Written questions

698 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trees: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support the conservation of endemic tree species.

11 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will he make an assessment of the potential impact of the import of (a) soy, (b) palm oil, (c) cocoa and (d) other products on the UK's contribution to tropical deforestation.

11 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with bus operators to help protect the safety of (a) passengers and (b) bus staff during heatwaves.

11 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with rail companies to help support the safety of (a) passengers and (b) rail staff during heatwaves.

11 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Wholesale Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of crime perpetrated by fraudsters posing as legitimate food wholesalers in the last 12 months.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Products: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2024 to Question 9980 on Products: Labelling, if his Department will make an estimate of the number of items of (a) furniture and (b) other products that have been

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department made available for school transport for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in academic years (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22, (c) 2022-23, (d) 2023-24 and (e) 2024

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish the final evaluation report on the £2 fare cap commissioned by her Department from Frontier Economics and SYSTRA.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Control: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an estimate of the cost of closing roads during flooding in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) nationally in September.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hedgehogs: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has for the (a) protection and (b) conservation of hedgehogs following the change to their conservation status on the International Union for Conservation of

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Equality: Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to add education on diversity to school curriculums.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Climate Change: Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to include food systems as a priority within Nationally Determined Contributions.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to paragraph 2.3.2 of the report of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture, published on 4 September 2024, what assessment he has made of the potential i

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that the Advertising Standards Authority upholds standards in relation to pre-watershed online gambling adverts in mobile gaming apps that may b

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Internet: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will introduce an enforceable liability provision in legislation to ensure that consumers can seek redress for defective products bought via online marketplaces.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Internet: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will bring forward legislative proposals to strengthen the duties of online marketplaces to protect consumers.

4 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Animal Breeding: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) regulate and (b) monitor (i) MBR Acres and (ii) other breeding facilities to ensure compliance with animal welfare standards.

4 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of number of beagles needed for use in laboratory experiments in the UK.

4 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of beagles being bred for use in laboratory experiments in the UK.

4 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to protect the welfare of beagles bred for sale to animal testing facilities.

28 Oct 2024 · Attorney General

Domestic Abuse: Animal Welfare

To ask the Solicitor General, what training her Department provides for prosecutors on links between domestic violence and animal abuse.

28 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with police forces on training on links between domestic violence and animal abuse.

28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of variations in levels of positive autism diagnoses at NHS foundation trusts.

28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gynaecology: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the data dashboard on UK gynaecology waits published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on 24 July 2024, whether his Department has made an assessment of the

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2024 to Question 8554 on Buses and Large Goods Vehicles: Carbon Emissions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the zero emission v

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the completion status is of each (a) key delivery objective and (b) activity in the UK REACH work programme for 2023-24.

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lighting: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Secretary of State for Communities, Housing and Local Government on the potential impact of light pollution on animal populations; and

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Nuisance Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to tackle (a) scam and (b) nuisance calls.

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Veterinary Medicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of availability of veterinary surgeons; and what steps his Department is taking to h

23 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dogs: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will publish a consultation on the regulation of dog behaviour and training services.

Source: official written-questions record.