Written questions

1,438 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 May 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Bahrain: Homosexuality

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Bahraini ambassador on that country's laws on gay rights.

16 May 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of Indefinite Leave to Remain applications made in each of the last five years in the UK took longer than (a) six months, (b) one year, and (c) two years for a decision to

16 May 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: South Yorkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was in days for decisions to be made on Indefinite Leave to Remain applications in South Yorkshire in each of the last five years.

16 May 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: Barnsley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was in days for decisions to be made on Indefinite Leave to Remain applications in Barnsley in each of the last five years.

16 May 2019 · Home Office

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was in days for decisions to be made on Indefinite Leave to Remain applications in the UK in each of the last five years.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much her Department has spent per capita in each region of the UK in each of the last five years for which data is available.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Tanks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment her Department has made of the number of tanks the Army requires to fulfil its operational requirements.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Tanks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many tanks the Army has had in service in each of the last 20 years.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Tanks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans her Department has to change the number of tanks available to the Army.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Challenger Tanks: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what budget has been allocated for the refit of the Army’s Challenger 2 tanks.

16 May 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Challenger Tanks: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when her Department plans to make a decision on how many of the Army’s Challenger 2 tanks will be refitted.

8 May 2019 · Department for Education

Institutes of Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there will be a competition for further Institutes of Technology as part of his Department's plan to review Institute of Technology cold spots.

8 May 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Non-payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2019 to Question 248059, when the review of the NMW Naming Scheme began; and whether it his policy to suspend naming non-compliant employers until

8 May 2019 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Barnsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the funding announced to provide free meals and activities over the 2019 summer holidays will be provided to Barnsley.

7 May 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rough Sleeping: Barnsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the £25 million of funding recently announced by his Department to tackle rough sleeping will be allocated to Barnsley.

7 May 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Barnsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the announcement entitled, Schools backed to tackle bad behaviour, published on 4 May 2019, how many schools in Barnsley will be allocated funding.

7 May 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Barnsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the announcement entitled, Schools backed to tackle bad behaviour, published on 4 May 2019, how much funding his Department plans to allocated to schools in Barnsley.

29 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Police: Football

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial support his Department provides to police forces for the policing of football matches.

29 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Police: Football

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the overall cost to the police service of policing football matches in each of the last three years.

26 Apr 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Non-payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to publish the names of employers who do not pay the national minimum or national living wage.

24 Apr 2019 · Treasury

Public Sector: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's 10 April 2019 press release entitled Six-figure taxpayer-funded public sector exit payments to end, (a) how many exit payments of more than £100,000 were made by each public sector

23 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Private Sector

What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the private probation system.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Big Lottery Fund: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much Big Lottery funding (a) per capita and (b) in total was allocated to the (i) North East and (ii) North West in each of the last five years for which data are available.

11 Apr 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Electronic Training Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2019 to Question 230930, what plans he has to bring forward primary legislation to amend the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to ban the use of hand-held remo

10 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Fire and Rescue Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2019 to Question 241477, how many employed firefighters there have been in each fire and rescue service in each year since 2010.

10 Apr 2019 · Treasury

Public Sector: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Six-figure taxpayer-funded public sector exit payments to end published on 10 April 2019, (a) how many exit payments were made by each public sector employer

8 Apr 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pets: Electronic Training Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2019 to Question 230930, whether his Department has drafted the primary legislation required to ban the use of hand-held remote controlled e-collar d

8 Apr 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pets: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2019 to Question 230935, whether his Department has drafted the primary legislation required to ban third party selling of puppies and kittens; and i

8 Apr 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2019 to Question 233614, whether his Department has drafted primary legislation to increase the custodial maximum penalty for animal cruelty from six

8 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

National Curriculum Tests: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of administering SATS at (a) Key Stage 1 and (b) Key Stage 2.

Source: official written-questions record.