Written questions

1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Northern Powerhouse Schools Strategy, published on 23 November 2016, what estimate she has made of the level of underfunding of schools in the north of England.

24 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Air Passenger Duty

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on reforming the reporting of air passenger duty to attribute that duty to each airport.

23 Nov 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Coastal Communities Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to each area from the Coastal Communities Fund.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Transport: Finance

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.17 of the Autumn Statement 2016, what proportion of the proposed £1.1 billion funding for roads and local transport will be spent in each region.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Transport: Finance

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.18 of the Autumn Statement 2016, how much of the proposed £390 million funding for future transport will be spent in each region.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

National Productivity Investment Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding will be allocated to each region under the National Productivity Investment Fund announced in the Autumn Statement 2016.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Local Enterprise Partnerships: Finance

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.4 of the Autumn Statement 2016, how much of the funding for Local Enterprise Partnerships will be allocated to (a) the North West, (b) the North East, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber, (d) t

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Telecommunications: Finance

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.20 of the Autumn Statement 2016, how much of the proposed £1 billion to be invested in digital communications will be spent in each region.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Railways: Finance

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.19 of the Autumn Statement 2016, how much of the proposed £450 million funding for rail capacity and smart ticketing will be spent in each region.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Private Finance Initiative

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.37 of the Autumn Statement 2016, what the (a) bidding and (b) assessment process will be for the new pipeline of projects suitable for delivery through the PF2 Public Private Partnership

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Capital Investment: Greater Manchester

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.36 of the Autumn Statement 2016, if he will take steps to ensure that the £400 million Patient capital funding supports new ventures in Greater Manchester.

23 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Research: Finance

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.29 of the Autumn Statement 2016, how much of the additional £4.7 billion for research and development will be spent in each region.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Higher Education: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of exiting the EU on higher education research and development in the North West.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what change there has been in the number of households using pre-payment meters in the last 10 years.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for International Trade

Engineering: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what support is available to engineering companies in Oldham wishing to export to new markets.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Oldham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what access to finance support is available to businesses in Oldham.

18 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ratio of prisoners to prison officers was in each prison in England in each year from 2006.

18 Nov 2016 · Department of Health

HMP Manchester: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the adequacy of mental health assessments in HM Prison Strangeways, Manchester.

18 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will provide a breakdown of the proposed additional 2,500 prison officers by prison.

18 Nov 2016 · Department of Health

Health Services and Social Services: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of transitional/transformational funding for Greater Manchester health and social care devolution.

18 Nov 2016 · Department of Health

Pharmacy: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of changes to community pharmacy funding on the delivery of pharmaceutical services in Greater Manchester; and whether it is his intention to devolve (a) respo

18 Nov 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Kashmir

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he and his Department have had with the (a) Indian and (b) Pakistani governments on the situation in Kashmir.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Children's Centres: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of reductions in local authority funding to children's centres in Greater Manchester on educational attainment of children since 2010.

18 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Trident

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to allow and support British companies to bid for contracts in the procurement process for the Trident successor programme.

18 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will issue guidance on how local small and medium-sized enterprise businesses can benefit from defence supply chain procurement.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

National Lottery

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she has made an assessment of the relationship between the proportion of National Lottery funding on projects in each English region compared to the proportion of ticket sale income generated

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Facebook

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with Facebook on regulation of fake news on social media.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to allow football fans to have a greater say on the running of the football clubs they support.

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Yahoo: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department's cyber security department investigated the recent hacking of Yahoo in order to inform its policies; and whether the Government plans to introduce a mandatory reporting re

18 Nov 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities and combined authorities are in discussion with his Department for devolution deals due to be announced in the next round.

Source: official written-questions record.