Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Nov 2019 · Home Office

Abortion: Clinics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to introduce national buffer zones outside abortion clinics.

31 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2019 to Question 284 on Private Education: West Midlands, how many applications for the cross-sector partnerships grant there have been for (a) independent school-non-select

31 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2019 Question 284 on Private Education: West Midlands, what the value is of the cross-sector partnerships grant.

31 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 284 on Private Education: West Midlands, how many people who are employed by the unit on promoting cross-sector partnerships attended (a) a selective second

31 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2019 to Question 284 on Private Education: West Midlands, how many people employed by the unit on promoting cross-sector partnerships attended (a) an independent secondary s

31 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2019 to Question 284 on Private Education: West Midlands, how many people are employed by the unit on promoting cross-sector partnerships (a) in total and (b) at each civil

31 Oct 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horse Racing: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of horses dying as a result of horse racing.

31 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office

Absent Voting: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to enable British citizens living overseas who have postal votes to (a) receive postal vote packs by email and

31 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office

Absent Voting: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment the Cabinet Office has made of the effect of the snap parliamentary general election on the ability of UK nationals living overseas who have postal

29 Oct 2019 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2019 to Question 3787 on Department for International Development: Secondment, what the grades are of the 16 staff members who continue to have their salarie

28 Oct 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Local Enterprise Partnerships: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy what future plans she has to set targets to increase BAME representation on local enterprise partnership boards.

28 Oct 2019 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many of his civil servants have been deployed to other Departments from his Department's (a) London office b) Scotland office and (c) offices overseas to work on tasks relating to the UK lea

23 Oct 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of carers who care for more than one person.

22 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Burma

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of acquiring goods and services from Burmese military-owned companies in each of the last five years.

22 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Burma

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 707 on Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Burma, how many proposed transactions involving goods and services have failed that due dilig

22 Oct 2019 · Home Office

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time spent is (a) waiting to get through to and (b) on hold on a telephone call to Migrant Help.

22 Oct 2019 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to his oral evidence of 21 October 2019 to the International Development Committee, how many of the 160 departmental staff seconded to other Departments to help them administer official

21 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Universities: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of unconditional university offers on the motivation of students.

17 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Bahrain: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Government of Bahrain on the 8 October 2019 letter of political prisoner Ali AlHajee raising allegations of religious discrimination in Bahraini priso

17 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Bahrain: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief visited Bahraini prisons on his most recent trip to Bahrain to verify the allegations of religious discriminat

16 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Bahrain: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he will discuss human rights concerns with his Bahraini counterpart during the joint Working Group between Bahrain and the UK on 17 October 2019.

16 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Syria: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with Kurdish authorities on the evacuation of British children from north east Syria.

16 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Syria: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for International Development on the repatriation of British children from north east Syria.

16 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Syria: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to repatriate the mothers of British children trapped in north east Syria.

16 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Syria: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Government has to evacuate British children and their mothers from north east Syria.

16 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office

Census: Sikhs

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 291409 on Census: Sikhs, what estimate he has made of the number of people among the 20 million that answered n

16 Oct 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 3 October 2019 to Question 291050 on Living Wage, whether she plans to encourage companies operating in the UK to ensure that workers in other coun

16 Oct 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Collective Bargaining

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 3 October 2019 to Question 291066 on Collective Bargaining, whether she plans to encourage companies operating in the UK to ensure that workers in

16 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Syria: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of British children trapped in north east Syria.

15 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Burma

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what policies are in place to ensure that staff of his Department based in Burma do not use Burmese military owned companies to provide goods and services.

Source: official written-questions record.