Written questions

876 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking with local councils to increase support for activities for young people over the 2020 summer holiday.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to allocate additional resources to local councils for the provision of support for families with SEND children.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Holiday Play Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to deliver equivalents to holiday play schemes for children with special educational needs.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support he will make available to parents of children with special educational needs over the summer holidays 2020.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a vaccine for covid-19 will be administered to target local areas with a higher incidence of covid-19.

22 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Government plans to ensure that a vaccine for covid-19 will be administered equality across the UK.

21 Jul 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Uyghurs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the drone footage released by War on Fear showing blindfolded Uighur communities in China being transferre

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Tower Hamlets

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the levels of (a) particulate matter and (b) nitrogen dioxide in the air in Tower Hamlets.

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Poplar and Limehouse

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of air quality in Poplar and Limehouse constituency.

20 Jul 2020 · Department for International Development

Bangladesh: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to allocate additional funding to help tackle the covid-19 outbreak in Bangladesh.

20 Jul 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Uyghurs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of including Chinese officials who have allegedly been implicated in the persecution of the Uyghur people i

20 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the £45 million benchmark land value for the Westferry Printworks site on the provision of affordable housing in (a) Towe

20 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his officials had access to the market evidence that formed the basis of the London Deputy Mayor for Planning's decision in April 2016 to accept a £45 million benchmark l

20 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions his officials had with the Deputy Mayor for Planning in April 2016 on his decision to accept a £45 million benchmark land value for the Westferry Printworks site

10 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Materials Handling Equipment: Industrial Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with (a) Gateway Housing Association, (b) Tower Hamlets Council and (c) Swan Housing Association on re-housing people who have been displa

10 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Materials Handling Equipment: Industrial Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with (a) Gateway Housing Association, (b) Tower Hamlets Council and (c) Swan Housing Association on the welfare needs of people who have been displaced as result

10 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Materials Handling Equipment: Industrial Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with the Health and Safety Executive on whether an Inspector Prohibition Notice will be issued regarding the Swan Housing Association’s Watts Grove development si

10 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Materials Handling Equipment: Industrial Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions officials in his Department have had with the representatives from the Health and Safety Executive on the safety of remaining cranes at the Swan Housing Association’s Watts Grove develo

10 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Materials Handling Equipment: Industrial Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with the Health and Safety Executive on potential steps required to ensure the safety of the affected site and surrounding area as a result of the crane that coll

10 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Materials Handling Equipment: Industrial Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with the Health and Safety Executive on the crane that collapsed at Swan Housing Association’s Watts Grove development site in Bow on 9 July 2020.

10 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Materials Handling Equipment: Industrial Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the 20-metre crane that collapsed at Swan Housing Association’s Watts Grove development site in Bow on 9 July 2002 had been inspected by the Health and Safety Executive.

10 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of whether there are any wider implications for his Department's policies of his decision to grant planning permission for the Westferry P

10 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to publish a Viability Assessment of the Westferry Printworks proposal before the planning application is resubmitted to his Department.

10 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy for his Department to undertake viability assessments of planning proposals where affordable housing and site values are contested.

10 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he commissioned an updated Viability Assessment for the Westferry Printworks proposal before his decision to grant planning permission in January 2020.

10 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason his Department did not publish the Viability Assessment for the Westferry Printworks planning proposal before the public inquiry of August 2019.

1 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2020 to Questions 61611 on planning permission, which of the decisions issued on called in planning applications and recovered appeals involved

1 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2020 to Question 61611 on planning permission, which of the decisions issued on called in planning applications and recovered appeals involved a

1 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2020 to Questions 61611 on planning permission, if he will list each of the 27 decisions issued on called in planning applications and recovered

1 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2020 to Questions 61818, 61819 and 61820 on Children: Ethnic Groups and with reference to his statement in that Answer that his Department does not centrally hold that informat

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