Written questions

3,797 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 May 2023 · Home Office

Immigration Officers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional immigration officers are undergoing training in order to expand the current staffing level.

3 May 2023 · Home Office

Immigration Officers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional immigration officers have been appointed in each year between January 2018 and March 2023.

2 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Roads: Tree Felling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to bring forward regulations to implement section 115 of the Environment Act 2021 to require local highway authorities to consult members of the public before felling st

2 May 2023 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will issue guidance to (a) schools and (b) local authorities on making reasonable adjustments when providing Free School Meals for eligible disabled children who (i) have medical or sensory ne

2 May 2023 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180692 on Free School Meals: Disability, if she will make an assessment of (a) the potential implications for her policies of the research by Contact entitled

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

English National Opera: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with Arts Council England on the potential impact of reductions in funding for English National Opera.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

English National Opera: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the English National Opera on the funding decisions made by Arts Council England.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of whether the Local Housing Allowance rates meet the thirtieth percentile of local rents in the broad rental market area covering Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of supply of housing to rent at local housing allowance rates in (a) Haringey and (b) neighbouring boroughs.

26 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Elizabeth Tang

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the arrest of the former chairperson of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions in March 2023.

25 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Teachers: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of teachers employed in state schools who deliver for-profit tutoring services.

25 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the average cost to his Department has been of answering written Parliamentary questions in the 2022-23 Parliamentary session.

25 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the average cost of answering a written parliamentary question submitted to his Department was in 2022.

25 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total cost to the public purse was of answering written parliamentary questions submitted to his Department in 2022.

24 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2022 to Question 72433 on Gender Dysphoria: Children and Young People, what recent progress he has made on establishing a new phase one service in London.

24 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of breast screenings in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

24 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of eligible women attended a breast screening in London in 2022; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all eligible women receive timely breast cancer

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with food producers on potential food shortages in the context of the drought in Spain.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting and Trapping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the illegal trapping and hunting of live foxes.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dogs: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to reduce the importation of dogs with cropped ears.

24 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Bay of Bengal

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment has he made of reported Chinese militarisation of islands in the Bay of Bengal.

24 Apr 2023 · Women and Equalities

Racial Discrimination

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the report of the Runnymede Trust and Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation entitled Dear Stephen: Race and belonging 30 years on, published in April 2023, whether she has made an assessment of the

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps to help ensure that all households have access to fibre to the premises broadband in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she plans to take steps to help improve broadband infrastructure in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foxes: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to (a) help tackle illegal fox hunting and (b) prevent all forms of cruelty to foxes.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foxes: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of legislation to (a) prohibit the trapping and hunting of live foxes and (b) prevent all forms of cruelty to foxes.

21 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to improve the call answer rates for HMRC helplines.

18 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres: Heart Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November to Question 67152 on Heart Diseases: Diagnosis, what proportion of additional diagnostic tests delivered by Community Diagnostic Centres have been echocardiogra

18 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to take into consideration the historic under-recruitment of subject-specialist teachers in the future allocation of teacher training bursaries.

18 Apr 2023 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2023 to Question 175612 on Written Questions: Government Responses, if he will make an estimate of the total cost to the public purse of answering the 61,427 written parliament

Source: official written-questions record.