Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what activities and programmes were funded through the International Climate Finance scheme in the 2022-23 financial year; what the titles of these activities and programmes

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many notifications the Regulator for Social Housing has received of a change of status from registered providers that have been (a) taken over, (b) merged and (c) changed their c

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the removal of the Regulator for Social Housing’s veto power over the registered provider status of organisations which are taken over,

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of safeguards against dormant registered providers restarting operations with new boards or activities to avoid scrutiny from the Regulato

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of lowering the threshold at which the Regulator for Social Housing can make statutory appointments to the boards of non-compliant

20 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 August 2022 to Question 39956 on Asylum: Applications, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the New Plan for Immigration on processing costs

20 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UN Central Emergency Response Fund: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department contributed to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22; and how much his Department plans to contrib

20 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the funding pledged by the UK for the Global Fund Sixth Replenishment has been disbursed as on 20 September 2022.

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Safety Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of inflation on the viability of funding agreements made through the Building Safety Fund.

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Safety Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of whether construction costs for projects funded through the Building Safety Fund have changed since those applications were (a) submitted and (b) agre

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Safety Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the number of approved Building Safety Fund applications whose construction costs have risen since the initial tender was completed, and if he will tak

5 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gulf Strategy Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish (a) a breakdown of spending by country from the Gulf Strategy Fund and (b) details of what that funding was spent on.

5 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gulf Strategy Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of the budget allocated to the Gulf Strategy Fund has been registered as Official Development Assistance in (a) 2022 and (b) previous years; and if she will p

2 Sep 2022 · Treasury

Council Tax: Appeals

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of council tax challenges submitted to the Valuation Office Agency have been (a) checked and (b) reviewed within the service level agreement in each of the past 12 months for which there

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bilateral Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department's 2021 spending review commitments, how much and what proportion of overseas aid spending her Department plans to allocate to bilateral progr

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether all international climate finance commitments made by her Department in the 2021 spending review period, save the funding made by British International Investment, wi

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the FCDO Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, which states that the temporary increase in Resource DEL in 2022-23 is to enable the Government to meet the UK’

2 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to reinstate the overseas aid budget to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income; and with reference to her Department’s Annual Report and

2 Sep 2022 · Women and Equalities

Equal Pay

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 129064 on Equal Pay, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of prohibiting employers from requesting salary history from new employe

20 Jul 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the results and recommendations set out in the 2022 Aid Transparency Index; and if he will make a statement.

20 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the results and recommendations of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index; and is she will make a statement.

20 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what impact assessments her Department conducted in advance of the sign off and publication of the International Development Strategy; and if she will publish those assessmen

20 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department conducted impact assessments in advance of the sign-off and publication of the International Development Strategy.

20 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much has been allocated to the ODA crisis reserve for 2022-23; what proportion of that reserve has been spent up to and including 19 July 2022; and if she will provide a

19 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Jagtar Singh Johal

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the compatibility of her policy on the case of British national Jagtar Singh Johal with Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in Stat

19 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

FSO Safer

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential risk of a major oil spill from the FSO Safer supertanker in the Red Sea.

19 Jul 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the total cost of processing asylum applications in the (a) 2022 calendar and (b) 2022-23 financial year; and how much and what proportion of this cost will come from t

19 Jul 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Safety Fund: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many buildings that have successfully applied to the Building Safety Fund have (a) received funding and (b) started cladding remediation work in (i) Birmingham Edgbaston constitu

19 Jul 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Supported Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent steps he has taken to improve standards in the exempt supported accommodation sector.

19 Jul 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory definition of support for residents of exempt supported accommodation.

Source: official written-questions record.