Written questions

2,252 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Women's Centres: Swansea

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on establishment of the residential women’s centre in Swansea.

19 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Magistrates

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of single justice procedure notices.

18 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Prisons: Health Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding to support health care in public sector prisons in Wales.

18 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Prisons: Health Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of not linking his Department's support for health care in public prisons in Wales with inflation on prisoner healthcare provision in Wales.

18 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Razors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of replacing wet shaving razors with electric shavers in all prisons across Wales.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Outdoor Recreation: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the scope of Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations to include voluntary organisations.

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of car driving test slots.

28 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 14908 on Police: Wales, whether his Department has provided additional funding to each police force in Wales to implement the redesigned crown lo

28 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make (a) a comparative estimate of what the average projected pension of a police officer who retired in each year from 2015 to 2023 would have been before the introduction of the McCloud r

27 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Company Obligation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of expanding the ECO4 scheme eligibility criteria to include households with a total annual income above £30,000.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what proportion of the total rural population in Wales was within three miles of (a) Local, (b) Local Plus, (c) Main or Crown and (d) mobile outreach Post Office branches in the latest period for which

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a Post Office access target for outreach mobile services in rural communities.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Postal Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending Post Office target access criteria to include (a) distances by road and (b) services provided.

20 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an estimate of the cost of implementing the redesigned government crown logo for each police force in Wales.

5 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Repossession Orders: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of when the Possession Claim Online service will be made available (a) for properties in Wales and (b) in the Welsh language.

5 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Repossession Orders: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to restore the Possession Claim Online service (a) for properties in Wales and (b) in the Welsh language.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Maentwrog Power Station: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much net revenue has the Maentwrog hydro-electric power station generated in each of the last five years.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Maentwrog Power Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many gigawatt hours of electricity the Maentwrog hydro-electric power station has generated in of the last five years.

30 Jan 2024 · Treasury

Crown Estate: Wales

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was generated by the Crown Estate in Wales by activity area in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

23 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Religious Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made a recent assessment of the impact of rising (a) electricity and (b) gas prices on places of worship.

23 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Religious Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of supporting places of worship with high electricity and gas costs.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Apprenticeship Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing employers in (a) commercial laundries and (b) other sectors to use 25% of their apprenticeship levy funds for non-apprenticeship training.

18 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Business: Government Assistance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the granularity of data produced by the ONS for the purposes of policy decisions relating to support for businesses.

7 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a family reunification visa scheme for people in Gaza.

5 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on the applicability of the minimum income of £38,700 for family visas for people (a) with and (b) already applying for such a visa from Spring 2024.

5 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on the applicability of the £38,700 skilled worker earnings threshold for people who are (a) in possession of and (b) already applying for a UK visa from Spring 2024.

4 Dec 2023 · Wales Office

Spoil Heaps: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, for what reason he did not jointly sign the letter from the First Minister of Wales on the release of location data for Category C and D disused coal tips, dated 7 November 2023.

21 Nov 2023 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Members' Interests

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps Cabinet members appointed on 13 November 2023 have taken as part of the interests declaration and management process as of 21 November 2023.

21 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation Officers: Termination of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of probation officers who left service in the past year had been in post for less than (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five, (f) six, (g) seven and (h) eight years.

21 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of probation officers have been in post for over (a) two and (b) five years in each region.

Source: official written-questions record.