To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many employment tribunals were brought by employees of their Department in the last 12 months.

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of access to modern banking services on the Falkland Islands.

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to help ensure direct, tariff-free trade with Northern Cyprus.

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential contribution of Turkish Cypriot Muslims in Northern Cyprus to the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Frontier Worker permits have been issued to non-UK seafarers covered by the Citizens’ Rights Agreement since 20 December 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the number of (a) batons, (b) tasers, (c) personal radios, (d) bodycams, (d) helmets and...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to help protect victims of targeted anti-social behaviour.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he takes to mark the contribution of police officers killed in the line of duty.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2023 to Question 818 on Police: Suicide, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps his Department has taken to tackle AI-generated (a) child abuse and (b) pornography images online.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to implement Articles 12.1 and 12.4 of the Istanbul Convention.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Oral Statement of 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, column 41, what his Department's policy is on...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his planned timetable is to publish further information about the Government's proposed increases to the minimum income requirement for...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that it stays connected with people seeking asylum subsequent to those people being provided...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seafarers working in UK waters have been issued with visas under the points-based immigration system since 1 January 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he plans to take to reduce the number of pending visa applications.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of raising the earnings threshold for family visas to on the human rights of (a) UK...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of visa applications that would have been refused under the proposed changes to the minimum salary...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of raising the earning threshold for family visas on people who intend to marry a...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish a breakdown by country of origin of the number of overseas students each higher education institution in England...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Oral Statement of 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, column 41, what assessment he has made of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money was received from the immigration health surcharge in (a) 2019 and (b) 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proposed changes to the minimum salary threshold for family visas include renewals to spousal visas.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish a breakdown by sponsoring higher education institution of the number of student visas issued in each year since 1993.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ukrainians received a leave outside the immigration rules stamp (a) in total across UK ports, (b) at Drumkeen House and (c) at...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the draft Immigration (Health Charge) Amendment Order 2023, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November to Question 458 on Immigration: Families, if he will make an estimate of the (a) number of family...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the validity requirements for the Ukraine Extension Scheme set out in the Immigration Rules Appendix Ukraine Scheme, if he...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of families with no recourse to public funds who are unable to access the 30 hours...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of health and care worker visa holders have dependents in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help unemployed young people into work.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support youth employment schemes such as UK Year of Service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report entitled Emergency food parcel distribution in the UK:...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support young people from low social-economic backgrounds into employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 20 November 2023 to Question 1370 and 28 November 2023 to Question 3349 on Access to Work Programme, for what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged (a) 16 and over and (b) 16 to 64 were (i) in employment and (ii) unemployed between February and April 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help ensure the accessibility of her Department's digital services for elderly claimants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of customer service provided by the child maintenance service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of his Department's employees work on a fully remote basis.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vacancies there were in his Department for the most recent date for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the Options for Defined Benefit Scheme: call for evidence which closed in September 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Pension Credit claimants reached State Pension age (a) in and (b) since April 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether child maintenance caseworkers receive training on identifying when standard procedures may cause undue harm or upset for the paying...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children live in households where at least one adult is in work which are affected by the benefit cap.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit recipients had payments reduced to nil due to two earnings payments in the assessment period between (a) 26 January...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a comparative estimate of the number of Universal Credit claimants in the no work related requirements group between 2017 and 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting all NHS Trusts to offer Oppositional Defiant Disorder as a diagnosis.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure patient safety in beauty establishments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has provided for (a) mental health services (i) for children and young people and (ii) in total and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, how much and what proportion of the additional £2.3 billion...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many calls were responded to by mental health joint response cars in London in each of the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of patients who required support from (a) physiotherapists and (b) occupational therapists in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients waited longer than 2 hours for urgent community response teams in each of the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for GP appointments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pharmacist training places have been available in each of the last five years; and how many pharmacists have taken up these...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of data from New Zealand on a generational ban on smoking.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of community pharmacists have worked in England for each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have had an appointment with a NHS dentist in Warwick and Leamington constituency in each year since 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce elective backlogs in child health services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of 18 were admitted to hospital for a tooth extraction due to decay in Bedfordshire in each of the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes in lease capitalisation requirements in April 2022 on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to provide effective HIV (a) testing, (b) treatment and (c) counselling services for the black...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of funding announced for NHS services in 2023 will be spent on child health services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for management of donor information of commercial...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of phasing out wood burning stoves.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency has plans to provide funding for flood mitigation in Loughborough over the next 5 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department provides to (a) farmers and (b) land managers to protect grasslands.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 15 May 2023 to Question 183293 on Air Pollution, what guidance his Department has published...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 2 November 2022 to Question 70939 on Solid Fuels: Air Pollution, what his planned timetable...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on the Digital Assistance Scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve flood defences in (a) Bournemouth East constituency and (b) the South West.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will take steps to help ensure that (a) athletes, (b) footballers and (c) teams from Northern Cyprus can participate...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make it his policy to decide whether to remove the 31 August 2024 deadline for applications to the Victims' Payments Board by 19...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much their Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the G7 Japan 2023 Foreign Ministers’ Communiqué, published on 18 April 2023, whether the Government plans to take steps to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the updated guidance on Chapter 17, Section 4: Continental Shelf Workers of the Immigration Rules published by the Home...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Answer of 24 October 2023 to Question 203453 on Zero Hours Contracts, what the absolute change in the number of people...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many employment tribunals were brought by employees of their Department in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of BioYorkshire's work on cutting emissions; and whether...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has taken on the role of the Energy Efficiency Taskforce.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to her Department's publication entitled UK Wireless Infrastructure Strategy, published on 11 April 2023, what steps...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of energy companies applying higher tariffs for customers who do...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of extending qualified one-way costs shifting to discrimination cases.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunals were brought by employees of their Department in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) charges and (b) successful prosecutions were brought against prisoners for assaults against staff in HM Prison and Probation Service in (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) charges and (b) successful prosecutions brought against prisoners for assaults against staff...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2023 to Question 1494 on Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service, how much has been paid out to Housing Loss...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 32 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, for what reason the mandatory drug testing panel wasn't updated in 2022-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2023 to Question 1241 on Five Wells Prison: Education, how (a) many hours of teaching time were lost and (b) much...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of community sentences were completed (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully due to (i) the committal of an additional...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 32 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, what his planned timetable is for when random mandatory drug testing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of assaults against prison staff in private prisons in (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022 and (d) 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Community Payback Rapid Deployment Projects Management Information release to 17th October 2023,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 6 March 2023 to Question HL5679,on Prisoners, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Inspector of Probation...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serious further offences were committed in each year since 2020-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many allegations of abuse have been made at Werrington Young Offender Institution in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the underspend by his Department was for (a) affordable housing, (b) social housing, (c) planning department reform...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many crimes were reported on the True Vision website in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2023 to Question 5542 on Levelling Up Fund: County Durham, what proportion of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has taken recent steps with local authorities to help ensure that the Jewish community is able to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, of the cancelled direct train services between London and Hereford in the last six months, what proportion of cancellations were caused by matters...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 26 October 2023 to Question 204030 on Avanti West Coast: Contracts, what the (a) time constraints and (b) market...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to improve accessibility at Chalkwell station.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure train stations are wheelchair accessible.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 196013, whether his Department plans to announce the successful applications for the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Union connectivity review: final report, published on 26 November 2021, what progress he has...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland on the union connectivity review.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will commit to meeting with Unite the Union to discuss working collaboratively to prevent the loss of rail manufacturing jobs at Alstom and its...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to (a) prevent the closure of the Alstom factory, (b) protect jobs (i) at and (ii) in the supply chain for the Alstom factory.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 14 September 2023 to Question 198772 on Buses: Exhaust Emissions, if he will publish a breakdown by local authority of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision to cancel Phase 2 of HS2 on jobs at (a) the Alstom site in Derby and (b) around...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that the cross Whitehall task force to bring in mitigations against redundancies...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of direct trains from London Paddington to Hereford have been cancelled in the last six months, by (a) day of the week...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken to make a decision on the Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking with Transport for London to help ensure the safe operation of pedicabs in London.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the distribution of funding previously allocated to HS2.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his planned timetable is for the distribution of funding previously allocated to HS2.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of building the Western Rail Link to Heathrow.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the adequacy of funding for transport infrastructure in Scotland.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for zero and low emission buses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of devolving powers to the Scottish Parliament to vary penalties for drink driving in line with...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the building of the North West Relief Road on congestion in Shrewsbury.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of vehicle collisions which resulted in an injury that were (a) caused and (b) partly caused by a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve transport for young people in Portsmouth South constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help improve the safety of residential roads.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his planned timetable is for providing feedback on the Full Business Case for the Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management PFI contract,...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent HM Revenue and Customs staff worked on tax compliance activity in each of the last five financial years.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to clarify the guidance his Department has issued on the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.

To ask the Attorney General, whether his Department has issued guidance to the (a) police and (b) Crown Prosecution Service on using existing legislation to tackle conversion practices against...

To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department has (a) procedures and (b) notification systems in place for potential errors made by the Government Legal Department (GLD); whether errors by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of how many children suspended from schools (a) have mental health issues and (b) are neurodivergent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage the adoption of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme in all state schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce off-rolling in schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2023 to Question 5097 on Kevin McCool, what Major Kevin McCool's role was at the British High Commission in Nairobi.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many licenses his Department has issued to allow trail hunts on the Defence estate in the 2023-24 hunting season; and how many hunts these licenses...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2023 to Question 1812 on Defence: Employment, what the Defence and Security needs that he has identified are.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of staff work for the Defence AI Centre as of 11 December 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the projected cost of (a) consultancy services and (b) temporary staff for (i) his Department, (ii) its...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral answer to the hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne of 5 December 2023, Official Report, column 212, how many troops are in Syria.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral answer of the Foreign Secretary of 5 December on Ukraine: Humanitarian and Economic Support, House of Lords, Official Report,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2023 to Question 4616 on Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations, whether he plans to re-evaluate unsuccessful...

To ask His Majesty's Government, following reports that 40 per cent of foreign direct investment projects in Northern Ireland in the year to August 2023 came from American companies, what...

To ask His Majesty's Government what harm reduction policies they are implementing in relation to illicit drug use.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the government of Rwanda has requested the extradition of individuals associated with genocide-related activities; if so, whether those individuals have...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent abuse of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 by foreign national offenders using the provisions of the Act to delay proceedings...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have a record of any head of a state that is a close ally of the UK being subjected to questioning by Border Force when transiting through a UK airport.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether Border Force have a list of democratically elected heads of state, heads of government and ministers to ensure that inappropriate questioning does not...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Benyon on 30 November (HL Deb cols 1172–1174), what discussions they have held with the government of the Democratic...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Benyon on 30 November (HL Deb cols 1172–1174), what assessment they have made of the prevalence of non-state actors...

To ask His Majesty's Government what losses have been sustained due to attacks on United Nations protection forces and international agencies during their withdrawal from Mali; and what effect...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made representations to the government of Pakistan regarding reports that Pakistani school textbooks encourage religious discrimination.

To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Israel on the provision of UK practical support for investigating, and caring for survivors and witnesses of,...

To ask His Majesty's Government which non-governmental organisations receiving aid from the UK remain in (1) Mali, (2) Niger, and (3) Burkina Faso, in spite of the withdrawal of protection forces.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for the UK to maintain full sovereign control of the Skynet satellite constellation into the future.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment the Army has made of the risk of adolescent recruits enlisting with a history of depression or anxiety later being discharged for reasons of mental...

To ask His Majesty's Government how many and what proportion of recruits at the Army Foundation College were discharged for a mental health reason in each of the last five years.

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the most common categories of mental health problem that recruits at the Army Foundation College have presented to the on-site counselling...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage small businesses to engage in apprenticeship programmes aimed at delivering a skilled pipeline of electrical contractors...

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for issuing children suffering from cancer an education, health and care plan.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support students studying a classroom-based electrical technical diploma to transition into the workforce.

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of apprentices starting their apprenticeships in 2021–22 and 2022–23 were apprentices aged (1) 25–34, (2) 35–44, and (3) 45...

To ask His Majesty's Government how many apprentices aged 25 and over who started an apprenticeship in 2021–22 and 2022–23 were enrolled for (1) a level 3 engineering apprenticeship,...

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to hold discussions with Care Quality Commission, NHS England and integrated care boards to reduce differences and discrimination in the...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken since the 2019 publication of 'Asymptomatic Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colorectal Cancer Screening Programs' by Farrukh and Mayberry...

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the managerial capacity of the NHS, particularly at chartered professional level, to lead the systems changes required to deliver...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to produce a strategy to recruit, retrain and develop a skilled project and change professional workforce, to ensure the successful delivery and...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to instruct the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities to regularly and expeditiously report the Hospital Episode Statistics on abortion...

To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to publish legislation on establishing a price monitoring body for fuel pricing and the requirement for retailers to provide real-time pump...