Written questions
1,940 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 May 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Environment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will agree ambitious targets for ocean recovery with the devolved Adminstrations.
14 May 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Environment: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will increase investment in new forms of finance to fund ocean recovery.
14 May 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Public Houses: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he makes of the merits of providing a direct grant of up to £30,000 to each small brewer in England to compensate for the costs of the covid-19 outbreak.
14 May 2021 · Treasury
Mortgages: Government Assistance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide immediate financial relief to all 250,000 families in closed mortgage books.
14 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Answer of 5 March 2021 to Question 158995, when Network Rail plans to deliver a costed plan for a wider roll out of platform edge tactiles for stations, where tactiles are not being delive
14 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies: Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total level of expenditure on Emergency Recovering Measures Agreements for train operating companies is since October 2020.
13 May 2021 · Treasury
Pollution: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Government will consider the potential merits of a tax on pollution to support environmental objectives.
13 May 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Additional Restrictions Grant
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department plans to extend the scope of Additional Restrictions Grants.
13 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Tourism: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to support the tourism industry in the next three months.
13 May 2021 · Treasury
Duty Free Allowances: Airports
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential economic merits of introducing arrivals duty free shops at airports.
13 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
China: Falun Gong
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the persecution of followers and practitioners of Falun Gong.
13 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Mikhail Gutseriev
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will place sanctions on Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriev in response to his funding of the Belarussian regime and president Alexander Lukashenko.
13 May 2021 · Department for Education
Education: Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that young people receive teaching on the climate crisis.
13 May 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of installing solar panels on (a) government, (b) commercial and (c) industrial buildings.
13 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans he has to improve support and protection for human rights defenders across the world.
13 May 2021 · Home Office
Visas: Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to negotiate a replacement scheme for the Turkish Businessperson Visa.
13 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Transport: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that transport infrastructure contracts are awarded to British companies.
13 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Food Banks: Infant Foods
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish clearer guidance on the (a) collection and (b) distribution of milk formulas at food banks.
13 May 2021 · Home Office
Hassockfield Immigration Removal Centre
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of immigration detention on asylum-seeking women with regard to the proposal to open Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in County Durham as an immigration r
13 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a Cabinet minister with responsibility for the needs of babies and young children.
13 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Early Years Healthy Development Review: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the funds needed to implement the recommendations in the early years Leadsom review have been secured.
12 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Babies: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will fund catch-up support targeted at babies born (a) during and (b) soon before the outbreak of covid-19 to (i) enable additional contact with families with very young babies, (
12 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Government: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential long-term economic merits of increasing core funding for (a) local authorities and (b) Clinical Commissioning Groups for services tha
12 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Children: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on the development of children aged 2 years and under.
12 May 2021 · Department for Education
Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which member of the Cabinet has responsibility for representing the needs of babies and young children.
11 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Aviation: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring airlines to check passengers' coronavirus paperwork and to ensure they have booked testing packages for their return to the UK.
11 May 2021 · Department for Education
Education: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support children who have fallen behind in school as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
11 May 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Avanton: Richmond upon Thames
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have had contact with (i) Sir Michael Fallon, the Non-Executive Chairman of Avaton and (ii) other representatives of that compa
11 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Sign Language
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Government will recognise British Sign Language as an official language.
11 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Sign Language
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that workplaces promote and facilitate the use of British Sign Language.
Source: official written-questions record.