Written questions
5,143 written questions tabled, most recent first.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway platforms (a) have and (b) do not have tactile edging on the platform to assist blind and partially sighted people.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the rate of covid-19 transmission on trains where social distancing is (a) maintained and (b) not possible; and what steps he is taking to reduce the risk of covid-19 trans
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Network Rail: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail workers were killed on Network Rail's infrastructure between June 2019 and November 2020.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Network Rail: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the current vacancy rate is within Network Rail as defined by its Target Operating Model.
19 May 2021 · Home Office
Offences against Children: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department does not record the ethnicity of victims of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
East West Rail Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps have been taken to consult residents affected by the planned East West Rail Line between Cambridge and Oxford.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Hitachi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information he has received on whether the cracking issue found in the UK Class 800 fleet is limited to only the trains within that fleet.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Hitachi Rail Europe: Tax Yields
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much revenue has been received by the Exchequer in tax receipts by Hitachi Rail UK Ltd in each of the last five years; and how much funding the Government has given to Hitachi Rail UK in (a) payments, (b) g
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Railways: South West
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that passenger services are restored to the South West as a result of cancellations following cracks on Hitachi’s Intercity Class 800 series trains.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Hitachi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the regime of welding the Hitachi Intercity Class 800 series trains is planned to take place; and whether that process will take place before a metallurgical analysis.
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Hitachi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment or has received any information as to whether the cracking of the Hitachi’s Intercity Class 800 series has arisen due to (a) any flaw in the design of those trains, (b) the mat
19 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Hitachi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the cracking of Hitachi’s Intercity Class 800 series affects the Government's guarantee for usage of those trains for 27.5 years.
19 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who do not have a mobile device are able to check in at venues with the NHS covid-19 app.
19 May 2021 · Women and Equalities
Domestic Abuse: Discretionary Housing Payments
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on collecting data on domestic abuse survivors’ access to Discretionary Housing Payments.
19 May 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Refuges: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Minister for Women and Equalities on improving access to women's refuges.
19 May 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with foreign counterparts on the (a) security and (b) stability implications of the US decision to withdraw its troops for Afghanistan.
19 May 2021 · Department for Education
Swimming: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of Swim England’s recent findings that a quarter of a million children are unable to swim the length of a standard swimming pool on water safety risks on rivers and lak
19 May 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Space Debris: International Cooperation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions the Government has had with (a) Government and inter-governmental space agencies and (b) Governments of countries with an active space programme on their efforts
19 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual cost to the public purse is of retaining the benefit cap; and whether that figure includes (a) police costs in responding to domestic abuse reports, (b) local authority costs for tempora
19 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Domestic Abuse: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,what steps her Department is taking to support victims of domestic violence to access (a) safe and secure housing and (b) financial support.
18 May 2021 · Cabinet Office
Emergencies: Mobile Phones
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect of the Emergency Alerts Service issued alert on telecommunication capacity in emergency areas as a result of any
18 May 2021 · Cabinet Office
Emergencies: Mobile Phones
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether individuals will be able to opt-out of the UK's Emergency Alerts Service.
18 May 2021 · Cabinet Office
Emergencies: Mobile Phones
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the average number of alerts that will potentially be issued through the UK's Emergency Alerts Service on an annual basis; and what safeguard
18 May 2021 · Cabinet Office
Emergencies: Mobile Phones
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his Department's policy to ensure that hon. Members are notified of alerts issued to their constituents through the Emergency Alerts service at the tim
18 May 2021 · Cabinet Office
Emergencies: Mobile Phones
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Emergency Alerts service will send the personal user data of the recipient of an alert through that service to the Government.
18 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Hitachi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of whether the cracking issue identified in the Hitachi Intercity Class 800 will potentially worsen over time.
18 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Hitachi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government has assessed whether it is entitled to compensation as a result of cracking within the Hitachi Intercity Class 800 series trains
18 May 2021 · Department for Transport
Trains: Hitachi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the projected lifespan of Hitachi’s Intercity Class 800 series trains have been shortened as a result of cracking.
18 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who do not have a mobile device are able to check in at venues with the NHS covid-19 app.
18 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many requests the covid-19 quarantine exemptions team receives on average each day; what proportion of those requests relate to (a) seeing dying relatives and (b) funerals; whether requests for
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