Written questions

1,041 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

Travel: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Travel England will release data gathered from councils across England which conducted self-assessments on their active travel performance.

23 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to launch an independent review of (a) Transport for London's zoning of Watford Junction railway station, Watford High Street railway station, Bushey railway station and Watford Und

23 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Rebate: Boats

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made on including people who live on a boat in the Energy Bills Support Scheme.

20 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Government Departments: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Greening Government Commitments 2020 to 2021 report has not been published; and when the Government plans to publish it.

18 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestinians: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Palestinian territory.

18 Jan 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to the Israeli Government over settlement expansion and demolitions of Palestinian homes and other buildings.

18 Jan 2023 · Treasury

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing the rate of VAT for public electric vehicle charging in line with the rate of charging at home.

18 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the increase in the cost of charging electric vehicles via the public charging network on drivers of those vehicles.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Octopus Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the debate that took place in the House of Lords on 19 December 2022, whether the Octopus energy local tariffs referred to by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary o

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy: Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what data his Department holds on the number of community-owned renewable energy generation installations in place in each of the last seven years.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy: Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of the Government’s policies on promoting renewable energy generation from community-based schemes.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy: Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made on promoting renewable energy generation from community-based schemes.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy: Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has set targets for the promotion of renewable energy generation from community-based schemes.

12 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Rape: Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) the South West or (b) the Avon and Somerset authority in the specialist rape courts pilot.

12 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis.

10 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

Aviation and Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of proposals by the French Government to ban domestic flights on journeys that would take less than two and a half hours by train.

9 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Deportation: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) deported or (b) referred for deportation after reporting domestic violence or abuse in each of the past ten years.

6 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Passports: Lost Property

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports, by number rather than percentage, have been lost by the Passport Office in each year since 2018.

6 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much revenue risk the Government has incurred from strike action by the transport unions since 1 January 2022; and what estimate he has made of the revenue risk the Government has incurred on the strike dat

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport

Train Operating Companies: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2022 on Train Operating Companies: Finance, whether Train Operating Companies are being asked to forward plan within (a) an absolute cost envelope or (b) a net cost envelope

15 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding provision for early years settings.

14 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Tidal Power: Severn Estuary

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to harness the tidal power of the Severn Estuary.

14 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many overseas nurses were working in (a) the NHS and (b) each NHS England Hospital Trust in each year since 2015; and whether he has made an estimate of the cost of (a) recruitment and (b) visa

12 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult has (a) introduced and (b) implemented technical innovations in the use of tidal power barrages since it was established.

8 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport

A36: Cleveland Bridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Cleveland Bridge in Bath is on the A36 Primary Route.

7 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Immigration Removal Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with relevant stakeholders on the compatibility UK detention centres with international human rights law.

7 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Immigration Removal Centres: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of conditions in immigration detention centres in the UK.

6 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of Family Visa applications from outside the UK have not been processed within the 24-week standard processing time since January 1 2022; what is the current average wait

6 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Passports: Lost Property

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were lost by the Passport Office in each year since 2018.

6 Dec 2022 · Home Office

UK Visas and Immigration: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UKVI Visa applications have not been processed within the 3-week service standard since 1 January 2022; what proportion of UKVI Visa applications have not been processed within the 3-week ser

Source: official written-questions record.