Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Aug 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel Restrictions: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the (a) scientific and (b) medical basis for the decision to include Egypt on the covid-19 travel red list.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for International Trade

Department for International Trade: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she plans to (a) change staffing levels and (b) make redundancies in each of her Department’s regional teams of international trade advisers in the next 12 months.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Uniforms

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to issue guidance to schools on ensuring uniform procurement is consistent with Government policy on maintaining (a) environmental and (b) labour standards.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Uniforms

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the correlation between the wearing of school uniform and standards of behaviour.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Uniforms

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in (a) state and b) private schools in England are required to wear school uniforms.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what processes his Department has in place to record the outcomes of placements of looked after children from England who are placed in (a) other nations of the UK and (b) overseas.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children local authorities reported as being placed outside of (a) their local authority area, (b) England and (c) the UK in (i) the year January 2019 to December 2019 inclusive and (ii) e

18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) recent estimate his Department has made of the number of British citizens currently in Afghanistan (b) steps he plans to take to provide those people with consular a

18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iran: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is pursuing an independent prisoner swap arrangement for British national hostages in Iran separately from the US.

18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will formally acknowledge Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be a hostage under the terms of the 1982 Taking of Hostages Act in response to recent public statements to that e

18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Taliban

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what preventative steps his Department is taking to protect British citizens in Afghanistan or those associated with British institutions from the risks of (a) torture, (b) h

18 Aug 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish any response he has had from the Iranian Government following the request that it investigate credible allegations of torture in the case of Nazanin Zaghar

18 Aug 2021 · Treasury

International Military Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether IMS Ltd met its reporting requirements as an arms length body to his Department in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2019-20.

18 Aug 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Iran: International Military Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether a date has been set for the next court hearing for the IMS-Modsaf arbitration.

18 Aug 2021 · Ministry of Defence

International Military Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date responsibility for the day-to-day activities of IMS Ltd was transferred to his Department, as stated in its 2019-20 company accounts.

18 Aug 2021 · Ministry of Defence

International Military Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date his Department provided IMS Ltd with formal notice of the reporting requirements and regulations as a designated Arms Length Body of the Government.

21 Jul 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to modernise flexible working legislation.

21 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Employment Tribunals Service: Discrimination and Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of employment tribunals related to (a) flexible working and (b) gender discrimination in each year from 2014 to 2021.

21 Jul 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Shellfish: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect the welfare of decapod crustaceans in the forthcoming Animal (Welfare) Sentience Bill.

21 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to (a) prevent homeowners who purchased their homes through a Government shared ownership scheme from facing liability for all fire safety rem

21 Jul 2021 · Department for Education

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to introduce an alternative funding system for students who are prohibited from taking out interest-based loans.

21 Jul 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support parents who have to stay at home as a result of their children being required to self-isolate and (b) limit the disruption to the education of children who are

21 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) investigate reports that GPs have been refusing to register people whose immigration status is yet to be decided for a covid-19 vaccination and (b) ensure

21 Jul 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his planned timetable is for the consultation on flexible working; and what publications will be published by his Department’s Flexible Working Taskforce.

21 Jul 2021 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the SEND Review.

21 Jul 2021 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the accessibility of the Government’s free childcare offer to (a) student nurses and (b) other students who rely on loans and grants rather than job-related income.

21 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Prisoners: Torture

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2021 to Question 27271 on Prisoners: Torture, whether he has (a) publicly acknowledged and (b) condemned the torture of any British citizen i

20 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Visas: Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason early years workers including nursery staff were not included in the shortage occupation list for the Skilled Worker visa; and what assessment her Department has made of the potential

20 Jul 2021 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department plans to issue to early years providers on the covid-19 self-isolation rules that apply before the 16 August 2021 in the context that the requirement to keep school-aged children in

20 Jul 2021 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the evidence for excluding early years staff from the list of key workers exempt from covid-19 self-isolation rules ahead of the changes proposed for 16 August 2021.

Source: official written-questions record.