Written questions
2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office
a:gender: Costs
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse for supporting the a:gender network in each of the last five years.
30 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason there was an increase in the number of settlement grants for workers from 2022-2023.
30 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Overseas Students: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a study of the impact of the dependency of universities on international students on the level of fees paid by such students.
29 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Pakistan: Development Aid and Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2025 to Question 25832 on Pakistan: Development Aid and Visas, if he will make it his policy to raise potential punitive measures with hi
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a breakdown of companies sponsoring skilled visas by Nature of Business (SIC).
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of skilled visa holders who are sponsored by (a) takeaways, (b) restaurants and (c) convenience stores.
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Home Office: Muslims
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the potential cost to the public purse was of her Department's Islamic network in each of the last five years.
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Home Office: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the potential cost to the public purse was of her Department's equality network in each of the last five years.
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding (a) family members and (b) dependents from student visas.
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people that will become eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain in each of the next ten years.
29 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on the number of international students.
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Borders and Deportation: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Department for Borders and Deportation.
29 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Migrant Workers: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reintroduce the Resident Labour Market Test.
29 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Chevening Scholarships Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) cost to the public purse and (b) recipients by nationality of the Chevening Scholarship in each of the last five years.
29 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Commonwealth Scholarships Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the (a) cost to the public purse and (b) nationality of each recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship was in the last five years.
29 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Visas: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of people with a High Potential Individual visa are in employment.
29 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Skilled Workers: Visas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of holders of Skilled Worker visas are net contributors to the Exchequer.
29 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Visas: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of low skilled immigration worker visa grants on job opportunities for low skilled domestic workers.
29 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of low skilled migrants' entitlement to benefits on the public purse.
28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
USA: World Health Organization
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the withdrawal of the USA from the World Health Organisation will lead to an increase in UK contributions to that organisation.
28 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of civil service pensions for the next 50 years.
28 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the value for money of rehabilitation of foreign national offenders.
28 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Corporation Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of decreasing corporation tax to the lowest level in Europe.
28 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Corporation Tax: Tax Yields
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of lowering corporation tax on tax revenue.
28 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Refugees
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many refugees were in receipt of Personal Independence Payment in each of the last five years; and what the cost to the public purse was.
28 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a restriction on irregular migrants housed in (a) hotels and (b) other government-funded accommodation within walking distance of schools duri
28 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of an increased police presence around schools that have reported loitering by irregular migrants.
28 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a curfew for irregular migrants housed by local authorities close to schools that have reported incidents of loitering by irregul
24 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 23577 on Deportations, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of recording this information centrally.
24 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 23575 on Deportation, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of recording this information centrally.
Source: official written-questions record.