Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Middle East: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to spend more than £917,516 of aid in the Middle East Region as set out on devtracker in the 2021-22 financial year.

1 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sub-Saharan Africa: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to spend more than £25 million of aid in South of Sahara Region set out on devtracker in the 2021-22 financial year.

1 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Turkey: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to spend more than £24.6 million of aid in Turkey set out on devtracker in the 2021-22 financial year.

1 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Venezuela: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to spend more than £10.5 million of aid in Venezuela set out on devtracker in the 2021-22 financial year.

30 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestinians: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is planning on spending more than £10 million of aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as set out on his Department's Development Tracker in the

30 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to spend more than £48 million of aid in Syria set out on devtracker in thie 2021-22 financial year.

30 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Lebanon: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to spend more than £15 million of aid in Lebanon set out on devtracker in the 2021-22 financial year.

30 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rwanda: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is planning to spend more than £21 million of aid in Rwanda set out on devtracker in the 2021-22 financial year.

30 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Yemen: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is planning to spend more than £69 million of aid in Yemen set out on devtracker in the 2021-22 financial year.

28 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Westminster Foundation for Democracy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department has allocated to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy in 2021.

28 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Email

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his departmental IT systems routinely allow officials, advisers and ministers to access private email accounts from their office desktop computers, department-issue l

28 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether a risk assessment has been carried out on the secure holding of CCTV footage within his Department.

28 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Email

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any departmental business has been conducted on private email addresses; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that full records are kept of that business.

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2021 to Question 15349 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the world's population that will be vacci

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of covid-19 vaccination coverage in (a) low income and (b) lower middle income countries.

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gender Equality Advisory Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2021 to Question 16916 on Gender Equality Advisory Council, which of the recommendations of the Gender Equality Advisory Council 2021 he pla

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2021 to Question 16918 on Overseas Aid, how many round four projects were approved; and what the total value of funding is that has been def

22 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tropical Diseases: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2021 to Question 16917 on Tropical Diseases: Drugs, what steps he has taken to limit the possibility that any of the 24 recipient countries

22 Jun 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of new mothers in Birmingham was offered the continuity of care midwifery model in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.

21 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU citizens settled in (a) Birmingham, Edgbaston, (b) Birmingham and (c) the West Midlands have (i) applied for, (ii) been granted, and (iii) not applied for settled or pre-settled status.

18 Jun 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many surplus covid-19 vaccines the UK will have accumulated by the end of 2021.

18 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Repatriation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Indian nationals have come forward via the voluntary return scheme in connection to voluntary return surgeries at (a) Gurdwaras, (b) Sikh community organisations and (c) charities.

18 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Repatriation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a breakdown of the funding that has been granted to (a) Sikh community organisations, (b) charities and (c) Gurdwaras in exchange for support with the voluntary return programme fo

18 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Repatriation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department decides whether and which organisations to approach to seek assistance with the voluntary return programme.

18 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Repatriation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and which (a) Sikh community groups, (b) charities and (c) Gurdwaras her Department has approached on its voluntary return programme, including distributing leaflets and holding surgeries.

18 Jun 2021 · Home Office

Deportation: India

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has (a) had discussions with relevant stakeholders and (b) set a target for the number of Indian nationals to be deported in talks with India on the Migration and Mobility Partnership MoU.

18 Jun 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Global Challenges Research Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding was allocated to the 12 International Research Hubs from the Global Challenges Research Fund for (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.

18 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether tablets donated by British and international pharmaceutical companies will expire and need to be incinerated rather than distributed to willing recipients to prevent

16 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter to the Prime Minister from the Royal College of Midwives on the reduction in the aid budget, what assessment his Department has made of the poten

16 Jun 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any payments promised under UK Aid Match commitments have been postponed as a result of the reduction in the aid budget from 0.7 to 0.5 per cent.

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