Written questions

327 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Mar 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of childhood sexual abuse have (a) been refused compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and (b) had a compensation award reduced as a result of their criminal record.

10 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Community Safety Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the 322 Community Safety Partnerships in England and Wales (a) access and (b) share Cardiff Model data for preventing serious violence.

10 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Crime Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of the 43 police forces in England and Wales use the Cardiff Model data to identify and target serious violence hotspots.

18 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Focus on women’s prisons, A briefing paper from HM Inspectorate of Prisons, published in February 2022, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding that lack

18 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how insecure and temporary accommodation for women leaving prison is accounted for in his Department's data of accommodation outcomes for former female offenders.

28 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Victims: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Delivering justice for victims: A consultation on improving victims’ experiences of the justice system, and individually granted extensions for accessibility and exceptional pressure, what the p

24 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of scale of backlog in London courts; and whether he has plans to further increase courtroom use and Judicial capacity.

24 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funds are allocated by his Department to the nightingale courts at Monument and Aldersgate past March 2022 for the purposes of supporting their continued work to help tackle the court backlog.

24 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which nightingale courts in London will receive funding for operation past March 2022; and how long that funding is allocated for.

18 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Victims: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2022 to Question 94498 on the Victim's Bill Consultation, if he will publish a list of all the organisations he has had engagement sessions with up to 18 January 2022; and how

17 Jan 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Cardiff North

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in Cardiff North

13 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Act 1988

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to review the provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1998.

12 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to refund people who have paid for PCR tests but who have not received results from (a) Test n Go and (b) 1010 Labs; and if he will take steps to remove those comp

7 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2022 to Question 94497, whether the Government plans to ensure large font and easy read formats are available immediately and not only upon request; how many large print versio

4 Jan 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Custodial Treatment: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times he has visited a (a) secure training centre, (b) young offender institution (c) secure children's home; and if he will provide the dates of each of those visits.

16 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Victims: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what engagement he has had with relevant stakeholders on his Department's consultation on Delivering justice for victims.

16 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to make accessible versions of consultation documents immediately available instead of people having to request large font and easy read formats.

16 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Victims: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason his Department's consultation on Delivering justice for victims is not open for longer than eight weeks; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending that timescale.

16 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Victims: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisations the Government plans to engage with during the Victims' Bill consultation; what the timeframe is for that consultation; and what the timeframe is for the publication of its results.

13 Dec 2021 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Pets

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the use of pets as coercive control in domestic abuse.

13 Dec 2021 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help accommodate domestic abuse survivors with dogs access refuges and accommodation easily.

9 Dec 2021 · Treasury

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to allocate funding to the Welsh Government to tackle unsafe cladding in residential properties.

22 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the publication of the outcome of the Domestic homicide sentencing review.

19 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure delays in family courts are not used to further financially control a former partner.

19 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure the delays in family courts do not result in further abuse of former partners.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Transport

Driving Licenses: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve the timeliness of correspondence (a) with non-UK citizens applying for a driving or provisional driving licence and (b) to return additional documentation provided

19 Oct 2021 · Home Office

Spiking: Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) businesses in the hospitality sector to help tackle the spiking of drinks within nightclubs and hospitality venues.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Transport

Driving Licenses

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average length of time is between receiving documentation of a medical decision to restore a driver's licence and retuning the licence to the driver; and what steps he is taking to improve corresponden

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the impact of the DVLA casework backlog on the return of licences revoked on medical grounds; and what steps he is taking to improve the efficiency of DVLA.

18 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's policy is on the length of time children in secure custody should spend in their cells per day.

Source: official written-questions record.