriers to claimants of returning the asylum questionnaire for streamlined asylum processing within 20 working days.

28 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Questionnaires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance on streamlined asylum processing published on 23 February 2023, what estimate her Department has made of the number of recipients of the asylum questionnaire who will be

28 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason claimants who need to complete the asylum claim questionnaire have been given 20 working days to respond to that form.

20 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any organisations completed air quality modelling to help inform the air quality targets in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, published on 31 January 2023.

20 Feb 2023 · Home Office

London Fire Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2023 to Question 141461 on Grenfell Tower: Fires, whether (a) she or (b) her officials have held meetings with the London Fire Commissioner since January 2020.

20 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Postal Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) Royal Mail and (b) Ofcom on Royal Mail’s review of customer service points.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has published guidance to homes at risk of flooding in London.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Local Government: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to take steps to ringfence funding for local authorities to help manage climate-related incidents in summer 2023.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Local Government: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential financial risk to local authorities from climate change-related (a) weather and (b) temperature-related incidents in summer 2023.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Local Adaptation Advisory Panel

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last met the Local Adaptation Advisory Panel for England Steering Group.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of funding provided to local authorities for meeting the targets set out in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, publish

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish a revised Air Quality Strategy.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Quality Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to increase the air quality grant for local authorities in the next Budget.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints were made to the DWP Complaints Team regarding the way in which Work Capability Assessments were conducted in each month since January 2018.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about Work Capability Assessments were upheld by her Department's complaints team in each month since January 2018.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefits claims suspended by the risk review team have been (a) closed and (b) remain suspended.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who had their benefits suspended by the risk review team were subsequently convicted of fraud.

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants who have had their benefits suspended by the risk review team have had their benefits reinstated.

8 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Home Office: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 132405, whether her Department has other similar agreements with (a) charities and (b) independent organisations on responding to (i) Members and

8 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Migrant Help: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 132405, whether Migrant Help is able to respond directly to Members if they decide it is in the best interests of constituents to do so.

8 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Migrant Help: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February to Question 132405, if she will publish the agreement between Migrant Help and her Department on referring Members' correspondence.

8 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Migrant Help: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 132405 on Migrant Help: Members, for what reason her Department has agreed with Migrant Help that that organisation should not respond directly to

7 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 133692 on Grenfell Tower: Fires, whether (a) she or (b) her officials have held discussions with the London Fire Commissioner on establishing a co

6 Feb 2023 · Treasury

Yevgeny Prigozhin

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to publish the conclusions of the review into the special licenses granted to the law firm undertaking work on behalf of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

2 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Abortion

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Nigerian counterpart on reports that the Nigerian military has been carrying out a programme of mass forced abortions in north-

2 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Nigerian presidential candidates ahead of that country's presidential election.

Source: official written-questions record.