Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Oct 2017 · Home Office

Passports: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 9459, on passports: children, what criteria her Department uses for certain circumstances under which the Border Force can stop a parent and ask

16 Oct 2017 · Home Office

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were detained by the Border Force in the latest period for which figures are available; what information her Department holds about those who have been so detained; and if she will mak

16 Oct 2017 · Home Office

Passports: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effects of placing both parents names on a child's passport in the interests of helping border staff fulfil their duty to safeguard children; and if she will make

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the technical performance of the Childcare Choices portal and the effect of that performance on access to (a) 30 free hours and (b) tax-free childcare.

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many childcare providers have registered for the provision of tax-free childcare.

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the suitability of the IT system run by ATOS that operates tax-free childcare.

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to extend the April 2018 deadline for childcare vouchers if the Childcare Service IT system is not fully operational.

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding HM Revenue and Customs has (a) set aside and (b) paid out to parents in compensation for not being able to access their tax-free childcare accounts.

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 11 September 2015 to Question 8179 on children: day care, what recent assessment he has made of the link between the introduction of tax-free childcare and (a) the cost and (b) demand

16 Oct 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken to secure consular access to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe since recent new charges have been brought against her.

16 Oct 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on the findings of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Opinion No. 28/2016 on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe; and if he will make a statement.

16 Oct 2017 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2017 to Question 7789, on day care, what proportion of parents who have successfully applied for tax-free childcare are self-employed.

12 Oct 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Nationals Abroad: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance his Department provides before, (b) during and (c) after trial to UK nationals who are arbitralily detained abroad.

12 Oct 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Nationals Abroad: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how his Department determines whether a British national has been arbitrarily detained abroad.

12 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October 2017 to Question 106148, how many of the 350 projects for which Departmental funds were allocated are not yet complete.

12 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

Clinical Commissioning Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each clinical commissioning group was estimated to be (a) overspending or (b) underspending over on underspending prior to the introduction of the capped expenditure process.

12 Oct 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dual Nationality: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British dual nationals are detained abroad in their country of other nationality.

12 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people who have been issued with a 30 hours eligibility code have not had their code validated due to (a) a failure to find a childcare provider willing to offer a place and (b) technical issues valida

11 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of parents with a code for 30 hours free childcare that has not yet been validated.

11 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the adequacy of the early years funding formula in the next 12 months.

11 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of 30 hours free childcare on the provision of (a) universal offer places and (b) funded two-year old places.

11 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the accessibility for children with special educational needs and disability of 30 hours free childcare places.

10 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

HIV/AIDS: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish data on the number of people accessing HIV treatment by ethnicity in (a) England, (b) each parliamentary constituency, (c) each clinical commissioning group and (d) each local authority area in

10 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

HIV/AIDS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people living with HIV received treatment at each HIV clinic in England in the most recent year for which figures are available.

10 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish data on the average period of time between a diagnosis of HIV and initiation on antiretroviral therapy in (a) England, (b) each parliamentary constituency, (c) each clinical commissioning group

10 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish data on the uptake of HIV medicine by drug name in (a) England, (b) each parliamentary constituency, (c) each clinical commissioning group and (d) each local authority area in the most recent ye

10 Oct 2017 · Department of Health

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people living with HIV were accessing HIV medicines in (a) England, (b) each parliamentary constituency, (c) each clinical commissioning group and (d) each local authority area in the most recent year for

10 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2016 to Question 49012, on pre-school education, how much of that record investment in childcare has been allocated in 2016-17; to what programmes that funding has bee

10 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 2 November 2016 to Question 50565, how many staff of her Department are engaged in measuring the effect of the new entitlement for free early years education and childcare.

10 Oct 2017 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 1 November 2016 to Question 50573, what plans she has to update statutory guidance to ensure that childcare providers are not using compulsory charges for parents as a condition

Source: official written-questions record.