Written questions

1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Dec 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Judicial Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reform judicial review.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2015 to Question 13392, if he will make an estimate of the number of people with cancer who will be affected by the proposals to remove the work-related activity ele

24 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Alarms

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average and (b) longest recorded waiting time was between a detainee at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre sounding the emergency alarm in their room and an officer arriving to assist

24 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2015 to Question 10915, what the longest recorded time is for which a woman without any outstanding criminal offences was held in immigration detention since 2010.

24 Nov 2015 · Department for Education

Academies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of costs arising from a school becoming an academy on (a) school budgets and (b) educational standards.

23 Nov 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ashraf Fayadh

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Saudi Arabian counterpart calling for the release of Mr Ashraf Fayadh who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia on 17 November 2015 on charges of a

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the (a) level of provision of spaces in SEN schools and (b) rising number of children with SEN statements in mainstream schools on the educational rights and attain

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the Government's proposed reductions in tax credits on the pupil premium.

18 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Hunger Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women held in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre have refused to eat for one or more consecutive days in 2015.

18 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of detainees held in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre are receiving medication for mental health problems; and what proportion of those detainees have had their dosage increased since being

17 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Hunger Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre went on hunger strike in 2015.

17 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Human Trafficking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many detainees held in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre (a) claim that they are victims of human trafficking and (b) have been identified by the National Referral Mechanism as victims of hum

17 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women taken to hospital from Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre have been handcuffed in transit in each of the last six months.

17 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Detainees: Infectious Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on testing detainees for infectious diseases such as TB.

17 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Asylum: Africa

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of victims of human trafficking from (a) Benin, (b) Nigeria, (c) Uganda and (d) Zimbabwe who applied for asylum were successful in their application between 2010 and 2015.

17 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Legal Representation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women held in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre have legal representation.

17 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions are in place to safeguard the welfare of pregnant women in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

16 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the officers employed at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre are male.

16 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hon. Members have had a request to visit Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre refused in the last 12 months; and on what grounds each such refusal was justified.

16 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information she holds on the likely publication date for the independent review of Yarl's Wood, commissioned by Serco.

16 Nov 2015 · Home Office

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Self-harm

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of women detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre in the last year have (a) attempted to or (b) inflicted harm upon themselves.

10 Nov 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning.

10 Nov 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people who are at high risk from carbon monoxide poisoning.

10 Nov 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Natural Gas

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many complaints about (a) natural gas or (b) inadequate safeguards to detect natural gas have been lodged with councils in the last year.

29 Oct 2015 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the World Health Organisation's Global Tuberculosis Report 2015, published on 28 October 2015, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings

28 Oct 2015 · Department for International Development

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Global Fund's decision to require integration of TB and HIV programmes.

28 Oct 2015 · Department for International Development

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) deaths from and (b) cases of HIV, TB and malaria that will be prevented as a result of her Department's £1 billion commitment to the Global Fund f

28 Oct 2015 · Department of Health

Tuberculosis: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the London Assembly's report, Tackling TB in London, published on 27 October 2015.

26 Oct 2015 · Department of Health

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Choice Review.

26 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the provisions in Clauses 13 and 14 of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on the welfare of cancer patients.

Source: official written-questions record.