Written questions
3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Speeches
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his speech entitled The Locarno Speech by the Foreign Secretary: January 2025, published on 9 January 2025; for what reasons were part of the speech redacte
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Brexit
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question HL3924 on Brexit, what steps he is taking in response to each of those active infringement proceedings.
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Equality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the recent Employment Tribunal settlement between Mrs Eleanor Frances versus the Department of Culture, Media and Spor
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Trade Union Officials: Facilities Agreements
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2024 to Question 8126 on Trade Union Officials: Facilities Agreements, for what reason the public sector trade union facility time data was not published before the end of 20
5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Political Impartiality
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21056 on DWP: Political Impartiality, whether her Department holds information on a disciplinary investigation into party political campaigning by of
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Arms Length Bodies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled The Approvals Process for the Creation of New Arm’s-Length Bodies, published on 15 March 2018, which of the three tests in Chapter 2 the Industrial Strategy C
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Special Advisers: Industrial Disputes
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 August 2024 to Question 1667 on Prime Minister: Special Advisers, whether special advisers who (a) are part of a trade union and (b) not part of a trade union are permitted to go on s
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Aviation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 8434 on Prime Minister: Aviation, which (a) company and (b) commercial facility the Government uses to carbon offset its (i) domestic and (ii) international
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Bodies: Finance
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21401 on Public Bodies: Finance, if he will list specific hyperlinks for where this information is published on gov.uk.
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November to Question 6094 on Cabinet Office: Civil Servants, for what reason does the Government not publish details of appointments below SCS2 grade.
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 6093 on Civil Servants: Recruitment, what is the process by which a Minister can request a department (a) appoint and (b) consider appointing a specific ind
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Disciplinary Proceedings
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department have been disciplined for (a) plagiarism and (b) making false statements on a CV when applying for a job in the latest 12 month period for which figures are available.
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Risk Assessment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 176 of the National Risk Register 2025 and page 180 of the National Risk Register 2023, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) repeal of the Trade
5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Codes of Practice
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024, to Question 13759 on Business: Meetings, if he will take steps to publish supplementary guidance to the Ministerial Code on how Ministers should record meetings with b
4 Feb 2025 · Treasury
National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority: Public Appointments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 January 2025 on Machinery of Government, HCWS368, whether appointments to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority will be included in the Public
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
HMS Achilles
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions the (a) Cabinet Office and (b) 10 Downing Street had with the French Government on the renaming of HMS Agincourt.
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Admiralty House
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23478 on Admiralty House, for what reason the Secretary of State for Defence occupied Admiralty House on a time-limited basis.
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Dual Nationality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued to Ministers on declaring dual nationality to (a) their department and (b) the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards.
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Special Advisers: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2025 to Question 24650 on Special Advisers: Pay, what changes were made to special adviser pay policy since October 2024.
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Directors
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23481 on Government Departments: Directors, what steps his Department is taking to avoid conflicts of interest in relation to consultant lobbyists serving as
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list (a) each (i) scheme and (ii) programme for the Civil Service Fast Stream and (b) how many people were recruited to the civil service through each in 2024.
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Eurostat: Office for National Statistics
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 23894 on Eurostat: Office for National Statistics and the associated correspondence of 17 January 2025 from the National Statistician, if he will make it his
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Official Residences
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued to Ministers on what costs for moving (a) in and (b) out of official residences can be paid for from the public purse.
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Special Advisers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Cabinet Office’s FOI disclosure referenced FOI2024/14571 of 4 December 2024, on which dates the Special Adviser People Board has met since the 5 July 2024; and which special advisers attended e
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Armed Forces: Equality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 21390 on Armed Forces: Equality and with reference to the written ministerial statement of 14 May 2024, HCWS464, on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister: Aviation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 18211 on Prime Minister: Aviation, whether this approach is different to that of the previous Prime Minister.
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Members' Interests
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2024 to Question 18670 on DCMS: Official Visits and with reference to the guidance entitled Ministers’ gifts (given and received), travel, hospitality received and meetings
4 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
National Wealth Fund: Statistics
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the UK Statistics Authority plans to lay a new Official Statistics Order to designate the National Wealth Fund's statistical outputs as official statistics.
31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office
Legislation: Impact Assessments
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question HL2719 on Legislation: Impact Assessments, if he will publish that letter.
31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Appointments: Political Activities
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance on the publication of declarations of political activity for public appointees.
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