Written questions
2,200 written questions tabled, most recent first.
3 Mar 2022 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to make decisions on asylum claims that are older than three years.
3 Mar 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time for scheduling of an asylum substantive interview was over the past five years.
3 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government is taking steps to support local authorities to improve collection and storage of children’s services data.
2 Mar 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for family visas.
2 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Schools: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to guidance entitled Political Impartiality in Schools published on 17 February 2022, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of that guidance with the requirement for schools to adopt L
2 Mar 2022 · Cabinet Office
Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 3128 on Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Disclosure of information, if he will provide a breakdown of the costs to the public purse incurred in relation to this matter
28 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of protecting the titles of interpreters and translators in law.
28 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Supported Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer to Question 125443 on Supported Housing: Regulation, what data his Department holds on the extent and prevalence of supported housing landlords providing poor
25 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Eating Disorders: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2022 to Question 119788, what steps he is taking to tackle to the increase in waiting times for children and young people with eating disorders.
24 Feb 2022 · COP26
Climate Change and Environment Protection
To ask the President of COP26, what steps he plans to take to create a joint strategy for tackling climate change and and protecting the natural environment following COP26.
24 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help ensure the UK becomes nature positive by 2030.
22 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Basic Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to integrate the successful elements and key learnings of the EQUIP-T programme in Tanzania into its other education Official Development
22 Feb 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Basic Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2021 to Question 85319, in addition to the EQUIP-T programme, which other UK bilateral education programmes have achieved improvements to
21 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the cumulative impact on the living standards of households in receipt of universal credit of (a) not up-rating benefits in line with inflation, (b) the end to
21 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of not uprating benefits in line with inflation on levels of child poverty in Liverpool, Walton constituency.
21 Feb 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of not uprating benefits in line with inflation on the incomes of households in receipt of universal credit, in the context of the end to the £20 we
21 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022 to Question 120897, on Prescriptions: Fees and Charges, if he will undertake an assessment of the potential merits of bringing England in line with the re
21 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office
Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what cost has been incurred to the public purse in respect of not allowing the public release of the Mountbatten archive as at 21 February 2022.
18 Feb 2022 · Home Office
Drugs: Impact Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government’s drug strategy, From harm to hope: A 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives, published December 2021, was subject to an equality impact assessment.
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Crops
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2021 to Question 137274 on Hemp, what progress he has made on the project on the potential use of underutilised, underdeveloped or novel crops, inc
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Supported Housing: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of strengthening the regulation of exempt accommodation.
18 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Framework Study
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish Sir Robert Francis' study into options for a framework for compensation for people infected and affected by infected blood upon his Department receivin
18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to engage with families with disabled children following the publication of the Green Paper on special educational needs.
18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cancer scans have been cancelled as a result of a shortage of radioactive materials since 2020.
18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate supply of radiation material for cancer scans.
18 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 8 November 2021 to Question 63865 on Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling, when he plans to launch the consultation on alcohol labelling.
18 Feb 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to widen access to justice for people applying for settlement under the Immigration Rules.
18 Feb 2022 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take steps to simplify immigration law for (a) practitioners and (b) the public.
18 Feb 2022 · Home Office
Nationality and Borders Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what economic impact assessment her Department has undertaken in respect of the Nationality and Borders Bill.
16 Feb 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support local authorities to tackle backlogs in disabled children’s health and care services.
Source: official written-questions record.