Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will offer (a) safeguarding and (b) witness protection support to (i) victims and (ii) whistleblowers that give evidence to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's private inquiry into grooming ga

3 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the findings of privately funded independent inquiries into (a) grooming gang activity and (b) associated institutional failures.

3 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Inquiries

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish all (a) correspondence and (b) internal assessments on the decision not to proceed with a full public inquiry into grooming gangs.

27 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas expired before the recipient left the country in each of the last ten years.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Meat

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department instructs schools to inform parents of whether meat served in school meals comes from non-stunned slaughter.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage (a) public institutions and (b) restaurants to label halal meat to consumers.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of abattoirs in enforcing welfare standards during the production of halal meat.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Food Standards Agency on the labelling of (a) halal and (b) kosher meat products in food outlets.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat Products: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce mandatory labelling on meat products to indicate whether animals were stunned prior to slaughter.

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been written off for the treatment of chargeable overseas visitors in real terms since the National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 were introduced.

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, of the aggregate income identified for chargeable overseas visitors in financial year 2018-19 what (a) the total amount recovered for the subsequent six financial years is and (b) the total amount

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Catering

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sandwiches have been delivered through her Department's contract entitled Catering - CIU, procurement reference CF-0360600D58000000L5A4EAK.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Catering

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sandwiches have been delivered through her Department's contract entitled Catering - KIU, procurement reference CF-0357300D58000000L5A4EAK.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of all meat (a) produced and (b) consumed in the UK that is Halal meat.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of animals were slaughtered without being stunned for the production of Halal meat in the UK in 2024.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of how many animals were slaughtered without being stunned for the production of Halal meat in 2024.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislation to prohibit the slaughter of animals without being stunned for Halal meat.

7 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Health: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Supervised Toothbrushing Programme.

6 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Pre-sentence Reports

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure the provision of pre-sentencing reports for all offenders.

6 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of (a) the number of contracts and (b) the value of those contracts for providing English language courses for refugees over the last three years.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Tanks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of main battle tanks are operational to a deployment standard.

5 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Wealth: Emigration

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of high net worth individuals that have left the UK in each of the last ten years.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Termination of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any staff in her Department have had their employment terminated due to a failure to declare a conflict of interest when overseeing the granting of contracts in the last ten years.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department conducted any audits into services provided by contractors to refugees and asylum seekers in the last five years.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme, procurement reference CF-0276700D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 7 (London), procurement reference CF-0334200D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 1 (North West), procurement reference CF-0319600D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 3 (Yorkshire & Humber), procurement reference CF-0333600D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service us

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 4 (West Midlands), procurement reference CF-0333700D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users i

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 8 (South West), procurement reference CF-0334500D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.

Source: official written-questions record.