Written questions
894 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Apr 2024 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate with Cabinet colleagues of the number of Afghans in Pakistan who are eligible for reunification with family members resident in the UK under the (a) Afghan Relocations and
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Charter Treaty
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 February 2024 on UK withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty, HCWS279, what her planned timetable is for withdrawal from the Energy Charter Trea
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2024 to Question 16834 on Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings of t
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Flexible Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department provides to work coaches on the flexible work fund; and what steps he is taking to promote uptake of that funding.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Education
Young Carers: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will assess the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for students in vulnerable groups in the 16 to 19 bursary fund to include young carers.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Education
Young Carers: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 19150, which (a) loans and (b) grants young carers are entitled to.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Voting Rights: Commonwealth
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he has taken to communicate information on voting rights to eligible commonwealth citizens resident in the United Kingdom.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Voting Rights: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of voting rights on the integration of refugees; and if he will publish any such assessment.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Voting Rights: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will undertake a review of the rules on voting eligibility to equalise voting rights between refugees from Commonwealth countries and those from other countries.
26 Mar 2024 · Home Office
Corruption
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish an updated anti-corruption strategy.
25 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Neurodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish any assessment his Department has made of the accessibility for neurodiverse claimants of the online portal used by claimants to access their universal credit accounts.
25 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will take steps to ensure that information on how to challenge decisions is available through the Child Maintenance Service portal.
18 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that Child Maintenance Service caseworkers use a trauma informed approach to deal with (a) complex cases and (b) cases involving domestic abuse.
18 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the (a) average and (b) longest time for a Child Maintenance Service caseworker to be in post before receiving training on supporting families with experience of domestic abuse.
18 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the training (a) programme and (b) objectives for Child Maintenance Service caseworkers relating to (i) identifying and (ii) supporting victims of domestic abuse.
18 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the best practice guidance provided to Child Maintenance Service caseworkers for (a) complex cases and (b) cases involving domestic abuse.
18 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Complex Needs Toolkit is used by the Child Maintenance Service.
15 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensions: Financial Assistance Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the cost of uprating pensions payable through the Financial Assistance Scheme to the same level as those payable through the Pension Protection Fund.
11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2024 to Question 16899 on Overseas Students: Ukraine, whether Ukrainian students will be able to continue studying with home fee status if their leave to remain in the UK is t
11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2024 to Question 16811 on State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions, how many days his Department took on average to reassess a citizen's claim to sta
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2024 to Question 15845, if she will issue guidance to (a) students granted leave under the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme and (b) education providers on the (i) intended r
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether residents under the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme will be considered Home Students for the purposes of university and college fees and student finance.
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Underpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice exercise to identify people who have been underpaid State Pension, how many people identified as having received an unde
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to include protections for (a) public health and safety, (b) environment, (c) public morals and (d) cultural diversity in future trade deals.
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: Dispute Resolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to pages 3-5 paragraphs 1-9 of the report by UN Special Rapporteur entitled Paying polluters: the catastrophic consequences of investor-State dispute settlement for climate and environme
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to (a) collect and (b) publish management information on the number of people who have (i) had changes to their National Insurance record and (ii) are waiting to have their
1 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Foreign Investment: Dispute Resolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the report entitled Paying polluters: the catastrophic consequences of investor-State dispute settlement for climate and environment
1 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of automating data-sharing between his Department's Disability Service Centre and its Universal Credit section.
16 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made a recent assessment of levels of homelessness among Afghan nationals previously housed in bridging accommodation in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland.
16 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the document entitled Afghan homelessness management information: 1 July 2023 to 31 August 2023, published on 19 September 2023, what data his Department has collec
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