Written questions

2,198 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 May 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Peking University HSBC Business School: Oxfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent (a) discussions he has had with and (b) representations he has received from (i) Peking University HSBC Business School and (ii) his Chinese counterpart on a potential campus

21 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Detergents: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that information on hazardous materials are displayed on the labels of domestic cleaning products imported and sold online by traders selling at distance.

21 May 2018 · Department for International Trade

Peking University HSBC Business School: Oxfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department has (a) held discussions with and (b) received representations from (i) Peking University HSBC Business School or (ii) authorities in China on proposals to open a campus at Foxc

17 May 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Sportsgrounds

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether a mechanism is in place to allow a football club that has introduced a safe standing area to retain that area if it is promoted to the top two tiers of English football.

17 May 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Classroom Assistants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support teaching assistants to support children with special education needs and disabilities.

16 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endoscopy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Health Education England’s target to train 400 clinical endoscopists by 2021, whether his Department is making additional funding available to support hospitals with the backfill

16 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endoscopy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of how the additional 400 clinical endoscopists recruited as part of Health Education England’s targets will free up more consultant Gastroenterologist time for more com

16 May 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endoscopy

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; and what type of endoscopy proc

16 May 2018 · House of Commons Commission

House of Commons: Food

To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many kilogrammes of food the House of Commons has disposed of as waste in (a) April 2013, (b) April 2014, (c) April 2015, (d) April 2016 and (e

16 May 2018 · House of Commons Commission

House of Commons: Food

To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many kilogrammes of food the House of Commons has disposed of as waste in each of the last five years for which information is available.

16 May 2018 · Department for Education

Children's Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's announcement on 30 April 2018 on early language skills, how much of the £8.5 million Early Years Social Mobility Peer Review Programme he expects to be spent on the developmen

16 May 2018 · Department for Education

Children's Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's announcement of 30 April 2018 on early language skills, what best practice his Department has identified for the effective use of children’s centres to improve outcomes.

14 May 2018 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with Ministers of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the effect of migrants working in the UK on Tier 2 skilled worker visas being subjec

9 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Ombudsman

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the remit of the Energy Ombudsman to cover energy brokers as well as suppliers.

9 May 2018 · Women and Equalities

Consumers: Disability

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Equality Act 2010 in improving accessibility to (a) shops and (b) websites for disabled consumers.

8 May 2018 · Home Office

Police: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the conclusion of the review of the use and retention of custody images.

4 May 2018 · Women and Equalities

Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had since her appointment as Minister for Women and Equalities with (a) disabled people and (b) Cabinet colleagues on the future of the Access to Elected Office Fund; and if she will m

4 May 2018 · Home Office

South Wales Police: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) start and (b) end date is of South Wales Police’s trial of real-time automated facial recognition on CCTV cameras.

4 May 2018 · Home Office

Metropolitan Police: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) start and (b) end date is for the Metropolitan Police’s trial of real-time automated facial recognition on CCTV cameras.

4 May 2018 · Home Office

Metropolitan Police: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department consulted mental health professionals on targeting fixated individuals not wanted for arrest on Remembrance Sunday 2017 by the Metropolitan Police.

4 May 2018 · Home Office

Police: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy rate of real-time automated facial recognition technology on public CCTV cameras used by (a) Metropolitan Police and (b) South Wales Police.

4 May 2018 · Home Office

Police: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been wrongly identified by automated facial recognition CCTV cameras at deployments by (a) Metropolitan Police and (b) South Wales Police.

3 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Global Navigation Satellite Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the UK Space Agency's announcement on the development of a British Global Navigation Satellite System published on 2 May 2018, what contingency plans his Departm

3 May 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Global Navigation Satellite Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the (a) cost to the public purse and (b) time-scale for setting up a British Global Navigation Satellite System.

30 Apr 2018 · Department for Transport

Roads: Litter

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making Highways England responsible for the removal of litter from (a) the A34 in Oxfordshire and (b) all trunk roads.

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Educational Exchanges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils at secondary schools have been on foreign exchange trips for each of the last five years for which figures are available.

24 Apr 2018 · Home Office

Visas: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Departments have been provided with (a) the number and (b) details of Tier 2 (General) Certificate of Sponsorship refusals as a result of the annual cap being reached since November 2017 to info

24 Apr 2018 · Home Office

Visas: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to provide the Migration Advisory Committee with the (a) number of Tier 2 (General) Certificate of Sponsorship applications since November 2017 and (b) (i) number of and (ii) informa

23 Apr 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the number of NHS professionals working in (a) endoscopy and (b) on screening for bowel cancer for men and women between the age of 50 and 74.

23 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Education: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Home Department on the effect of (a) the status of immigration bail under Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016, and (b) associated bail conditions prohibiting studying on

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