Written questions
1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.
9 Dec 2024 · Treasury
Taxation: International Cooperation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had recent discussions with her G20 counterparts on a global agreement to tax the world’s richest individuals.
9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend the Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019 to (a) restaurant menus and (b) non-pre-packed food.
9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitality Industry: Allergies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of severe food allergy labelling requirements for hospitality venues.
9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitality Industry: Allergies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to increase the availability of allergen information in hospitality venues where food is not pre-packed.
9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitality Industry: Allergies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making allergen training a mandatory requirement for hospitality venues.
14 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the matters raised in the Human Rights Watch report entitled Hopeless, Starving and Besieged:
14 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory autism training for (a) teachers and (b) teaching assistants.
31 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vaccination: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to regulate the provision of injections of (a) dermal fillers and (b) weight-loss medications.
31 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ethiopia: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that UK aid is able to pass into the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
31 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ethiopia: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the matters raised in the Amnesty International press release entitled Ethiopia: Human rights
31 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ethiopia: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Ethiopian counterpart on the conflict in Amhara region.
8 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Supported Housing: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the taper rate for housing benefit on young people in supported housing.
7 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Maternity Pay: Multiple Births
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of maternity pay for mothers of (a) twins and (b) other multiples.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Fraud and Hacking
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help ensure that social media companies provide adequate support to customers who are the subject of hacking and fraud.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Lone Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Gingerbread’s report entitled They are sanctioning the children, published on 16 September 2024.
4 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Palestinians: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Defense for Children International - Palestine entitled Targeting childhood, Pal
9 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to provide funding for (a) free or (b) subsidised parking for NHS (i) staff and (ii) patients at NHS facilities.
9 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) NHS staff and (b) patients with car parking charges at NHS facilities.
30 Aug 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Save the Children's press notice entitled Physical abuse, infectious disease spreading as cond
30 Aug 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Save the Children's press notice entitled Gaza's missing children: Over 20,000 children estima
26 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tibet: Religious Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect freedom of religious belief in Tibet.
26 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tibet: Culture and Languages
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support the preservation of the Tibetan language and culture across Tibet.
26 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tibet: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of potential implications for his policies of the human rights situation in Tibet.
25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: Nigeria
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department provides support to international students unable to afford university fees due to high inflation in Nigeria.
25 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Prosperity Fund in 2021 on his Department's work to reduce poverty.
25 Jul 2024 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants for compensation under the Windrush Compensation Scheme have died while waiting for a decision on their application.
19 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in each quarter since the Windrush Compensation scheme was launched, how many people who received an award applied (a) fewer than three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to 12 months and (d) mo
19 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Home Office: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has raised concerns with third-party providers on technical issues impacting claims since January 2023.
19 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Home Office: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was to resolve technical issues in relation to processing home office applications in each month in 2023.
19 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Home Office: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on informing applicants if the time taken to process their application is longer than the published service standard as a result of technical issues.
Source: official written-questions record.