Written questions
311 written questions tabled, most recent first.
24 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25955 on Asylum: Syria, whether the requirements for the cessation of refugee status for beneficiaries of international protection originating fro
24 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Government's policy towards UK arms trade with Israel in complying with Criterion 2a and Criterion 2c of the Strategic Expo
24 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Occupied Territories
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to help prevent traders from declaring that food and drink imports produced by Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are Produce
24 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the steps his Department is taking to help prevent the use of UK-produced arms by Israel in (a) Gaza and (b) the Occupied Pales
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: West Bank
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to require traders and importers to label food produced in the West Bank to state whether it was produced by (a) Palestinian communities and (b) Israeli s
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: West Bank
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Written Statement of 10 December 2009 on Food Labelling (Occupied Palestinian Territories), column 28WS, whether his Department has reviewed the adequacy of its a
13 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Occupied Territories
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in th
13 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a legal pathway for Palestinian children in Gaza to travel to the UK to receive medical treatment.
13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Self-harm
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) people and (b) charities providing support to people that (i) have self-harmed and (ii) are considering self-harming are not criminalised; and what guidance she provide
13 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Primary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the nutritional value of breakfast meals provided by primary schools.
12 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice
County Courts: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of appointment-only counter service at County Courts on the accessibility of the court system.
12 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice
County Courts: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what performance monitoring is in place to monitor how many calls are unanswered in County Courts when individuals are trying to book a public counter appointment.
12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Health and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to publish all recorded responses to its consultation on reforms to health and disability benefits.
12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Health and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to publish an Equality Impact Assessment of proposed reforms to the health and benefit system.
12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Health and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty taskforce will consider the impact of proposed reforms to the health and disability benefit system on child poverty rates in the UK.
11 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Police: Demonstrations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of (a) the adequacy of and (b) levels of adherence to (i) human rights and (ii) public order obligations in the policing of recent protests.
11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Self-harm and Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps the Government is taking to ensure people with lived experience of (a) self harm and (b) suicide are involved in the implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023.
11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Self-harm and Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government is taking steps to encourage (a) social media and (b) search platforms to go beyond the requirements of the Online Safety Act 2023 in reducing access to harmful s
11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when the Small but Risky taskforce will meet; and how the group will tackle the risk posed by dangerous online platforms.
11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Self-harm and Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of the provisions of the Online Safety Act 2023 to help tackle suicide and self-harm content on smaller online platforms.
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
USA: Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will establish a mechanism to monitor the impact of USAID cuts on programmes to (a) conflict-affected countries and (b) multilateral organisations; and whet
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israeli Settlements: Occupied Territories
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his US counterpart on the revocation of sanctions against Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and what assessment
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many medical evacuations from Gaza to the UK have been (a) requested by the UK and (b) successfully conducted since 7 October 2023.
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an estimate of the lives lost in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
USA: International Criminal Court
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his US counterpart on British citizens and their families impacted by that country's sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Genocide: Export Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his correspondence of 8 January 2024 to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, if he will list the steps his Department takes to monitor the risk of ge
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of making Israel a Human Rights Priority country.
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
West Bank: Homicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Israeli counterpart on (a) the killing of Sondos Jamal Muhammed Shalabi and (b) other actions in Nur Shams refugee camp.
10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Homicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Israeli counterpart on the killing of (a) Saher al-Qaran and (b) other Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect.
10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Recreation Spaces: Birmingham Perry Barr
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to protect green spaces in the urban areas of Birmingham Perry Barr constituency.
Source: official written-questions record.