Written questions
894 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visas in (a) September (b) October (c) November awaited an outcome for more than 10 weeks.
6 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visas in (a) September (b) October (c) November awaited an outcome for more than 6 weeks.
5 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) accommodation and (b) other support her Department provides to asylum seekers between the time of an asylum seeker making an appointment with an asylum intake unit and that appointment taking
5 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is required to provide accommodation to asylum seekers who have made an appointment at an asylum intake unit and are waiting for that appointment to take place.
5 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the additional Asylum Intake Units set up during the covid-19 pandemic remain open.
5 Dec 2022 · Home Office
Immigration: Biometric Residence Permits
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with financial industry representatives on enabling people with biometric residence permits to continue to evidence indefinite leave to remain beyond 2024.
29 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Prize Money: Civil Society
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that prize draws return an appropriate percentage of sales income to good causes.
29 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Prize Money: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the amount of regulations governing prize draws compared to those regulating (a) charity lotteries and (b) the National Lottery.
29 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Charities: Lotteries
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that charity lottery sales limits do not have a negative impact on the amount of funding received by charities.
29 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Charities: Lotteries
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to update the charity lottery sales limits.
29 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Charities: Lotteries
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what analysis her Department has made of the impacts of charity lottery sales limits on the funds raised by charity lotteries.
24 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Occupational Health: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in relation to Answer of 14 November 2022 Question 80893 on occupational health, when he plans to start financial incentive and market navigation support for small and medium-sized enterprises and self-
23 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport
Blue Badge Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Personal Independence Payment appeals found in favour of the claimant that confirm mobility restrictions are accepted as evidence for blue badge applications.
23 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment claimants with degenerative conditions have been reassessed within (a) 10, (b) five and (c) three years of their original award.
23 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department issues to help ensure that Personal Independence Payment claimants with degenerative conditions are identified and recorded for the purposes of scheduling future reassessmen
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Royal Mail: Industrial Disputes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to help ensure the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail reach an agreement in their industrial dispute.
22 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions his Department has held with Royal Mail about their capacity to fulfil their Universal Service Obligation.
18 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Underpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 5.13 of the Autumn Statement, CP 751 published on 17 November 2022, whether his Department plans to assign any of the £280 million allocated to target benefit fraud, error an
7 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Occupational Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on implementing the proposals relating to occupational health in the Government response to the joint DWP and DHSC consultation Health is Everyone’s Business.
31 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Homes for Ukraine Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether hosts under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme who are employing their Ukranian sponsorees are permitted to charge the accommodation offset against the National Minimum Wage in add
31 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Homes for Ukraine Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what regulation is in place where hosts under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme are employing their Ukranian guests.
31 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Disability: Children
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact the fiscal announcements made on (a) 23 September and (b) 17 October 2022 will have on families on benefits with disabled children.
31 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Disability: Children
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department made of the impact of the measures in the fiscal announcement made on (a) 23 September; and (b) 17 October on families with disabled children.
31 Oct 2022 · Home Office
Migrant Workers: Seasonal Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from which countries are workers entering the UK on the 8 week poultry visa being recruited from; what monitoring of the scheme is in place to ensure that workers are not being charged recruitment fee
31 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Chronic Illnesses and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish any equality impact assessment that was carried out to assess the impact on those with disabilities and long term conditions as a result of the decision to raise the Administrative E
31 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Chronic Illnesses and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people with disabilities or long term conditions who are affected by the announcement to raise the Administrative Earnings Threshold in Universal Credit.
25 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Power Failures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to assist (a) vulnerable, (b) disabled and (c) elderly people in the event of energy blackouts in winter 2022.
24 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 September 2022 to Question 51977 on Pension Credit, whether she has plans to improve how pension credit (a) eligibility and (b) take up is monitored.
19 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Biofuels: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish his Department's most recent assessment on impact of the use of biomass fuels on the UK’s carbon emissions.
11 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance: Cost of Living Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason Carers Allowance has been excluded from the list of qualifying benefits for receipt of the Cost of Living payment.
Source: official written-questions record.