Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jul 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Independent Faith Engagement Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, who responded to the call for evidence for the Independent Faith Engagement Review by (a) faith group and (b) organisation.

6 Jul 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Independent Faith Engagement Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what questions were asked to faith communities during interviews for the Independent Faith Engagement Review.

3 Jul 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff are working on policies under the UK International Development brand.

3 Jul 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Alterations: Noise

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will bring forward legislative proposals to require landlords soundproof individual flats when redeveloping houses as flats.

30 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to require all electric vehicle charging points to display the cost of electricity per kWh before use of the machine.

28 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan and Iran: Poisoning

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of reports of schoolgirls being poisoned in (a) Iran and (b) Afghanistan.

28 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications awaiting an initial decision were lodged one year or longer ago; and how many asylum applications had not received an initial decision at the end of each month of the last

28 Jun 2023 · Cabinet Office

Open Government Partnership

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has provided evidence to the Open Government Partnership Independent Reporting Mechanism of meeting the minimum standards during implementation of the 2021-23 Action Plan.

28 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Quad Bikes: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2022 to Question 24582 on Motorcycles: Registration, whether it remains the position of his Department that it does not support a mandatory registration scheme for off-road qua

27 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Refugees: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the funding of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda she plans to report as Official Development Assistance.

27 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rwanda: Bilateral Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total estimated value of bilateral Official Development Assistance to Rwanda was in 2022.

27 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bilateral Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the localisation of bilateral development programmes by increasing the amount of aid delivered throug

26 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Bus Services: Working Conditions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has held recent discussions with (a) Unite the Union and (b) other trade representative bodies on the welfare of bus drivers working on buses without air conditioning.

26 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to require bus operators to install air conditioning systems on their fleet.

21 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Parking: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) Birmingham City Council and (b) other Local Authorities to tackle parking outside schools.

20 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Location

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effectiveness of offenders being placed on probation in a city that is different from their supervising probation service.

20 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Location

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders are placed on probation in communities where they have no preexisting links.

20 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been relocated to Birmingham to serve their probation in the last 12 months.

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Spare Parts: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the sale of modified exhaust parts.

19 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Quad Bikes: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to prevent people who have been found to have used quad bikes illegally from purchasing another quad bike.

19 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Quad Bikes: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) powers and (b) resources available to the police to deal with the illegal use of quad bikes.

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Education: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of overcrowding in social housing in Birmingham on (a) primary and (b) secondary school children's education outcomes

19 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his policy that requirements on the disclosure of the costs of publicly-funded research should be included as part of wider changes to the regulation of clinical trials.

19 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include requirements on disclosing the costs of publicly funded research in the context of changes of the regulation of clinical trials.

19 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Climate Change: Internally Displaced People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help protect children who have been forcibly displaced following climate-related events.

19 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the psychosocial needs of children are being met in (a) fragile, (b) conflict-affected and (c) other humanitarian cont

19 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to consult with children's groups to help tackle barriers to education in developing countries.

16 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with international counterparts on the potential merits of a global levy on greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry.

15 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Speed Limits: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to take steps to allow (a) Birmingham City Council and (b) other local authorities to keep the revenue collected from speeding fines.

14 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, who will be representing the UK at the summit for a New Global Financial Pact on 22-23 June 2023.

Source: official written-questions record.