Wednesday, 7 November 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the cost of CCTV in taxis and private hire vehicles on the vehicle owners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps (a) his Department and (b) agencies of his Department have taken to support the National Pollinator Strategy on (i) roads (ii) railway lines.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average journey time was to cross the Dartford Crossing northbound at peak times in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the (a) shipping companies and (b) shipowner representatives that have attended meetings of the EU Exit Inter-Ministerial Groups with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with (a) the UK Hydrographic Office, (b) the Heart of South West LEP and (c) other...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political and security situation in Cameroon; and what representations his Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has for continued cooperation with the EU in Mali.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking with (a) Kenyan and (b) Ugandan banks to close the financial and banking loopholes which enable money...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to reports of the arrest and detention of 13 Christians in south Darfur in October 2018, what progress his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the steps taken by his Department to help veterans suffering from post-traumatic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government press release entitled PM pledges action on suicide to mark World Mental Health Day, published on 9...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has has made of the effect of the implementation of the general data protection regulation on administrative operations...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ask NHS England to make tackling healthcare acquired infections a priority in the upcoming long term plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure the implementation of NICE guidance on antenatal care for (a) twin and (b) triplet pregnancies in maternity...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that guidance given to NHS and social care commissioners on how to commission children’s...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional people with mental health conditions he expects will be in work by 2023-24 as a result of decisions taken in Budget 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional schools he estimates will have mental health support teams and specialist crisis teams in (a) Windsor, (b) the South...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of health visitors in (a) England, (b) London and (c) the London Borough of Lewisham...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has allocated to organisations that provide support to deaf people in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2018 to Question 164527 on Buildings: Insulation, what estimate he has made of the number of hospitals...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on (a) rheumatology healthcare professionals in the NHS and (b) the provision of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of overall Government funding is allocated to (a) children's and b) adult hospices in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how NICE (a) classifies and (b) regulates new treatments made up of a combination of active substances.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial support his Department makes available to support children with hearing difficulties.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding from the public purse was allocated by his Department to enable local authorities in England to fund the full disregard...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Integrated Care Provider contracts on improving (a) quality of care and (b) value for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that Integrated Care Provider contracts do not divert resources away from acute services operated by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on decision-making by NHS Trusts in the event that recommendations from (a) Getting it Right First Time...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8915 on Hospitals: Hygiene, when he plans to publish the data on hospital hand...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the Get it Right First Time report.
To ask the Attorney General, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has received representations on the exclusion of Christianity from the religious studies syllabus; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations in the report, Break the Barriers: Girls' experiences of menstruation in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to introduce a scheme that provides bank loans to pay for work-related courses and training to replace the Professional and Career...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times his Department has (a) received a request for and (b) suggested the voluntary downgrading of an employee; when that request or suggestion...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of not taking into account jointly-owned homes when assessing the eligibility of victims of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of legal aid for bereaved families for inquests under the exceptional case funding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released from prison in error in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department applied pay protection (a) as a reasonable adjustment, (b) for welfare reasons, (c) as part of an agreed retirement plan and (d)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress he has made in transitioning the existing EU trade agreement with Mexico; and whether he has received any requests for changes...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the merits for communities of reinstating the migrant impact fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will provide a breakdown by financial year of the allocations in Homes England's financial plan set out in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the level of risk of landlords bypassing rules licensing houses in multiple occupation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: Final Report, published by his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 5.16 of Budget 2018, how the £410 million made available for social care in 2019-20...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is the average amount of ground rent charges by government office region based on the latest available English...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of households using the childcare element of universal credit who have entered arrears on childcare costs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many apprentices are employed in her Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the health condition of fatigue is assessed by the personal independence payments assessment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of universal credit on the funding available to providers of accommodation through the Severe...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2018 to Question 182229 on Children: Maintenance, if she will publish those same figures for Inverclyde...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference paragraph 5.38 on page 78 of the Budget 2018 Red Book, what estimate she has made of the effect on the public purse of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of welfare and benefits fraud committed by serious and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations he has received on protecting the bittern under phase one of the 2016 Special Protection Area Review;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the viability of developing exemptions for fully...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with (a) Ministers and (b) officials at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October to Question 182668 and to the Answer of 16 October to Written Question 175821, in what...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of staff employed by his Department in receipt of universal credit; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) the main contractor and (b) any sub-contractors of the Victim Care Contract for victims of modern slavery have signed a...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Lift the Ban report entitled Why people seeking asylum should have the right to work, published in October 2018, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of restrictions on the right to work for people seeking asylum on the long-term integration...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of (a) the number of asylum seekers living in the UK awaiting a decision on their claim for refugee status...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of applications for refugee status that have (a) been made, (b) refused, (c) accepted...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been issued with a Biometric Residence Permit that will require them to leave the UK when their youngest child reaches...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many settlement visas his Department has issued in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data collections (a) the National Police Chiefs' Council, (b) HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services and (c) his...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the announcement entitled, Home Secretary awards £7.5 million for new national police welfare service, published by...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timeframe is for the Law Enforcement Data Service to be fully operational.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of abandoned 999 calls to police forces in England and Wales in the most recent year for...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of abandoned 101 calls in England and Wales in the most recent year for which data is...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what correspondence he has had with his US counterpart on Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of increasing levels of violent crime on the operational capacity of police forces.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2018 to Question 180820 on National Police Air Service, what assessment his Department has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 October 2018 to Question 176429 on Police, what meetings he has held with (a) the Strategic Lead at the National...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of any differences in the definition of serious crime would have on (a) criminal justice and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what agri-food related occupations will be eligible under the Migration Advisory Committee's recommendations to expand Tier 2 migrant access...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on covert police (a) surveillance and (b) infiltration of the Newham Monitoring Project.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to make a decision on whether to grant right of abode to former British-Hong Kong servicemen.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to introduce a new economic development package in Gaza to (a) increase trade (b) support job...
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in November 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the effect on period poverty of the recommendation on exempting feminine hygiene contained in the report Break the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 67 of the Budget 2018 Red Book, what funding he has allocated for resilience work in Dawlish.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the £3.2 billion that the Loan Charge 2019 is estimated to raise for the public purse by 2021 is projected to be recovered from...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether gagging clauses have been used in contracts drawn up between his Department and any charities, voluntary sector...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much money his Department has spent on the UK’s participation in the European Solidarity Corps.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to discuss the design...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost of social impact bonds has been to the public purse since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will introduce legislative proposals to make it an offence to (a) own and (b) supply GPS jammers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to announce which projects will be run by DLT Field Labs to test the potential of distributed ledger technologies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to promote cultural diplomacy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the announced Festival of Britain is not money re-allocated from existing budgets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with representatives from (a) the Football Association and (b) other football governance bodies on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to publish the outcome of his Department's consultation on society lottery reform which closed on 7 September 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many meetings his Department has held with big society capital in (a) each year since 2012 and (b) 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many meetings his Department has held with social enterprises in (a) each year since 2012 and (b) 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Civil Society Strategy, when he plans to publish information on the regular forum for social enterprises...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many official in his Department are working on projects related to social impact bonds.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent of farm animal theft.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent of farm equipment theft.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will invite HM Inspector of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service to analyse and report on the timeliness of the investigations into and...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individuals who have declared as (1) Muslims, and (2) members of other faiths and none, there were in the top four grades of the Home Office on (a) 1...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the findings of the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel into the behaviour of the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, whether they intend...
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what consideration was given to the needs of disabled users of the Palace when the decision was taken to install temporary fire doors in certain areas of the...
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what consideration has been given to replacing the recently installed single-leaf temporary fire doors in the Palace of Westminster with double-leaf doors that...
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what consideration has been given to replacing the recently installed temporary fire doors in the Palace of Westminster with models more in keeping with the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Ministry of Justice policies have been assessed against the Family Test; and whether they have published the outcome of any such assessments.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Government Equalities Office policies have been assessed against the Family Test; and whether they have published the outcome of any such assessments.
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