Written answers

Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  • Department for Transport

    • Immigration Controls: Visas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the capacity at (a) airports, (b) sea ports and (c) the Channel Tunnel to establish visa processing for Ukrainian...

    • PHI: Canary Wharf

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the ultimate ownership of the yacht, PHI, moored in Canary Wharf, London.

      Public Transport: Sexual Harassment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring (a) bus, (b) taxi and (c) private hire drivers to undertake gender...

      East Coast Main Line

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of long distance high speed train services on the East Coast Main Line are delivered by open access operators as of 8 March 2022; and...

      Train Operating Companies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of long distance high speed train services in Great Britain are delivered by open access operators; and if he will publish the...

      Travel: Concessions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that Ukrainian refugees arriving in the UK are able to access free transport.

      Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what statutory responsibilities local authorities have for maintaining grass verges.

      Railways: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Report 02/2022 - Derailment of a passenger train at Carmont published by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch on 10 March...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Boiler Upgrade Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what date the full criteria for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme will be announced.

    • Flexible Working

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the finding of a recent study by the GMCA that 75 per cent of vacancies make no reference to flexible...

      Solar Power: Feed-in Tariffs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the price that households with solar panels receive for selling...

      Housing: Fuels

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information or data his Department records and collates on households that are dependent on oil or LPG and other...

      Fuels: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to introduce regulation for unregulated fuels used for domestic heating including oil,...

      Fuels

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department and its agencies have to track data regarding domestic fuel use in response to the rise in...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure older people are not restricted in the choice of options of heating their homes...

      Housing: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department collects on fuel and energy use by individual households.

      Heating: Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) on improving health...

      Private Rented Housing: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation on Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes.

      Natural Gas: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many kWh of gas imported from Russia is used by the average UK household per year.

      Natural Gas: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the level of UK gas imports from Russia over the last five years by (a) percentage and (b) GWh.

      Pensions: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on the divestment of the Pension Fund Committee from fossil fuel...

      Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Sustainable Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether a senior manager in his Department has been given the portfolio for leading on departmental sustainability.

      Biotechnology: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will fast-track the funding streams available to the BioYorkshire project to help accelerate the development of...

  • Attorney General

    • Attorney General: Training

      To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department has implemented a training programme to provide civil servants with skills to support its transition to net zero.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Hysteroscopy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to develop national guidelines on the provision of hysteroscopies for investigating suspected...

    • Endometriosis: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of women who have been diagnosed with endometriosis in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b)...

      Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the consultation between his Department and NHS England on combining the costs for the two hormone...

      Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the gender imbalance in the take up of the HPV vaccine in schools between girls and boys.

      Royal Shrewsbury Hospital: Maternity Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to latest annual national Maternity survey, what assessment he has made of the potential improvements that were found in...

      Surgical Mesh Implants: South East

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress has been made in establishing the South East Regional specialist centre for the treatment of women damaged by mesh...

      Shingrix

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to introduce Shingrix into the National Immunisation Programme, in line with JCVI recommendations.

      Shingrix

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to introduce Shingrix into the national immunisation programme.

      Hepatitis: Liver Diseases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of hepatic encephalopathy in people with current or previous infection with Hepatitis C.

      Healthy Start Scheme: Vitamin D

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people eligible under the Healthy Start Scheme redeem their entitlement to free vitamin D supplements.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on introducing charges for lateral flow tests for non-essential workers.

      Probiotics: Labelling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will change Government guidance to allow use of the term probiotic on food labels of products that contain probiotic microorganisms...

      Hospitals: Food

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken in response to the Independent Hospital Food Review, published in October 2020, to enable easier...

      Hospitals: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of regularly publicising the number of unvaccinated people being...

      National Radiological Protection Board: Publications

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many copies of the 1988 National Radiological Protection Report Board Report, Mortality and cancer incidence in UK participants in UK...

      Immunosuppression: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to update its guidance, Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19), to include people who are...

      Influenza: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase childhood flu vaccination rates.

      Electronic Cigarettes: Sales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure small convenience stores adhere to strict age verification standards for the sale of...

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the process accessing covid-19 lateral flow test packs changed from collection from pharmacies to a digitally registered...

      Coronavirus: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his latest guidance is on steps to take to reduce covid-19 transmission in (a) York and (b) other areas with high infection rates.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether small businesses are able and/or entitled to obtain free or subsidised covid-19 lateral flow tests.

      Blood Cancer: Health Professions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of haematological workforce shortages on patient outcome and experience.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he intends to respond to the correspondence from the Member for High Peak, dated 6 January 2022, reference RL31099.

      General Practitioners: Prescriptions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to limit the over-prescription of medication by GPs to patients judged to be at risk from them.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the enquiry from the hon. Member for High Peak of 21 January 2022, referenced RL30126.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Sustainable Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a senior manager in his Department has been given the portfolio for leading on departmental sustainability.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire dated 13 October 2021 regarding student nursing funding,...

      General Practitioners: Out-patients

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact on general practice of transferring hospital outpatient elective follow-ups to general...

      Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of patients waiting 12 hours or more in Emergency Departments from time of arrival; and if...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will reply to the letters of 20 December 2021 and 8 February 2022 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the enquiry from the hon. Member for High Peak of 7 January 2022, with reference RL31874.

      Dentistry: EU Countries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the date from which EU-qualified dentists will be required...

      Care Workers: Migrant Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many care workers in the UK are not British citizens.

      Disability Aids: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the £10 billion in extra funding provided as part of covid-19 recovery planning will tackle the waiting times for disabled...

      Pharmacy: Closures

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish details of the temporary community pharmacy closures in each Clinical Commissioning Group area for each year since...

      Building the Right Support Delivery Board

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Building the Right Support Delivery Board.

  • Wales Office

    • Places for Growth Programme: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the progress of the Places for Growth programme.

    • Wales Office: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether his Department has implemented a training programme to provide civil servants with skills to support its transition to net zero.

      Food Supply: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on the effect on food supply to (a) Wales and (b) Newport West constituency of the invasion of Ukraine.

      Food Supply: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with cabinet colleagues on the effect on food supply to (a) Wales and (b) Newport West constituency of the invasion of Ukraine.

  • Department for Education

    • Disability Aids: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to distribute documentation to all local authorities in England to reiterate their duty to (a) assess children in need...

    • Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on local authorities of the mandatory legal duty to provide early help.

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Local Government Association's projection that the cost of children’s social care will increase by an estimated £600...

      Music: Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to distribute its annual funding grants for Music Education Hubs for the financial year 2022-23; and if he will make a statement.

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Reporting Year 2021, Children's social work workforce, published 24 February 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the...

      Training: Regional Planning and Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to table 2.3 in the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, what steps he is taking to help ensure that local authorities that...

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of Action for Children’s report Too Little Too Late on (a) early help and (b) early intervention funding.

      Pupils: Learning Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in state schools have a specific learning difficulty.

      Special Educational Needs: Reviews

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Government will publish the delayed Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Review.

      Adoption Support Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to extend the Adoption Support Fund to aid the recruitment and retention of foster carers and the children's home workforce.

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Ofsted report on inspections on 5 and 6 January 2022 relating to Achieve Care Homes Limited, what assessment his Department has...

      Russia: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has issued guidance to teachers on teaching pupils about the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and what steps his Department is...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Human Rights Act 1998

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy not to respond to his Department's consultation on proposals to reform the Human Rights Act 1998 until after the deadline...

    • Prisoners on Remand

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he taking to reduce the number of people held on remand for more than six months.

      Prisoners: Sexual Offences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners convicted of (a) rape and (b) other sexual offences were held in a category D open prison in each year between 1997 and 2010.

      Prison Sentences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case R v Jones [2020] EWCA...

      Bill of Rights

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that the rights of more vulnerable citizens are protected when replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with the...

      Damages: Reform

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the Government will publish all documents, including copies of emails, letters and minutes of meetings, in respect of its consideration of reform of...

      Judiciary: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of the costs of the different types of training offered at the Judicial College.

      Judiciary: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Judicial College is taking to train judicial officers and staff to handle cases of domestic abuse with an appropriate level of...

      Judges: Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total expenses claimed by UK judges relating to their service in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal were on (a) flights, (b) accommodation,...

      Domestic Abuse: Prosecutions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of domestic abuse prosecutions in the last 12 months.

      Prisoners: Rehabilitation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a breakdown of what the £200 million allocated by his Department to be spent on prisoner rehabilitation each year by 2024-25...

  • Treasury

    • Cost of Living: Rural Areas

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to support rural residents with the expected increase in cost of living.

    • Cost of Living

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will undertake an impact assessment of the increasing cost of energy, food and fuel on families with average and low incomes.

      Child Benefit

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to ensure the equity of the High Income Child Benefit charge for single income households in the context of the application...

      Cars: VAT

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether specialist covered car transport companies can access temporary export arrangements for cars being transported into the EU and back to avoid having...

      Research: Tax Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what value of fraudulently claimed R&D tax relief HMRC has recovered in each of the last five years.

      Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to accelerate humanitarian aid to Ukraine in line with the World Customs Organisation recommendations on forwarding of...

      National Savings and Investments: Internet

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to improve the National Savings and Investments website's accessibility for blind users of that website.

      Car Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing Mileage Allowance Payments in the context of the recent increase in petrol and diesel prices.

      Car Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to review mileage allowance payments in response to rising fuel prices.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Chagos Islands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, in the context of the recent raising of the Mauritian flag over the Chagos Islands, whether her Department has...

    • Honey: Pitcairn Islands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment on the potential merits of promoting the import of honey from the...

      Palestinians: Newspaper Press

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and the Palestinian Authority, whether her...

      Russia: Sanctions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the sanctions regime against Russia; and what...

      Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer to Question 45069 on 13 September 2021 on Palestinians: Overseas Aid, for what reason...

      Yazidis: Missing Persons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with its international counterparts to help trace missing Yazidi women.

      South Korea: Elections

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect of the outcome of the recent South Korean presidential election on her...

      Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she will set out further details on the £120 million humanitarian aid package the UK government has...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Ukraine: Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of how much and what proportion of his Department's spending in response to the conflict in Ukraine will be accounted for as...

    • Armed Conflict: Explosives

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Government's position is on the upcoming UN-backed political declaration on restricting the use of wide area effect explosive weapons in...

      Armed Forces: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on providing the Ukrainian army with (a) body armour and (b) other personal protective equipment.

      Nuclear Weapons: Testing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) digital and (b) physical copies his Department holds of the 1988 National Radiological Protection Report Board Report, Mortality and cancer...

      Visits Abroad

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his declaration of ministerial travel published on 27 January, whether the total cost to the public purse of his overseas...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Jobseeker's Allowance and Universal Credit: Performing Arts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effect of the Universal Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work Search and Work...

    • Workplace Pensions: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's consultation on exempting performance fees from the consumer price cap on pensions used for automatic...

      Industrial Accidents

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many internal process reviews her Department has (a) started and (b) completed on incidences of death or serious harm since July 2019.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Trapping

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Government's Action Plan for Animal Welfare, published May 2021, when he plans to launch a call for...

    • Waste Disposal: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of how many and what proportion of local authorities (a) charge and (b) have...

      Ammonia: Air Pollution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the formal process is for an adjustment application and adjustments to be applied for the UK to become compliant with...

      Pigs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to clear the backlog of pigs on UK farms due to the shortage of butchers to avoid more...

  • Home Office

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • UK Shared Prosperity Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, which organisations his Department considers are local partners that should (a) be consulted and (b) help local...

    • Farmers: Markets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to help protect historic farmers markets from closure.

      Aerials: Planning Permission

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the reforms to planning laws announced in the press release of 7 March 2022 entitled New laws to end...

      National House Building Council

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing an independent public body with...

      Second Homes: Cumbria

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of second homes in Cumbria between 2010 and 2022.

      Elections: Campaigns

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 905919, which provisions in the Elections Bill strengthen the controls...

      Tree Preservation Orders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Tree Protection Orders there are in (a) Malvern Hills District, (b) Worcestershire and (c) each local authority...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what requirements his Department is putting in place for people who are offering accommodation to Ukrainian refugees.

      Leasehold: Property Management Companies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that property agents are (a) suitably qualified and (b) accountable to leaseholders.

      Housing: Valuation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of trends in the value of homes that have non-cladding related fire safety defects since...

      Infrastructure: Regional Planning and Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the role for infrastructure is in delivering the missions set out in the Levelling Up White Paper.

      Regional Planning and Development: Sustainable Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the levelling up missions set out in the Levelling Up White Paper will align with the targets the Government has...

      Parking: Unpaid Fines

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to investigate the methods debt collection agencies use to pursue unpaid parking fines.

  • Scotland Office

    • Tree Planting: Scotland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that organisations in Scotland are able to participate in its programmes to expand tree planting.

  • Cabinet Office

    • Government Departments: Location

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what environmental factors the (a) Government Property Agency and (b) his Department have considered in assessing the suitability of locations for...

    • Cabinet Office: Training

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has implemented a training programme to provide civil servants with skills to support its transition to net zero.

      Civil Service: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Skills Curriculum Unit's Government Campus Curriculum will contain modules on skills and knowledge for transitioning the Civil...

      Government Skills and Curriculum Unit: Trade Unions

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has consulted the recognised relevant unions on the formation of the Government Campus by the Government Skills and Curriculum Unit.

      Infected Blood Compensation Framework Study

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Infected Blood Compensation Framework Study will be published to recognised legal representatives and core participants after it is completed...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Charity Commission: Public Appointments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether any relevant interests were declared by Orlando Fraser, the Government’s preferred candidate for the role of...

  • Department for Transport

    • Railways: Concessions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to work with train operating companies to ensure they offer free travel for refugees from Ukraine for their initial journey from their point...

    • North Wales Coast Line: Coronavirus

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with train service providers regarding the reduction in the number of through trains from London Euston to Holyhead from seven per...

      Musicians: EU Countries

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 21 February (HL Deb col 2), what options they are considering for own account operators regarding...

      UN Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships

      To ask Her Majesty's Government why they have not signed the UN Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships; what assessment they have made, if any, of the impact of this decision on the...

      Shipping: Registration

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to impose tighter restrictions and conditions on ships registering in the UK.

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Liesl Cook

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many appointments were held by Liesl Cook at the point they were appointed an Official Receiver; how many complaints had been received about Leisl Cook at the...

    • Eikone

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to investigate the affairs of Eikone Ltd, a company registered at Companies House with £100 trillion authorized share capital

      Nuclear Fusion: Research

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with those in charge of laboratories in Oxford who are working on the generation of electricity from nuclear fusion; and what...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Mental Health Services: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women aged (1) 18 to 24, and (2) 25 years or older, have accessed primary care mental health services, in each of the last 10 years.

    • Health: Recreation Spaces

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefits of (1) green spaces, and (2) gardening, to (a) mental, (b) physical, and (c) social, health.

  • Department for International Trade

    • Small Businesses: Trade Agreements

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to benefit from the provisions on small businesses in free trade agreements.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to support local organisations in countries delivering COVID-19 vaccines donated by the UK to ensure that they are distributed efficiently and...

    • Russia: Sanctions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to sanction Russia by excluding them from the SWIFT international payments system.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to support the delivery of the UK’s G7 pledge to donate 100 million surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses to COVAX by June 2022.

      Russia: Sanctions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the time taken to sanction named Russian oligarchs.

      Russia: Sanctions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to impose sanctions to restrict the transfer of money in and out of Russia in the form of cryptocurrencies.

      Russia: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to record details of Russian attacks in Ukraine on (1) civilians, (2) schools, and (3) hospitals; and what steps they will take to...

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 21 February (HL6050), what judicial body they consider would be able to...

  • Home Office

    • Refugees

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the response by Safe Passage, the Hummingbird Project, and Kent Refugee Action Network to their proposed new plan for...

    • Weapons: Smuggling

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to prevent the illicit flow of surplus arms from the war in Ukraine into the UK.

      Unexplained Wealth Orders

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Unexplained Wealth Orders have been issued against a Javier Clemente Engonga Avomo who, according to Companies House records, is director of The United...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

  • Northern Ireland Office

    • Domestic Visits: Northern Ireland

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has travelled to Northern Ireland in each of the last 12 months; and how many of these visits included...

    • Belfast Agreement: Anniversaries

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to mark the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement in 2023.

      USA: Visits Abroad

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any (1) Ministers, (2) civil servants, or (3) special advisers, will be attending St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the United States of America in...

  • Treasury

    • Deposit Return Schemes: VAT

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce regulations to amend VAT law to accommodate the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme.

    • Deposit Return Schemes: VAT

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact that VAT laws would have on the rollout of a Deposit Return Scheme.

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Telecommunications: Rural Areas

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on vulnerable people in remote rural areas of the loss of telephone contact during power cuts; and what plans they...

    • Digital Markets Unit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will introduce legislation to provide the Digital Markets Unit with statutory powers in the next parliamentary session.

      Technology: Companies

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure a level playing field is established by legislative and regulatory means to allow UK news publishers to negotiate for proper...

      Hyde Park: Road Traffic

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the removal of COVID-19 restrictions in England, what plans the Royal Parks have to reopen the South Carriage Drive in Hyde Park to vehicular traffic.

      Digital Markets Unit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking (1) to support the establishment of a Digital Markets Unit within the Competition and Markets Authority, (2) to provide the necessary...

      Social Media: Russia

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are monitoring how (1) Google, (2) Facebook, and (3) Twitter, have responded to reported demands by the government of Russia to withhold reports of...

      Gambling: Internet

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the conclusions of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report Review of unlicensed online gambling in the UK, published on 3 February...

      Broadcasting Programmes: Young People

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to support the creation of programmes for young people since they stated that "the availability of new, engaging and relevant content...

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