Written questions

2,823 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Royal Mint: Non-fungible Tokens

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish his Department's rationale for instigating the development of a Royal Mint non-fungible token.

14 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Royal Mint: Non-fungible Tokens

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Treasury spent in total on the creation of a Royal Mint non-fungible token.

14 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Customs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs on ensuring effective delivery of the Single Trade Window.

21 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Local Resilience Forums

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee's recommendation to place Local Resilience Forums on a statutory fo

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Cosmetics: Chemicals

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2022 to Question 157481 on chemicals, what tests have been conducted on imported and ecommerce consumer products for the presence of lysmeral above legal concentratio

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Regulatory Management Options Analyses on potential substances for inclusion on the Substances of Very High Concern Candidate List does the Health and Safety Executive have the capacity to cond

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department has carried out a cost benefit analysis of changes to the identification and control of Substances of Very High Concern.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 1 February 2022 to Question 110317 on Chemicals regulation, how often her Department plan to add new substances to the UK Candidate List of Substances of Very

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the December 2021 principles for the inclusion of Substances of Very High Concern on the UK REACH Candidate List on (a) the substitution o

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish her Department's Regulatory Management Options Analysis on the four substances it was considering for inclusion on UK’s Substances of Very High Concern Candidate List; and if he will

20 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Buildings: Energy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 4.152 of the Spring Budget 2023, HC1183, published on 15 March 2023, what assessment he has made of the impact of the budget's measures on helping people into employment on labour shortag

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the impact of Government policy on home insulation and retrofitting on (a) the UK’s net zero target and (b) levels of fuel poverty.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much and what proportion of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero's capital departmental expenditure will be allocated to energy efficiency measures.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's capital departmental expenditure budget will be in (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25; and which grants will be affected by changes in the level of funding.

20 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Humanitarian Situation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Lahore.

20 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the police response to recent protests in Lahore.

20 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the security situation in Lahore.

8 Mar 2023 · Women and Equalities

Women: Employment

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to support women’s equality in the workplace.

7 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities on improving indoor air quality; and when those discussions took place.

7 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) identify eligible applicants of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme who remain within Afghanistan and meet the criteria for vulnerable minorities and (b)

7 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to allocate the £286 million of humanitarian assistance committed to Afghanistan; how much of that funding has been distributed; and when

6 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of the disability employment gap.

2 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) staffing and (b) other costs were incurred by the Health and Safety Executive for work relating to UK REACH in the (i) 2021-22 financial year and (ii) 2022-23 financial year to 31 January 2023.

2 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff work on UK REACH in (a) the Health and Safety Executive, (b) her Department, (c) the Environment Agency and (d) other bodies; and whether her Depart

2 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish (a) the survey conducted by HSE of British-based suppliers and retailers of articles about their duties under Article 33 of UK REACH and (b) the wider review it co

2 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many novel, non-grandfathered substances are registered with UK REACH; how many and what proportion of these registrations are (a) one tonne, (b) 100 tonnes and (c) 1,000 tonnes or

2 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many chemical substances have been registered through UK REACH under its grandfathering process as of 1 March 2023; and how many of those will receive the full datasets.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason landowners of country estates are not subject to vicarious liability in instances of raptor persecution.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Areas: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) raptor persecution and (b) rural crime.

1 Mar 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to take additional steps to prevent the killing of (a) raptors and (b) other birds of prey in England.

Source: official written-questions record.