Written answers

Thursday, 14 April 2022

  • Home Office

    • Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support is being provided to severely disabled individuals applying to the Ukraine Family Scheme, who meet the eligibility requirements...

    • Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of altering the Ukraine Family Scheme visa application process to enable one form to...

      Visas: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure visa applications are processed within the service standard.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had on the support available for children arriving under the Ukraine Family Scheme visa for funding for their education.

      Visas: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to relax visa restrictions for people fleeing Afghanistan in line with those in place for people fleeing...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support people from Ukraine wishing to apply to come to the UK who face a language barrier and...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Ukraine Family Scheme, whether the Government plans to provide support to (a) local authorities, (b) local education...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect Ukrainian children who have been separated from parents and family.

      Refugees: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the asylum seeker cap for local authority areas will continue to be applied when seeking accommodation for refugees (a) from Ukraine...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the requirement for refugees from Ukraine to obtain visas to enter the UK on the level of risk...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which external stakeholders his Department plans to consult as part of the upcoming review and update of statutory guidance for local...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to put in place extra levels of protection for LBGTQI+ individuals fleeing Ukraine to the UK.

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that family members of Afghan interpreters are not separated into different bridging hotels upon arrival...

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of safe and legal routes to the UK from Ukraine for children and families who...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her oral Statement on 1 March 2022, Official Report, column 916, what her basis was for stating that an additional 100,000...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the detailed calculations conducted by her Department underpinning the estimates that (a) 100,000 and (b) 200,000...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requesting military aid to civil authorities to support the (a) transportation and...

  • Department for Education

    • Department for Education: Public Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will detail the losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for his departmental group as defined by section A4.10.7 in HM...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent progress they have made towards implementation of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021; and when they will publish the...

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what investigations they have undertaken into the effect of COVID-19 vaccinations on boys between the ages of 10 and 15.

      Care Homes: Visits

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support families, particularly those on low incomes, to meet the continued guidance to test for COVID-19 before visiting care homes.

  • Wales Office

    • Cost of Living: Wales

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Secretary of State for Wales last met the First Minister of Wales to discuss cost of living issues.

  • Department for Education

    • Students: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what arrangements, in any, they have made with (1) the Russell Group of universities, or (2) Universities UK, for the recognition of Ukrainian...

    • Students: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what waivers they have agreed, if any, in relation to eligibility for (1) financial support in the form bursaries and loans, and (2) UK residency rules, in...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Prison Officers

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the median years of experience serving prison officers have had in each year since 2009.

    • Judiciary: Hong Kong

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the resignation of Lord Reed of Allermuir and Lord Patrick Hodge from the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, which judges who sit in courts in...

      Prisoners

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are currently in prison serving a determinate sentence with a parole eligibility date, as defined in Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service...

      Prisoners

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many miles on average a person currently in prison aged (1) 15–17, (2) 18–24, (3) 25–29, and (4) 30 and over, is held from their home.

      Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many foreign national prisoners for each country were convicted of each offence category in the last year for which figures are available.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Africa and Russia: Foreign Relations

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to weaken Russian influence in Africa; in particular, Russian support for military governments in (1) Mali, and (2) Sudan.

    • Horn of Africa: Armed Conflict and Climate Change

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking (1) to prevent people's (a) lives, and (b) livelihoods, being affected by the drought in the Horn of Africa, and (2) to tackle the...

      Russia: Diamonds

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage the EU to impose sanctions on the Russian diamond miner Alrosa following the sanctions imposed on them by Her Majesty's...

      Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that (1) funding, and (2) support, for Ukraine reaches its intended recipients, including (a) local, and (b) women-led,...

      Ukraine: Armed Conflict

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have assessed the cost of the restoration of war-damaged housing, buildings and infrastructure in Ukraine; and whether they consider that seized...

      Ukraine: Armed Conflict

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that (1) funding, and (2) diplomatic support, in respect of the war in Ukraine does not distract from efforts to help...

      Development Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when the UK aid budget will return 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income; and whether they consider the funding for Ukraine (1) to be part of the temporary 0.5 per...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what defensive missile systems they will supply to the Ukrainian Defence Forces to destroy Russian (1) missile bases, or (2) artillery bases, inside Russia...

    • Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what land-based anti-ship missiles or howitzers they will make available to the Ukrainian Defence Forces so that they can destroy Russian ships in the Black Sea.

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the claims by the government of Russia that their forces are repositioning in the north of Ukraine but reinforcing their strength in the Donbass...

  • Home Office

    • Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to calibrate the visa policy for Ukrainian refugees to help fill unfilled job vacancies in the UK.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Buildings: Insulation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many buildings have been assessed as needing remediation under the provisions proposed in the Building Safety Bill; and on how many of these have...

    • Planning Blight

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what actions are available to local authorities to take steps to mitigate planning blight.

      Derelict Land: Prosecutions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to amending section 215 of the Town and County Planning Act 1990 to allow local councils to prosecute land owners if...

      Political Parties: Finance

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce legislation to make it illegal for non-UK citizens who were granted Tier 1 (Investor) visas to donate to political...

      Community Ownership Fund and UK Community Renewal Fund

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much has been (1) allocated to, and (2) spent by, the (a) Community Ownership Fund, and (b) the Community Renewal Fund, in each year since their creation; and...

      Compulsory Purchase

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to simplifying the process of Compulsory Purchase Orders to enable local authorities to act more quickly where the...

  • Treasury

    • Budgets

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to set out an emergency budget as energy bills and national insurance payments increase.

    • Energy: Housing

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with any department in Northern Ireland about the reduction of VAT on home energy products since 1 January.

      Safe Hands Plans: Insolvency

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the viability of the funeral plans industry following the financial collapse of Safe Hands; and what plans they have, if...

      Chelsea Football Club: Sales

      To ask Her Majesty's Government who will be the recipient of the proceeds from the sale of Chelsea Football Club.

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