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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