Written questions
1,495 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Jan 2021 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Contracts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how often a supplier termination event takes place at HM Revenue and Customs.
22 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he is providing to care homes to help them prepare and manage lateral flow testing for visitors.
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funds to schools that are incurring increased costs as a result of covering staff absence due to self-isolating as those absences ar
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Products: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to monitor the number of rejections of veterinary inspection documents for exports of animal by-products to the EU.
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Products: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking in response to the rejection of veterinary inspection documentation for exports of animal by-products to the EU.
22 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Products: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the list of businesses in England, Scotland and Wales approved to export Animal By-Products to the EU, how many businesses have been excluded from that list that have
21 Jan 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Western Sahara: Freedom of Expression
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans he has to make representations to the Moroccan Government on freedom of expression for people calling for independence in occupied Western Sahara.
21 Jan 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Western Sahara: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Special Rapporteurs have visited the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara since the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1979 in April 2011; when those vi
21 Jan 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Western Sahara: Sovereignty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2021 to Question 137300, whether Morocco has sovereignty over the territory of Western Sahara.
19 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Test and Trace
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money in total has been awarded by the Government to companies for NHS Test and Trace contracts.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total amount of debt being permanently written off is following the Government's recent review of Child Support Agency historic cases.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Vocational Education: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the assessment of technical and vocational qualifications in Summer 2021 that (a) include and (b) do not include practical assessment.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Pupils: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary aged pupils in Stockport were absent from school due to covid-19 in the Autumn term 2020.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rivers: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to tackle phosphate pollution in the (a) Mersey and (b) UK river network.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rivers: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to remove microplastic contamination from the (a) Mersey and (b) UK river network.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rivers: Metals
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department is making of sediment-bound concentrations of key heavy metals and metalloids within the modern river network.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chemicals: Health Hazards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) financial and (b) other support the Government is providing to areas with disproportionate environmental contaminants as a legacy of historical industrialisation and urbanisat
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rivers: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason his Department has not adopted sediment quality guidelines to provide an assessment of levels beyond which heavy metal contamination may pose a risk to aquatic biota an
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plastics: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency's visits in 2018 to all facilities which treated or reprocessed plastic waste to check they were not losing plastic fragments into surface wate
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plastics: Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many instances of plastic pollution the Environment Agency identified in the last two years; and what assessment that agency made of whether such pollution posed a significant risk
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plastics: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many breaches of compliance his Department has identified of plastic recyclers not complying with their environmental permits in the latest period for which data is available.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Inland Waterways: Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether measuring plastic levels in waterways is a priority of his Department.
19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
River Mersey: Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to remedy metal contamination of bed sediments in the Upper Mersey catchment that result from industry and urban development.
19 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Modernisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to modernise hospital estates.
19 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support digital infrastructure investment in hospitals.
19 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust to help improve accident and emergency services at Stepping Hill hospital.
19 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to hospitals with high levels of staff absence as result of covid-19 infection.
19 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Stepping Hill Hospital: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the suitability of hospital (a) building and (b) estates for Stepping Hill hospital.
19 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Stepping Hill Hospital: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to allocate funding for capital investment at Stepping Hill hospital.
16 Dec 2020 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Foreign Companies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies whose accounts are based in offshore tax havens have been hired by HMRC since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
Source: official written-questions record.