Written questions

356 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Bidfood

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bidfood

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Bidfood

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Bidfood

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) her Department and (ii) agencies of her Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Bidfood

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) her Department and (ii) agencies of her Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Bidfood

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Bidfood

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) his Department or (ii) agencies of his Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Attorney General

Attorney General's Office: Bidfood

To ask the Solicitor General, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) her Department and (ii) agencies of her Department.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Q16 of the oral evidence given by the Chair of Shadow Great British Railways to the Transport Select Committee on 22 January 2025, HC 554, how many people work in GBRX/Great British Railways I

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people work in the Great British Railways Transition Team on (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent basis.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Shadow Great British Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Q9 of the oral evidence given by the Chair of Shadow Great British Railways to the Transport Select Committee on 22 January 2025, HC 554, when her Department expects to publish Shadow Great Br

22 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will allow Ukrainian citizens who have resided in the UK for four years the ability to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain.

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Keep Britain Working Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 86 on page 31 of her Department's White Paper entitled Get Britain Working, published on 26 November 2024, whether the remit of the independent review into the role of UK emp

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 19420 on Unemployment: Young People, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the ongoing data quality problems with the ONS Labour

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

UK International Consumer Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) funding and (b) staffing capacity for the UK International Consumer Centre.

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 23229, on Teachers: Pay, if she will provide the same data for newly qualified teachers.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress her Department has made on the preparation of a third cycling and walking investment strategy.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employers' Associations: Political Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Section 132 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, whether any employers' associations maintain a political fund.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Answer of 3 November 2020 to Question 110812 on Renewable Energy: Government Assistance, if he will publish the same information for each year since 2019-20.

10 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average full-time salary was for (a) classroom and (b) all teachers in (i) academies, (ii) free schools, (iii) local authority maintained schools and (iv) all publicly-funded schools in 2023.

9 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Flexible Working Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21859, on Flexible Working Taskforce, on what dates that taskforce met in each year from 2018 to 2022.

7 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of how her Department processes visa applications submitted by Arab citizens of Israel.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to section 7.2.12 of her Department's publication entitled School workforce census guide 2024: Guide for schools including academies within a Multi Academy Trust, published on 11 October 2024, ho

6 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the CQC's publication of 27 November 2024 entitled CQC finds improvement in CAMHS wards at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, when the CQC plans to publish th

6 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many air cleaning units were provided to education facilities in (a) Birmingham Northfield constituency, (b) Birmingham, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England since 2020.

6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Injuries Compensation: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average processing time was for applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme by people resident in Birmingham in each of the last five years.

6 Jan 2025 · Women and Equalities

Disadvantaged

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent progress she has made on enactment of the socio-economic duty under Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

6 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

National Curriculum Tests: Science

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Standards and Testing Agency's publication of 20 July 2022, entitled Information: primary assessments in the 2022/23 academic year, for what reason it was decided not to undertake further

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the provision of air cleaning units to education facilities.

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on the guidance for schools on mitigating poor air quality.

Source: official written-questions record.