Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Government: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a department for government efficiency.

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Non-crime Hate Incidents: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many under-18's were investigated for non-crime hate incidents in each of the last five years.

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police Interrogation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspect interviews were conducted broken down by the language used in the interview in each police force in the last 12 months.

15 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Contracts for Services

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public contracts were awarded without competitive tendering by each Department in the last financial year; and for what reason each contract was awarded without competitive tendering.

15 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies were (a) registered and (b) liquidated on each day in 2024.

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Age and Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is available to immigration staff for dealing with irregular migrants found to have given false information about their age; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total number of nights spent in hotels by irregular migrants is by constituency.

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2024 to Question 11414 on Undocumented Migrants: Crimes of Violence, whether her Department collects data on incidents of assault by irregular migrants against Dep

15 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Stalking: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12201 on Stalking: Convictions, whether her Department collects data on foreign national offenders found guilty of stalking involving fear of violence.

15 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12200 on Reoffenders: Foreign Nationals, how many (a) non-violent and (b) violent foreign national reoffences there were in each of the last five years.

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November to Question 12319 on Terrorism, if she will publish (a) a breakdown by ideological motivation of those late stage attacks that would not affect either on-going in

15 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Translation Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent by HMRC on (a) translation and (b) interpretation in each of the last 10 years.

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people and (b) boats have been prevented from crossing the English Channel by the French authorities since the start of UK payments for this purpose.

15 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funds her Department has provided to the French government to help prevent irregular migrant crossings of the English Channel.

15 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of full-time translation and interpretation staff working in the NHS; what externally-provided translation and interpretation services are availa

15 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of people affected by train delays in each of the last ten years.

14 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Immigration: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many enforcement visits have taken place in each local authority in each of the last ten years; and what the total cost to the public purse was of these visits.

14 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a breakdown of the preferred (a) written and (b) spoken language of people claiming Universal Credit.

14 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list all the languages excluding English and British Sign Language that are translated in the NHS.

14 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department has on the number of (a) GP and (b) outpatient appointments conducted in a language other than English and British Sign Language, broken down by total number of appo

14 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Pupils

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 17 year old irregular migrants there are in schools, broken down by local authority.

14 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) 17 and (b) 18 year old irregular migrants there are in each local authority area.

14 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Dismissal

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants were dismissed for poor performance by Department in each of the last five years.

14 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Non-crime Hate Incidents

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents were reported on the grounds of (a) race, (b) religion, (c) sexual orientation, (d) disability and (e) transgender identity in each of the last 10 years by police for

14 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Migrants: Childbirth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants have entered the UK and given birth within three months by visa type.

14 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS beds were occupied by chargeable overseas visitors in the last financial year.

14 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police: Social Media

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many personnel were assigned to monitoring social media by the police in of the last ten years.

14 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police: Social Media

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much each police force spent on monitoring social media in each of the last ten years.

14 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Drinking Water

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on bottled water by each Department in the last financial year.

14 Nov 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to strengthen protections for freedom of speech online.

Source: official written-questions record.