Written answers

Friday, 22 December 2023

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that house building targets are met.

    • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Power Failures

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether there have been any power cuts on their Department's property in each of the last three years.

      Buildings: Health And Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Answer of 23 May 2023 to Question 185728 on Buildings: Health and Safety, whether officials have...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on field trials of bovine TB vaccination of cattle; and what his planned timescale is for a full...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Jagtar Singh Johal

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what representations the Government has made to the Government of India on the (a) treatment of and (b) access to...

    • Gaza: Civilians

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statement by the head of the UN Office for the...

      Israel Defense Forces: British Nationals Abroad

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an estimate of the number of British nationals fighting alongside the Israeli Defence Force since 7...

      UN General Assembly: Finance

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether the Government plans to vote in favour of establishing a budget for the Member State-led, intergovernmental...

      Gaza: Genocide

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 3317 on Gaza: Genocide, what assessment he has made of the...

      Occupied Territories: Visas

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how visa applicants from the Occupied Palestinian Territories can contact HM Embassy Cairo for approval for exit at...

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will seek assurances from Israel that Palestinians in Gaza will not be permanently displaced.

      Gaza: Israel

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps he is taking with international partners to work towards a cessation of hostilities in Israel and...

      Israel and Occupied Territories: Arms Trade

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5891 on Israel and Occupied Territories: Arms Trade, when his...

      Afghanistan: Development Aid

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to paragraph 199 of the Guide to Parliamentary Work, published by the Office of the Leader of the House...

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Horticulture: Environment Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to extend eligibility for business improvement funding provided by her Department to the environmental horticulture sector.

    • Department for Business and Trade: Power Failures

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether there have been any power cuts on their Department's property in each of the last three years.

      Timesharing: Misrepresentation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to help protect consumers from being mis-sold timeshare arrangements.

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Homicide: Offenders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were subsequently convicted of murder by index sentence in each financial year between 2010-11 and 2015-16.

    • Armed Forces: Libya

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Libyan armed forces personnel trained at Bassingbourn barracks in 2014 were convicted of crimes; and what those crimes were.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people who received the Oxford-Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine experienced serious adverse events since it...

    • Miscarriage: Bereavement Counselling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to improve the provision of (a) mental health support and (b) other care for patients who have...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his planned timeline for when all eligible personnel under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan Citizens Resettlement...

    • Cabinet Office: Power Failures

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether there have been any power cuts on their Department's property in each of the last three years.

      UK Integrated Security Fund

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to retain conflict prevention and stability as a key fund-level (a) outcome and (b) priority for the new UK Integrated...

  • Department for Education

    • Vocational Education: Internet

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of creating the skills for careers website.

    • Further Education: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that additional funding for pay rises for support staff in further education colleges will be used for that purpose.

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

    • Land Registry: Blockchain

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2023 to Question 4876 and with reference to the report noted in the Answer of 27...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Pakistan: Women

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking with international partners to address the incidence of abduction, forced conversion, and forced marriage of young girls...

    • Gulf Strategy Fund

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the allocated budget under the Gulf Strategy Fund for (1) Saudi Arabia, (2) Bahrain, and (3) the United Arab Emirates, for 2023–2024.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Children: Abuse

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many infants admitted to the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in each of the past five years were subject to investigation under its guidelines regarding...

  • Women and Equalities

    • Gender Recognition

      To ask His Majesty's Government what are the details of each meeting since 1 December 2021 between (1) the Minister for Women and Equalities, and (2) the Equality and Human Rights Commission,...

    • Gender Recognition

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Women and Equalities on 6 December (HC Deb cols 359–60), which organisations she consulted about amending the...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Benjamin Netanyahu

      To ask His Majesty's Government when the Prime Minister last spoke to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Housing: Disability

      To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made since the announcement in July 2022 that they intended to raise the regulatory baseline for the accessibility of all new...

  • Department for Transport

    • Logistics

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the value of the logistics sector to the economy.

    • Large Goods Vehicles: Parking

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of utilisation of lorry parking at on-site facilities.

      High Speed 2 Line

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many local authorities have already had, or have requested, meetings with Ministers about financial pressures following the cancellation of the...

      Electric Scooters: Public Places

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the illegal use of privately owned e-scooters driven in public places, and what measures they intend to take to impose penalties...

      Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of protective earthed neutral faults in public and street chargers for electric vehicles.

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