Written questions
1,940 written questions tabled, most recent first.
24 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his latest timetable is for the fitting of tactile paving on all railway platforms.
24 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Visitors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2022 to Question 110502, how many times (a) he and (b) his Ministers met with health visitors, aside from those employed by his Department and its agencies, bet
24 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Off-payroll Working: Public Sector
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has been reclaimed by contractors to the public sector since the introduction of IR35 rules in April 2021.
24 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Off-payroll Working: Public Sector
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contractors to the public sector have reclaimed tax since the introduction of IR35 rules in April 2021.
24 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Off-payroll Working
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has been re-claimed by contractors since the introduction of IR35 rules in April 2021.
23 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Off-payroll Working
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees have re-claimed tax through the introduction of IR35 rules since April 2021.
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Measurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 116010, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of the assessment of the economic impact on businesses from rein
23 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Sports: EU Countries
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Government support is available to assist with the completion of paperwork for amateur sports clubs that wish to transport equipment to compete at an event in an EU country.
23 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will publish (a) an estimated timeline for the creation of Great British Railways and (b) a date by when that organisation is expected to be fully functional.
22 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls: Ports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022 to Question 121866, on Animal and Plant Health Agency: Customs, at how many commercial ports construction work is underway to build the neces
21 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Cats: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Department will introduce equivalent protections to cats as those proposed for dogs in the Kept Animals Bill to provide for a ban on the import of (a) kittens under 6 month
21 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Roads: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a legal requirement for drivers to stop and report collisions with cats.
18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Underground Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department incurred financial cost in obtaining the SAGE report, Academics: Modelling the factors that influence exposure to SARS-CoV-2 on a subway train carriage, 22 July 2021.
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Transport for London: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) hours of staff time and (b) cost to his Department of the negotiating rounds with Transport for London in relation to the setting of Extraordinary Funding and Financing Agre
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made in implementing the first recommendation of the Rail Accident Report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch into a person struck by a train at Eden Park station on 26 Fe
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to section 53 of the Williams-Shapps Plan for rail, when in 2022 the Department plans to publish its comprehensive environment plan for the railways.
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to allocate additional funding to cover the costs of (a) sickness cover for teachers and (b) sanitation in schools incurred as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bunzl Healthcare: Protective Clothing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department (a) has spent and (b) estimates it will spend on the judicial review proceedings launched by the Good Law Project regarding the £22.6m contract awarded by his Department to
18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Protective Clothing: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many active court cases his Department is defending itself against regarding the high priority lane for personal protective equipment.
18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Protective Clothing: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money it has (a) already spent and (b) will spend in total, on defending legal challenges from the Good Law Project regarding the use of the h
18 Feb 2022 · Treasury
Bank Services: Internet
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to ensure that people who do not possess a smart mobile phone capable of identity verification are not discriminated against when online banking.
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Parental Leave: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will bring forward legislative proposals on the introduction of paid neonatal leave before the end of this Parliament.
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Literacy: World Book Day
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of World Book Day on literacy rates.
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
World Book Day
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support the 25th anniversary of World Book Day.
10 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Regional Planning and Development: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will commit to publishing a regular update on the allocation of levelling up funding.
10 Feb 2022 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis is for her assessment that 70 per cent of those crossing the channel in small boats are economic migrants.
9 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Animal and Plant Health Agency is prepared to conduct physical checks on sanitary and phytosanitary goods at border control posts
9 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Environmental Stewardship Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has assessed the merits of mandating large asset managers sign up the FRC’s New Stewardship Code as part of their responsibilities to their fiduciaries.
9 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Sustainable Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he will take to ensure that plans for the UK taxonomy are robust and lead to effective progress towards a more sustainable world.
9 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Natural Gas and Nuclear Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including nuclear and gas as taxonomy aligned endeavours in the EU’s Green Taxonomy; and if he will make a statement.
Source: official written-questions record.