Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Sep 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the proposals in the Planning for the Future consultation, published 6 August 2020, on the (a) maintenance of green spaces

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contact Tracing: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason results from (a) NHS hospitals and (b) Public Health England laboratories cannot be entered onto the NHS covid-19 app.

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 91694 on overseas aid: poverty, in which countries the bottom billion poorest people live.

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 91694, what criteria his Department used to determine the bottom billion poorest people.

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 91694 on overseas aid: poverty, whether any of the bottom billion poorest people live in Ukraine.

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he is taking steps to ensure that all UK aid spending Government departments achieve a (a) good or (b) very good at the next assessment by the the Aid Transparency In

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference page 5 of the Sixth Special Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID: Government Response to Committee’s Se

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government repose to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Second Report of Session 2019–21, Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID (HC 525), publ

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government Response to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Second Report of Session 2019–21, Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID, published o

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government Response to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Second Report of Session 2019–21, Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID, published o

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government Response to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Second Report of Session 2019–21, Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID, published o

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government Response to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Second Report of Session 2019–21, Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID, published o

25 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Non-Governmental Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Government Response to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Second Report of Session 2019–21, Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID, published 2

24 Sep 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Charitable Donations: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the report Levelling Up Our Communities: Proposals for a New Social Covenant commissioned by the Prime Minister, published September 2020, whether he plans to implement

24 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Economic Growth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 91125 on Economic Growth, whether his Department used the scenario that GDP will fall by 14.3 per cent to determine the reduction to the Official Development A

21 Sep 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Land Use: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a national land use database for (a) rural use, (b) urban use, (c) geology, (d) hydrology, (e) climate, (f) soil

21 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2020 to Question 84325 on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Contracts, when his Department plans to finish the process of r

21 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

CDC: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the reduction in the value of 0.7 per cent of GNI, by how much the capital transfers his Department plans to make to CDC will be reduced or increased from t

18 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rwanda: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister at the Liaison Committee on 16 September 2020, when his Department made the decision to discontinue the Investing In A

18 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister to the Liaison Committee on 16 September 2020, which countries and regions that receive UK aid will be affected by the

17 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rwanda: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister at the Liaison Committee on 16 September 2020, HC 744, whether he discussed the provision of Official Development Assi

17 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister to the Liaison Committee on 16 September 2020, HC 744, whether it is his policy to to spend UK aid on tackling poverty

17 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Development Act 2002

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister to the Liaison Committee on 16 September 2020, HC 744, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to amen

16 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

CDC: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Official Development Assistance was due to be transferred to the CDC in 2020 before the announced reduction of £2.9bn in the aid budget; and how much will be transfe

16 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he made an assessment of the implications for his policy of reducing the UK aid budget by almost 20 per cent of the recent OECD forecast of UK GDP in 2020 falling by

16 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Economic Growth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent projections he has made of (a) GDP and (b) GNI growth in (i) 2020 and (ii) 2021.

14 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many tests have been taken at each covid-19 testing site in Birmingham on each day since 31 August 2020.

10 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2020 to Question 77760, if he will publish the phased transformation programme.

10 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any private hospitals in receipt of funding from his Department have made a profit during the covid-19 outbreak.

10 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September to Question 82263, since the launch of the UK Aid Direct funding round how (a) many applications have been received, (b) many applicatio

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