Written questions
879 written questions tabled, most recent first.
27 Nov 2023 · Northern Ireland Office
Lough Neagh: Ownership
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps to move the (a) bed and (b) banks of Lough Neagh into public ownership.
23 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional financial support for energy costs to people with a terminal illness.
23 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment: Terminal Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the criteria for winter fuel payments to include people with a terminal illness.
22 Nov 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons some asylum applications take longer to be considered than others.
21 Nov 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to fast-track asylum applications for Palestinians in the UK.
21 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she plans to respond to Written Question 1757 on Employment Agencies.
14 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Lighting
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that light-sensitive people will continue to have access to non-LED lightbulbs following the implementation of minimum energy performance standar
13 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment Agencies
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when her Department plans to publish its response to the consultation entitled Payment handling by employment agencies in the entertainment, sport and modelling sectors.
10 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has a target for the provision of nutrition services to vulnerable (a) children, (b) adolescents and (c) women in 2024.
10 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Malnutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using the Global Food Security Summit to reduce malnutrition worldwide.
10 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of refugee hosting costs on his Department's aid budget.
10 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has plans to increase the amount of Overseas Development Assistance that goes towards nutrition.
9 Nov 2023 · Treasury
Beer and Cider: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reduce the duty rate for draught beer and cider.
9 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Social Tariffs
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will provide a new social energy tariff for (a) low income households and (b) households with energy-intensive medical equipment.
7 Nov 2023 · Northern Ireland Office
Floods: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he plans to meet businesses affected by recent flooding in (a) Newry and (b) Downpatrick.
7 Nov 2023 · Northern Ireland Office
Floods: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will hold discussions with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland on taking steps to help support businesses affected by flooding in Newry, Mourne and Down District.
7 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of humanitarian aid required in Gaza; and whether the Government plans to increase the UK's humanitarian aid contribution in r
7 Nov 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the Middle East on steps that can be taken to help end violence in Israel and Gaza.
20 Oct 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to uprate social security rates in line with the latest rate of CPI in the upcoming Autumn Statement.
19 Oct 2023 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's planned timescale if for reopening referrals under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 3.
18 Oct 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Arms Trade: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to suspend arms licences to Israel until a full assessment of its compliance with international human rights law can be carried out.
18 Oct 2023 · Home Office
Refugees: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of creating safe routes to the UK for Palestinians.
18 Oct 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government has made an assessment of Israel's compliance with international human rights law since 14 October 2023.
18 Oct 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to independently verify the origin of the explosion on the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.
17 Oct 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has plans to provide additional funding for advice services in Northern Ireland to assist people who have been underpaid their state pension as a result of an incorrect attribution of home re
17 Oct 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of people residing in Northern Ireland who are likely to have been underpaid their state pension as a result of their national insurance record not including th
16 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Bills Discount Scheme: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, by what date her Department plans to make a decision on applications for the Energy and Trade Intensive Industries discount element of the Energy Bills Discount Scheme for applications in Nor
13 Oct 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who sought asylum in Northern Ireland were (a) of Eritrean nationality and (b) referred to the national referral mechanism as potential victims of trafficking in
13 Oct 2023 · Home Office
Migrants: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants sought assistance through the national referral mechanism in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the UK in the latest period for which data is available; and how many and what proportion of
13 Oct 2023 · Northern Ireland Office
Local Housing Allowance: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will hold discussions with the Department for Communities on the adequacy of Local Housing Allowance rates in Northern Ireland in the context of recent trends in the level of rental costs.
Source: official written-questions record.