Written questions
810 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Jan 2024 · Attorney General
Aiding and Abetting
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2024 to Question 8608, Aiding and Abetting, if she will direct the Crown Prosecution Service to clarify in future guidance that joint enterprise only applies where persons intentionally ass
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Bibby Stockholm
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were being accommodated on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland on 8 December 2023.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Home Office: Bibby Marine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the charter agreement between his Department and Bibby Shipping for the Bibby Stockholm.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Home Office: Corporate Travel Management
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the contract between his Department and Corporate Travel Management includes penalties for (a) fatalities among and (b) injuries sustained by people accommodated on the Bibby Stockholm.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Bibby Stockholm: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which sub-contractors are providing (a) security and (b) welfare services to people accommodated on the Bibby Stockholm.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Home Office: Corporate Travel Management
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will review the performance criteria of the contract between his Department and Corporate Travel Management for the Bibby Stockholm.
10 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Leonard Farruku
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which public authorities are responsible for investigating the death of Leonard Farruku on the Bibby Stockholm barge on 12 December 2023.
8 Jan 2024 · Attorney General
Aiding and Abetting
To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Crown Prosecution Service report of 29 September 2023, Crown Prosecution Service Joint Enterprise Pilot 2023: Data Analysis, whether joint enterprise applies where persons unintentionally assist or encour
5 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Social Services: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will meet with Barnardo’s to discuss how local authorities can work with partners to prevent the over-criminalisation of Black children in the care system.
5 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Foster Care: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will meet with Barnardo’s to discuss developing a Black Foster Care Network to improve the experiences of Black children in care.
5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Care Leavers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will update the HM Prison and Probation Service Strategy for Care-Experienced People to include a specific focus on race.
5 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Gambling: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Gambling-related harms evidence review: quantitative analysis, updated on 11 January 2023, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of th
5 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's consultation on the statutory levy on gambling operators, published on 17 October 2023, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of setting a
5 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to section 4 of the Asylum accommodation support transformation: policy equality statement, updated by his Department on 8 September 2020, when the Asylum Accommodation and Support Tran
5 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to section 3c of the Asylum accommodation support transformation: policy equality statement, updated by his Department on 8 September 2020, what steps his Department is taking to ensure
5 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will undertake a review of all animal procedures to (a) identify and (b) remove (i) redundant, (ii) duplicate and (iii) wasteful methods of animal testing.
15 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Mink: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the article entitled Mink farming poses risks for future viral pandemics published in the Proceedings of the Nationa
14 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Aiding and Abetting: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who have been convicted of an offence under joint enterprise where the jury were not directed as to any significant contribution to that offence since 2016.
12 Dec 2023 · Treasury
Banks: Environment Protection
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to discourage banks regulated in the UK from supporting businesses which receive income from industrial livestock companies contributing to deforestation.
6 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Migrants: Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of families with no recourse to public funds who are unable to access the 30 hours extended childcare offer for three- and four-year-olds.
6 Dec 2023 · Department for Education
Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of including working parents subject to the No recourse to public funds condition in the extended 30 hours childcare offer for three- and four-y
6 Dec 2023 · Department for Education
Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to communicate with (a) schools and (b) local authorities about the expansion of eligibility for the disadvantaged two-year-old offer to include families affected with no rec
6 Dec 2023 · Department for Education
Childcare: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the eligibility criteria for the extended 30 hours childcare offer for three and four year-olds to migrant parents with any immigrat
6 Dec 2023 · Department for Education
Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number and proportion of three and four year old (a) children and (b) children with British citizenship who are not eligible for the extended 30 hours of childcare o
5 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Social Media: Israel and Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are being investigated for social media posts supporting (a) Palestine and (b) Israel.
4 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Learning Support Fund: Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason students studying Masters of Pharmacy courses do not qualify for support from the NHS Learning Support Fund.
4 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Developing Countries: Climate Change
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent (a) technical and (b) financial support the Government has provided to the global south to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change.
4 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fossil Fuels: Public Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact on public health of expanding UK oil and gas fields.
4 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's move-on period for asylum seekers to find new accommodation after being granted refugee status on the number of refugees.
4 Dec 2023 · Home Office
Refugees: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's move-on period for asylum seekers to find new accommodation after being granted refugee status on trends in the level of homele
Source: official written-questions record.