Written questions
5,143 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce discrimination in recruitment within the armed services.
30 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Police: Food Banks and Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has held recent discussions with Chief Constables on police officers (a) facing in-work poverty and (b) making use of food banks.
30 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ofwat: Managers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether business appointment and governance rules apply to senior managers within Ofwat seeking to take up senior positions within companies regulated by that regulator.
30 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the physical condition of court buildings.
30 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Offenders: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time is to return foreign offenders to their country of origin under the Facilitated Return Scheme; and whether there is a target time for such cases.
30 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Offenders: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department decides when to action deportation orders to remove foreign criminals from the UK.
30 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Hotels: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she plans to make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the (a) number and proportion of hotels that charge and (b) transparency of service levies for hotel bookings.
30 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Taxpayers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were (a) basic and (b) higher-rate taxpayers in each of the last eight financial years.
30 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Police: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the level of pay for police officers on levels of corruption.
30 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Russia: Wagner Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he held discussions with his Russian counterpart during the mutiny by the Wagner Group in June 2023.
30 Jun 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether it remains his policy to spend £11.6 billion of aid on environmental programmes between the 2021-22 and 2025-26 financial years.
28 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have been (a) found to have committed sexual misconduct at work and (b) dismissed for reasons of sexual misconduct in each of the last five years.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the number of suicides on the rail network.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have died by suicide on the rail network in each of the last 36 months.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Emergency Calls: British Telecom
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the cost to the public purse is of the BT contract to operate the 999 emergency phone system.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Emergency Calls: British Telecom
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will publish her Department's contract with BT for the operation of the 999 emergency system; and what recent assessment she has made of whether BT is meeting its contractual obl
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Emergency Calls: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she is taking steps to (a) increase the operational resilience of the 999 system and (b) ensure that control room systems have effective back-up systems.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
British Transport Police: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has held recent discussions with the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police on the adequacy of its officer vetting processes.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
British Transport Police: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many complaints against British Transport Police officers have been recorded in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
British Transport Police: Assaults on Police
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British Transport Police officers have been assaulted at work in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
British Transport Police: Recruitment and Termination of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British Transport Police officers have (a) been recruited, (b) passed probation, (c) been dismissed, (d) retired and (d) resigned in the last 12 months for which data are available.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
British Transport Police: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British Transport Police officers were in service in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022; and how many are in service as of 27 June 2023.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Childcare: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of adults who have left the workforce as a result of the cost of childcare.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Tickets
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail staff work in ticket booths as of 27 June 2023.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Railways: Ticket Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many ticket office booths were in operation in railway stations in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022; and how many are in operation as of 27 June 2023.
27 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Inflation: Mortgages
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that his policies on tackling inflation help support mortgage holders.
27 Jun 2023 · Treasury
Financial Services: Interest Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of interest rates charged by financial companies.
27 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals for Great British Railways.
27 Jun 2023 · Home Office
Missing Persons: Racial Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the extent of racial disparities in investigations of missing person cases.
26 Jun 2023 · Cabinet Office
10 and 11 Downing Street: Meters
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether water meters have been installed at (a) 10 and (b) 11 Downing Street.
Source: official written-questions record.