Written questions

1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 May 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether self-employed workers who are subject to the Turkish EC Association Agreement visa are eligible for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.

20 May 2020 · Department for Education

Private Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is taking steps to encourage independent schools to reopen on 1 June 2020.

13 May 2020 · Department for Transport

British Airways: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with representatives of British Airways as a result of their recent announcement on staff redundancies.

12 May 2020 · Department for Education

Pupils: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he place in the Library the Government guidance issued to schools on what support schools must provide to children who come from families without recourse to public funds.

12 May 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to extend free school meal provision into the (a) spring half-term and and (b) summer holidays.

7 May 2020 · Department for International Trade

Turkey: Arms Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government has issued any export licences to companies for the export of military munitions and equipment or components to be used by the Turkish armed forces.

7 May 2020 · Department for International Trade

Turkey: Arms Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government has issued any export licences to EDO MBM Technology Ltd for the export of military munitions and equipment or components to be used by the Turkish armed forces.

6 May 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme beyond August 2020.

6 May 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to change the qualifying criteria for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.

6 May 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of self-employed workers who have been excluded from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.

6 May 2020 · Treasury

Migrants: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the potential merits of removing the no recourse to public funds conditions during the covid-19 outbreak.

6 May 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of suspending no recourse to public funds conditions during the covid-19 outbreak.

6 May 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken is for applicants to receive a decision from her Department after filing a change of conditions application to have the no recourse to public funds restriction lifted.

4 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Independent Case Examiner

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 1994 on the Independent Case Examiner, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Independent Case Examiner's Office reduces the time taken to commen

4 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by her Department as decision makers with responsibility for making decisions on mandatory reconsideration requests for (a) employment support allowance

4 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 37990 on Social Security Benefits, how many mandatory reconsiderations of (a) employment support allowance, (b) personal independence payment and (c)

4 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral evidence of the Permanent Secretary to the Work and Pensions Committee on the DWP's response to the coronavirus outbreak on 25 March 2020, Q33, HC 178, if she will estimate th

4 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 37988 on Social Security Benefits, if she will make it her Department's policy to write to all those claimants who have undergone an assessment for (a

4 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2020 to Questions 38941 and 38942 on Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Government Communications Service’s

1 May 2020 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Migrant Workers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business. Energy and Industrial Strategy on ensuring that business owners with a UK payroll but have an immigration status condition of no recourse to publ

1 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for claimants calling the universal credit helpline.

1 May 2020 · Home Office

Refugees: France

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department is providing to its French counterparts under the (a) 2015 Joint Declaration and (b) 2018 Sandhurst Agreement to assist with the response to the covid-19 outbreak in displa

1 May 2020 · Home Office

Borders: France

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide a breakdown of the UK's current expenditure on border operations in Northern France.

1 May 2020 · Home Office

Migrant Camps: : France

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2020 to Question 37581 on migrant camps: France, what steps her Department is taking to (a) identify and (b) protect (i) unaccompanied minors, (ii) disabled people,

1 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce an additional grant scheme for people working in the agricultural sector that are facing market disruption as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

1 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Milk: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the milk supply chain is not disrupted during the covid-19 outbreak.

22 Apr 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will undertake an investigation into the (a) commissioning and (b) approval of the Government's Universal Credit Uncovered advertisements that were published in The Metro in May and Ju

22 Apr 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority in November 2019 that the advertisements by her Department on universa

22 Apr 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israeli Settlements: Overseas Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the report by the UN Human Rights Office published on 12 February 2020 on companies involved in certain activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Te

22 Apr 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Overseas Companies: Israeli Settlements

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he plans to take in relation to JCB, Opodo and Greenkote in the light of the publication of the UN Human Rights Council's database of companies directly doing business with Is

Source: official written-questions record.