Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Jan 2020 · Department for Transport

Railways: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is he taking to ensure that the roll-out of smart ticketing on the rail network does not exclude people without access to the necessary technology from purchasing rail travel.

28 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office

Census

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2020 to Question 1394, on Census, on what date the ONS provided the draft Census Order to his Department.

28 Jan 2020 · Department for Transport

Transport: Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the Government has allocated to transport programmes throughout the Midlands.

28 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

5G: Health Hazards

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he will take to mitigate health risks to the public from increased EMF/RF radiation resulting from the roll-out of the 5G network.

27 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Human Trafficking

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent from the public purse on preventing the trafficking of adolescent girls in humanitarian crises in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.

27 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the economic effect of climate change does not result in a disproportionate reduction in adolescent girls accessing education.

27 Jan 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to ensure the provision of a nutritionally balanced plant-based meal on each public sector menu.

27 Jan 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) changing (i) subsidies and (ii) grant support and (b) other steps to encourage the transition of UK agriculture towards a mo

20 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to introduce a new funding round for the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.

20 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of contextual safeguarding.

17 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Charities

To ask the Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to New Philanthropy Capital's report entitled Where are England’s charities?, published 16 January 2020, what steps he is taking to support an increase in (a) charities and

17 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Charities

To ask the Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of New Philanthropy Capital's report entitled, Where are England’s charities?, published 16 January 2020.

16 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

India: Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations made to his Indian counterpart on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 in that country.

15 Jan 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions she has had with British Gas on their decision to raise the minimum top up amount for customers with prepayment meters.

14 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 686 on Social Services, whether he plans to include proposals to reform child social care in that Green Paper on social care.

13 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence; Retail Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of convictions were for offences of violence against the person committed (a) on retail premises and (b) against retail workers in each of the last five years for which figures are av

13 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many police cautions have been issued for crimes committed on retail premises in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

13 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders who received (a) a fixed penalty notice and (b) another type of out of court disposal for a crime committed on retail premises were repeat offenders in each of the last five years for

13 Jan 2020 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department holds information on the satisfaction levels of retailers with the police response to crime on their premises.

13 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Alternatives to Prosecution: Shoplifting

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many out of court disposals have been issued for shop theft offences in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

13 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Fixed Penalties: Shoplifting

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fixed penalty notices have been issued for offences of shop (a) of goods under £100 and (b) overall in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

13 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office

Census: Sikhs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking in response to the 12 December 2019 judgment of the High Court in R (Gill on behalf of the Sikh Federation) v The Cabinet Office [2019] EWHC 3407 (Admin) to ensure that the Minister has r

8 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development

Iraq: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made on the effect of the recent tensions between the US and Iran on the provision of humanitarian support in Iraq.

8 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office

Census: Sikhs

To ask Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to R (Gill on behalf of the Sikh Federation) v The Cabinet Office [2019] EWHC 3407 (Admin), what assessment his Department has made of the potential risk of delay to the census 2021 as a result of leg

8 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office

Census

To ask Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risk of delay to the census 2021 after 21 March 2021.

8 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office

Census

To ask Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the ONS provided his Department with the draft Census Order.

7 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to invest in continuing professional development for middle leaders in schools, as recommended in the National Association of Head Teachers' report of 12 November 2019, entitled About Time: Li

7 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Teachers: Bureaucracy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendations in the report by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) of 12 November 2019, entitled About Time: Life as

19 Dec 2019 · Department for Education

Teachers: Bureaucracy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings and recommendations of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) report entitled About time: life as a middle leader, publ

1 Nov 2019 · Home Office

Abortion: Protest

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of protestors outside abortion clinics on women attending those clinics.

Source: official written-questions record.