Written questions

687 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has rejected any applications for UK visas by British National (Overseas) Hong Kong citizens due to confessions given in criminal trials in Hong Kong.

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Development: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what checks her Department undertakes before providing funding to community organisations for Hong Kongers in the UK.

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has allocated funding to organisations controlled by (a) the Hong Kong Trade Office, (b) the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China and (c) Confucius In

21 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether criminal convictions given to Hong Kongers in Hong Kong courts under the National Security Act can be used to deny UK visas.

21 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ryan Cornelius

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publicly call for the release of Ryan Cornelius.

21 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ryan Cornelius

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its 93rd session, 30 March-8 April 2022 : Opinion No. 19/2022 concerning Ryan Cornelius

20 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Members

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department issues guidance to the armed forces on the use of barracks to host MP constituency surgeries for serving personnel.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Forced Labour

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Solar Stewardship Initiative Traceability Standard on helping to tackle forced labour in solar supply chains.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of authorising the Gambling Commission to offer redress for losses following the collapse of a gambling operator.

17 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Fire and Rescue Services: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting fire services from business rates at the next fiscal event.

16 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Republika Srpska and Serbia: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government considers joint committees between the legislatures of the Republic of Serbia and Republika Srpska as being compatible with the Dayton Agreement.

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

T-levels: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department plans to provide for T-Level qualifications in each of the next three financial years.

15 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Constituencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposals within the English Devolution White Paper on the (a) borders and (b) status of ceremonial counties.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 22092 on Local Government: Reform, whether local council mergers will be required under the English Devolution White Paper.

14 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will publish the ethnicity data on grooming gangs collected by the police.

14 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21677 on Offences Against Children, whether her Department plans to reform the collection of data on grooming gangs.

14 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Police: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether all immediate choice officer pensions will be remedied by 1 April 2025.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any offenders who were convicted of child sexual abuse have been released early from prison since 5 July 2024.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Primates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent neglect of monkeys used for medical research.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Muslim Brotherhood

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department considers the Muslim Brotherhood and its international offshoots to be extremist entities.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Muslim Association of Britain

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department considers the Muslim Association of Britain an extremist entity.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the United Arab Emirates proscribing (a) Cambridge Education and Training Centre Ltd, (b) IMA6INE Ltd, (c) Wembley Tree L

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) protect the livestock sector from the confirmed outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany and (b) prevent the disease entering the UK.

13 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any offenders convicted of gang rape have been released early from prison in the last six months.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plants: Import Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve border infrastructure for importing (a) large plants and (b) trees.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plants: Import Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made on developing an improved plant health alert system; and whether the new system will include real time updates on border holds.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horticulture: Import Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to provide more data to horticulture businesses on (a) sanitary and phytosanitary border movements and (b) inspection rates generated from the Impor

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Allergies: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing the new Neffy treatment for severe allergic reactions to schools when available on the NHS.

8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Allergies: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the new Neffy treatment for severe allergic reactions will be available on the NHS.

6 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish a plan to help tackle the use of Uyghur slave labour in solar supply chains.

Source: official written-questions record.