Written questions
2,200 written questions tabled, most recent first.
13 Mar 2019 · Department for International Development
Landmines: Bomb Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent since 2017 on landmine clearance; how many landmines have been cleared with that funding; and what proportion of those landmines were (a) manufactured landmines
13 Mar 2019 · Department for Education
English Language: Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the White Paper entitled The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, published in December 2018, what additional funding his Department plans to make available to support their English la
13 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment has been made of the ability of refugees arriving through the resettlement programmes to access universal credit on the day of their arrival.
13 Mar 2019 · Home Office
Refugees: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities to maintain their current capacity to resettle refugees.
13 Mar 2019 · Home Office
Refugees: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for his Department to announce plans for future refugee resettlement programmes ahead of the conclusion of the Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme in 2020.
11 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Commonwealth: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to which Commonwealth states the Government is providing assistance on changes to LGBT law.
4 Mar 2019 · Department for International Development
Uganda: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to reports in the Indian Ocean Newsletter on 22 February 2019, that the UK Government is seeking to expand the role of British companies providing education services in Uganda, wh
26 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Development Aid: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which (a) for-profit private companies and (b) private contractors received official development assistance for the (i) delivery of education and (ii) facilitation of education programmes in (A)
11 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of education funding it allocated to public state school services in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
11 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to oral evidence by the Minister of State for International Development to the International Development Committee on DFID's work on education: Leaving no one behind, HC 367, on 1
11 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to oral evidence by the Minister of State at the Department for International Development to the International Development Committee on DFID's work on education: Leaving no one be
11 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Development Aid: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which (a) for-profit private companies and (b) private contractors received Official Development Assistance for the (i) delivery of education and (ii) facilitation of education programmes in (A)
30 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Overseas Loans: Mozambique
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January to Question 210062 on Loans: Mozambique, whether UK authorities plan to take action under the 2010 Bribery Act in relation to the allegations of K-based banks role
30 Jan 2019 · Treasury
Overseas Loans: Mozambique
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January to Question 210062 on Loans: Mozambique, whether those prudential disclosure requirements were complied with in the case of the $2 billion of loans from UK-based banks to three s
30 Jan 2019 · Treasury
Overseas Loans: Mozambique
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January to Question 210062 on Loans: Mozambique, who conducts the independent assessment of compliance with those requirements; and where those assessments are published.
30 Jan 2019 · Treasury
Overseas Loans: Mozambique
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28th January to Question 210062 on Loans: Mozambique, what information UK-based lenders to foreign governments have to disclose and to whom under UK prudential disclosure requirements.
29 Jan 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
International Assistance: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a centralised system for recording Overseas Security and Justice Assistance assessments.
29 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
International Assistance: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many Overseas Security and Justice Assistance assessments required Ministerial approval by her Department in the financial years (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
24 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Sanitation
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her steps her Department is taking to ensure transparency in the support they provide to individual sectors such as water, sanitation and hygiene in cases where it is classified as multi-se
24 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Climate Change: Sanitation
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the effect of climate change on water, sanitation and hygiene services in (a) Ethiopia and (b) other climate vulnerable countries.
24 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Sanitation
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to (a) water, (b) sanitation and (c) hygiene programmes in each of the last three years; and how much such funding her Department plans to allocate
24 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Sanitation
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK upholds its commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 6 on achieving universal access to water and sanitation by 2030.
23 Jan 2019 · Home Office
Immigration: Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to protect the rights of Turkish citizens who applied for permanent residency in the UK through the Ankara Agreement before 16 March 2018.
23 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to help ensure developing country debt repayments do not undermine poverty reducing public spending and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
18 Jan 2019 · Treasury
Overseas Loans: Mozambique
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2018 to Question 172591 on Mozambique: Loans, what steps he is taking with UK and Mozambican authorities to ensure that London-based banks and individuals concerned are held to
16 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on education (a) bilaterally and (b) multilaterally in each year since 2015.
16 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Development Aid: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which (a) for-profit private companies and (b) private contractors received official development assistance for the (i) delivery of education and (ii) facilitation of education programmes in (A)
10 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Yemen: Humanitarian Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has plans to send officials to Yemen to make an assessment of the humanitarian situation in that country.
10 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Developing Countries: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Government's response to the Fifth Report of the International Development Committee, HC246 of Session 2014-15 and the Answer of 11 December 2018 to Question 198914 on Deve
10 Jan 2019 · Department for International Development
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to allocate additional funding at the 6th replenishment of the Global Fund in October 2019.
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