Written questions

1,705 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Entain: Money Laundering

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether Entain has paid the £17 million fine imposed on it by the UK Gambling Commission in August 2022 for anti-money laundering failures.

11 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Liquefied Natural Gas: Business

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of future trends in the growth of the global liquefied natural gas market on UK businesses over the next ten years.

9 Nov 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USA: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made for the implications of his policies of reports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps involvement in attempted assassinations of senior U.S

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Natural Gas: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps his Department has taken to help ensure that the UK's supply of natural gas will not be further affected by the war in Ukraine.

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Supply Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the remit is of the Energy Supply Taskforce; by what criteria his Department will make an assessment of whether the Taskforce has been a success; and what the planned timetab

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase energy security.

3 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help support people with special educational needs to get into the workplace.

3 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kinship Care: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to provide further financial support to Kinship Carers to help with the cost of living.

25 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Charities

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that materials provided by (a) Mermaids and (b) other advocacy organisations for use in schools are appropriate for use by (i) vulnerable and (ii) other children.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

STEP Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be created by the Step Fusion Project in Nottinghamshire.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Investment Zones: Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether Ashfield and Eastwood constituency will be one of the 38 investment zones announced in the Growth Plan 2022.

20 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foie Gras: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Animal Welfare Act 2006, when the Government plans to publish its investigation into the importation and sale of foie gras.

20 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Digital: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS Digital has spent on advertisements that raise awareness of serious medical conditions in each of the last three years.

8 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antidepressants: Alcoholism

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the medical effect of prescribing (a) citalopram and (b) other antidepressants to people with alcoholism.

8 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what protections are in place for spouses who are victims of domestic abuse seeking a divorce.

8 Sep 2022 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures are in place to protect female victims of domestic abuse during a police investigation.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Protected Areas: Fisheries

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent destructive fishing in Marine Protected Areas.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to support Ukrainian refugees to find housing after their six month sponsorship ends who are not able to provide either a down-payment for a depos

2 Sep 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Air Force: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the equity of the recruiting process used by the RAF and whether positive discrimination has occurred in this process.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Experiments: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the implications for his animal welfare policies of breeding dogs for animal testing.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Supported Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what step his Department is taking to help ensure the provision of supported accommodation for disabled people is cost effective.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to provide additional financial support to people receiving end of life care in the context of the cost of living crisis.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

LGBT+ People: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the appropriateness of learning materials provided by LGBTQ campaign groups for use in primary schools.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Football

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to help increase access to football training for girls in schools.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to resume fracking as a way of extracting shale gas; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of such a resumption on (a) energy pri

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to provide women affected by changes to State Pension age with compensation.

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact on response times for ambulances in Ashfield and Eastwood of ambulances being sent to patients who did not require emergency care.

18 Jul 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support his Department plans to provide to parents of children who are unable to attend school due to their (a) special educational needs and (b) disabilities.

13 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cereals: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to introduce a scheme that would incentivise British farmers to grow cereal crops.

13 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horse Racing: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ban the practice of using the whip in horse racing.

Source: official written-questions record.