Written questions

1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Manston Asylum Processing Centre: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department took steps to help tackle overcrowding at Manston short term holding facility in the six months before 1 November 2022.

4 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Twitter: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of charging for Twitter verification on (a) child safeguarding, (b) fraud and cyber-crime and (c) other onlin

3 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to exempt people who were prescribed tetracycline from future dental costs.

3 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Codes of Practice

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister was provided with information on the adherence of the Rt. hon Member for Fareham to the Ministerial Code during her tenure as Secretary of State for the Home Department before her reap

2 Nov 2022 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department estimates the UK’s GDP to increase by in the next 10 years as a result of current trade deals made since Brexit.

2 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been deported to Rwanda since 1 January 2022.

2 Nov 2022 · Cabinet Office

Former Ministers: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reviewing ministerial severance pay.

1 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help resolve industrial disputes between rail workers and franchises.

1 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to establish more renewable sources of UK energy since 1 January 2022.

31 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus and Influenza: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to deal with rising (a) flu and (b) covid-19 cases; and if he will make a statement.

31 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Taxation: Domicil

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to abolish non-domiciled tax status.

31 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Egypt: Climate Change Convention

To ask the Secrertary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Prime Minister will reconsider his decision not attend COP27.

31 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bermuda and Cayman Islands: Marriage

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with LGBT activists and organisations from the (a) Cayman Islands and (b) Bermuda where the right to marriage for same-sex couples is refused b

31 Oct 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy: Wales

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on banning sexual orientation and transgender conversion practices.

31 Oct 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy: Scotland

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations made by the Ending Conversion Practices Expert Advisory Group in Scotland on 4 October 2022.

31 Oct 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with her counterparts and legislators in (a) Malta, (b) France, (c) Canada, (d) New Zealand, (e) Greece and the relevant regional or state governments of the (i) US, (ii) Spain and

31 Oct 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which accredited medical, counselling or psychological organisations support the Government’s plan to not include transgender people in a ban on conversion practices.

31 Oct 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department has consulted (a) NHS England, (b) NHS Wales, (c) the Royal College of GPs, (d) the Royal College of Psychiatrists, (e) the British Psychological Society and (f) the British Association

31 Oct 2022 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what work has been undertaken by her Department on transgender conversion practices since the Government set out its plans on this topic in its background briefing to the Queen’s Speech in May 2022.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Heating: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to replace gas boilers in domestic properties with more renewable heating sources.

27 Oct 2022 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Furniture

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Department has spend on lecterns in each of the last five years.

26 Oct 2022 · Department for International Trade

TRIPS Agreement: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what consultation her Department is holding on whether the TRIPS Agreement should be extended to cover covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostic tests.

26 Oct 2022 · Department for International Trade

TRIPS Agreement: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions she has had with (a) The Secretary for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, (b) Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (c) The Secretary for Health

26 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the cost of energy since 1 January 2022.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Wealth: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has mad an assessment of the potential merits of introducing new taxes on wealth.

25 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to allow Universal Credit claimants who report to her Department that their circumstances have changed from self-employed to employed to continue claiming the rate awarded

24 Oct 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deposit Return Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Deposit Return Scheme will commence.

24 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Help to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will increase the bonuses available to first time buyers under the Help to Buy scheme.

24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of increasing transparency of national IVF provision on that provision.

24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Women's Health Strategy, what the evidential basis was for the commitment to greater transparency of national IVF provision.

Source: official written-questions record.