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.