Written questions

345 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Jun 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will (a) increase the remit of local leaders to enable them to implement ambitious local home insulation schemes in the context of rising energy bills and (b) take steps with t

1 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what funding his Department plans to allocate to local authorities to enable (a) the development of local retrofit supply chains and (b) insulation of local authority housing stoc

18 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to make funding available to local councils to (a) insulate council housing stock and (b) invest in developing local supply chains able to retrofit home insulatio

12 May 2022 · Home Office

Police: Proof of Identity

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data exists on the number of police warrant cards unaccounted for in police forces in England and Wales.

25 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish data on the number of strip-searches carried out on children by police forces in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

22 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Police: Proof of Identity

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data exists on the number of police warrant cards currently unaccounted for in Police Forces in England and Wales.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of strip searches undertaken on children by police forces in England and Wales.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Police: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of police officers waiting for (a) a vetting decision and (b) security clearance to work in roles classified as sensitive.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Police: Proof of Identity

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of police warrant cards that are unaccounted for in police forces in England and Wales.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Police: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are police officers working in positions classified as sensitive who do not have the required level of clearance to work in those positions.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce new guidance on the use of strip-searches on children.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of strip searches of children, broken down by (a) age, (b) ethnicity, (c) sex and (d) gender.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data is available on the number of strip-searches carried out on children by police forces in England and Wales.

14 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Offshore Industry: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers on the cost of living.

22 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Drugs: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the illegal supply of drugs purchased on (a) the darkweb and (b) elsewhere on the internet.

21 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Drugs: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 July 2021 to Question 36809 and with reference to page 22 of From Harm to Hope: a 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives published in December 2021, what evidence

21 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Drugs: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 22 of From Harm to Hope: a 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives published in December 2021 and the Government's statement that it has closed down more than 1,500 deal

21 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Slavery: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long the average waiting period is for a conclusive grounds judgment through the National Referral Mechanism.

21 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Drugs: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people with a county lines flag in the National Referral Mechanism system (a) go on to commit a serious criminal offence and (b) are subsequently charged with an offenc

21 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Drugs: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 22 of From Harm to Hope: a 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives, published in December 2021, how many and what proportion of the 4,000 vulnerable people safeguarded th

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Leasehold: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps the Leasehold Advisory Service takes to identify specialist mental health organisations that leaseholders could be signposted to.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will urgently review the remit and role of LEASE for the purposes of ensuring that it adequately supports the needs of people affected by cladding and fire safety i

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps (a) his Department and (b) the Leasehold Advisory Service is taking to support residents affected by cladding and fire safety issues to access (i) legal advice and (ii) me

7 Jan 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Assistance: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether it is her policy to recognise the importance of loss and damage finance as a pillar of wider climate finance; and what plans her Department has to increase the intern

7 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Debts: Developing Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to support an extension of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative and cancelling debts with the aim of enabling countries to respond more effectively to climate change.

16 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

National Institute for Health Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on how the £50 million for targeted motor neurone disease research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Motor Neurone Disease Research Unit can

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps the Government has taken on spending £9.2 billion on energy efficiency measures over the course of the 2019 Parliament.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to support the insulation of privately owned homes in order that they may achieve EPC band C by 2035.

12 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether money allocated to people under the Windrush Compensation Scheme is exempted from consideration in means testing for social care.

12 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether money allocated to people under the Windrush Compensation Scheme is exempted from consideration in means tested financial assessments.

Source: official written-questions record.