Written answers

Tuesday, 4 July 2023

  • Home Office

    • Asylum: MOD Wethersfield

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for undertaking age verification checks for asylum seekers to be accommodated at the MOD Wethersfield site; and if she...

    • Offences against Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government response to recommendation 16, of the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse,...

      Slavery: Victims

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2023 to Question 188925, if she will make it her policy to publish data on (a) the proportion of negative...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Education and (b) the Chief Inspector of Ofsted about implementing...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 132332 on Asylum: Children, whether each unaccompanied asylum seeking child on arrival...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2023 to Question 149437 on Asylum: Children, for what reason she has not provided the specific information...

      Fraud: Older People

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the level of threat to people over the age of 65 of being targeted by online (a) data phishing and (b)...

      Business: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Draft Bill on rural businesses.

      Asylum: MOD Wethersfield

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 1(b) of Class Q on development by the Crown relating to an emergency in Part 19 of Schedule 2 to the Town and...

      ACRO Criminal Records Office: Internet

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing times for applications to the Criminal Record Office through the ACRO website were for (a) police certificates,...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the decision to make the National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied asylum seeking children mandatory for all local...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date she took the decision to reopen the hotel in Hove to house unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; how many people previously...

      Asylum: MOD Wethersfield

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide (a) local authorities, (b) police and (c) NHS services in Essex details of the funding they will receive in...

      Migrants and Refugees: Resettlement

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the debate on the Integration of migrants and refugees at the...

      Visas: Families

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration entitled An inspection of the Home Office’s...

      Educational Visits: France

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the UK-France Joint Leaders' Declaration, published on 10 March, what progress she has made on facilitating school trips...

      Immigration: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for a renewal of limited leave to remain with a request for a discretionary grant of indefinite leave to remain...

      Hate Crime: LGBT+ People

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many LGBT young people aged 16-25 have been victims of a hate crime in the last 12 months.

  • Department for Education

    • Teachers: Mental Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the mental health of teachers on the quality of education provided.

    • Oak National Academy: Publications

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has been involved in Oak National Academy's commercial content licensing discussions with publishers.

      Children: Personal Names

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of allowing children to change their names and pronouns in primary school on their...

      Sign Language: Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to introduce funding for adults in families with deaf children to learn British Sign Language; and whether funding is...

      Offences against Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Government response to recommendations 7 and 8 of the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published...

      Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of working with the Imagination Library to increase services for children with special...

      Children: Asylum

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have gone missing from (a) local authority and (b) foster care in each month in...

      Free School Meals: Stockport

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school students receive free school meals in Stockport constituency.

      Apprentices: Taxation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2023 to Question 190594, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the return of apprenticeship levy funding to...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Courts: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has invited (a) barristers and (b) solicitors to (i) access test cases and (ii) test other aspects of the Common Platform system.

    • Legal Aid Scheme: Grants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Administration of Justice: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Administration of Justice: Grants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Magistrates' Courts: Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Courts: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the Common Platform for enabling barristers to transfer cases without a transfer being undertaken by a...

      Courts: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had recent discussions with criminal barristers on the adequacy of the Common Platform.

      Human Rights: Reform

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the debate on UK reform of its human rights legislation at the Parliamentary...

      Rape: Prosecutions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of rape charge rates in England and Wales.

      Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Prisons: Overcrowding

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department collects data on the number of cells that are overcrowded in each prison.

      Crimes of Violence: Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Women's Centres: Grants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Local Leadership and Integration Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Civil Society: Infrastructure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of...

      Offences against Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Government response to recommendation 5, of the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published in May...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • World Health Organization

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his polices of the amendments to World Health Organization's International Health...

    • Musculoskeletal Disorders: Podiatry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the average waiting time for new patients for a musculoskeletal podiatry clinic appointment in Newham;...

      Care Homes: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the...

      Cancer: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that cancer plans in each integrated care board have a public health focus.

      Cancer: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to change NHS practices to reflect any lessons learned from countries with higher cancer...

      Bowel Cancer: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) endoscopies and (b) other bowel cancer diagnostic tests.

      Podiatry: Greater Manchester

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current waiting time is and how many people are currently waiting for a podiatry appointment in (a) Stockport constituency, (b)...

      Genito-urinary Medicine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve NHS sexual healthcare provision (a) nationally and (b) in Kingston upon Hull West and...

      Primary Health Care: Rents

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many District Valuer Services assessments for new primary health care premises have taken place in each of the last three calendar...

      Dentistry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce a system to help people locate local dental surgeries accepting new NHS patients.

      Cancer: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to fund childhood cancer research programmes.

      Cancer: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with protected characteristics are represented in clinical cancer clinical trials.

      Electronic Cigarettes: Packaging

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on measures to tackle the illicit vaping trade.

      Primary Health Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new primary health care premises were completed in each of the last three calendar years.

      Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve equipment for radiotherapy services.

      Memory Clinics: Waiting Lists

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been waiting for a memory assessment in England for more than (a) 12 months and (b) 18 months as of 27 June 2023.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay of (a) 14 March 2023, (b) 14 April 2023,...

      Cancer: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) diagnosis times and (b) cancer treatment pathways; and whether he plans to include...

      Dementia: Coastal Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the dementia diagnosis rate in coastal communities; and if he will make a statement.

      Podiatry: Waiting Lists

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of waiting times for podiatry appointments on (a) levels of obesity, (b) levels of...

      Diabetes: Medical Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making (a) the Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitor and (b) other glucose...

      Cancer: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the policies of the New Zealand government on...

      Essential Tremor: Magnetic Resonance Imagers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for MR-Guided Focussed Ultrasound for Essential Tremor.

      Hospices: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with integrated care boards on the future of the NHS England Children’s Hospice Grant.

      Cancer: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken for research into cancer treatments to reach clinical trials.

      Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish guidance to Integrated Care Boards on the availability of antivirals for immunocompromised patients with a covid infection.

      NHS Cheshire and Merseyside: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual funding application requests made by clinicians were turned down by Cheshire West and Merseyside Integrated Care...

      Health Services: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Health and Safety Executive has issued recent guidance to (a) NHS England and (b) the UK Health Security Agency on the use of...

      Dietetics: Prescriptions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of extending independent prescribing responsibilities to dieticians on (a) patient...

      Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the results of the Special School Eye Care Service trial; and what...

      Smoking

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) Cancer Research UK and (b) other relevant stakeholders on the Smokefree 2030 campaign.

      Smoking

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's progress towards achieving his Smokefree 2030 targets.

      HIV Infection: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure there is equal access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis across the country.

      HIV Infection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of progress on the target of no new HIV infections by 2030.

      Health Professions: Migrant Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the four-month visa extension for newly trained international medical graduates announced in the Delivery plan for recovering...

      Health Services: Sefton Central

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for a referral by a GP to a specialist in Sefton Central constituency in the latest period for which...

      Electronic Cigarettes: Advertising

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ban all vape advertising.

      Cancer: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve patient access to clinical trials of cancer treatments.

      Ultrasonics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of waiting times for MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound treatment on a patients...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Help to Buy Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, If he will make it his policy to extend the interest-free period under the Help to Buy Scheme from five to seven years.

    • Supported Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the provisions of the Renters (Reform) Bill on the stepping stone...

      Commonhold

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to replace leasehold...

      Local Government: Remote Meetings

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what progress his Department has made on reviewing the responses to the call for evidence on local authority remote...

      Buildings: Fire Prevention

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has held discussions with the timber fire door manufacturing sector on his Department's consultation entitled...

      Homelessness: Cambridgeshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to decrease the number of homeless people in Cambridgeshire.

      Homelessness: Sexuality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to take steps to improve Homelessness Case Level Information Collection data on sexual...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Poland: Politics and Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the debate on Recent political developments in...

    • Iran: Women

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the treatment of women in Iran.

      China: Iran

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has received reports on the potential impact of Chinese investment in the Caspian Sea...

      Ljubljana-The Hague Convention: UN Convention against Torture

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that amendments proposed by the Government to the Convention on...

      Food Systems Summit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his priorities are for the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment; and whether he has had discussions...

      China: Cuba

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the impact on UK strategic interests in the Caribbean of the presence of...

      Iran: Freedom of Religion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on freedom of religion and belief in Iran.

      Nnamdi Kanu

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of whether the Nigerian government has upheld the principles set out in the Charter...

      Haiti: Diplomatic Service

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many citizens of British Overseas Territories have requested consular assistance in Haiti in the last 12 months.

      Sierra Leone: Security

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the security...

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of industrial energy prices in (a) Germany and (b) France on the UK steel industry.

    • Import Controls: Agricultural Products and Food

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will publish the (a) average amount of time it took for consignments of (i) food and (ii) agricultural products to clear customs in...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Government Departments: Buildings and Land

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to place conditions on the disposal of land and buildings by (a) NHS Property Services and (b) other...

    • Official Residences: Meters

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether water meters have been installed at (a) 10 and (b) 11 Downing Street.

      Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Figure 6: High-priority lane for the procurement of personal protective equipment, Data on sources on page 28 of the National Audit...

      Cabinet Office: Official Hospitality

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2023 to Question 190517 on Cabinet Office: Official Hospitality, if he will make an assessment of the potential...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will commission an independent assessment on the level of Universal Credit.

    • Local Housing Allowance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will increase Local Housing Allowance to reflect the housing market.

      Social Security Benefits: Uprating

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to (a) ensure regular and adequate uprating of benefits and (b) mitigate the risk of families falling into...

      Universal Credit: Private Rented Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of his Department's recent policy change in paying Universal Credit's Housing Element directly...

      Universal Credit: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed Universal Credit in Northern Ireland in January (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

      Universal Credit: Deductions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims were subject to deductions in the most recent month for which data is available, broken down by parliamentary...

      Local Housing Allowance: Private Rented Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the local housing allowance in areas with high private rental costs.

      Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were subject to sanctions in the last three months for which data is available by constituency; and how much was the...

      Support for Mortgage Interest

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support DWP is providing to social security benefit claimants using the Support for Mortgage Interest scheme who are coming to the end of...

      Social Security Benefits: Poverty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of families subject to the two-child benefit cap that are in absolute poverty.

      Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to use his Department's machine learning skills recommendation prototype on the gov.uk Find a Job website.

      Personal Independence Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made a recent assessment of the (a) effectiveness of systems and (b) potential pressures on his Department's phonelines during...

  • Department for Transport

    • British Transport Police: Vetting

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has held recent discussions with the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police on the adequacy of its officer vetting processes.

    • British Transport Police: Complaints

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many complaints against British Transport Police officers have been recorded in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

      British Transport Police: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British Transport Police officers were in service in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022; and how many are in service as of 27 June 2023.

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many ticket office booths were in operation in railway stations in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022; and how many are in operation as of...

      Railways: Suicide

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the number of suicides on the rail network.

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail staff work in ticket booths as of 27 June 2023.

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any of the train operating companies under contract with his Department have indicated that they plan to table proposals for ticket office...

      Railways: Compensation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to direct Train Operating Companies to accept Delay Repay claims from season ticket holders on days following industrial...

      Railways: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff in his Department are working on the update to the Rail Networks Enhancement Pipeline.

      Bus Services: North Yorkshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the potential merits of the North Yorkshire...

      Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a breakdown of the money spent on each of the 13 suppliers Regional Delivery Partnership frameworks by National Highways in each of...

      A66: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine scheme.

      A66: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with National Highways on (a) Early Warning Notifications from the suppliers on the A66 North Trans-Pennine project and...

      Great British Railways

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals for Great British Railways.

      Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the average cost of installing an electric vehicle domestic charging point (a) as of June 2023 and (b) in each...

      Shipping: Fuels

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a mandate for zero emission shipping fuel to reach five per cent of the UK...

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will instruct train operating companies to produce proposals for public consultation on ticket office closures through the Schedule 17 major...

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) the Rail Delivery Group and (b) each of the train operating companies under contract with his...

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport

    • Cultural Heritage: Industry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps her Department has taken to promote the UK's industrial heritage (a) in the North East and (b) across the UK.

    • Dormant Assets Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to include (a) financial education and (b) capability in the allocation of the dormant assets...

      Youth Services: Leicester

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department plans to take to (a) level up and (b) improve the provision of services for young people in (i) Leicester...

      Cricket: Discrimination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussion her Department has had with Sport England on racism and discrimination in cricket.

      Swimming Pools: Greater Manchester

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of council-run swimming pools in Greater Manchester.

      Crown Works Studios

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with (a) internal and (b) external stakeholders on the Crown Works Studio project in Sunderland.

      Holiday Accommodation: Registration

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to introduce different registration processes for short-term holiday lets of (a) whole properties and (b) individual...

      Gambling: Children and Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the gambling industry on young people under 18 using fake ID to take part...

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    • Energy: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of additional targeted energy support for (a) people with motor...

    • Energy: Debts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to set an affordable rate of repayment for households that are in debt to their energy companies.

      Energy: Social Tariffs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to introduce a new social energy tariff before winter 2023.

      Alternative Fuels and Carbon Capture and Storage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that (a) communities and businesses in the South of England and (b) national...

      Carbon Capture and Storage: Licensing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will review the eligibility criteria for the Track-2 Carbon Capture and Storage process to ensure that those projects...

      Energy: Infrastructure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to reform (a) planning and (b) land consents arrangements to help reduce the...

      Hydrogen

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of blending hydrogen into the gas transmission network.

      Geothermal Power

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero,what steps he is taking to support geothermal energy projects.

      Wind Power: Seas and Oceans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support the offshore wind sector.

      Hydrogen: Production

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support the production of green hydrogen.

  • Treasury

    • Low Emission Zones: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to make it his policy that charges levied by the Ultra Low Emission Zone are considered as allowable expenses for tax purposes.

    • Taxpayers

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) basic, (b) higher and (c) additional rate taxpayers there were in each Parliamentary constituency in the latest financial year for...

      Revenue and Customs: Standards

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to conclusion 3 of the Forty-ninth report of the Committee of Public Accounts entitled Managing tax compliance following the pandemic,...

      Economic Policy: Production

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to strengthen the supply side of the economy.

      Pollution Control: Taxation

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing polluter pays’ taxes and levies to fund climate projects.

      Financial Services: Interest Rates

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of interest rates charged by financial companies.

      Revenue and Customs: Staff

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of HMRC workforce resources.

      Revenue and Customs: Standards

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HM Revenue and Customs is taking to reduce (a) the number of lost records, (b) other administrative errors and (c) IT problems.

      Mortgages

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to support people with increases in mortgage costs, in the context of increases in the cost of living.

      Interest Rates

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to (a) allow Parliament to set interest rates and (b) reverse recent increases in interest rates.

      Companies: Inflation

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of levels of (a) corporate profit, (b) share dividends and (c) share buybacks on...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Fishing Catches

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will take steps to introduce remote electronic monitoring of bycatch as part of licensing conditions for...

    • Poultry: Antibiotics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with food (a) retailers and (b) producers onthe sale of chickens treated with...

      Biodiversity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the dates for the implementation of biodiversity net gain in (a) November 2023 and (b) April 2024.

      Biodiversity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will provide (a) councils and (b) landowners with details of the conservation covenant responsible body application...

      Agriculture: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board on agricultural workers'...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to correspondence of (a) 2 March, (b) 3 April, (c) 3 May and (d) 7 June 2023 from the hon. Member...

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

    • Emergency Calls: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she is taking steps to (a) increase the operational resilience of the 999 system and (b) ensure that control room...

    • Spacecraft and Submarines: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on enhancing regulation of (a) commercial and (b) experimental...

      Artificial Intelligence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what her Department's policy is on the regulation of (a) artificial intelligence and (b) machine learning.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when she plans to respond to the email correspondence from the hon. Member for Sefton Central sent on 22 May 2023.

  • Attorney General

    • Prosecutions: Children

      To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking to adopt a child-first approach to prosecuting people under the age of 18.

  • Wales Office

    • Food: Sales Promotions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has held discussions with the Welsh Government on its proposal to introduce legislation to restrict the placement and price promotion of...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Defence: Digital Technology

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in what year the UK’s fully-digitised modern warfighting division will be deployable.

    • F-35 Aircraft: Crew

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 26 June 2023 to Question 190253, how many fully trained F-35 pilots were in RAF service in March (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.

      Air Force: Ceremonies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of the King's Birthday Flypast on 17 June 2023.

      Watchkeeper WK450

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2023 to Question 190762 on Watchkeeper WK450, how many days it would take to deploy Watchkeeper drones held in the...

      HMS Defender

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the planned cost is of the refit of HMS Defender.

      Defence: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any contracts have been placed through urgent operations requirements to restock British Forces after equipment and weaponry have been sent to...

      Estonia: Armed Forces

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK armed forces personnel are based in Estonia; and how many will be based in that country in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.

  • Northern Ireland Office

    • Parades Commission

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times he has met with representatives of the Parades Commission since September 2022.

    • Police: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland on policing budgets.

      Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to promote investment into Northern Ireland from India.

      Official Visits: USA

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has made an assessment of the potential economic impact of the US President's visit to Northern Ireland in April 2023.

      Northern Ireland Protocol: Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with hon. Members on the Centre for Brexit Policy's report entitled Mutual enforcement: the key to restoring...

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Small Businesses: Expenditure

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is their current target for expenditure with small and medium-sized enterprises, directly and indirectly through procurement; and whether they expect to meet it.

  • Department for Education

    • Rye College: Teachers

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that a teacher in Rye College in East Sussex called a year 8 pupil "despicable" and "homophobic" because she allegedly...

    • Education: ICT

      To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to including (1) AI, (2) metaverse, and (3) emerging new technologies, in (a) primary, and (b) secondary, education.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Sudan: Sexual Offences

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to deploy members of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative team of experts to Sudan or neighbouring countries.

    • Sudan: Peace Negotiations

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that, in any ceasefire and peace agreements in Sudan, (1) conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is included as a prohibited...

      Sudan: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of the UK's humanitarian support for (1) people inside Sudan, and (2) people fleeing violence in Sudan, is allocated to gender-based violence...

      Sudan: Peace Negotiations

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support the inclusion of women in ceasefire and peace negotiations in Sudan.

      Africa: Science

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to be represented at the Association of African Universities biennial Conference of Rectors and Vice-Chancellors in Windhoek, Namibia, for the...

      Africa: Science

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role of collaboration between British and African science-based institutions in delivering the UK's International Development...

      Developing Countries: Foreign Investment

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to encourage frontier and emerging market countries to adopt environmental, social and governance standards for attracting...

      Africa: Higher Education

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to meet with representatives of UK universities to discuss the potential of equitable collaboration between British and African research...

      Russia: Crimes against Humanity

      To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of reports that Russian soldiers are castrating Ukrainian prisoners in prisoner of war camps, what assessment they have made of whether Russian...

  • Home Office

    • Educational Visits: EU Nationals

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 19 June when he stated that "it is open to other Governments to negotiate an arrangement of the...

    • Gender Based Violence

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential provision of content regarding tackling violence against women and girls through (1) immersive, and (2) other,...

      Human Trafficking: Boats

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 19 June (HL8185), whether there is any way in which boats “disposed of by Border...

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport

    • Gambling

      To ask His Majesty's Government what recent steps they have taken to address the issue of problem online gambling; and what measures they plan to implement to protect vulnerable individuals online.

    • Islamic Human Rights Commission

      To ask His Majesty's Government what official warnings have been issued, or enforcement action taken, by the Charity Commission in the past 24 months in relation to Islamic Human Rights...

  • Treasury

    • Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the percentage of existing ATMs that will be protected under the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Bill to ensure the continued provision of...

    • Customs: Departmental Coordination

      To ask His Majesty's Government with which government departments are collaborating with HMRC working to ensure efficient and seamless movement of goods through the UK Single Trade Window.

      Customs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what risk mitigation strategies they have in place to ensure that the UK Single Trade Window project stays within the set parameters of scope,...

  • Northern Ireland Office

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Livestock: Animal Welfare

      To ask His Majesty's Government what new proposals they have undertaken to improve the health and welfare of farmed animals within their annual health and welfare review.

    • Animal Products

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to stimulate market demand for higher animal welfare products within the (1) transparency, and (2) strengthening, of the Department for...

      Livestock: Animal Welfare

      To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made to fully fund vet visits for farmers as per their annual health and welfare review.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Abortion: Drugs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of any dangers for vulnerable women presented by the lack of in-person consultations before dispensing abortion pills by post, and the...

    • Eating Disorders

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to apply additional resources to combat the increasing problem of eating disorders.

      Cystic Fibrosis

      To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to support for people living with long-term conditions such as cystic fibrosis, following the publication of the...

      Antibiotics: Water

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to research and promote increased water consumption by care home patients to reduce (1) prophylactic antibiotic use, and...

      Cancer and Sepsis: Research

      To ask His Majesty's Government what funding they are allocating to (1) sepsis research, and (2) cancer research; and whether there are any planned changes to that funding.

      Cystic Fibrosis

      To ask His Majesty's Government when patient organisations such as Cystic Fibrosis Trust, whose Clinical Trials Accelerator Platform informed the design of Clinical Trial Acceleration Networks,...

  • Department for Transport

    • Aviation: Reform

      To ask His Majesty's Government when, if at all, they plan to introduce any legislation that will be required to implement their plans announced in response to their Aviation Consumer Policy...

    • A1: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect the pot holes on the A1(M) to have been repaired.

      Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask His Majesty's Government how they monitor whether local authorities are using funds provided by central Government for repairing potholes for that purpose.

  • Cabinet Office

    • Special Advisers

      To ask His Majesty's Government to give the names and pay grades of each politically appointed senior special adviser to each Minister.

    • Customs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what policy amendments they anticipate to ensure that the UK Single Trade Window complies with prevailing regulations; and when trade bodies will have an...

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