To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer on 7th November 2022 of Question 80959 on train timetable changes, for what reasons his Department grants a derogation from the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Midlands Rail Hub on rail usage in that region.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential economic benefits of building the Midlands Rail Hub.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) relevant stakeholders and (b) local leaders in the Midlands on the potential merits of constructing the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his timeline is for completing the (a) order and (b) delivery of 4,000 new buses under the Bus Back Better scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of inflation on the cost of HS2.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on HS2; and what the projected cost of that project is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when a determination will be made on the Outline Business Case for the Midlands Rail Hub.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the financial year baseline including non-governmental costs was for the Rail Transformation Programme in 2021-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Rail passenger numbers and crowding on weekdays in major cities in England and Wales: 2021, published on 22 September 2022, when he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on staff activity related to the review of retained EU laws within his Department's areas of responsibility since 1...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many pre-planned service cancellations have been applied by each rail operator for services in 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of how much Brazilian hardwood Network Rail has used for railway sleepers in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer on 7th November 2022 of Question 80960 on Southeastern Railway, for what reasons his Department agreed to grant Southeastern...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2022 to Question 83689 on Bus Services: Franchises, if he will make it his policy to launch a public...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of learners waiting for a practical driving test; and whether he has made an assessment of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of requiring a toll to use Hammersmith Bridge on levels of traffic in Putney.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Nine-point plan for seafarers published on 6 July 2022, what progress he has made on the creation of minimum wage corridors with...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has held discussions with the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy on the capacity of the A12 to accommodate...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average wait time was for each of the five tests which make up Driver Certificate of Professional Competence for bus drivers in each year...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how long it takes on average to (a) detect and (b) respond to a vehicle stranded in a live lane on all lane running motorways in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his Department's policy to provide sole traders with the same loan guarantees as limited businesses under...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many SMEs in East Yorkshire constituency have received Government financial support during the cost of living crisis.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the factors that have contributed to the trend in the level of business start-ups in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with businesses in Sefton Central constituency on the potential impact of the cost of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to review the adequacy of fireworks legislation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help make it easier for fathers to take statutory parental leave.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help support working parents with flexible working options that can help increase their...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government response to the Taylor review of modern working practices, published on 7 February...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made on making it easier for fathers to take paternity leave since 25 October 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Good Work Plan published in December 2018, whether it remains his policy to ban the use of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it remains his Department's policy to ban unpaid internships.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has held discussions with Kirklees council in the last 12 months on increasing the number of electrical...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment has he made of the adequacy of the investment environment in the construction sector.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 72238 on Brexit, what the special legal status of retained EU law...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to take steps to (a) provide support to local businesses and (b) find opportunities to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential financial impact of extending the copyright exception for text and data...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department plans to provide funding to the Ulster Scots language community.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2022 to Question 77348, how many special advisers working in his Department had their employment...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the ability of large trusts, including those providing mental health services, to deliver the priorities...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to decrease the average time taken to answer a 999 call.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of GPs prescribing anti-depressants to children and young people, without assessment...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report Transforming NHS Pharmacy Aseptic Services in England published in October 2020, what progress he has made...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to encourage more cancer patients to donate tissue to assist with research into childhood cancers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Ministerial Commission to Health Education England in May 2021 on refreshing the long-term strategic framework for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to support research to investigate the long-term effects of treatment on childhood cancer survivors...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's announcement of £50 million to help tackle health inequalities through research on 11 October...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to increase the number of NHS staff providing Parkinson's care in (a) the Humber and North Yorkshire...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many paediatric intensive care units in England are fully staffed to clinical standards.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of midwives in Portsmouth South constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) financial and (b) other steps her Department is taking to help tackle NHS workforce shortages in Portsmouth South constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to help improve (a) manageable caseloads, (b) number of working hours, (c) flexibility in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps with Cabinet colleagues to help support sight loss research in Northern Ireland.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to help ensure that pregnant women are included in clinical trials of new medicines that could be...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of cancelled operations in Portsmouth South constituency in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for cancer treatment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce (a) ambulance handover times and (b) ambulance service lost hours at the Norfolk and Norwich...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic benefits of additional funding in sight loss research.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many aseptic hub sites there arer in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of (a) production and (b) capacity is of aseptic services in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October to Question 55094 on Adult Social Care Discharge Fund, on what date his Department will formally...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) pace and (b) effectiveness of the CQC in securing change to services that require improvement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to support integrated working across government to address the needs of people with mental health problems.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November to Question 73787 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus, how many requests for medical...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of children and young people requiring placement in institutional mental health facilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make provision to place an enabling team within a trust where mental health trusts receive an inadequate or requires...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to improve access to auditory verbal therapy for children.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the importance of joining up Mental Health trust areas with Integrated Care Systems.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of how the NHS and local authorities could work more closely in order to help improve assessments of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) effectiveness of NHS eating disorder services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to help prevent suicide among veterans.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission as the regulator of community and inpatient...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood of 23 September 2022 on sodium valproate.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide support for children's mental health in rural communities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of Care Quality Commission reports which have found repeated failings of regulated providers...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS mental health crisis teams; and what steps he is taking to help improve those...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the number of hospital beds for psychiatric care in Cornwall.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to formally allocate funding from the £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to social care providers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Not Just Skin Deep report by Allergy UK published 22 Nov 2021, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on implementing the Adult Social Care Discharge Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to (a) improve childhood cancer diagnosis times and (b) raise awareness of child cancer symptoms through...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2022 to Question 65828 on Dementia: Health Services, whether he has made a recent assessment of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of diagnosis rates for Motor Neurone Disease in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Royal College of Nursing on pay and working conditions for nurses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) routine screening appointments, (b) cancer treatment and (c) surgical...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the level of risk faced by district nurses and community midwives when entering homes alone in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many employees in his Department work on matters related to covid-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of A&E consultations were (a) face to face consultations and (b) carried out by GPs, in each of the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average waiting time for an ambulance in England (a) in August, (b) in September, (c) in October and (d) from 1 November to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his expected timetable is for average waiting times for NHS services to return to levels recorded before the covid-19 pandemic.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of NHS staff strikes on NHS waiting list backlogs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the implications for his policies of concerns raised by the British Society for Rheumatology with the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department has made an impact assessment on extending the delay to restrictions banning adverts of products high in fat, salt or...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress her Department has made on increasing the number of school places available for pupils with special educational needs and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in the social care system; and how many of these are in (a) foster care, (b) regulated residential care and (c) unregulated...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent the separation of siblings in the care system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the resilience of childcare providers in Portsmouth South constituency; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that children who are (a) living with or (b) affected by HIV are supported in school following the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of the National Association of Head Teachers published on 8 November...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide additional financial support to schools in 2023-24 to help meet demands as a result of (a) pay increases for teaching...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the impact of inflation on the affordability of (a) the staff payroll and (b) other aspects of school budgets.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help ensure that (a) teaching assistants and (b) support staff in schools are paid at a level which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support and development opportunities her Department has helped to provide to school governors over the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has she made of the current School Food Standards mandatory servings of meat and dairy and its impact on the (a) UK’s health...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the (a) accountability, (b) transparency, (c) cost to the public purse and (d) sustainability of the Steiner free...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department takes to monitor the education of young people who have been moved from in-school to at-home education.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teachers who qualified in each year from 2010-2020 were still in service in the English state school sector (a) one, (b) two, (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase student finance in line with inflation in the 2023-24 academic year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing free continuing education for adults with (a) dyslexia, (b) illiteracy and (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) he or (b) officials in his Department have met with US officials to discuss the incarceration of Julian Assange.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average amount of time it takes for (a) a member of the public and (b) an MP to receive a response to a letter sent to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of home repossessions in (a) Birmingham, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK since 1 January 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mortgage (a) claims, (b) orders, (c) warrants and (d) repossessions there were in each county court circuit in the last quarter for which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether anyone employed by his Department was involved in Operation Pelican.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects to publish the Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review by Clare Wade QC.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people applied to become magistrates following the recruitment campaign begun on 24 January; and what the (a) gender and (b) ethnicity...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing the time it takes to process probate applications.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming the system for sealing criminal records.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 7 November to Question 74848, what the (a) conviction or (b) matter for which the prisoner was remanded into custody was...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to train prison staff on the additional needs of prisoners with disabilities, including for neurodiverse prisoners.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's definition is of (a) full prison regime and (b) near full prison regime.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours prisoners spent on average out of their cells a day in each prison in the last 12 months.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether UK National Minimum Wage resource has been dedicated to the maritime sector.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what safeguards his Department has implemented to ensure that companies who act as tax agents have the full and informed consent of the taxpayers on whose...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the turnover threshold for small business VAT in the context of rising levels of inflation.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the additional costs associated with sight loss and the potential merits of providing targeted cost of living support to...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) his Department and (b) HMRC have spent on staff activity related to the review of retained EU laws within their areas of responsibility since...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) regulators and (b) other relevant stakeholders on (i) the use of tracking apps by car insurance companies...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of pension tax rules have on the (a) working hours and (b) levels of retirement of doctors in the NHS.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has had recent discussions with relevant stakeholders on the potential merits of establishing a cryptocurrency managed by the Government.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) civil and (b) criminal penalties have been imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority on cryptoasset businesses for breaches of a relevant...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many incidents potentially related to money laundering have (a) the Inland Revenue and (b) HM Customs and Excise reported to the appropriate...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of businesses currently on the list of unregistered cryptoasset businesses maintained by the Financial Conduct Authority have...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the potential income that would have been generated for the Exchequer if an investment income surcharge of the form in existence until...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what additional steps he has taken to restrict conversion of income into capital gains or corporation revenues following his announcement of the reversal...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government’s policy is on the potential expansion of the definition of Art Market Participants within the Money Laundering Regulations to...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claim the Blind Person’s Allowance as of 7 November 2022.

To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, how many vacancies there are for clergy posts in England; and what proportion of those vacancies are in rural...

To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, how many provincial episcopal visitors there were in the Church of England in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church of England has made of the implications for its policies on the proper use of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total (a) direct, (b) indirect and (c) combined expenditure by his Department was on small and medium-sized enterprises in the (i) 2020-21 and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November to Question 82448 on Merlin Helicopters, how many EH101 aircraft are available for service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 16 November, HCWS369, on Shipbuilding Update, who the prime contractor for the Fleet Solid Support Ships will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had Babcock plc on (a) the costs of the repair programme for HMS Prince of Wales and (b) agreement of an upper cost...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost has been of moving HMS Prince of Wales to Rosyth for repair.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October to Question 63927 on Navy: Training, whether any tier-one subcontractors to Capita have been removed from the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many crew are on board HMS Prince of Wales.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many grants were made to small and medium-sized enterprises through the Defence Technology Exploitation Programme since that scheme was launched in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many loans have been provided to SMEs through the Defence Innovation Loan scheme since it was launched; and what the total value of the loans was in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average value is of loans under the Defence Innovation Loan scheme since it was launched.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if will make an estimate of the number of (a) Royal Navy and (b) Babcock plc staff who have been assigned to the work to repair HMS Prince of Wales as...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the annual budget of the Office of Net Assessment and Challenge.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long he expects each periodic deployment of Chinooks and Apaches to Estonia from January 2023 to last.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the average month of submission of the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy applications that his Department began processing in November 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's target timeframe is to respond to written enquiries from applicants to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, under what circumstances his Department would provide an update to (a) a Member of Parliament and (b) an applicant to the Afghan Relocations and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy are awaiting decision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November to Question 82179 on China: Armed Forces, how many Chinese Armed Forces personnel have been trained by UK Armed...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the decision to send periodic deployments of Chinooks and Apaches to Estonia from January 2023 came following a request from the Estonian government.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's target timeframe is to respond to written enquiries from Members of Parliament on (a) general queries and (b) specific cases on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to parliamentary question 82179 on China: Armed Forces, for what reasons 58 personnel from the Chinese Armed Forces were provided with training...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any Military Aid to Civilian Authorities (MACA) requests have been submitted to his Department by the Home Office on the use of armed forces...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October 2022 to Question 59849 Housing Benefit: Cost of Living, for what reasons his Department stated that spare...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 80819, how many times his Department visited assessment centres to help audit the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 80819 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations, if he will publish the results...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of levels of (a) public spending and (b) welfare payments on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on staff activity related to the review of retained EU laws within his Department's areas of responsibility...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide a breakdown of what the £1.3 billion funding over three years in employment support for disabled people and people...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward the next review of the benefit cap, in the context of the rising...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the amount of time it will take for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report into...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on the implementation of pension dashboards.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's press release entitled £7.6 million to help 2,000 adults with autism into work, published on 18 August...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support the transit of seed potatoes from Scotland to Northern Ireland.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is planning legislative changes of health requirements for the (a) commercial and (b) non-commercial movement of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to change the requirement for ducks to be swabbed before each movement and instead require...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to protect companion animal welfare while in transport; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has taken recent steps to establish a cross-Government committee to help tackle the loss of biodiversity.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help climate finance reach low-income communities vulnerable to climate change; and whether she...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 is within the scope of section 1 of the Retained EU Law...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a breakdown of the number of each species of bird that has (a) been culled and (b) died in the UK due to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to retain the restriction on the use of pesticide active substances following the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on staff activity related to the review of retained EU laws within her Department's areas...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will require all chicken sold for public consumption that has been injected with water and added salt to be labelled...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 19 October 2022 to Question 61290 on Fisheries, what assessment he has made of the potential...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to encourage more domestic food growth to help reduce the level of importation of food...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to incentivise people to increase fruit and vegetable growing capacity by (a) using modern...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps to reduce (a) nitrogen oxide levels and (b) particulate matter where particles are less than 2.5...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on restoring smooth and frictionless...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of a reduction in the Environment Agency’s budget on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to support farmers with the increased costs of food production, in the context of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice she has received from the Animal Welfare Committee on the use of high concentrations of CO2 to stun and kill pigs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the objectives and strategic specifications for the Environmental Land Management Scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has plans to mandate the public sector procurement of locally sourced British food and drink.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her Department’s policies of the Surfers Against...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 20 October 2022 to Question 67897 om Avian Flu: EU Law, whether the Avian Influenza and...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2022 to Question 77331 on Detention Centres: Manston, what (a) qualifies as an exceptional circumstance...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department has made an assessment the impact of (a) Tier 1 and (b) Tier 2 visa schemes on national security.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ukrainian refugees are awaiting biometric residence permits (a) in the UK, (b) in Scotland and (c) on the MS Ambition in Glasgow as...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where Migrant Help are contracted by her Department to provide assistance to those seeking asylum, what steps her Department is taking to...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the cost to local authorities of providing (a) initial and (b) contingency...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were housed in (a) Luton, (b) the East of England, (c) Norfolk, (d) Suffolk and (e) Cambridge in each month in 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adults and (b) children have been housed in temporary asylum accommodation in Wales in each month in 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the employment opportunities open to people seeking asylum.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to expand (a) number of workers on and (b) the scope of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of times an asylum seeker who is a victim of domestic violence has lost access to financial...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contractual obligations hotels providing contingency accommodation for asylum seekers are under; and whether these obligations ensure...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Hazara Muslims have (a) applied for asylum in the UK, (b) been granted asylum in the UK and (c) reached the UK after being granted...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to help reduce the up-front costs for (a) researchers and (b) innovators moving to work in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to expedite the processing of out-of-country spouse visa applications.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the application of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the Atlas casework system to become operational.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations made by the Law Commission in its report on Hate...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if it is his policy to bring forward reforms to leasehold in this Parliament.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his planned timetable is for extending the right to buy to housing association tenants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to introduce the Renters Reform Bill.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department has taken to help ensure that private renters are provided an adequate standard of housing.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to change the Park Home Pitch Fee Inflationary Index from RPI to CPI.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department holds data on the number of section 21 no-fault evictions in Huddersfield constituency in the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the costs of the Families for Ukraine scheme on the finances of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Housing First Pilots at offering trauma related mental...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of care leavers were homeless, as of 10 November 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will offer additional support to local authorities, in the context of trends in homelessness rates and number of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment has his Department made of the adequacy of exempt accommodation as of 10 November 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of introducing a cap on student rent on levels of student...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of specialist accommodation for domestic abuse...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits for the levelling up agenda of implementing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking help local authorities respond to the effects of increases in inflation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his levelling up policies in tackling inequality.

What progress his Department has made on increasing the supply of social housing.

What steps he is taking to support first-time house buyers.

What progress he has made on enabling housing association tenants to purchase their homes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Departments policy paper entitled Levelling Up the United Kingdom published on 2 February 2022, when...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the UK's departure from the EU on the economic success of high streets in (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of warm spaces available in (a) Lewisham East constituency, (b) the London Borough...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's portfolio of major projects, how much public money has been spent on (a) internal staff...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether (a) he or (b) officials in his Department have met with US officials to discuss Julian Assange.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications of reports that Venezuela and Iran are establishing a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Peruvian counterpart on reports that indigenous leaders from the Peruvian...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Brazilian counterpart on Brazil's participation at COP27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to provide support to the Memoria Viva trade union in Colombia in response to reports...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of providing sanction relief to Iran under a renewed...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has held discussions with his counterpart in Iran on the potential supply of ballistic missiles to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of estimates made by the Bahrain Institute for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the International Labour Organisation's November 2021 report, One is too many: The collection...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the level of threats from IS-K towards religious minorities in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to flooding in Pakistan in summer and autumn 2022, what steps his Department took to help ensure...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much aid funding the UK has provided to Pakistan to support Afghan refugees in that country.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has recorded any instances of UK (a) military and (b) law enforcement personnel engaging in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Business (ii) representatives of the Government...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his international counterparts on the rights to (a) protest and (b) freedom of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of Iran’s compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with his international counterparts to ensure Iranians can access (a) independent media...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of instituting snapback sanctions on Iran in accordance...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the turnover of staff was in the private office of the Secretary of State in each quarter of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of holding discussions with...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many employees in his Department work on matters related to covid-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the veracity of reports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is providing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to secure the establishment of an international, independent and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the truce in the Yemen conflict which expired on 2 October 2022, what steps his Department is...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Foreign Affairs Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2014–15, Support for British...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits for the UK's international soft power of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made for the implications of his policies of reports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Iranian counterpart on potential threats to Iranian journalists in (a) that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Iranian counterparts on the importance of upholding international...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help mitigate the conflict in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states in...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2022 to Question 63982 on Landmark Information Group: Contracts, for what reason he listed twelve requirements in...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps he has taken to help tackle bullying and harassment in his Department.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the level of trade was with the Gambia in the latest period for which data is available.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what percentage of (a) male and (b) female workers were in the same job as 12 months earlier in each (i) region and (ii) country of the UK in each year...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many women were victims of homicide in each year since 2015.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many overseas visits the Prime Minister's Trade Envoys have made in an official capacity in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the answer given in written question UIN 67063, does the spend on flights and accommodation includes the costs arising from the...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to her speech on 14 November 2022 to the Cato Institute in Washington DC, what was the source for her statement that the...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has had recent discussions with the Trade Remedies Authority on the potential impact that the ending of anti-dumping duties on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions she has met the Communication Workers Union to help resolve ongoing industrial disputes related to (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the impact of recent trends in the level of incel online content on (a) harms to young...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much from the public purse her Department has spent on (a) staff activity, (b) external research and advice, (c) public...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason the Gambling Commission allocated funding to NIESR to undertake a study of the Benefits and Costs of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department will take to help prevent leisure centres closing due to energy price rises during winter 2022-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government is taking steps to support the BBC with preventing cuts to (a) BBC News, (b) BBC World Service and (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) non-disclosure and (b) other confidentiality agreements relating to (i) employment, (ii) bullying, (iii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the benefits that local BBC Radio stations provide to communities; and what assessment...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the long-term delivery of funding changes to local BBC radio stations...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to protect and support local radio broadcasting.

To ask His Majesty's Government how much has been claimed in energy efficiency grants for energy retrofit programmes by each local authority in each year since 2008.

To ask His Majesty's Government further to the publication of Zero Hour’s Nature and Climate Declaration on 1 November, what steps are they taking (1) to reduce the full scope of the UK's...

To ask His Majesty's Government what diplomatic efforts they are making to encourage the inclusion of carbon emissions from militaries in UNFCCC emissions reporting; and what progress they have made.

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have (1) to recommend non-custodial sentences whenever possible for parents of multiple children, and (2) to maintain strong family links and...

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people currently in prison aged 80 or older are serving a sentence they originally received when aged (1) 15 to 17, (2) 18 to 20, (3) 21 to 24, (4) 25 to...

To ask His Majesty's Government which of the provisions in the Bill of Rights Bill were recommended by the Independent Human Rights Act Review Panel.

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of the responses to its consultation on the Bill of Rights Bill supported (1) the proposal to repeal the Human Rights Act altogether, (2) the...

To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have received from (1) other states, and (2) the UN Universal Periodic Review which took place on 10 November, regarding the Bill of...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the finding in the HM Inspectorate and Probation report Offender Management in Custody, published on 2 November, that only 25 per cent of keywork...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the United Nations General Assembly Statement on Lethal Autonomous Weapons systems on 21 October, what steps they are taking (1) to encourage...

To ask His Majesty's Government what recent discussions they have had with the government of South Sudan regarding the peace process.

To ask His Majesty's Government what humanitarian support they have provided to the government of Sudan, following recent violence in the Blue Nile state.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Policy Paper Ambitious, safe, responsible: Our approach to the delivery of AI-enabled capability in Defence, published on 15 June, in particular...

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the UK’s participation in the European Sky Shield Initiative on the UK’s “Team Complex Weapons”.

To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to receive the report on age assessment of asylum-seeking children from the expert panel they established; and whether this report will be...

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to review the prohibition of the use of red diesel for off-road purposes in relation to the equine industry.

To ask His Majesty's Government when the Gambling Act white paper will be published.