Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Oct 2019 · Department for International Development

Burma: Rohingya

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 4 March 2019 to Question 226730 on Burma: Human Trafficking, what discussions he has had with representatives of the Ministry of Health in Burma on reported apart

15 Oct 2019 · Department for International Development

Burma: Rohingya

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 4 March 2019 to Question 226730 on Burma: Human Trafficking, what assurances he has received from his Burmese counterpart that the upgrades to the women and child

15 Oct 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish a Green Paper on social care.

14 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 3 September 2019 to Question 282372, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of (a) full bursary places and (b) partial bursary places awarded by independent s

14 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education and State Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 3 September 2019 to Question 282372, what steps she is taking to encourage independent schools to work in partnership with state-funded schools.

14 Oct 2019 · Department for Education

Private Education: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) partial bursary places and (b) full bursary places were awarded by independent schools in (i) Edgbaston, (ii) Birmingham and (iii) the West Midlands in each of the last five years.

14 Oct 2019 · Treasury

Public Works Loan Board

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the 1 per cent increase on interest rates on Public Works Loan Board finance on local council (a) housebuilding and regeneration schemes, (b) school building and maintena

14 Oct 2019 · Treasury

Public Works Loan Board

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the 1 per cent increase on interest rates of Public Works Loan Board finance on the viability of (a) housebuilding and regeneration schemes and (b) social housing schemes

14 Oct 2019 · Cabinet Office

Brexit: Publicity

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect on the Government’s Get Ready for Brexit campaign of seeking an extension to Article 50 as required under the European Union (Wi

30 Sep 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what standards are in place to ensure that disabled people are effectively supported when making a claim to the Access to Work scheme.

30 Sep 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has for Access to Work to fund communication support for disabled people who are required to undertake work-related activity as a condition for receiving employment and support allowance.

27 Sep 2019 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps he has taken to support pupils with SEND.

27 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Development Aid: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ensure that Official Development Assistance expenditure by other Departments contributes to poverty reduction.

27 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the amount of funding allocated by his Department to consultancy services to support its preparations for the UK leaving the EU.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the announcement on education funding at the UN General Assembly, what steps he is taking to ensure that the most marginalised (a) girls and (b) adolescents are able to access

26 Sep 2019 · Cabinet Office

Population: Sikhs

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Sikhs who did not identify themselves as either religious or ethnically Sikh in the 2011 census.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Sustainable Development: Publicity

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Government's report on Investing in a better world: results of UK survey on financing the SDGs, what steps he is taking to increase public awareness of the UN Sustainable Develop

25 Sep 2019 · Home Office

Offensive Weapons Act 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2019 to Question 285406 on Offensive Weapons Act 2019, what additional resources he plans to provide to the police to ensure that they are able to enforce that le

25 Sep 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities to deliver Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV.

25 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sleeping Rough: Life Expectancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department have made of the average life expectancy of rough sleepers in each of the last five years.

25 Sep 2019 · Treasury

Financial Institutions: Investment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to encourage financial institutions to adopt investment policies which consider (a) human and (b) labour rights.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Collective Bargaining

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans she has to encourage companies operating in the UK to ensure workers throughout its supply chain are able to engage in collective bargaining.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans she has to encourage companies operating in the UK to provide public and transparent lists of sites in other countries that manufacture their products.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to help strengthen the tax systems of developing countries.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Save the Children report entitled Transformative Aid.

25 Sep 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Psychiatry: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the availability of child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Birmingham.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to which Departments staff in his Department are seconded and transferred as a result of preparations for the UK leaving the EU.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Department for International Development: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff in his Department are deployed to other Departments and working on the UK leaving the EU.

25 Sep 2019 · Department for International Development

Developing Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on developing countries of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

25 Sep 2019 · Home Office

Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the (a) research and (b) reports that her Department has commissioned and requested on (i) the Sikh community and (ii) Sikh groups and organisations in each of the last three years

Source: official written-questions record.