Written questions
1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.
7 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department are assigned to work on the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
7 Sep 2020 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush Compensation Scheme cases have been closed in each month since April 2019.
28 Aug 2020 · Department for Transport
Aviation: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the (a) scientific and (b) technical advice that informed the Government's decision to exclude Portugal from the Government's air bridge scheme.
17 Jul 2020 · Department for International Trade
Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department conducted an independent assessment of the effect of UK Export Finance's support for Total's LNG Project in Mozambique on poverty reduction.
17 Jul 2020 · Department for International Trade
Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department conducted an independent assessment of the potential effect of UK Export Finance's support for Total's LNG Project in Mozambique on (a) human rights and (b) the environment.
17 Jul 2020 · Department for International Trade
Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the decision to provide £800,000 in UK Export Finance funding to support of the Mozambique LNG Project will comply with (a) the UK’s commitments made unde
17 Jul 2020 · Department for International Trade
Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to UK Export Finance support for the Mozambique LNG Project, what assessment she has made of the risks of potential carbon lock-in from that project; when that assessment was made; and
17 Jul 2020 · Department for International Trade
Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to UK Export Finance support for the Mozambique LNG Project, what her Department’s most recent estimate is of the lifecycle carbon emissions from that project; and what methodology was
15 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the decision was made, and by which Minister, to remove responses from the stakeholder and community engagement consultation process from Public Health England's Disparities in the risk and ou
13 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful applicants to the Windrush Compensation Scheme have been awarded less than £1000 since April 2019.
13 Jul 2020 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average award from the Windrush Compensation Scheme was in each month since April 2019.
9 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2020 to Question 42141 on Universal Credit: Telephone Services, what the average waiting time for has been for claimants calling the universal credit helpline in each we
6 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were claiming (a) job seeker's allowance, (b) employment and support allowance and (c) income support at the time at which the £20 uplift was made to universal credit.
3 Jul 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Physiotherapy: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason Soft Tissue Therapists are not able to return to work on 6 July 2020 as the covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
29 Jun 2020 · Treasury
Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Migrants
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many successful applications have been made to the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme by people subject to the no recourse to public funds restriction.
29 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department will take to ensure that the income of people of colour who are subject to immigration control is not disproportionately affected during the covid-19 outbreak as a result of
29 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Habitual Residence Test: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to review the Habitual Residence Test to improve access to (a) universal credit and (b) other welfare benefits for EEA migrants and their families during the covid-19 outbr
29 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of immigrants on a five-year route to settlement have been moved onto a 10-year route because they cannot meet the minimum income threshold as a result of their income bei
29 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support people with no recourse to public funds who are unable to access support through covid-19 financial support packages.
29 Jun 2020 · Home Office
Migrants: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with no recourse to public funds have applied for that condition to be lifted as a result of changes to their financial situation since the start of the covid-19 outbreak; and how man
25 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Incentives
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many reward and recognition nominations have been (a) made and (b) approved by his Department for people in each category of (i) ethnicity and (ii) gender in each year since 2015.
25 Jun 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Development Aid: Departmental Coordination
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that international development policy is coherent across all Government Departments.
24 Jun 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Development Aid: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure that all Official Development Assistance is fully transparent and used for the primary purpose of tackling poverty.
24 Jun 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he made of the potential merits of merging the Department for International Development with his Department prior to the planned Integrated Review of foreign, defence, sec
24 Jun 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had with (a) NGOs, (b) aid recipients, (c) local actors and (d) other key stakeholders ahead of the decision made on 16 June to merge the Department for International
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that claimants of legacy benefits who have fraudulent universal credit claims made in their name will not be transferred onto universal credit as a result of that frau
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants of (a) universal credit and (b) legacy benefits who have had fraudulent claims made in their name in each month in 2020.
22 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of (a) employment and support allowance, (b) personal independence payment and (c) universal credit appeals being heard by tribunals virtually.
22 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the current backlog is of employment and support allowance, universal credit and personal independence payment appeals.
22 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Social Security and Child Support Tribunal
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when First-Tier Social Security and Child Support tribunals will resume.
Source: official written-questions record.