Written questions
2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.
25 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office
Offshore Funds
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether specialist advisers to the Government are subject to rules on the use of offshore bank accounts.
25 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Offshore Funds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) work and (b) reviews his Department has requested from the (i) Ministry of Defence, (ii) Department of Health and Social Care, (iii) Department for International Development and (iv) Foreign Office on the a
25 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Offshore Funds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what work his Department (a) has undertaken in the last two years and (b) plans to undertake to strengthen the (i) rules on and (ii) transparency of the use of offshore banking by government.
25 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Offshore Funds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many bank accounts are held offshore by (a) central Government, (b) local government and (c) Government controlled companies.
24 Oct 2019 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken has been for her Department to process asylum claims for cases of (a) unaccompanied asylum seeking children and (b) other cases of acute vulnerability in each month since J
23 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on tax-free childcare since the inception of that programme.
23 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) parents and (b) childcare providers affected by the recent tax-free childcare system upgrade; and how many payments have been missed as a result of that upgrade.
23 Oct 2019 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was to complete applications to the EU Settlement Scheme in each month since its inception.
23 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office
Brexit: Publicity
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent on (a) mugs, (b) badges, (c) pens, (d) t-shirts and (e) jumpers to be provided to civil servants as part of the Government's Get ready for Brexit
23 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Coinage
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent by his Department on the minting of coins to mark the UK's exit from the EU; and how many of those coins are in circulation.
23 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Coinage
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has requested approval from the Privy Council for the minting of 50 pence coins to mark the UK's exit from the EU.
21 Oct 2019 · Home Office
Offshore Funds
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will outline any (a) new and (b) existing initiatives from her Department on reducing the risk of corruption in offshore payments and holdings such as those revealed by the Panama papers.
21 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office
Offshore Funds
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the rules that govern the use of offshore bank accounts by (a) Government Ministers, (b) Senior Civil Servants and (c) Directors of Government-controll
21 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Offshore Funds: Government Controlled Companies and Government Departments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the amount of money held in offshore bank accounts by (a) Government Departments and (b) Government-controlled companies in the 2018-2019 financial year.
21 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Offshore Funds: Government Controlled Companies and Government Departments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what rules his Department has implemented in relation to the maximum amount of money (a) Government Departments and (b) Government-controlled companies can hold in offshore bank accounts.
21 Oct 2019 · Treasury
Offshore Funds: Government Controlled Companies and Government Departments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what rules his Department has implemented in relation to payments made by (a) Government Departments and (b) Government-controlled companies to offshore bank accounts.
2 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Nationals Abroad: Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what obligations the Government has to protect UK citizens that are held hostage by a foreign government.
1 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Hostage Taking
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what criteria the Government uses to recognise someone as a state-held hostage.
1 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department recognises Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a hostage of Iran as per the terms of the UN Hostages Convention.
1 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Defence
International Military Services: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons IMS Ltd paid a dividend of £5 million in 2010 to the Secretary of State for Defence; and for what purposes that money was used.
1 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Defence
International Military Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons IMS Ltd changed its auditors in 2016 after 30 years alongside the implementation date of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
1 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Defence
International Military Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the transfer of taxpayer funds, necessary for the IMS Ltd 2002 payment into court, was authorised by Parliament as per the requirements of the Ordnance Factories and Military Services Act 1984 .
30 Sep 2019 · Cabinet Office
Brexit
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the results of the Government's stress testing of the effect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
30 Sep 2019 · Department for Exiting the European Union
Brexit: Cost Benefit Analysis
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will publish his Department's cost-benefit analysis of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
30 Sep 2019 · Treasury
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what licences have been granted by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation with regard to transactions between (a) the UK Government and (b) UK companies and the Iranian Ministry of Defence (MODSAF); and wh
30 Sep 2019 · Department for International Trade
Iran: International Military Services
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government pursues any export credit guarantees in relation to IMS Ltd’s operations in Iran as sovereign debt.
30 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Twitter
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on promotion on Twitter in each month since January 2019; and which Twitter accounts had tweets promoted.
30 Sep 2019 · Cabinet Office
Ministerial Policy Advisers: Conduct
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has any plans to update the special advisers' code of conduct.
30 Sep 2019 · Cabinet Office
Dominic Cummings
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, under what authority Special Adviser Dominic Cummings has the ability to (a) hire and (b) dismiss staff from government departments.
27 Sep 2019 · Department for Education
Abacus Belsize Primary School
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the (a) potential merits, (b) affordability (c) feasibility of the redevelopment of Hampstead Police Station for Abacus Primary School.
Source: official written-questions record.