Written questions
2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Financial Conduct Authority: Sustainable Development
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Future Regulatory Framework Review, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new sustainability-related statutory objective for the Financial Conduct Authority re
10 Mar 2022 · Treasury
Financial Services: Regulation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Financial Services Future Regulatory Framework Review: Proposals for Reform, what assessment he has made of the impact of introducing a secondary objective of competitiveness for regulators on
10 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Companies House: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether Companies House has plans to increase the number of full-time equivalent staff it employs in 2022 to work solely on investigating the accuracy of company returns and suspi
10 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Companies House: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full-time equivalent staff there are employed at Companies House who work solely on investigating the accuracy of company returns and suspicious entries.
8 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iran: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the British Embassy in Tehran has made an assessment of the potential merits of making monthly visits to Evin Prison to (a) meet with the Judiciary and (b) check on t
8 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iran: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many times someone from the British Embassy in Tehran has physically visited Evin Prison since September 201; and whether those people have been able to meet with detaine
8 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iran: Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many trials of British citizens in Iran’s Revolutionary Courts have been attended by British officials since 2016; and what assessment she has made of how that figure com
8 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Government's obligations under the Convention Against Torture in respect of the treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by the Iranian auth
8 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what specific steps her Department has taken since her appointment to follow up with the Iranian authorities on the allegations of torture raised in the case of Nazanin Zagha
8 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what her policy is on whether Iran's treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe constitutes torture.
3 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Rape: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that rape victims are not subjected to cross-examination on their rape case in court hearings on unrelated matters; and what recourse would be available to rape victims in such c
3 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Rape: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of rape victims who do not report crimes because of (a) poor handling and (b) breaches of anonymity in previous cases; and what steps he is taking to improve that situation
3 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Rape: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of rape victims who have not had their (a) right to anonymity and (b) rights under the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime, including enhanced rights for intimidated witn
10 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Money Laundering
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the extent of money laundering checks conducted by the Financial Conduct Authority on its regulated population; and whether he plans to take steps to increase capacity
10 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Financial Services: Internet
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the risk posed by illicit finance to the electronic money sector.
10 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Financial Services: Internet
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to introduce regulation of the UK's electronic money institutions sector.
10 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Financial Services: Internet
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the findings of Transparency International UK's December 2021 report that 40 per cent of the UK's electronic money institutions are red flagged for money laundering risk, whether he has made an est
10 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Financial Services: Internet
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding in Transparency International UK's December 2021 report that 40 per cent of the UK's electronic money institutions are red flagged for
10 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Home Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to introduce a compulsory register of home educated children.
10 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the sale of e-cigarette products to minors.
2 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Teachers: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to discourage employers in the independent schools sector from using dismissal and re-engagement to withdraw teachers from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
13 Jan 2022 · Department for Education
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support available to adoptive families and birth parents engaging in letterbox contact.
13 Jan 2022 · Department for Education
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to involve people with lived experience in the Adoption Strategy review of contact arrangements between adopted children and birth parents.
13 Jan 2022 · Department for Education
Adoption: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the £7 million made available in the 2021 Spending Review to improve adoption support will be spent; and what proportion will be allocated to improving the letterbox contact system.
6 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plastics
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning all non-essential single-use plastic in the UK.
16 Dec 2021 · Home Office
Afghanistan: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to secure visas for the children of British Nationals who are still in Afghanistan.
16 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out a timetable for the publication of the Women’s Health Strategy for England.
15 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish his timetable for the publication of the Women’s Health Strategy for England.
6 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ethiopia: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her Ethiopian counterpart on the observance of international laws and human rights in that country.
2 Dec 2021 · Home Office
Migrants: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on reviewing the No Recourse to Public Funds condition in response to the recommendations in the report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, published in November 20
Source: official written-questions record.