Written questions
1,993 written questions tabled, most recent first.
24 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Coroners: Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals for non means tested legal aid funding for families in relation to state-related deaths.
24 Jan 2020 · Home Office
Windrush Lessons Learned Review
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 15 January 2020 to Question 1929 on Windrush Lessons Learned Review, what the timeframe is for her Department to receive the final report from Wendy Williams.
24 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Voluntary Work: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to raise awareness of the National Citizen Service among young people from each of the classified ethnic groups.
24 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Voluntary Work: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many young people participated in the National Citizen Service in each of the last 10 years, by classified ethnic group.
24 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Children and Young People
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to Answer of 21 January 2020 to Question 3229 on Children and Young People, what will be classified as harder to reach areas.
24 Jan 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Centres: Construction
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to Answer of 21 January 2020 on Question 3229 on Children and Young People, where she plans to build the 60 new youth centres.
24 Jan 2020 · Cabinet Office
Intelligence and Security Committee
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2020 to Question 4773 on Russia: Subversion, how long the process to establish the new Intelligence and Security Committee will take.
23 Jan 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that schools are aware of the Salix Loan available to insulate school buildings and meet carbon reduction targets.
23 Jan 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England are taking steps to insulate their buildings to meet local and national carbon reduction targets.
23 Jan 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fuel Poverty: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) the Manchester, Gorton constituency are currently living in fuel poverty.
22 Jan 2020 · Home Office
Repatriation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many voluntary removals were performed in each of the last five years; and how many of those voluntary removals were classified as (a) assisted returns, (b) controlled returns and (c) other verifi
22 Jan 2020 · Home Office
Counter-terrorism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has been made on ensuring that the job of the independent Reviewer of Prevent is publicly advertised; and (a) where and (b) when that advertisement will be published.
22 Jan 2020 · Home Office
Counter-terrorism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to appoint a new Independent Reviewer of Prevent.
22 Jan 2020 · Home Office
Migrant Workers: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy to remove the £30,000 minimum salary threshold for immigrants wishing to work in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
22 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings on healthcare provision of the report by Inquest, Deaths in prison, published 22 January 2019, if he will take steps to improve the (a) physical and (b) mental wellbe
22 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development
Yemen: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of humanitarian access in Yemen.
22 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development
Yemen: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that humanitarian agencies in Yemen are able to operate (a) independently and (b) according to the humanitarian principles.
22 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development
Yemen: Dengue Fever
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to help prevent cases of dengue fever in Yemen.
22 Jan 2020 · Department for International Development
Yemen: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to support education in Yemen.
22 Jan 2020 · Treasury
Electronic Publishing: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of VAT rates applicable to digital publications on literacy levels among young people.
22 Jan 2020 · Treasury
Audiobooks and Electronic Publishing: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the merits of VAT on eBooks and audiobooks in the upcoming Budget.
22 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of children in Manchester, Gorton constituency that are living in (a) poverty and (b) absolute poverty have (i) one household member in full-time employment, (ii) two househ
22 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children lived in (a) poverty and (b) extreme poverty in Greater Manchester in each of the last 10 years.
21 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
China: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the novel coronavirus detected in the city of Wuhan; and what assessment he has made of the risk posed by the novel coronavirus
21 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Libya: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) humanitarian situation in Libya and (b) effect of the war in that country on the development of its young people.
21 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Overseas Territories: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Overseas Territories on the future governance of those territories and the potential merits of (a) a devolution settlement for those territories simil
21 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Overseas Territories: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the future governance of the Overseas Territories and the potential merits of (a) a devolution settlement for those territories simi
21 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Overseas Territories: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the future governance of the Overseas Territories; what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) a devolution settlement for those territories similar t
21 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Overseas Territories: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received representations on the Overseas Territories (a) negotiating a devolution settlement similar to those for devolved nations of the UK and (b) representation in the U
21 Jan 2020 · Home Office
Asylum: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to remove the application fee for family reunions under paragraph 319X of the Immigration Rules.
Source: official written-questions record.