Sign in
☰
People MPsHouse of LordsGovernmentOppositionPartiesCommittees Votes Commons votesLords votesVotes by issueTopicsStats & rankingsParliament in numbers Legislation BillsEarly day motionsPetitions Elections Election resultsConstituenciesWho is my MP? Scotland OverviewMSPsScottish GovernmentVotesBillsMotionsCommitteesConstituencies & regionsElections Search Sign in

Written questions

Dan Carden

2,200 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Democratic Republic of Congo: Internally Displaced People

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Project Update by Medicins Sans Frontieres entitled Massive needs everywhere as displacement reac

5 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the statement by United Nations Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territory entitled Unlawful kill

5 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Food Insecurity

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the IPC Acute Food Insecurity Report on Gaza, published 21 December 2023, what assessment he has made of (a) the risk of famine in that region and (b) the potent

5 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Israel

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's statement entitled Gaza St

19 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Israel

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by Human Rights Watch entitled Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza, published on 18 D

15 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will respond to the letter from the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians of 8 December 2023.

13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel and Occupied Territories: Arms Trade

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many assessments his Department has made of the implications for his policies of (a) the obligations under Articles 6 and 7 of the International Arms Trade Treaty and (b) crit

13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel and Occupied Territories: Arms Trade

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5891 on Israel and Occupied Territories: Arms Trade, when his Department plans to publish an update to export licensing stat

13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Armed Conflict

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the letter by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians and UK-based civil society groups on the hos

13 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Foreign Investment: Dispute Resolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report by the UN entitled Paying polluters: the catastrophic consequences of investor-State dispute settleme

13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Genocide Convention

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 3317 on Gaza: Genocide, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the finding of the

13 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fossil Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the statement of Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance entitled Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance COP28 call to action, published on 11 De

13 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the 12 December 2023 United Nations General Assembly resolution on Israel-Palestine.

11 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2023 to Question 4245 on Asylum, from which organisations he received this evidence.

11 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Tax Collection

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent HM Revenue and Customs staff worked on tax compliance activity in each of the last five financial years.

7 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel and Occupied Territories: Arms Trade

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2023 to Question 2956 on Israel and Occupied Territories: Weapons, how many applications for export licences his Department has assessed in r

7 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UN Charter

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the UN Secretary-General invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter.

6 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Armed Conflict

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2023 to Question 3925, whether the Government plans to contribute to the International Criminal Court's investigation into events in Israel an

5 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the statement by Medical Aid for Palestinians on the impact of Israel's military offensive actions

5 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Climate Change: Gender

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by CARE International UK entitled Turning promises into progress - how the UK can re

5 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Peru: Foreign Relations

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his Peruvian counterpart on protections for (a) indigenous, (b) land, (c) human rights and (d) environmental activists.

5 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Myanmar: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Myanmar.

5 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Zambia: Debts

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Zambia's debt situation.

5 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Occupied Territories: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the statement by the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory publi

4 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Tax Collection

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the revenue received by the public purse through (a) compliance yield as measured for performance purposes and (b) tax revenue as measured by tax receipts raised as a result of new spe

4 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) staffing and (b) non-staffing costs of HM Revenue and Customs tax compliance activities were in each of the last five financial years.

4 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 48 of his Department's publication entitled Autumn Statement 2023 Policy Costings, published in November 2023, whether the new staff recruited to operational teams will be included in existing

4 Dec 2023 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many FTE HM Revenue and Customs staff of what civil service grade worked on which category of tax compliance activity in each of the last five financial years.

29 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 2953 on Israel: Palestinians, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK formally recognising a State of

29 Nov 2023 · Treasury

Banks: Closures

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of bank branch closures on (a) local economies and (b) levels of inequality.

Source: official written-questions record.