Written questions

1,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on teacher recruitment in the UK.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Languages: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK's withdrawal from the EU on the provision of language teaching in the UK.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people on the Erasmus scheme work in schools in the UK.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Teachers: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers in UK schools are EU nationals.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Travel: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the role of (a) easitNETWORK and (b) other discount travel schemes in achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Great Western Railway: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what financial support his Department will provide to users of the easitNETWORK discount travel scheme when Great Western Railway withdraws from that scheme.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Great Western Railway: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has held with employers in Oxford that make the easitNETWORK discount travel scheme available to their employees on the effect of Great Western Railway withdrawing from that scheme.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Great Western Railway: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of Great Western Railway withdrawing from the easitNETWORK discount travel scheme on (a) traffic congestion and (b) air quality in Oxford East constituency.

10 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infant Foods: Marketing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has made to the World Health Organisation on its decision that biennial reporting of controls on marketing of baby formulas and foods should end in 2026.

4 Feb 2020 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to increase the Lower Earning Limit in line with the primary national insurance contribution threshold.

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 5529 on Israel: Palestinians, whetherthe Government plans to replicate the provisions of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: West Bank

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 5527 on Israel: West Bank, to what essential infrastructure the UK has allocated that funding for vulnerable Palestinians in Area C.

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the oral contribution of 30 January 2020 of the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Official Report column 935, on Middle East Peace Plan, what steps in addition to

4 Feb 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: Bedouin

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 5527 on Israel: West Bank, how many of the cases funded through the Government’s legal aid programme to Bedouin communities and Pales

31 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hormone Replacement Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution, of 28 January 2020, Official Report, column 668, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the classification of 15 HRT products wi

29 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has issued to (a) work coaches and (b) staff in her Department on assessing whether claimants are reaching (i) the Administrative Earnings Threshold and (ii) the Conditional

29 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance has been provided to (a) work coaches and (b) staff of her Department on measures to increase earnings for in-work claimants, including sanctioning for failure to increase earnings beyond

29 Jan 2020 · Treasury

Child Trust Fund

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, of 13 March 2019, Official Report, column 177WH, whether any changes have been made to the letter that his sent to young people info

29 Jan 2020 · Treasury

Child Trust Fund: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, of 13 March 2019, Official Report, column 179WH, when the Government plans to lay the draft regulations that will ensure that invest

29 Jan 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the December 2018 document, Our Waste, Our Resources: A strategy for England, what steps her Department has taken to extend the lives of products through repair, reus

28 Jan 2020 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times HMRC has been required to refund tax paid by former employees as a function of termination payments as a result of an incorrect decision in relation to injury to feelings being classified as connected

28 Jan 2020 · Home Office

Immigration: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that immigration cases that are on hold as a result of the prosecution and conviction of Immigration4U immigration advisors are promptly concluded.

28 Jan 2020 · Home Office

Immigration: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timeframe is for the conclusion of case-handling instructions following the conclusion of the Immigration4U trial.

28 Jan 2020 · Home Office

Immigration: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases are on hold pending the drafting of the case-handling instructions since the conclusion of Immigration4U trial on 26 November 2018.

28 Jan 2020 · Treasury

Public Houses: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many pubs have a rateable value of under £100,000.

27 Jan 2020 · Treasury

Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many retail businesses have a rateable value of under £51,000.

27 Jan 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many employers that were identified as non-compliant by the national minimum wage enforcement unit were not publicly named.

27 Jan 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which employers have been named by the national minimum wage enforcement unit for non-compliance in the last three years; and what criteria her Department uses to decide on naming

27 Jan 2020 · Treasury

Minimum Wage: Non-payment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) current and (b) former employees have contacted the national minimum wage unit in relation to alleged non-compliance by their employer in each month in each of the last three years.

27 Jan 2020 · Treasury

National Minimum Wage Enforcement Unit: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many FTE staff worked in the national minimum wage enforcement unit in each month in each of the last three years.

Source: official written-questions record.