Thursday, 1 March 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 117278 on buses: tyres, which organisations have been approached by his Department to commission...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will extend Potential Driving Instructor licenses for people who were unable to take the Approved Driving Instructor part 3 test within the six...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the effect of people paying to recover and store their stolen vehicles on the level of (a) individual insurance premiums...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many hours of overtime have been worked by staff in his Department in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the works on the westbound carriageway of the M60 will be concluded.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the original anticipated date was for the conclusion of smart motorway construction work on the westbound carriageway of the M60.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of the practice of up-skirting on public transport.
What steps his Department is taking to prepare transport infrastructure for severe winter weather.
Whether his Department plans to respond to the Peninsula Rail Task Force report and set out a rail strategy for the South West.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will undertake a review of the cost of wood pellets used to fuel biomass boilers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has any plans to extend paid paternity leave.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2017 to Question 68339, on Parental Leave: Males, what the timetable is for his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the average cost of transmission and other network charges per MWh in (a) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps are being taken to assess the (a) short and (b) long-term effect on UK power generation of a growth in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of UK energy supply the Government estimates will be comprised of interconnected capacity by (a) 2020,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on average policy costs per MWh in (a) the UK, (b) France, (c) Ireland, (d)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the contribution to the economy of UK-based energy generation; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to support an increase in UK-based gas storage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much the UK has invested in research and development as a percentage of GDP in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to help reduce the likelihood of the UK experiencing future gas price spikes; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are employed in the energy sector; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential role of bioplastics in replacing non-biodegradable plastics.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made on e-balloting pilots as recommended by the 2017 Knight Review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of people under the age of 25 who are in full time work and are not...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what organisations his Department has outsourced functions to since 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what percentage of workers employed by his Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what percentage of employees in his Department worked (a) in departmental accommodation, (b) from home and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on ensuring that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people employed by (a) producers of kit cars and (b) the supply...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance his Department provides to postgraduate funding bodies which have no standard policy on paid sick leave...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 128990, on Warm Home Discount Scheme, if his Department will (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118941, on Gaza: Fisheries, what recent assessment he has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many hours of overtime have been worked by staff in his Department in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of freedom of speech in Bahrain following the sentencing of the human rights activist...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his counterparts in the Bahraini Government on the sentencing of the human rights activist...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Sri Lankan High Commissioner on the conduct of Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with British Tamil organisations on the conduct of Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the conduct of Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché, Brigadier Priyanka...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will withdraw the diplomatic papers and immediately expel Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché, Brigadier Priyanka...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on expelling Sri Lanka’s Defence...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding his Department has awarded to the International Commission on Missing Persons working in Iraq.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance his Department is providing to ensure good governance and democracy in Iraq.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he made representations to the Deputy Foreign Minister for Iran when he visited the UK on British nationals imprisoned...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has plans to meet with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to discuss the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that those responsible for civilian deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2018 to Question 128168, on EU Defence Policy: British Nationals Abroad, if he will list...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many hours of overtime have been worked by staff in his Department in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products since it was established.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what organisations his Department has outsourced functions to since it was established.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what percentage of workers employed directly by his Department belonged to a trade union in each year since its formation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many and what percentage of employees in his Department worked (a) in departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) at any...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the oral contribution of 22 February 2018, Official Report, column 310, made by the Secretary of State for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to policy paper Draft Text For Discussion: Implementation Period, published by his Department on 21 February 218, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 129032, on Brexit, for what reason the answer did not confirm in what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's policy paper, UK strategy for rare diseases: implementation plan for England, published on 29 January...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that NHS England and NICE revise their appraisal criteria for the NICE Highly Specialised Technologies as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total sleep-in back pay liability for providers in (a) Oxford West and Abingdon constituency, (b) Oxford...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the ages of 18 and 13 respectively have been prescribed (a) antidepressants, (b) benzodiazepines and (c) z drugs...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether prescriptions for antidepressants, benzodiazepines and z drugs are recorded in (a) prisons, (b) care homes for the elderly (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data is held by the NHS Business Services Authority on the prescribing of (a) antidepressants, (b) benzodiazepines and (c) z drugs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the provision of postnatal check-ups by GP practices.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prosecutions have been secured as a result of intelligence gathered by the National Food Crime Unit since its establishment;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department has calculated the figures for the financial liability for sleep-in overnight care in the social care sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives were in formal training in England in each of the last three financial years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwifery graduates there were in England in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives left employment in the NHS in England on account of reaching retirement age in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for a new contract to be agreed for the completion of the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the total sleep-in back pay liability for care providers in Warwick and Leamington constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many diagnoses of cancer in men were attributable to HPV in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of potential effectiveness of a HPV vaccination programme for men.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the childhood obesity rate is in Cornwall.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value of new loans made by his Department to NHS bodies was in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing regulations requiring all public buildings to have access to a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve the survival rates of out of hospital cardiac arrests; and what role automatic external...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives left NHS employment because they had reached retirement age in each year since 2011-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age profile is of midwives at the (a) most recent date for which figures are available and (b) the equivalent date in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) support workers and (b) people on Agenda for Change pay bands 1 to 4 were working in maternity services in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many operations were (a) cancelled and (b) postponed for patients with (i) cancer, (ii) heart disease (iii) other surgeries...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to NHS staff on filing medical care cost claims under the EHIC system.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, If he will make it his policy to bring forward proposals to improve the care for children suffering from neuroblastoma.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, at how many sites has the Food Standards Agency detained meat since 1 January 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what quantity of meat has been detained by the Food Standards Agency since 1 January 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cold stores the Food Standards Agency has inspected in connection with its inquiries into issues arising from its recent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of mental health services for children and young people in the North East.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of A&E services provided in the North East.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to assist families in implementing advance care plans for relatives receiving end-of-life care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the childhood obesity rate is in Coventry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for how many days of winter 2017-18 NHS Improvement suspended penalties for mixed sex accommodation breaches; how many breaches took...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) number and (b) rate was of hospital acquired pressure ulcers in the NHS in each of the last eight years; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to ensure the collection of data to record the waiting times for autism diagnoses in England in version 3 of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many food standards samples were submitted to each local authority's appointed public analyst in each of the last five years; how...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions there have been for patients with a primary diagnosis of obesity in each of the last three years; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital bed days were used by patients with obesity-related conditions in each of the last three years; and if he will publish...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care how many alcohol attributable hospital admissions there have been in each of the last three years; and if he will publish that information...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the outcome of the recent Kuwait Conference; and what the extent was of the funding agreed at that...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department has provided for projects encouraging peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis in the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products in each of the last eight years.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the organisations her Department has outsourced functions to since 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what percentage of workers employed directly by her Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff, and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what percentage of employees in her Department worked (a) in departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) at any...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of the needs of children with disabilities in Syria on the Government’s commitment to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of students studying for a degree in video games.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 123752 on Childcare: Costs, what plans his Department has to carry out an up-to-date review of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the reasons are for the time taken by Ofsted to give approval for the new Tregosse residential care home.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the efficacy of Ofsted's registration process for new residential care centres for children with severe and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's review of post-18 education and funding, published on 19 February 2018, whether the requirement that the review...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the review of post-18 education and funding, published on 19 February 2018, whether the requirement that recommendations be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of different levels of tuition fees by subject on university finances; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department's review of post-18 education and funding will consider a reduction in the interest rates charged on student debt for students...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children entered a grace period for 30 hours of free childcare; and what the average length was of grace periods during the September 2017 term.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether local authorities are permitted to change the funding rate paid to childcare providers for 30 hours of free childcare during a school year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent correspondence his Department has had with Ofsted on its decision to remove the requirement on childcare providers to complete...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship places are available in (a) Coventry South constituency, (b) Coventry and (c) the West Midlands.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the practice of up-skirting in schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total amount of money provided through the Student Loans Company to meet the cost of tuition fees for the Postgraduate Certificate in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department plans to make available to promote and market T Levels before their introduction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress has been made on developing the transition year for T Levels.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of progress towards the Government’s target of 3 million apprenticeship starts by 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the apprenticeship levy on apprenticeship starts at levels 2 and 3 since the release of the November...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what savings his Department planned to make through the contract with Carillion compared with the projected cost of continuing to provide maintenance...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the liquidation of Carillion, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of providing prison maintenance in each of the next...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the liquidation of Carillion, how much his Department is spending on prison maintenance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has plans to recruit staff to work for Gov Facility Services Limited in addition to the staff that were transferred to that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times representatives of his Department have met with Interserve to discuss that company's performance in contracts with his Department since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much money his Department has paid to Interserve since September 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has signed any new contracts with Interserve since September 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has agreed any extensions to existing contracts with Interserve since September 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times has his Department assessed the financial viability of Interserve since the profit warning issued by Interserve on 14 September 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made contingency plans for the possibility that Capita becomes unable to perform its duties under the contracts it has with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish all contracts held by Capita to deliver services to his Department, its agencies and arms-length bodies, including their (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the repair rate reported by Amey for work completed at prisons where that company has a contract for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to consult Scottish organisations on the Scottish Legal Aid system as part of the post-implementation review of the Legal Aid,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2018 to Question 125361 on Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, if his Department will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of feminine hygiene products to women in prison.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average distance is between where a child in custody is located and where they were living before custody.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of his Department's employees who work directly with prisoners (a) have and (b) have not received suicide and self-harm prevention training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of people who enter young offender institutions with drug and alcohol problems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much money was ordered to be confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each year since its enactment; and what proportion was collected in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have won an appeal against the withdrawal of their disability living allowance at a tribunal in the latest period for which figures are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to introduce (a) paired proximity GPS, (b) alcohol abstinence monitoring equipment and (c) other new tagging...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the personal injury discount rate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent representations he has received on the effect of the personal injury discount rate on the affordability of motor insurance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2018 to Question 125576 and the Answer of 9 February 2018 to Question 126482, on prisons: repairs and maintenance,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what post-legislative scrutiny his Department has carried out on the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 as it relates to legal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which external recruitment agencies are used by his Department's non-departmental public bodies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average cost of renting a property for people under the age of 25 in the latest...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods comprised fair trade products in each of the last eight...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, to which organisations his Department has outsourced functions since 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the effect on the financial resilience of people living in supported housing was considered in drawing up...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many public analysts were employed by his Department in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the library a copy of all the representations he has received from local authorities in Dorset on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure the protection of its port facilities in (a) Gibraltar and (b) Cyprus.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 121593, what assessment his Department has made of the proportion of time that Ministry of Defence...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been deployed on Operation Orbital in each year since that operation began.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been deployed on Operation Cabrit since it began.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether personnel deployed on Operation Cabrit receive the (a) Longer Separation Allowance and (b) Local Overseas Allowance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to award a medal for personnel serving as part of NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the six-month qualifying period for attendance allowance with a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what level of training is offered to decision-makers in his Department on better understanding the mental health situation of claimants.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s response to Freedom of Information request 378/2016, for what reasons transitional arrangements No....
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of her Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products in each of the last eight years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to which organisations her Department has outsourced functions since 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of workers employed directly by her Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for which data is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were employed directly by her Department on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of employees in her Department worked (a) in departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) at any other...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the number of UK pensioners who live overseas who will return to live in the UK due to the lack of uprating to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 126941, on Social Security Benefits: Correspondence, if the Government will take steps...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in (a) Dwyfor Meirionnydd, (b) Wales and (c) the UK will not receive the new state pension as a result of failing to meet the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of fuel poverty in (a) Wolverhampton local authority area and (b) Wolverhampton...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the childcare payment support element of Universal Credit on the ability...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on the household finances of low-income families in Scotland of the roll-out of universal credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Wakefield constituency his Department has written to regarding the change in Support for Mortgage Interest from a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each Government Office region in Scotland receive support for mortgage interest; and how many of those people also receive...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the proposed transfer of staff employed by HMRC at its Waterfront offices in Dudley to the Department for Work and Pensions...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many landlords received housing benefit payments in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014, (e) 2015, (f) 2016 and (g) 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has in place to ensure that (a) people are informed when their personal independence payment assessment meeting is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the timeliness of state pension payments to UK nationals living abroad whose payments have been outsourced to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has outsourced the payment of state pensions for UK nationals who live abroad to a bank based in the United States.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what date her Department estimates that the processing of SMI replacement loans claims by Serco will be completed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of Serco’s rate of processing SMI replacement loan applications in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of public attitudes towards the (a) disabled, (b) unemployed and (c) elderly.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the total number of job vacancies per income decile in each of the last five years in (a) Wales and (b) the rest...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of self-employment claimants who will start receiving the new enterprise allowance each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has issued on conducting PIP assessments of people with degenerative diseases.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2018 to Question 128116, on State Retirement Pensions: Females, what steps her Department plans to take...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2018 to Question 128116, on State Retirement Pensions: Females, how many complaints have been dismissed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints received by the Independent Complaint Examiner on the equalisation of the state pension age since 2 October 2017; and how...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the average number of complaints reported to the Independent Case Examiner on the equalisation of the state pension age per month since 2...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what resources are available to the Independent Case Examiner for investigating complaints on the equalisation of the state pension age in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to include steps on microplastic fibres pollution as part of its work on reducing the effect...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many workers from (a) non-UK EU countries and (b) other countries were employed in the (i) Welsh and (ii) the British...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products in each of the last eight years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff on zero hour contracts were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of workers employed directly by his Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the steps the Government is taking to improve the welfare of animals in circuses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of adopting World Health Organisation-recommended...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many public analysts were employed by his Department in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many wild animals of each species are licensed for use in travelling circuses in (a) England and (b) the rest of the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions were made relating to offences committed under the Wild Mammals Protection Act 1996 in the last two...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Section 59 warnings were issued in each area in England each year from 2014 to the last year for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dogs and vehicles relating to hare coursing were confiscated in each police area in England in each year from 2014 to the last year...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many operational fire stations there have been in the West Midlands in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firefighters per 100,000 residents there were in the West Midlands in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the West Midlands Fire Authority on funding for the West Midlands Fire Service.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many operational police stations there were in the West Midlands in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has of trends in the comparative number of (a) incidents attended by fire services and (b) fire-fighters in (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of her Department's spend on day-to-day goods comprised fair trade products in each of the last eight years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which organisations her Department has outsourced functions since 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of workers employed directly by her Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for which data is...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were employed directly by her Department on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to implement the recommendations set out in the report, The patronising disposition of unaccountable power, by Right Rev...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made whether all medical professionals should be included on the shortage occupation list; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) occupations and (b) salaries bands were of foreign workers granted exceptional consideration for certificates of sponsorship...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with police forces on the cost of policing football matches.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the HMIC report on Police Effectiveness 2016, whether she plans to issue further guidance on the use of the investigation...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2018 to Question 125391, whether she plans to publish the number of children transferred from the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124948, on Doctors: Migrant Workers, how many representations on doctors from overseas...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2018 to Question 110181, on Immigrants: Employment, how many people have been found not to have a right...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the implications are for the Government's drugs policy of the decision to grant new licences to pharmaceutical companies to grow and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of her Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to implement her commitment in October 2017 to ban the carrying of acid in public...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate (a) the National Police Chiefs Council and (b) the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners have made of (i) cost...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with NFU Scotland on the employment of EU agricultural workers after the UK leaves the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods comprised fair trade products in each of the last eight years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the organisations that his Department has outsourced functions to since 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what percentage of workers employed directly by his Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours contracts by his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department worked in (a) departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) in any other location in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Scottish Government on the effectiveness of the provisions relating to up-skirting in the Sexual...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many meetings he has had with whom and on what dates on the Ayrshire Growth Deal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many meetings he has had with whom and on what dates on the Borderland Growth Deal.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if will make an assessment of the effect of recent increases in the National Living Wage and the personal allowance on the personal incomes of residents of...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many audits have been carried out by HMRC on British Airways in relation to its pilots' time away from base allowance in the last five years.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has been made of the amount of dividends paid by water companies to overseas tax havens in each of the last five years.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with (a) LINK and (b) the Payment Systems Regulator on guarantees for protections proposed in LINK’s Financial...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) long-term and (b) short-term effect of LINK’s proposals to reduce the interchange fee on the...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will meet the hon. Member for Dudley North and representatives of HMRC staff based at the Waterfront in Dudley to discuss the future of their office.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merit of the introduction of favourable financial grants to rebuild and diversify the economies of tax havens...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits for tackling offshore tax avoidance and evasion of the imposition of a withholding tax on all interest...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received a relief from Stamp Duty Land Tax on transfers to charities in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were exempt from value added tax on rent on domestic dwellings in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an exemption from value added tax on postal services in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department expects that the UK will be classed as a third country after the UK leaves the EU; and whether people travelling from the EU to the...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the regulation of cryptocurrency markets.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the tax gap was on (a) beer, (b) wine, (c) spirits and (d) tobacco in the financial tax years (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15, (iii) 2015-16 and (iv)...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to respond to the findings of the Financial Conduct Authority report on RBS treatment of small businesses recently published by...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents have opened and then closed a tax-free childcare account since that policy was introduced.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the transfer of staff employed by HMRC at its Waterfront offices in Dudley...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2018 to Question 126730 and the oral evidence of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to the Treasury Committee on...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an exemption from VAT on burial and cremation in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a VAT exception for goods and services required for the (a) repair, (b)...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many small traders received an exemption from value added tax below the turnover limit for VAT registration in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which NHS trusts have made representations to his Department to seek advice on varying their VAT payments either directly or through the transference of...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of implementing a cap on public sector exit payments.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs; and what...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many countries the UK has made arrangements with to provide automatic offshore account and trust data since 2016.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of workers employed in the UK shadow economy.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish further details on the setting up of a UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to launch the consultation on a maximum limit of £95,000 on public sector exit payments.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the responsibilities of the Minister for the Constitution, what the term government communications refers to.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether this office's General Election Guidance has been reviewed the light of the High Court’s ruling of 27 April 2017 regarding purdah periods;...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the number of insecure jobs in (a) the North West and (b) Liverpool Walton constituency.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 31 of his Department's document, Public Bodies 2017, published in November 2017, for what reason his Department does not...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, reference to the written statement HCWS464, on 8 February 2018 on the Infected Blood Inquiry, whether the Chair of the inquiry will operate with the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish his Department's next set of data on life expectancy.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the level of household debt for households in each income distribution in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England are in (i) managerial and (ii)...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much of the funding from his Department to underwrite the costs of Carillion’s receiver has been spent to date; and what costs have been...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect on value for the taxpayer of a small number of large companies dominating the market for tendered government...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to encourage UK SMEs and other UK suppliers to win cloud-hosting contracts.
To ask the First Secretary of State, what the target time is for the Government to make payments to small and medium-sized enterprises; and (a) how many and (b) what percentage of payments by the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to engage people on low incomes with politics.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many times he has visited Northern Ireland since his appointment as Secretary of State for International Trade; and if he will set out...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many times he has visited (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside, and (c) the North West since his appointment as Secretary of State for...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many hours of overtime have been worked by staff in his Department in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment his Department has made of recent trends in UK Trade Statistics; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps he is taking to retain existing trade agreements with non-EU countries after the UK leaves the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to his oral contribution of 22 February 2018, Official Report, column 305, what the evidential basis is for his statement...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 16 February 2018 to Question 126972, on Trade Remedies Authority: Public Appointments, for what reason the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has held with stakeholders on establishing a commissioner to (a) tackle and (b) provide guidance on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to invest in sporting infrastructure to increase physical activity levels in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department takes to ensure that private car park operators are compliant with data protection regulations; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to improve geographic mobile phone coverage in rural areas in Scotland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many candidates deemed appointable by the most recent appointment panel for the National Council of Arts Council England...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2018 to Question 126140, on Lotteries: Regulation, what the nature of the advice...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which external recruitment agencies are used by his Department's non-departmental public bodies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of workers employed directly by her Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what percentage of employees in her Department worked in (a) departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) in any other...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which external recruitment agencies are used by her Department's non-departmental public bodies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions the Government has had with the Irish Government on preventing a hard border in Northern Ireland.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to block in the national interest the hostile takeover bid by Melrose for GKN.
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether, following several recent closures of Abingdon Street to through-traffic for vehicles, he has any plans to initiate discussions with the Mayor...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many approaches to UK airspace by Russian military aircraft were detected during (1) 2016, and (2) 2017.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to conduct an urgent review into the competence of Capita for undertaking army recruitment.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to encourage employers to continue contributing to an individual’s automatic enrolment pension fund during maternity leave and carer's leave.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to combat attacks on livestock.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the declaration that “no deal is better than a bad deal” made in the Prime Minister’s Lancaster House speech in January 2016 continues to...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential consequences should the EU reject the managed divergence approach to trade.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Michel Barnier’s comments on the possibility of there being no Brexit transition period for the UK.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to seek to ensure that, after Brexit, English will be retained as an official language of the EU.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of which cases currently before the European Court of Justice on which they expect to receive adjudication before 29 March 2021.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will clarify the circumstances in which the UK will respect the remit of the European Court of Justice post-Brexit, as referred to in the Prime...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, for each government department, from July to December 2017, on how many occasions the Scrutiny Reserve Resolution was overridden in (1) the House of Lords, and...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the duration of the transition deal they seek to have with the EU; and what assessment they have made of the economic impact on the UK of a longer...
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