Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Interpreters

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of court cases have required a translator for each of the last 10 years.

20 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Deductions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the total amount deducted from benefit payments to pay for claimants' court imposed fines each year for the ten previous years.

20 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners per constituency in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty.

20 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Public Opinion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has commissioned public opinion polling on irregular migration in the last five years.

19 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal migration.

19 Nov 2024 · Treasury

National Income

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2024 to Question 13562 on National Income, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of immigration numbers on recent trends in the rate of (a) economy growth and (

19 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 19 November 2024 to Question 13879 on Sexual Offences: Languages, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing registered sex offender nationality data st

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

Farms: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms he has visited since 5 July 2024.

19 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many farmers her Department consulted on changes to agricultural property relief before the Autumn Budget 2024.

19 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to item 29 of Table 5.1 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, what the evidential basis is for her Department's estimate that changes to inheritance tax will raise £520 million from 2028/29.

19 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing daily numbers of irregular migrants housed in (a) hotels and (b) other accommodation.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has paid in benefits to people from the EU without settled status since the end of the transition period.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people from the EU without settled status have been paid benefits since the end of the transition period.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff her Department employs at (a) SEO, (b) Grade 7 and (c) Grade 6.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of what grade her Department employed in non-customer engaging roles in each of the last five financial years.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what overpayments of benefits due to Departmental error there were in each of the last five financial years.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on staff (a) travel, (b) subsistence and (c) stays in hotels in each of the last five years.

18 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

English Language: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who took an English for Speakers of Other Languages class claimed Universal Credit in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of the provisio

18 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of NHS patients who have received (a) translation and (b) interpretation services in each of the last 10 years.

18 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Offenders: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals with Application Registration Cards were (a) arrested and (b) convicted in the last 12 months.

18 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have been prevented through use of the European Convention on Human Rights in each of the last 10 years.

18 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the total number of (a) air miles and (b) flights conducted by his Department's staff was in each of the last ten years.

18 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many repeat deportations there were in each of the last ten years.

18 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in the care system are from non-UK citizenship families; and what the total cost to the public purse is of their care.

18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of homeless veterans.

18 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Incentives

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the (a) total number and (b) cost to the public purse per Department of Government bonuses in each of the last 10 years.

18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals per nationality were convicted of child sex offences in each of the last ten years.

18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of convictions for child sex offences did not result in a custodial sentence in in each of the last ten years.

18 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Climate Change Convention

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many delegates the Government has sent to attend COP 29; and what the cost to the public purse is of the Government's involvement in COP 29.

18 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many private provider contracts have been commissioned by the NHS to treat irregular migrants each of the last ten years; and what the cost to the public purse was of those contracts.

Source: official written-questions record.