Written questions
894 written questions tabled, most recent first.
21 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Horticulture
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of gardening and horticulture for people's (a) physical and (b) mental welfare.
21 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the International Development Strategy published May 2022, how her Department defines mainstreaming gender equality.
21 Jun 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Certification Quality Marks
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to publish a communications campaign in respect of the UKCA marking regime to raise awareness of that regime among businesses.
21 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Armed Conflict: Civilians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has plans to publish an updated strategy on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.
20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Yemen: Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she plans to take to minimise the impact of reductions to UK Aid in Yemen.
20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Syria: Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she plans to take to minimise the impact of reductions to UK Aid in Syria.
20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department's International Development Strategy, what her Department’s strategic approach is to investing in fragile and conflict affected states; and w
20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what additional details her Department’s Women and Girls Strategy will provide that were not included in the International Development Strategy.
20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the International Development Strategy, what her planned timetable is for publishing the UK's 2022 Women and Girls Strategy.
20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she plans to take to ensure that gender equality is integral to the International Development Strategy.
20 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Female Genital Mutilation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to meet the goal set out in the Government's strategy for international development, published on 16 May 2022, to end the practice of fema
16 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to mark the contribution of emergency workers killed in the line of duty.
16 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Commonwealth: Malaria
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support Commonwealth countries to achieve the Commonwealth’s target of (a) halving malaria by 2023 and (b) working towards ending the e
16 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the announcement in the recent International Development Strategy to reduce multilateral funding from 40 per cent to 25 per cent
13 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to communicate with unaccompanied minors on the progress of their applications to the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
13 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion applications from unaccompanied minors to the Homes for Ukraine scheme are awaiting (a) processing or (b) a decision.
13 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department processes applications to the Homes for Ukraine scheme from unaccompanied minors on a case-by-case basis.
13 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications from unaccompanied minors to the Homes for Ukraine scheme her Department has fully processed.
9 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks: Domestic Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date she last visited a foodbank.
7 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications were waiting to be processed on 7 June 2022; and if she will make an estimate of the average time it took to process an asylum application in (a) the 12 months prior to an
7 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of applications to her Department under the Homes for Ukraine scheme on the number of asylum applications awaiting decision; and what steps her Dep
7 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of applications to her Department under the Homes for Ukraine scheme on processing time for asylum applications; and what steps her Department is t
1 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to urgently publish guidance for unaccompanied minors who have applied to travel to the UK under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
26 May 2022 · Department for Education
Turing Scheme: Labour Mobility
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on the decision to exclude staff mobility from the Turing Scheme; and what assessment he has made of the impact of that decision on staff and participants
26 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Benefit Expenditure and caseload tables 2022, what the level of expenditure on Category D retirement pensions is in each year from 2019-20; what e
19 May 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish guidance for (a) applicants, (b) sponsors, (c) caseworkers and (d) UKVI staff on the process for when sponsors are referred for additional security checks under the Homes for Ukrai
19 May 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) shortest, (b) longest and (c) average length of time is for additional security checks on sponsors to be completed under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
19 May 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process is in place to communicate with applicants under the Homes for Ukraine scheme in the event that their sponsors are required to undertake additional security checks.
19 May 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications under the Homes for Ukraine scheme are on hold while their sponsors undergo further security checks.
19 May 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of sponsors under the Homes for Ukraine scheme require additional security checks.
Source: official written-questions record.