Written questions
2,252 written questions tabled, most recent first.
21 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the devolution of welfare powers to Wales to permit the Welsh Government to provide additional support for households amid the cost of living cris
21 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether green levies will be moved from energy bills to general taxation.
21 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Business: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria his Department will use to assess which businesses qualify for energy costs support after six months due to their vulnerability.
21 Sep 2022 · Treasury
Rent a Room Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on consumers of raising the £7500 threshold on the Rent a Room scheme.
8 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Parole
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many re-scheduled parole hearings have taken place after the parole board's own target date for said hearings.
8 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Parole
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parole board hearings have been rescheduled since January 2021; and how many of those have been rescheduled for a date that was six months or more beyond the original hearing date.
6 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Parole
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the paper entitled Root and Branch Review of the Parole System: The Future of the Parole System in England and Wales, CP654, published on 30 March 2022, what assessment he has made of the potent
6 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Parole
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the paper entitled Root and Branch Review of the Parole System: The Future of the Parole System in England and Wales, CP654, published on 30 March 2022, whether he has had recent discussions wit
5 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Injunctions: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department made of the adequacy of the level of publishing by civil courts of judgements for breaches of civil injunctions in each year since 2014.
5 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of imprisoning people found to have breached civil injunction orders in each year since 2014.
5 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the average rate of sickness absence was for (a) legal advisers, (b) court associates and (c) court clerks in each of the last 21 months broken down by (i) role and (ii) grade.
5 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the rate of sickness absence was for (a) legal advisers, (b) court associates and (c) court clerks in each month since the Common Platform was introduced in the workplaces of those staff broken down by (i) r
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
ASW: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the real-terms change in the value of pension payments that were not index linked for Allied Steel and Wire pensioners under the FAS in each of the last five years as a
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
ASW: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of how much (a) Allied Steel and Wire pensioners have received collectively as of 2 September 2022 and since their pension deal was agreed in 2007 and (b) those pensioners
2 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of Welsh people in prison based on home address prior to entering custody by establishment for each year between 2007 and 2012.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of time targets for urgent results have been missed in locations using the Common Platform.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what cost-benefit assessment his Department has undertaken on the Common Platform.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide full breakdown of the costs of (a) developing and (b) operating the Common Platform.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times an order drawn up on the Common Platform has been communicated to stakeholders where there is a material difference to what was inputted and what was transmitted in each of the last 21 months.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times a result recorded on the Common Platform has been lost in each of the last 21 months.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for determining (a) high, (b) medium and (c) low risk errors recorded on the Common Platform.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of cases there were recorded on the Common Platform where the address for the defendant shared the same postcode as the court at which their case was determined.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were resulted on the Common Platform where a financial order but no collection order was made.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many workarounds for the Common Platform (a) have been developed and (b) are in place.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the total value of compensation that has been paid out for unlawful detentions where case outcomes have been recorded on the Common Platform in each of the last three years.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) legal advisers, (b) court associates and (c) court clerks have left service since the Common Platform was introduced at their workplace, by the grade of those employees.
21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of case outcomes recorded on the Common Platform were added between the hours of 6.00pm and midnight in each of the last 21 months.
18 Jul 2022 · Treasury
Loan Charge Action Group
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with Lord Morse regrading correspondence from the Loan Charge Action Group.
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Bread
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of requiring that the definition of bread only includes produce
15 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Pre-sentence Reports: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report by HM Inspectorate of Probation, Race equality in probation: the experiences of black, Asian and minority ethnic probation service users and staff, published in March 2021, which stat
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