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Written questions

Sarah Olney

1,940 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Trains: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department has published for wheelchair users and train staff on evacuating a train in the event of a fire.

14 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Electric Scooters: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the risk of spontaneous combustion of e-scooter batteries.

11 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Power Stations: Timber

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether any trees burnt in UK power stations since 2003 were sourced from the UK.

11 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Carbon Capture and Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on which private sector companies are using large scale bioenergy with carbon capture and storage to reduce their carbon footprint.

11 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bahrain: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the findings in Human Rights Watch's 4 March 2022 publication, The UK Sees no Evil in Bahrain’s Detention of Children, that were critical of the Government

11 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bahrain: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter from Human Rights Watch and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) dated 14 February 2022, which states that the Answer of 3 Febru

10 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of patients waiting 12 hours or more in Emergency Departments from time of arrival; and if he will make a statement.

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, If he will review his Department's estimates of projected traffic growth on the strategic network to take account of changed behaviours as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Roads: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy that the production of a provisional environmental impact assessment report is undertaken before any decision is made to identify a preferred route for a new road.

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Roads: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to reject any proposed new road scheme where the benefit-cost ratio is less than two.

9 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish further details on the referral criteria for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme's third pathway beyond year one.

9 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to implement a scheme through which UK firms can sponsor Afghan citizens in need of relocation, in the same manner available for Ukrainian citizens.

9 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the international partners and NGOs that her Department plans to work with to welcome wider groups of Afghans via the third pathway of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Foreign Companies: Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the total value of loans issued to businesses with premises or registered interests in the Russian Federation was under the (a) Covid Business Interruption Loans Scheme, (b)

8 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that the understandable diversion of resources and attention towards managing the ongoing crisis in Ukraine does not detract fr

7 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has any plans to review Part 14 of the Town and Country (General Permitted Development) Order 2015.

7 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Holiday Accommodation: Refugees

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the requirement of furnished holiday lets to let at a commercial rate for 105 days per annum should they wish to remain a small business, to allow those businesses to offer free accommodation to Uk

4 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his policy is on the continuation of Government supported research projects involving Russian collaboration; and if he will conduct an assessment of the implications for his

4 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

OneWeb

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the expected timescale for OneWeb delivering a commercial service.

4 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

OneWeb: Satellites

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Department has made of the effect of OneWeb's decision to suspend all satellite launches from Baikonur on that company's ability to compete with SpaceEx.

4 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

OneWeb: Satellites

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives of OneWeb on the decision to suspend all satellite launches from Baikonur.

4 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

OneWeb: Satellites

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of OneWeb’s decision to suspend all satellite launches from Baikonur on the (a) planned timetable for launches and (b) market

3 Mar 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of local authorities that have areas with levels of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide that are above (a) UK limits and (b) WHO guid

3 Mar 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government has produced an impact assessment on the setting of UK limits for particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide levels above those in WHO guidance.

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Timber: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the reports from (a) the European Academies' Science Advisory Council, (b) the Ember think tank and (c) C

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Drax Power Station: Timber

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the evidential basis behind the age profile of forests logged for wood pellets used in the Drax power station having remained constant.

1 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Overseas Workers: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing measures to assist companies that wish to relocate their employees to Europe for work purpo

28 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her announcement that an additional 100,000 Ukrainians will be able to seek sanctuary in the UK, how her Department calculated that figure; and which family members of Ukrainians in

28 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2022 to Question 122771, what role her Department's findings that (a) 74 per cent of people arriving in the UK on small boats in 2020 were aged between 18 – 39 an

28 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2022 to Question 122771, what assumptions her Department has made in concluding that 70 per cent of those crossing the channel in small boats are economic migrant

Source: official written-questions record.