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
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.