Written questions

2,252 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Penally Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the scoping exercises which were used to assess the suitability of the Penally training camp in Pembrokeshire as a temporary accommodation site for asylum seekers in (a) 2015-2016

11 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of self-harm have occurred at (a) Penally training camp and (b) Napier barracks since September 2020.

10 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Napier Barracks and Penally Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the official categorisation is of the temporary accommodation sites for asylum seekers at (a) Penally training camp in Pembrokeshire and (b) Napier barracks in Kent.

10 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Napier Barracks and Penally Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants have been transferred out of (a) Penally training camp and (b) Napier barracks, since September 2020.

10 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason an increasing number of asylum applicants are waiting longer for their claims to processed; and what steps she is taking to reduce the waiting time for applicants.

10 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that medical practitioners seeking asylum whose claim is outstanding for 12 months or longer can work in their profession in the UK.

10 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how medical practitioners with an outstanding asylum claim of 12 months or more have not been allowed to work in their profession in 2020.

9 Dec 2020 · Treasury

Child Benefit: Separated People

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the equity of the correlation between the allocation of child benefits to individuals who share joint custody of a child and the costs that those individuals incur.

9 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Independent Press Standards Organisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of IPSO’s procedures for processing complaints from individuals affected by press abuse.

9 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Independent Press Standards Organisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether IPSO has met the 38 recommendations set out in the Leveson Inquiry report 2012.

8 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much capital spending took place on research and development in 2019 by population share in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) England.

8 Dec 2020 · Department for Transport

Transport: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much capital spending on transport took place in 2019 by population share in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) England.

8 Dec 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Development Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme underspends are in the 2021-22 financial year as used to calculate the funding for agricultural support and rural development announced o

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Wholesale Trade: Wales

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on the financial security of wholesalers in Wales of their ineligibility for Business Rates Relief.

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Wholesale Trade: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of current levels of funding to the devolved Administrations on their ability to administer Business Rates Relief to wholesalers.

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Wholesale Trade: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allocating additional funding to the devolved Administrations to support wholesalers who are ineligible for Business Rates Relief.

30 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to ensure that universal credit claimants know (a) during which months they should note Self-Employment Income Support Scheme income as income in their universal credit diaries

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of backdating the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to include March and April 2020.

26 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of eligibility for statutory sick pay from the fourth day of sickness on people with endometriosis; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits

26 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward proposals to amend the definition of statutory sick pay to ensure that people with endometriosis which can result in intermittent rather than continual symptoms are eligible fo

26 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the three year limit in respect of continuous periods of sickness for statutory sick pay on people with endometriosis.

26 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the current definition of statutory sick pay for people with endometriosis.

25 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many yearly applications have been made of universal credit which cite endometriosis as the reason for application in the last five years; and what proportion of those applications were successful.

25 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many yearly applications have been made for personal independence payments which cite endometriosis as the reason for application in the last five years; and what proportion of those applications we

25 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential barriers people with endometriosis face when trying to access (a) personal independence payments and (b) universal credit.

25 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the guidance provided for disability benefits assessors on how endometriosis can affect an individual’s ability to work.

25 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2020 to Question 19986 on social security benefits: endometriosis, what proportion of healthcare professionals employed by the Centre for Health and Disability Assessme

24 Nov 2020 · Wales Office

Asylum: Penally Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the proposed use of the Penally training camp in Pembrokeshire as a temporary accommodation site for asylum seekers prior to 12 Septemb

24 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Penally Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the temporary accommodation site for asylum seekers at Penally training camp in Pembrokeshire will be inspected by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.

24 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Penally Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to asylum accommodation provided at the Penally training camp in Pembrokeshire, how many people there are per room; and how many and what types of bed there are in each room.

Source: official written-questions record.