Written questions
1,596 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Parking: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to restrict the access for parking companies to DVLA records if they are found to have consistently issued unfair parking charge notices.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate the Government has made of what proportion of the UK’s energy supply will come from renewable resources by 2030.
10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Aligning the upper age for NHS prescription charge exemptions with the State Pension age, published on 1 July 2022, whether she will take st
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Companies: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses in the UK have between 250 and 500 employees.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Food: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to reduce the level of VAT charged on hot meals served at food outlets.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Standing Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he had with representatives of the energy sector on reducing standing charges.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Mileage Allowances: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the context of the rising cost of electricity, if he will make it his policy to increase the HMRC advisory electricity rate for electric car business mileage.
10 Oct 2022 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan citizens resettlement scheme applications (a) have been concluded and (b) are outstanding.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason he removed the Additional Rate of Income Tax.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of the UK’s energy supply the Government expects to be provided by renewable resources in 2030.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Exchange Rates: Dollar
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to tackle changes in the value of Pound Sterling against the United States Dollar; and if he will make a statement.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Warehouses: Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to mandate (a) existing and (b) new commercial warehouses to install rooftop solar panels.
10 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
China: Uyghurs
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterparts about the treatment of Uighur Muslims.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Investment Zones: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with environmental groups on his proposals to introduce Investment Zones.
22 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Fracking
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential environmental impact of lifting the moratorium on fracking.
22 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensioners: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to assist pensioners with the rising cost of living.
22 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when her Department plans to make a decision on the Warrington and Halton bid for the New Hospital Programme.
22 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Sizewell C Power Station: Foreign Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons the Government has permitted a significant proportion of investment in Sizewell C nuclear power station to come from foreign investors.
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of reports that adult dependent relatives of British Nationals (Overseas) have experienced visa processing delays of over a year; and
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government’s visa support for young people from Hong Kong will extend to allowing those people to include years spent in the UK on a student visa toward the five year route to settlement f
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the process is for eligible young people from Hong Kong currently in the UK asylum system to transfer to the British Nationals (Overseas) visa from November 2022 onward.
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether young people from Hong Kong who are currently in the UK on visitor leave will be able to transition into the British National (Overseas) visa if they are eligible when it extends to them in No
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether young people from Hong Kong who have overstayed their current visa leave out of fear of returning to Hong Kong due to their political activity will be able to switch into the British National
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the British National (Overseas) visa extension will apply to young people whose British National (Overseas) parents are now both deceased.
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allow the financial requirements of 18–25 year-old British National (Overseas) visa applicants to be sponsored by a third-party.
21 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish (a) a timetable for the introduction of the British National (Overseas) visa extension to young people from Hong Kong and (b) eligibility criteria for that visa extension.
21 Sep 2022 · Treasury
British National (Overseas): Cost of Living
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether British National (Overseas) visa holders will be eligible for Government cost of living support in winter 2022.
21 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Apprentices: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether young people from Hong Kong on the extended British National (Overseas) visa will be able to immediately access apprenticeship schemes in the UK without having to wait for three years of residence.
21 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what support his Department will provide to young people from Hong Kong who will become eligible for the British National (Overseas) visa from November this year.
21 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Patient Safety Commissioner
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps patients can take to contact the Patient Safety Commissioner.
Source: official written-questions record.