Written answers

Thursday, 9 June 2022

  • Department for Transport

    • Railways: Freight

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what framework his Department has in place to enable relevant stakeholders to feed into the implementation of the Future of Freight Strategy.

    • Roads: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the Road Safety Strategic Framework.

      M18

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to widen to three lanes the remaining two-lane stretches of the M18 motorway; and if he will make a statement.

      Motorways: Accidents

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to reduce the time taken to reopen a motorway or major road after an accident; what his latest assessment is of the...

      Speed Limits: Cameras

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 22 January to Question 100639, when his Department’s review of DfT Circular 1/2007 on the use of speed cameras...

      Driving: Spain

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to work with the Directorate-General for Traffic in Spain to ensure that UK citizens who are resident in Spain can continue to...

      Roads: Accidents

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make it mandatory for drivers to report a...

      Network Rail: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the salary range is for the eight members of staff employed by Network Rail whose primary roles focus on diversity and inclusion.

      Railways

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the potential increase in the number of people travelling by rail for (a) business and (b) leisure following the recovery...

      Railways: Fares

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the impact of the cost of rail travel on people's choice of transport; and if he will make an assessment of the...

      Airports: Vetting

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with HMRC on using PAYE validation services for airport staff awaiting security clearance.

      Railways: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the (a) average starting salary, (b) average salary (including bonuses and overtime), (c) highest salary...

      Public Transport: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure all public transport providers fulfil their duty under the Equality Act 2010 to be disability accessible.

      Department for Transport: Public Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's publication, DfT: spending over £500, January 2022, if he will publish an itemised list of purchases made...

      Department for Transport: Public Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Ministers (a) approved or (b) were aware of spending for (i) 20/01/2022, CALDERS, £2,500.04, Team awayday costs, (ii) 01/12/2021,...

      Department for Transport: Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's publication, DfT: spending over £25,000, March 2022, what work 23RED Ltd completed for the payment of...

      Department for Transport: Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's publication, DfT: spending over £500, January 2022, how many days of work DEKRA Automotive Ltd completed for...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Fuels: County Durham

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made a recent assessment of the level of disparity in prices for petrol and diesel across County Durham.

    • Warm Home Discount Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether support is available to people who fall within the Broader Group eligible for the Warm Home Discount Scheme but...

      Park Homes: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that park home residents receive the full benefit of the support available to...

      Energy Bills Rebate: Park Homes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people who live on mobile home sites receive energy grants rather than the...

      Directors: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average (a) cost is incurred by the Insolvency Service of each director disqualification it has undertaken and...

      Directors: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on how many occasions the Official Receiver has issued legal proceedings against a disqualified director for the...

      Quantum Technology

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure UK capability for the manufacture of quantum (a) devices and (b) systems.

      Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hikvision

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2022 to Question 4425 and with reference to the Answer of 23 February 2022 to Question...

      New Businesses: Government Assistance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department is providing to establish business incubators.

      Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Dunfermline and West Fife

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the recent announcement of Government plans to reduce the number of civil servants by 91,000, what...

      Business: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to help increase the survival rate of micro-businesses in rural and isolated communities.

  • Cabinet Office

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Community Nurses

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to alleviate pressures on district nurses.

    • Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his letter of 6 June 2022, reference PO-1405720, if he will make it his policy not to be a signatory to any treaty with...

      Carers: Cost of Living

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on ways to help unpaid carers meet the rising cost of living.

      Incontinence: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) set out the timeframe for the NHS Supply Chain’s National Bladder and Bowl Health Project and (b) provide details of...

      Medical Examinations: Prisoners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the Government has made on adopting a similar model to the Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool for (a) male and (b) female...

      Mental Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure local authorities are able draw on resources from the £500m fund designed to support...

      Incontinence: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department last made an assessment of the state of continence care in England.

      Refugees: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care , what funding the Government has made available for (a) short, (b) medium and (c) long-term specialist mental health services for people...

      Genito-urinary Medicine: Health Professions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the upcoming sexual and reproductive health strategy will (a) prioritise a sexual health workforce and (b) include building...

      Genito-urinary Medicine: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding will be made available for the implementation of the upcoming sexual and reproductive health strategy.

      Food: Advertising

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential health impact for consumers and businesses of including fruit and nut-based bars...

      Kidney Diseases: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2022 to Question 135527, on Kidney Diseases: Health Services, what assessment his Department has made...

      Death Certificates

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of Part 6, of Section 169, on medical examiners of the Health and Social Care Act 2022 on the...

      Pharmacy: Closures

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that there are no further community pharmacy closures.

      Medical Equipment: Electricity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people use large volumes of electricity for medical equipment to treat health conditions at home in (a) Barnsley Metropolitan...

      Dialysis Machines

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received haemodialysis at home in the financial year (a) 2021-22, b) 2020-21 and (c) 2019-20.

      Pharmacy: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the mental health and wellbeing of the community pharmacy workforce.

      Defibrillators and First Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to improve public access to (a) first aid kits and (b) defibrillators.

      Wound Dressings: Clinics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to ensure that patients are able to access treatment at wound dressing clinics without delay.

      Caesarean Sections: Maternity Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer to Question 3755 on Caesarean Sections: Maternity Services, if he will strengthen post natal care for...

      Dialysis Machines: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2022 to Question 2655, on Dialysis Machines: Children, what the terms of reference are under which the...

      Hormone Replacement Therapy: Prescriptions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of allowing pharmacists to amend patient prescriptions when there is a...

      Mental Health Services: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to create a national emergency helpline for mental health which is separate from the NHS 111 service.

      Carers: Respite Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a recovery and respite plan for unpaid carers.

      Mental Health Services: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has taken steps to amend mental health services provision for children in response to increased demand for those services as a...

      Dementia: Diagnosis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that identification of dementia in patients is prioritised during hospital admissions.

      Kidney Diseases: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether chronic kidney disease will be included in the update of the NHS Long Term Plan expected in summer 2022.

      Asthma: Accelerated Access Collaborative

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to extend the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative's rapid uptake programme for severe asthma.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will expand the spring covid-19 booster vaccine rollout to include people with motor neurone disease who are clinically extremely...

  • Department for Education

    • Children: Care Homes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that traumatised children and young people who perpetrate serious child on adult violence are placed in a safe...

    • Further Education Capital Transformation Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the Government’s £1.5 billion FE Capital Transformation Programme has been (a) allocated to capital projects or (b) remains...

      Sixth Form Education: Per Capita Costs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average level of per pupil funding was in (a) actual and (b) real terms for sixth form funding in 2018-19; and what that the equivalent...

      Further Education Capital Transformation Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the £1.5 billion FE Capital Transformation Fund has been allocated since March 2020; where those funds have been allocated and for...

      Further Education Capital Transformation Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of impact of increased material costs on the adequacy of funding made available through the Further Education Capital...

      Further Education: Buildings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) condition of the FE college estate.

      Leeds City College: Buildings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his planned timetable is for making a decision on funding for Leeds City College to replace the Enfield site and College House with a new...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Bill of Rights

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to submit the proposed Bill of Rights for pre-legislative scrutiny.

    • Open Prisons: Prisoners' Transfers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press release entitled Offenders to face toughest test yet for open prison moves, published by his department on 5 June 2022,...

      Parole

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the parole system.

  • Treasury

    • Cash Dispensing

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the announcement of 19 May 2022 of new powers for the Financial Conduct Authority to protect access to cash, what the criteria will be...

    • UK Infrastructure Bank

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the UK Infrastructure Bank will take to ensure public funds invested in third party funds will directly support levelling up and help reduce...

      UK Infrastructure Bank

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the UK Infrastructure Bank is investing via third party funds rather than directly.

      UK Infrastructure Bank

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what analysis his Department has undertaken of how much has been invested by the UK Infrastructure Bank in (a) each nation of the UK and (b) each region of...

      Help to Buy Scheme

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 21 April 2022 to Question 154169 on Help to Buy Scheme, what steps he plans to take to ensure that people are able to use...

      Medical Equipment: Energy

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to increase financial support for patients using large volumes of electricity for medical equipment to treat health...

      Research: Finance

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce tax credits for Research and Development.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Solomon Islands: China

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of a Chinese military...

    • Jim Fitton

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to the Government of Iraq on the case of Jim Fitton, a retired geologist and...

      Northern Ireland Protocol: Disclosure of Information

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish the legal advice provided to her Department relating to her proposals on the Northern Ireland...

      Afghanistan: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what bilateral programmes to support women and girls in Afghanistan her Department funded in (a) 2019-20 and (b)...

      Afghanistan: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what level of funding the Government provided to support women and girls in Afghanistan in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.

      M16: Environment Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2022 to Question 9182 on MI6: Environment Protection, whether the documentation...

      Kenya: General Elections

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government has made plans with international partners in the event that the result of the 2022 Kenyan...

      Somaliland: Embassies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to take steps to open a British embassy in Somaliland.

      Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Reorganisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International...

      Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has modelled staffing reductions of up to 40 per cent; and where she plans to target such...

      Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Hikvision

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2022 to Question 4453 and with reference to the Answer of 23 February 2022 to...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Platinum Jubilee 2022: Medals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason (a) MOD Guard Service personnel and (b) other officials in his Department undertaking senior operational roles are not eligible for a...

    • Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has had discussions with Ukrainian authorities on the use of military aid provided by the UK on targets inside Russia.

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish details of British military aid that has been (a) delivered and (b) ordered for Ukraine since February 2022, including (i) equipment...

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether HM Treasury will be providing his Department funding to replace stockpiles of weapons supplied to Ukraine at their (a) initial or (b)...

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the cost of replenishing weapons supplied to Ukraine will come from his Department’s budget.

      Military Aid: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the 34,000 Armed Forces personnel deployed on over 450 Military Aid to Civil Authority tasks supporting the Government's response to the...

      Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from which Department's budget the £25 million made available for the Ukraine defence innovation fund will be covered.

      Shipbuilding

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps his Department has taken to support British shipbuilding.

      Qatar: Football

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to his Department is for the support it is providing to Qatar for the FIFA World Cup 2022.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in receipt of universal credit and subject to deductions (a) with children and (b) without children had (i) up to five per...

    • Housing: York

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the impact of house price increases in the centre of York on the broad market rental area boundaries to...

      Household Support Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her oral contribution on 26 May 2022 in the House, in what way the increases to the Housing Support Fund will be distributed.

      Energy: Merseyside

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact on levels of absolute poverty in (a) Birkenhead and (b) the Liverpool City Region of the...

      Motability: Electric Vehicles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the deposit required for electric vehicles under the Motability scheme.

      Universal Credit: Carers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to support unpaid carers applying for Universal Credit on behalf of people with complex disabilities...

      Universal Credit: Carers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits and effect of permitting the exclusion of a one-off bonus for carers, awarded after the...

      Training: Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2022 to Question 118547 on Universal Credit, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit...

      Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he would make an assessment of how long it would take to implement an uplift to (a) Universal Credit and (b) legacy benefits.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Marine Protected Areas: Fisheries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that (a) bottom-towed fishing gear and (b) other destructive fishing...

    • Environment Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Environment Agency is taking to speed up its environmental permitting service.

      Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and National Parks: Motorcycles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has received representations from (a) national parks and (b) areas of outstanding natural beauty requesting...

      Marine Protected Areas: Fisheries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will set out the Government's timeframe for ensuring that all offshore marine protection areas designated for seabed...

      Tree Felling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his Department (a) consults communities, including taking residents' environmental concerns into account, in respect of...

      Tree Felling: Subsidence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to work with the (a) the buildings insurance industry and (b) local authorities to find alternatives...

      Animal Products: Imports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) costs and (b) benefits of banning imports of hunting trophies...

      Carbon Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of PM 2.5 emissions that has been produced by the (a) manufacturing and combustion...

      Nitrogen Oxides

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the change in levels of nitrogen oxide levels in ((a) Liverpool and (b) England from March 2019...

      Avian Influenza: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to develop a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild birds response plan in England, as...

      Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what was the cost to the public purse of badger culling in England in each year since 2013.

      Environment Protection: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government consultation on environmental targets produce its final report and recommendations.

  • Home Office

    • Offences against Children: Reviews

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether DBS checks were undertaken on appointees to the External Reference Group for the Review into group-based child sexual exploitation.

    • Hate Crime

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to respond to the Law Commission’s review of hate crime laws, published 6 December 2021.

      Violent and Sex Offender Register

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people on the sex offenders register who have changed their name by deed poll in the last three...

      10 Downing Street: Security

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the security arrangements at 10 Downing Street during the covid-19 outbreak; and if...

      Police: Yorkshire and the Humber

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase the number of (a) police and (b) police community support officers in (a) Kingston upon Hull and (b) Humberside.

      CCTV and Lighting: Crime Prevention

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase support for the further use of CCTV and improved lighting to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.

      Home Office: Written Questions

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will respond to Question 4451 tabled on 18 May 2022 by the Rt hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green on Sanctions: Russia.

      Visas: Overseas Students

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria were used to determine the universities at which attendance makes a person eligible for the High Potential Individual Visa...

      Cybercrime: Retail Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle cybercrime against retailers; and if she will make a statement.

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications are processed within six to 10 weeks.

      Asylum and Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of trends in the number of employees in her Department on delays in processing (a) passport...

      Synagogues: Security

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's funding for the security of synagogues has risen in line with inflation in each of the last five years.

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications have been submitted to the Passport Office in each of the last 12 months.

      HM Passport Office: Overtime

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Passport Office gave staff the option of overtime to work during the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend.

      Community Security Trust: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May to Question 88 on Whetstone Synagogue: Security, if she will take steps to ensure that funding for the...

      Migrant Workers: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the cost of visa applications on (a) recruiting and (b) retaining researchers in the UK.

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a scheme similar to the Homes for Ukraine scheme for Afghan refugees.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Leasehold: Reform

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department’s planned legislation on leasehold reform will (a) abolish marriage value, (b) grant...

    • Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (Amendment) (England) Order 2022

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish in full the statistical and management information his Department used to inform the decision to lay SI...

      Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what additional funding the Government has provided to local authorities for the repair of social housing following...

      Students: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much and what proportion of the £144 million discretionary fund provided to local authorities to tackle the rise...

      Community Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to give residents greater say over local developments.

      Building: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the written statement of 12 May 2022 by the Welsh Minister for Climate Change entitled Update on...

      Building Safety Regulator

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will publish a timeline for the creation of the proposed Building Safety Regulator.

      Building Safety Regulator: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of additional staff that will be employed by the Health and Safety Executive to...

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has plans to incorporate the findings of the independent review of children's social care in the...

      Regional Planning and Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the role of early intervention in achieving the Government's levelling up agenda.

  • Scotland Office

    • Scotland Office: Consultants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent in total on external recruitment consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; how many full time equivalent posts were...

  • Northern Ireland Office

    • Buses: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many buses in total are currently operating in Northern Ireland; and what proportion of these buses are (i) electric, (ii) hybrid-diesel,...

    • Northern Ireland Protocol

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with EU representatives on proposals to remove the Northern Ireland Protocol.

  • Department for International Trade

    • Chambers of Commerce: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much funding her Department has allocated to each chamber of commerce for the provision of independent trade advice in (a) each of the...

    • Overseas Trade: Cyprus

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has undertaken a recent assessment of the impact of the UK's departure from the EU on the Sovereign Base Areas in...

      Energy Charter Treaty

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the likelihood of an investor challenge being brought against the UK through the Energy Charter...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Data Protection: EU Law

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Data: a new direction, for what reason that consultation did not...

    • Film & TV Production Restart Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme...

      Data Protection: Public Opinion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will take steps to ensure that reform to the UK’s data protection regime is aligned with public...

  • House of Commons Commission

    • Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body

      To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, with regard to the Commission's decision to abolish the Restoration and Renewal Sponsor Body, if he will...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Bounce Back Loan Scheme

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they paid out to Bounce Back Loan Scheme lending banks under the government-backed guarantee between 1 January 2022 and 30 April; and what percentage of...

    • Hydroelectric Power

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 8 April (HL7358), what is the source for their figure of “less than 1% of total generation...

      Hydroelectric Power: Smart Export Guarantee

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 8 April (HL7358), whether hydro power companies are eligible for the Smart Export Guarantee; and if so,...

      Renewable Energy: Business Rates

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 8 April (HL7358), what the process is for renewable energy generators and storage providers to apply for...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to help householders facing increasing energy bills.

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Prisoners: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the ethnic breakdown of women in prison aged (1) 18 to 25, and (2) 26 years or older, for each of the last 10 years.

    • Prisoners: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women in prison aged (1) 18 to 25, and (2) 26 years or older, have previously been in local authority care in each of the last 10 years.

      Prisons: Discipline

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many adjudications were received by women in prison aged (1) 18 to 25, or (2) 26 years or older, for each of the last 10 years.

      Prisoners: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average number of miles that women in prison aged (1) 18 to 25, and (2) 26 years or older, are held from their home address.

      Prisoners: Females

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women aged (1) 18 to 25, and (2) 26 years or older, are currently held in each female prison establishment.

      Prisons: Restraint Techniques

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many incidents of physical restraint took place in the female prison estate on women aged (1) 18 to 25, and (2) 26 years or older, in each year since 2018.

  • Department for International Trade

    • Imports: Israel

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel on 27 April (HL7831), what checks are carried out to ensure that Israeli export goods originate...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • East Africa: Famine

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to lead an international response to prevent widespread famine in (1) East Africa, and (2) the Horn of Africa.

    • Horn of Africa: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what humanitarian assistance they are providing to the 5.7 million children in the Horn of Africa who are expected to suffer acute malnourishment this year as a...

      Developing Countries: Food Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assistance they are providing to transport grain out of Ukrainian silos and into countries on the verge of famine.

      Developing Countries: Food Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking through the Food and Agriculture Organization (1) to expedite the export of foodstuffs from the Ukraine, and (2) to mobilise the release...

      Ukraine: Railways

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they are taking to support the government of Ukraine to replace railway track with an UIC 1.435mm gauge track to the Polish border, to enable...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Ukraine: Military Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what further steps they are taking to encourage other countries to provide urgent military equipment to Ukraine.

    • Peacekeeping Operations

      To ask Her Majesty's Government in which countries members of the UK defence forces serve as part of a United Nations presence.

      Army Reserve

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the size of the Territorial Army in 1998; what is the current size of the trained strength of the Army Reserve; what assessment they have made of whether...

      National Flagship: Procurement

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when the national flagship will be ordered; and whether it will be built in a UK shipyard.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Hare Coursing

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to take action on illegal hare coursing.

    • Furs: Imports and Sales

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to ban the (1) import, and (2) sale, of fur.

      Countryside: Conduct

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the Countryside Code.

  • Home Office

    • Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish the terms of reference for the Monitoring Committee, which was referred to in the Memorandum of Understanding with the government of...

    • Home Office: Infosys

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many contracts were awarded to Infosys in the last five years by the Home Office; and what was the cost to the taxpayer of each of those contracts.

      Civil Proceedings

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their proposed Economic Crime Bill will include a legal definition of Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Housing: Older People

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) whether capital funding is an effective way to incentivise the supply of housing for older people, and (2) how capital...

    • Housing: Disability and Older People

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that (1) older people, and (2) people with disabilities, can live in suitable housing.

  • Treasury

    • Government Departments: Brexit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that (1) the Competition and Markets Authority, (2) the Health and Safety Executive, and (3) the Food Standards Agency, have...

    • Cost of Living

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of the conflict in Ukraine on the cost of living in the UK.

  • The Senior Deputy Speaker

    • Westminster Hall

      To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what discussions he has had with the Privy Council Office, if any, concerning the use of Westminster Hall for the Accession Council.

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