Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department's share of the Official Development Assistance budget will be reduced in the event of a decrease in GNI.

15 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish the criteria her Department plans to use for prioritising Official Development Assistance spending in the event of a decrease in GNI.

11 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has paused any new recruitment during the covid-19 outbreak.

11 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Coronavirus: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to apply public interest conditions to Government funding for the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility to help ensure that recipients of funding (a) use

10 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Remote Hearings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many video hearings were conducted by magistrates courts in each of the last three months.

10 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men received a prison sentence of under six months in (i) March, (ii) April and (iii) May 2020.

8 Jun 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka: Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to ensure that (a) independent investigations into water quality in northern Sri Lanka take place and (b) all Sri Lankan citizens have access to clean d

8 Jun 2020 · Treasury

National Income

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent forecasts his Department has made of (a) nominal and (b) real Gross National Income for (i) 2020, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2022, (iv) 2023 and (v) 2024.

5 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Religious Buildings: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what scientific advice he has received on the safe reopening of places or worship, and if he will publish that advice.

4 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

CDC: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 40722, on CDC Group: Hospitals, what the total value was of (a) initial and (b) current investments into those hospitals.

4 Jun 2020 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people working for umbrella companies who have been eligible to be furloughed but have not been as of the end of May 2020.

4 Jun 2020 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) rights and (b) support is available to workers who were informed that they would be furloughed by an employer that has not gone on to honour that commitment.

3 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has paused funding decisions for new projects and programmes in the Global South not directly related to tackling the covid-19 pandemic.

3 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2020 to Question 48675 on Industrial Health and Safety, how many of the enforcement notices served in each month since January 2020 in relation to covid-19.

3 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2020 to Question 48675 on Industrial Health and Safety, how many investigations of workplace concerns relating to (a) covid-19 and (b) other concerns, where checks have

2 Jun 2020 · Department for Education

Literacy: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of teacher trainees learning approaches to literacy which have been successful in other countries and other parts of the UK other than systematic synthetic ph

2 Jun 2020 · Department for Education

Literacy: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by Newman University entitled Independent research into the impact of the systematic synthetic phonics government policy on literacy courses at institutions delivering initial teach

2 Jun 2020 · Department for Education

Literacy: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report published by Newman University in April 2020 entitled, Independent research into the impact of the systematic synthetic phonics gov

2 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the study published by Imperial College London on 24 April 2020, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of weekly testing of health and social care staff regardless o

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Supermarkets: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2020 to Question 40719 on supermarkets: coronavirus, what steps he is taking to ensure that supermarkets improve the accessibility of online shopping fo

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coastal Erosion and Floods: Risk Management

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Environment Agency plans to publish its updated National flood and coastal erosion risk management strategy for England.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Damage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress has been made by the Environment Agency on (a) inspecting and (b) repairing assets affected by the 2019 winter floods.

1 Jun 2020 · Cabinet Office

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the announcement by the Prime Minister on 26 May 2020, if he will publish the advice provided by SAGE on reopening certain non-essential shops from 15 June 2020.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that the funding her Department commits to tackling the covid-19 pandemic in developing countries does not negatively affect programmes to tackle climate chang

1 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Overseas Development Institute: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support Overseas Development Institute fellows who have been evacuated due to covid-19 to complete their contracts when it is safe to do so.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Bank Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to her Department's press release, UK calls for global action to protect vital money transfers, published on 22 May 2020, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that remitt

1 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Bank Services

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to her Department's press release, UK calls for global action to protect vital money transfers, published on 22 May 2020, what recent steps her Department has taken to make it eas

1 Jun 2020 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the existing legislative framework to end conversion therapy.

1 Jun 2020 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the letter from the Government Equalities Office to the hon Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston in December 2019, ref COGEO-001047, when the timetable for ending conversion therapy will be relea

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety Executive: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will establish direct line to the Health and Safety Executive for hon Members to report concerns that have been raised by constituents.

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