Written questions
5,143 written questions tabled, most recent first.
13 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans she has for another international meeting on ending violence against women in conflict following the Global Summit to end sexual violence in conflict in 2014.
13 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that climate action is a priority for her Department.
13 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Job Creation
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to measure and monitor the standard and quality of the jobs created by UK development assistance.
13 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Development Aid: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of UK aid is committed to poverty reduction overseas.
13 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking tackle global inequality.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Education
Further Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the level of funding on the financial sustainability of the further education sector.
11 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK moving from 4th to 9th in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index on the viability of small businesses.
11 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensioners: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of pensioners living in poverty.
11 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Windrush Generation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of denying social security support to people affected by the Windrush scandal on their (a) rent arrears, (b) homelessness, and (c) personal debt.
11 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, entitled UK poverty 2018, that in-work poverty is increasing faster than unemp
11 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase awareness of the option to request more frequent universal credit payments.
11 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Sri Lanka: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of files held by his Department in relation to Sri Lanka dating from the 1970s and 1980s that (a) have been and (b) are planned to be destroyed.
5 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Sri Lanka: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons his Department destroyed files on Sri Lanka dating from the 1970s and 1980s.
5 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport
Crossrail Line: Burnham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for the Crossrail station in Burnham to become operational.
4 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport
Crossrail Line: Langley
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for the Crossrail station in Langley to be operational.
4 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport
Crossrail Line: Slough
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for the Crossrail station at Slough to be operational.
24 Jan 2019 · Department for Exiting the European Union
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the health sector on the UK leaving the EU.
23 Jan 2019 · Attorney General
Prosecutions
To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the effective prosecution of criminals.
22 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Library briefing paper entitled Police Service Strength, published on 16 October 2018, if he will make an assessment of the effect on the level of crime of the 18 per cent reduct
22 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Drugs: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle sexual exploitation occurring as a result of county lines activity.
22 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Eurojust and Europol
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will set out what UK's relationship with (a) Europol and (b) Eurojust will be after the UK leaves the EU.
8 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review report published by the University of Bristol, whether his Department is taking steps to address the recommendations of that report.
20 Dec 2018 · Treasury
Credit: Interest Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the Financial Conduct Authority's ability to enforce their own affordability checks on high-cost credit.
19 Dec 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Social Media: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with social media companies on preventing data protection infringements.
19 Dec 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Public Libraries
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on levels of social mobility of access to public libraries.
18 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Self-harm and Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reduce the levels of self-harm and suicide in prisons.
18 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reduce the number of prisoners who leave prison homeless.
17 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196901 and the Answer of 4 December 2018 to Question 195084, how his Department determines and reviews benefit eligibility with consideration for cr
10 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Slough
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2018 to Question 195084 on Universal Credit: Slough, if he will publish that information for claimants of benefits by nationality at the point of National Insurance
10 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Leasehold: Ground Rent
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that developers remove onerous ground rent clauses in leasehold contracts.
Source: official written-questions record.