Written questions
1,495 written questions tabled, most recent first.
21 Sep 2021 · Home Office
Afghanistan: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to provide assistance to LGBTQI+ Afghans seeking asylum.
21 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sultana Khaya
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to Question 155443, on Sultana Khaya, whether HM Ambassador to Morocco raised the matter with the Moroccan government; and what the response of that go
21 Sep 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Retail Trade: Urban Areas
What steps he is taking to support high street businesses.
7 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total cost is of the UK's involvement in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021.
7 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Travellers: Local Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have included provision for sites for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in their local plan.
7 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Tests: Bottles
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the blood bottle shortage across the UK.
7 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Tests: Bottles
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) emergency and (b) non-emergency appointments have been cancelled owing to the blood bottle shortage across the UK.
6 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to people who have received the Novavax vaccine with international travel.
6 Sep 2021 · Home Office
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) Hindus, (b) Sikhs and (c) Hazara people that have been evacuated to the UK from Afghanistan following recent evacuation efforts in that count
6 Sep 2021 · Treasury
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much financial support the Government has made available to local authorities for supporting refugees arriving from (a) Afghanistan and (b) other countries as a result of the security situation in Afghanistan.
6 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Students: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings of the National Student Survey that 42 per cent of students felt enough was being done to help them, what steps he is taking to tackle mental health challenges in colleges and uni
6 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices in England stopped providing NHS services in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
3 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect LGBTQ+ people from persecution, arrest and potential execution in Afghanistan.
3 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken to provide evacuation for LGBTQ+ people escaping persecution in Afghanistan.
13 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
CDC: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, (a) how much of CDC Group’s £81 million commitment to the Helios Investor IV fund has been disbursed and (b) to which projects those funds have been allocated.
13 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
CDC: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, (a) how much of CDC Group’s £40.5 million commitment to the AfricInvest Fund IV has been disbursed and (b) to which projects those funds have been allocated.
13 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
CDC: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, (a) how much of CDC Group’s £12.1 million commitment to the African Infrastructure Investment Fund III has been disbursed and (b) to what projects.
7 Jul 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Public Libraries: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 15 October 2020 to Question HL8910 on Public Libraries: Coronavirus, what the outcome was of the joint letter with the Local Government Association to loc
7 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the increase in the number of children presenting at A&E with infections on A&E waiting times.
6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Travellers: Caravan Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many bids have been successful and how much funding has been allocated through the Affordable Homes Programme to support the provision of permanent traveller sites.
6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Travellers: Caravan Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2021 to Question 16972 on Travellers: Caravan Sites, if he will publish the programme that the Planning Advisory Service used for its recent ser
6 Jul 2021 · Home Office
Hate Crime: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether each police force collected information on the race or ethnicity of victims of hate crime prior to the collection of that information under the Government's experimental pilot to disaggregate
6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Hate Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2021 to Question 16970 on Hate Crime and the statement in that Answer that the Government is now considering a range of options to tackle hate c
6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Defence
United Nations: Peacekeeping Operations
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2021 to Question 16977 on United Nations: Peacekeeping Operations and the reference in that Answer to the deployment of Military Staff Officers to seven UN Peacekeeping missions,
6 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will launch a strategy to tackle the reported rise of children presenting at accident and emergency departments with viral infections outside of winter time.
5 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) advice and (b) support his Department is providing to Novavax covid-19 vaccine trial participants who have been unblinded but do not have access to their antibody test results and are unsu
5 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to Novavax covid-19 vaccine trial participants who have been unblinded and received two vaccine doses under that trial over six months ago on whether they shou
5 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to have discussions with representatives of Novavax on the release of antibody test results to unblinded participants in the Novavax covid-19 vaccine trial.
5 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Breastfeeding: Public Places
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to tackle the recording of breastfeeding in public without consent.
5 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans for the roll-out of the midwifery-led continuity of carer model to be completed and made available in all NHS trusts in England.
Source: official written-questions record.