Written questions
1,169 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans for the Transition Grant to be allocated as part of the 2018-19 local government finance settlement.
30 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register: Internet
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of setting up an online service for voters to check whether they are already registered to vote for the purposes of reducing the number of duplicat
30 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register: Email
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the Association of Electoral Administrators' recommendation that the collection of voters' email addresses should no longer be optional when reg
25 Oct 2017 · Home Office
Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies published a Modern Slavery Statement in accordance with the provisions of section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
25 Oct 2017 · Home Office
Police: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to increase BAME representation in the police since May 2016.
25 Oct 2017 · Home Office
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has issued on the proportion of local police budgets that should be devoted to (a) cyber crime and (b) counter-terrorism.
25 Oct 2017 · Home Office
Modern Slavery Act 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ministers and officials of her Department have (a) received or (b) been offered data on non-compliance with section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
24 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of people living in social tenancies are registered to downsize.
24 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of people living in social tenancies have downsized in each year since the introduction of the spare room subsidy.
24 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of people living in social tenancies have been in rent arrears in each financial year since 2012-13.
23 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse as a result of the removal of the spare room subsidy in each year since its introduction.
23 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of housing benefit are subject to the removal of the spare room subsidy in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) the East Midlands and (d) Nottingham
23 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people living in social tenancies and receiving housing benefit are subject to the removal of the spare room subsidy in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) the East
23 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people living in social tenancies are subject to the removal of the spare room subsidy in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) the East Midlands and (d) Nottingham No
23 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households with a disabled family member are subject to the removal of the spare room subsidy.
18 Oct 2017 · Home Office
Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies have been required to publish a modern slavery and human trafficking statement in accordance with section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017; and whether the
13 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury
Pay
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2017 to Question HL1074, if he will publish figures for the estimated differential between public and private sector pay when employer pension contributions are excluded.
13 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury
New Businesses: EU Grants and Loans
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 7295, how much funding UK companies have received from the (a) European Investment Bank and the (b) European Investment Fund in (i) each of the last three years
11 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle discrimination in sport.
6 Sep 2017 · Home Office
Police: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the advice given by her Department's representative on the Police Staff Council on the one per cent public sector pay cap at meetings of that Council since the 2011 Autumn Statemen
6 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury
Public Sector: Pay
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to issue remit letters to the chairs of the pay review bodies for the 2018-19 pay round before the 2017 Autumn Budget.
6 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury
Civil Servants: Pay
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to section 8 of his Department's Civil Service Pay Guidance 2017-18, published on 27 April 2017, what recruitment and retention-related pay flexibilities have been granted since 2012 for (a) non-consol
6 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury
Pay
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2017 to HL1074, whether the estimates for average employer pension contributions used in the table given in that Answer were based on (a) all public sector and private sector employe
6 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury
Public Sector: Pay
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2017 to Question 3921, by what process he plans to assess the balance of pay referred to in that Answer for pay awards for public sector workers who are not covered by a pay review b
11 Jul 2017 · Home Office
Cybercrime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what targets she has set for local police forces to tackle cybercrime; and how work to meet those targets will be funded.
11 Jul 2017 · Department of Health
Batten Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the UK are undergoing care and treatment for (a) all Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis diseases, (b) the CLN2 and (c) the CLN5 variants of that disease.
11 Jul 2017 · Department of Health
Batten Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average annual cost is to the NHS of care and treatment of people with (a) any Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis disease and (b) the CLN2 variant of that disease.
11 Jul 2017 · Department of Health
Cerliponase Alfa
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated average annual cost is to the NHS of providing Brineura (Cerliponase Alfa) to someone with the CLN2 variant of Batten Disease.
10 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport
Railways: Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the costs and benefits of rail franchising.
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