Written questions
687 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Hostage Taking
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he plans to appoint the (a) special envoy for hostage affairs and (b) special envoy for arbitrary detention.
6 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Drugs: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of making cuckooing a crime.
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Community Ownership Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the next round of the Community Ownership Fund will open for applications.
6 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Broadband and Mobile Phones: South Kesteven
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to improve mobile phone and broadband access in South Kesteven.
6 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average maximum number of patients registered per GP practice in England is.
6 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated to support areas at risk of flooding; and when he plans to announce these.
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, whether unitary local authorities will be required to merge with neighbouring councils to mee
6 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Viral Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) his international counterparts and (b) the World Health Organisation on human metapneumovirus.
6 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Viral Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of human metapneumovirus have been identified in the UK.
3 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she will use to measure the success of the ambition to halve violence against women and girls.
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport
Road Signs and Markings
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new sign asking drivers to move to the right at short slip roads.
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Radio: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to support new FM licences for radio stations in (a) Rutland, (b) Mid-Wales and (c) other rural areas.
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to provide funding for the expansion of electric vehicle chargers in (a) Rutland and South Kesteven and (b) other rural areas.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Offences against Children: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make being (a) the leader of and (b) involved in a grooming gang a statutory aggravating factor during sentencing.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Offences against Children: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals have been convicted for grooming.
3 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) collect and (b) publish the ethnicity of (i) abusers and (ii) victims of grooming gangs.
3 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will launch an inquiry into grooming and rape gangs.
17 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Syria: Chemical Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure UN Security Council Resolution 2118 on Syria is implemented.
16 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Prime Minister requested she call-in the application for a new Chinese Embassy in Tower Hamlets after his phone call with the President of China on 23 August 2024.
16 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have had discussions with representatives of the Chinese government on the application to build a new Chinese Embassy in
16 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to assess national security considerations when determining whether to grant planning permission for a new Chinese Embassy in Tower Hamlets.
16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that care providers, including those in supportive living care settings, are consulted during (a) policy reviews and (b) before policy decisions.
16 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Foreign Influence Registration Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce which countries will be included in the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.
16 Dec 2024 · Treasury
Emergency Services: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to exempt emergency service providers from business rates.
16 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Fawzi Omar
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the immigration status was of Fawzi Omar when he committed a sexual assault on 8 May 2024.
16 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Mohamed Iidow
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the immigration status was for Mohamed Lidow at the time he committed the manslaughter and rape of Natalie Shotter.
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Solar Power: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many solar companies based in the UK his Department has assessed to have supply chain links to forced labour.
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Solar Power: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment process his Department uses to determine if solar companies operating in the UK have supply chain links to forced labour.
11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Music Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his plans for a National Care Service include a review of training for carers in the use of musical techniques to help support people living with dementia.
11 Dec 2024 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister: Staff
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people worked in the No. 10 foreign policy team on (a) 31 October 2024 and (b) 11 December 2024.
Source: official written-questions record.