Written questions
1,169 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Mar 2019 · Home Office
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has any plans to increase the resources of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority.
11 Mar 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Employment: Enforcement and Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to increase the resources allocated to labour inspection and labour law enforcement.
11 Mar 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ACAS: Languages
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to make (a) the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service and (b) other services more accessible for non-English speaking workers.
20 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Endoscopy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 14 February to Question 219561 on Endoscopy: Recruitment, how many of the 202 clinical endoscopists have now completed their training and are able to undertake procedures
13 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that gas and energy (a) interconnectors, (b) import export routes and (c) infrastructure mechanisms will remain fully functional afte
11 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Endoscopy: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many clinical endoscopists have been recruited to date as part of Health Education England’s target to recruit and train an additional 400 clinical endoscopists.
11 Feb 2019 · Home Office
Human Trafficking: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the November 2018 High Court judgement and reinstatement of subsistence rates of £65 a week for possible victims of trafficking in the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), what the cur
6 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 215231 on Universal Credit: Private Rented Housing, what timings her Department records when measuring time elapsed relating to complaints received from
31 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to reduce the time taken to respond to complaints from PRS landlords with universal credit full service tenants.
31 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Asylum: Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2019 to Question 211929, what steps his Department is taking to contact people affected who will have received a final stage National Referral Mechanism conclusive
31 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in the last year, what is the average time taken for the Independent Case Examiner to provide an outcome to escalated complaints from PRS landlords about universal credit full service tenants.
31 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time was for her Department to provide an outcome to complaints from PRS landlords about universal credit full service tenants in the most recent 12-month for which figures are availabl
30 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Defence
Veterans: Charities
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of sharing details of servicemen and servicewomen leaving the armed forces with veterans charities.
30 Jan 2019 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Nottingham and (c) Nottingham North have been taken into social care by court order in the last (i) one, (ii) three and (iii) five years.
30 Jan 2019 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of children in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Nottingham and (c) Nottingham North who are taken into social care by court order.
23 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Asylum: Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that survivors of modern slavery are aware of the repayment scheme for victims of modern slavery who received asylum support in England and Wales between
9 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Pro-Force
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority has ever taken action against Pro-Force Limited.
9 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Pro-Force
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what grounds Pro-Force Limited was investigated by the then Gangmasters Licensing Authority in 2015; and what the outcome was of that investigation.
5 Dec 2018 · Home Office
Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer on 3 December 2018 to Question 196808 on Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes, if he will conduct a public consultation on the adequacy of guidance to be issued under Secti
5 Dec 2018 · Department for Education
Physical Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his department has made of the potential benefits of reinstating rounders on the activity list of assessed sports for GCSE and A-level physical education.
4 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Electronic Training Aids
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to ban the use of electronic pet training collars.
29 Nov 2018 · Home Office
Immigration: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times his Department has refused discretionary leave to remain where the child has not lived continuously in the UK for at least seven years but who has then reached that period after appeal
29 Nov 2018 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of EU victims of modern slavery in the UK with a (a) positive conclusive grounds decision or (b) reasonable grounds decision under the National Referral Mechani
29 Nov 2018 · Home Office
Immigrants: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2018 to Question 185054, what estimate he has made of the number of EU victims of modern slavery within the UK who have been found under section 45 of the Modern S
29 Nov 2018 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish guidance on registering under the EU Settlement Scheme for EU nationals who do not have identification or residency documentation due to being in the UK in a situation of traffickin
28 Nov 2018 · Home Office
Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the High Court Judgment K & Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department of 8 November 2018, whether plans set out in the NRM reforms, announced in Oc
21 Nov 2018 · Department for Education
Relationships and Sex Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including parenting education in the national curriculum.
21 Nov 2018 · Home Office
Business: Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress his Department on creating a registry of businesses that are obligated to produce a slavery and human-trafficking statement as outlined in Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 201
21 Nov 2018 · Home Office
Business: Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent plans his Department has made to enforce Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
20 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Visitors: Resignations
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many health visitors (a) resigned and (b) otherwise left their posts in each of the last five years.
Source: official written-questions record.