Written questions

2,491 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Food: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what financial support is provided to local authorities for the cost of emergency food parcels during the covid-19 outbreak.

28 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Food: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when local authorities may levy a charge on the recipients of emergency food parcels during the covid-19 outbreak.

19 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Overseas Territories: Marine Protected Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of the UK's Overseas Territory Blue Belt marine protected areas have published and are implementing marine protected area management plans.

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recreation Spaces: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional financial assistance he plans to provide to (i) the National Trust, (ii) the RSPB, (iii) the Wildlife Trusts and (iv) other organisations to help them meet additional c

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recreation Spaces: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to provide (a) support and (b) guidance to (i) the National Trust, (ii) the RSPB, (iii) the Wildlife Trusts and (iv) other organisations to help them prepare their sites

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Wildlife: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's Consultation on controls on the import and export of hunting trophies announced on November 2019, what plans he has to make representations to his in

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Wildlife: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the consultation on controls on the import and export of hunting trophies published in November 2019 and updated in January 2020, if he will seek international agreem

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's consultation on controls on the import and export of hunting trophies published in November 2019 and updated in January 2020, when the Government wil

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what cost benefit analysis he has carried out on establishing a separate UK REACH programme.

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for the UK to diverge from EU REACH regulations.

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what safeguards he has put in place to ensure the continuity of (a) chemical regulation and (b) the protection of (i) consumers and the (ii) environment from potentially dangerous chem

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) industry, (b) consumer and (c) environmental groups on the timetable for the Government’s Chemicals Strategy.

11 May 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether work on the Government’s Chemicals Strategy has been suspended; and what the timetable is for the publication of that strategy.

17 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, further to Answer of 12 March to Question 25734 on Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974: Prosecutions, in what location the listed offences took place.

13 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Litter: Tobacco

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's powers to require the tobacco industry to take steps to limit littering from its products.

13 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Landlords

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many names there are on the Rogue Landlords Database as of 1 March 2020.

12 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Regional Planning and Development: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the Government plans to announce the seed funding to establish the Great South West initiative.

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the length of time set aside for beta testing of the catch recording app; and what information his Department holds on the use of that ap

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the evidential basis for the Marine Management Organisation's proposal to introduce a catch recording app.

12 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's methodology was for collecting and collating data on views of small scale fishers in its report on the service standard assessment of the catch recording service.

11 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Type 26 Frigates

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether shipyards other than those based in the UK will be able to bid for the deep maintenance contract for the new Type 26 frigates.

11 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Regional Planning and Development: South West

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he received on providing £2 million of seed funding for the Great South West initiative.

11 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many holdings in 2019 in each county in England were subject to interferon gamma testing for bovine tuberculosis after their officially TB free status had been withdrawn.

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2020 to Question 13561 on fishing catches: computer software, if he will publish a breakdown (a) of the £1.8 million spent on the development and

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which company prepared and submitted the information that appeared in the presentation to the Government Digital Service as part of the beta stage assessment of the catch recording app

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which company was awarded the contract for the development of the catch recording app for fishing vessels of under 10m in length; when that contract was awarded; and what the value of

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what risks determined that all quota species should be recorded on the catch recording app for under 10m fishing vessels before the fish were landed.

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the findings were of the independent user research, which formed the basis of the beta assessment of the catch recording app for fishing vessels of under 10m in length, on the mat

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2020 to Question 18901 on fishing catches, which Minister was responsible for the live assessment stage of the catch reporting app; and when the live

10 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2020 to Question 21400 on fishing catches, whether the catch recording app was assessed by the Government Digital Service on the basis of the technica

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