Written questions

1,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Mar 2023 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which Department will sponsor the forthcoming legislation to ban conversion therapies.

22 Feb 2023 · Treasury

Help to Save Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department holds ethnicity-disaggregated data on the use of the Help to Save scheme.

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Safe to Be Me Conference: Costs

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2022 to Question 4676, on Safe to Be Me Conference: Costs, what was the final cost incurred to his Department, after reconciliation of costs, of cancelling the Safe to Be Me co

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Equality Hub: Finance

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will publish the Equality Hub’s (a) budget and (b) programme of work for (i) 2021-22 and (ii) 2022-23.

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Race Disparity Unit: Finance

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will publish the Race Disparity Unit's (a) budget and (b) programme of work for (i) 2021-22 and (ii) 2022-23.

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: Staff

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many full-time staff are permanently employed by the Government Equalities Office.

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the decrease in annual budget of the Government Equalities Office from £47 million in 2014-15 to £18 million in 2019-20 on the outcomes of that Office.

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an estimate of the number of ministerial hours spent on Government Equalities Office business in 2022.

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: Annual Reports

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what her timescale is for the publication of Government Equalities Office annual accounts for (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23.

17 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Government Equalities Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will publish the Government Equalities Office’s (a) budget and (b) programme of work for (i) 2021-22 and (ii) 2022-23.

3 Feb 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Oxford East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 37614 on Schools: Buildings, which schools had at least one construction element in condition grade (a) C and (b) D in Oxford East constituency when that data

1 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the proportion of (a) victims and (b) perpetrators of domestic abuse of people over the age of 65 by police authority.

1 Feb 2023 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department has made available to prevent abuse of older people in each of the last 10 years.

1 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support his Department provides (a) nationally and (b) regionally to Independent Domestic Violence Advisors to help support older people who have been subject to domestic abuse.

1 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the mechanism for the allocation of specialised Independent Domestic Violence Advisors focused on the abuse of older people and the way it relates to (a) the

1 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisors who specialise in dealing with cases of domestic abuse experienced by elderly people.

1 Feb 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she will take steps to (a) publish an equality impact assessment of the Brexit Freedoms Bill in accordance with the public sector equality duty or (b) demonstrate due regard to

1 Feb 2023 · Women and Equalities

Racial Discrimination: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the statement by the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent published on 27 January 2023.

30 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Administration of Justice: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Racial Bias and the Bench, published by the University of Manchester in November 2022, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) including a section on anti-Bl

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will set out a publication timetable for the Government’s ethnicity pay gap reporting guidance for businesses.

25 Jan 2023 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will set out a timetable for the pre-legislative scrutiny of the proposed Conversion Therapy Bill.

25 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set out a timetable for the review into the policy framework for trans prisoners.

23 Jan 2023 · Scotland Office

Gender Recognition: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the legal advice received by Government in advance of their Section 35 Order on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland).

18 Jan 2023 · Women and Equalities

Gender Recognition: Scotland

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an estimate of the number of hours that (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have spent in discussions with representatives of the Scottish government on the potential cross-borde

18 Jan 2023 · Scotland Office

Gender Recognition: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make an estimate of the number of hours that (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have spent in discussions with representatives of the Scottish government on the potential cross-border i

17 Jan 2023 · Scotland Office

Gender Recognition: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the legal advice the Government received on devolution and the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland).

12 Jan 2023 · Women and Equalities

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the Government’s submission to the combined twenty-fourth to twenty-sixth periodic report to the Committee

12 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Schools: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of racial discrimination against schools were taken in Country Courts in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

12 Jan 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he will submit the Government’s combined twenty-fourth to twenty-sixth periodic report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

11 Jan 2023 · Women and Equalities

Medical Treatments Abroad: Gender Recognition

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the reasons are for the time taken to update the approved overseas countries and territories listed under Section 1(1)b of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

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