Written questions
1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Mar 2024 · Home Office
Visas: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ukrainian nationals can extend their stay by (a) 18 months and (b) three years.
8 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Older People: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing financial support to people who are (a) aged 66 when the State Pension age rises to 67 and (b) unable to continue working until the
6 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Facilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her letter to the hon. Member for Warrington North dated 5 March 2024, reference INT2024/01623/DC, what funding her Department has invested in grassroots sport facilities in eac
5 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the state pension age will increase to (a) 67 in 2026-28 and (b) 68 in 2044-46.
5 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of increasing the state pension age to (a) 67 in 2026-28 and (b) 68 in 2044-46 on levels of pensioner poverty.
5 Mar 2024 · Northern Ireland Office
Health Services and Social Services: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland administration on pay for (a) health and social care and (b) NHS workers.
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Second Report of the Business and Trade Committee of Session 2023-24 on UK accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, HC483, published
4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Older Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment her Department has made of the (a) physical and (b) mental ability of NHS staff to work beyond the state pension age.
4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Age
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) physical and (b) mental ability of people to work (i) until and (ii) beyond the state pension age.
29 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that legal aid remains accessible.
29 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to support the expanded remit of the Gangmaster Licensing and Abuse Authority.
29 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Companies: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the financial implications for her policies of trends in the level of debt acquired by water companies.
29 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Offshore Industry: Profits
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of profits made by oil and gas companies in the last 12 months.
27 Feb 2024 · Treasury
Timesharing: Misrepresentation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his expected timetable is for all clients who were mis-sold timeshares between 2014 and 2021 to receive compensation.
27 Feb 2024 · Treasury
Timesharing: Misrepresentation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department has taken to ensure the Financial Ombudsman Service tackle mis-sold timeshare complaints between 2014 and 2021.
26 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Private Rented Housing: Evictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of private tenants who were evicted under section 21 provisions in 2023 were subsequently accommodated in social housing.
23 Feb 2024 · Department for Education
Pupils: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to ban school pupils from using phones on the way to and from school.
20 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Paramedical Staff: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle sexual abuse of female paramedics.
20 Feb 2024 · Cabinet Office
Defence Fire and Rescue Service: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to tackle pension irregularities in the Defence Fire Rescue Project.
20 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensions: Gender
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to close the gender pension gap.
19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Junior Doctors: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will increase the pay of junior doctors; and when she next plans to meet their representatives to discuss pay.
16 Feb 2024 · Treasury
British Gas: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will impose a windfall tax on British Gas.
16 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to allow water customers to have a meter removed from their property.
16 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Police: Medals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to introduce new medal for police injured on duty and discharged from the service.
16 Feb 2024 · Cabinet Office
General Elections
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister plans to call the next general election.
16 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take legislative steps to require Fujitsu to compensate the sub-postmasters impacted by the Horizon IT System.
16 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Biometric Residence Permits
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the time taken to issue biometric residence permits.
8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Oral Statement of 7 February 2024 on NHS Dentistry: Recovery and Reform, Official Report, columns 251-253, whether she has made an estimate of the impact of the announcement t
7 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Project Gigabit
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the selection criteria were for Project Gigabit.
6 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce a legally binding target to reduce sewage discharges by 90% by 2030.
Source: official written-questions record.