Thursday, 18 January 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 3.25 of the Autumn Statement 2023, whether he has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of workers that earn less than the Lower Earnings Limit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether jobcentres collect data on the (a) number, (b) age and (c) disabilities of children in households subject to Universal Credit sanctions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Gower constituency had personal independence payments overturned as a result of an appeal hearing in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the ONS release Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness, UK: 2019 to 2023, dated 26 July...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of constituents in Gower constituency have had their personal independence payments overturned as a result of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate has been made of the average length of time between submission of a PIP mandatory reconsideration and the decision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total rate of (a) employment and (b) unemployment was of people aged 16 to 64 between February and April 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Autumn Statement 2023, whether he has held discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of workers that do not qualify for statutory sick pay because they earn less than the Lower...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workers in Scotland do not qualify for statutory sick pay because they earn less than the Lower Earnings Limit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of looked after children raised in Kingswood constituency who are placed (a) outside and (b) twenty miles or...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure local authorities have sufficient resources to deliver specialist education services for (a) children and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the average waiting time for an education, health and care plan in Kingswood constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Eastbourne constituency have applied for a grant for senior mental health lead training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce school absences in Bournemouth.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state school pupils in each local authority (a) belonged to each ethnic group, (b) had English as their first...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many purchases with a value of less than £500 were made against her Department’s budget using a Government procurement card (a) in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support the King James Academy in Royston following recent flooding and the loss of its roof.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many government procurement cards were held by people to make purchases against her Department’s budget as of (a) 31 December 2022, (b) 31...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were receiving free school meals as the result of the transitional protections associated with the April 2018 introduction of an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2023 to Question 6351 on Local Government: Debt Collection, with reference to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to support the long-term viability of high streets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the rent review tribunals proposed in the Renters Reform Bill will use sector specific data for deciding the level...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to increase funding for Internal Drainage Boards in the 2024/2025 local government finance settlement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2024 to Question 8376 on Council Tax: Asylum, if he will take steps to ensure that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the Riverside town centre development on levels of economic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make a comparative estimate of the cost to the public purse of holding a general election on (a) the same date...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what funding has been made available to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council for clean-up operations following recent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the National Planning Policy Framework, published on 20 December 2023, what steps he is taking to help...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has plans to help Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council with its budget shortfall for financial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact that the new National Planning Policy Framework will have on decisions on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many anti-Semitic online hate crimes were reported on the True Vision website between (a) 7 October 2022 and 6 January...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the interventions listed in section 6.2 of...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 194 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, published on 4 July 2023, for what reason the former Parliamentary...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the severance payments for former ministers published on Page 132 of HM Treasury's Annual Report and Accounts for 2022/23, published...
What steps his Department is taking to strengthen national security.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of public sector procurement processes for digital goods and services.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many of the contracts awarded to Fujitsu since 2010 were put out to tender.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the GOV.UK chat experiment.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to complete an algorithmic transparency report using the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard for the Artificial Intelligence...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of cases of (a) preventable ill health and (b) premature death (i) in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans does her Department have to increase public awareness of the Pharmacy First scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have received organ transplants in Romford constituency in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has carried out analysis on the long-term financial viability of community pharmacies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help patients see their preferred doctor at GP surgeries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on treating obesity-related diseases in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help encourage the consumption of healthy foods by children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of GP provision for the size of the population in Feltham and Heston.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number and proportion of integrated care boards offering three full cycles of IVF in line with NICE...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are undergoing dialysis treatment in Easington constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help tackle MMR vaccine disinformation; and what estimate she has made of the number of measles cases by (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to make this winter's Covid-19 vaccine available for purchase.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government is on track to meet its funding targets for the dementia moonshot.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many government procurement cards were held by people to make purchases against her Department’s budget as of (a) 31 December...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to regulate the physician associate role.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to (a) allocate additional funding and (b) increase staff recruitment for NHS England in winter 2023-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will list the 18 NHS acute trusts where Op RESTORE: The Veterans Physical Health and Wellbeing Service are located; and for what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of (a) clinical and (b) non-clinical staff employed in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of individuals convicted of fraud related to contracts with her Department for the provision...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for research grant funds for studies into lobular breast cancer have been submitted to the National Institute for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions she has had with (a) NICE and (b) pharmaceutical companies on the affordability of Kaftrio.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Hospitals Transformation Programme on the number of beds...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle the sale of prescription-only drugs to patients without a prescription...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of funding her Department provides to help tackle (a) less survivable cancers...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the cyber-attack against the British Library at the end of October 2023 on (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 2570 on British Library: Cybercrime, what estimate has her Department made of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent replacing lost cutlery in the last twelve months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status of the British Army’s modernisation programme is as of 10 January 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the budget is for the Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the projected full operating capability date is for the air-launched variant of the Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the in service date is for the Future Offensive Surface Weapon requirement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many purchases with a value of less than £500 were made against his Department’s budget using a Government procurement card (a) in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is for delivering Army-Industry trials for the British Army’s new Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicles.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the in service date is for the maritime launched variant of the Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to re-compete the Morpheus contract.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 3572 on Artillery: Procurement, whether the project team has submitted an outline business case...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to send additional defence capabilities to the (a) Gulf of Aden and (b) Red Sea region following the attack on HMS Diamond.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Government's policy is on the role of Parliament in military interventions in the Red Sea.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what guidance his Department provides to those participating in military exercises during episodes of high air pollution.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of levels of recruitment across the armed forces.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last met representatives of Capita to discuss armed forces recruitment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to help ensure that recruitment targets for the (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Air Force are met.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter sent of 21 December 2023 from the Minister of Defence People and Families on the Haythornthwaite review of armed forces...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter of 21 December 2023 from the Minister of Defence People and Families regarding the Haythornthwaite review of armed forces...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on sexual harassment awareness training for civilian staff in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter of 21 December 2023 from the Minister of Defence People and Families on the Haythornthwaite review of armed forces...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter of 21 December 2023 from the Minister of Defence People and Families on the Haythornthwaite review of armed forces...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department are working on the in-house recruitment of (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Air Force applicants.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the Royal Navy’s ability to recruit sufficient numbers of personnel to meet its obligations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on one-off incentive payments to join the (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Marines in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 3.17 on page 7 of his Department's guidance entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 2: Guidance -...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 4.8 on page 20 of his Department's directive entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 1: Directive...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 5.4 on page 10 of his Department's guidance entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 2: Guidance -...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have worked on the recruitment of armed forces personnel on average in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) recruitment targets and (b) number of people recruited to the Royal Navy were in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of advertising armed forces roles via LinkedIn in meeting his Department’s recruitment targets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average length of time was to process applications from people wanting to join the (a) regular and (b) reserve forces in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 18 of his Department's guidance entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 2: Guidance - Informal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 7.2 on page 15 of his Department's guidance entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 2: Guidance -...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 5.10 on page 11 of his Department's guidance entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 2: Guidance...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) plans his Department has and (b) the timetable is for the (i) closure and (ii) disposal of RAF Henlow.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Armed Forces personnel were deployed on NATO exercises in (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022 and (d) 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Defence Procurement during the debate on Service Accommodation of 19 December 2023, Official...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) heating and (b) hot water issues were reported in service family accommodation properties in each month in 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of service family accommodation properties that (a) reported a total loss of and (b) were left without heat or...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is his planned timeline for the disposal of Kirkwoods Road playing fields; and what steps he has taken toward the disposal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on external consultants for the Morpheus programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which programmes have benefited from external programme and project management consultancy spending by his Department since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was for ration packs for armed forces personnel in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many inspections have been carried out into the quality of the food served to UK Armed Forces in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints have been made about (a) food and (b) catering services in the defence estate in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is (a) the contract length and (b) total value of each contract for (i) Ararmark, (ii) ESS and (iii) Sodexo in providing food and catering services...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was for catering across the defence estate in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether HMS Diamond has entered Yemen's territorial waters during Operation Prosperity Guardian.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether HMS Diamond was in Yemen's territorial waters when it destroyed Houthi drones on 10 January 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he made of the imminence of an attack from Abbs airfield on UK flagged vessels on 11 January 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the recent military action in Yemen on the level of national security risk associated with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ukrainian personnel will be trained as part of Operation Interflex in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department made of the extent of likely collateral damage from airstrikes in Yemen on 11 January 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the 2022 Political Declaration on strengthening the protection of civilians from the humanitarian consequences arising from the use of...
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2024 to Question 8608 on Aiding and Abetting, what consideration the Crown Prosecution Service gives to a suspect’s level...
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2024 to Question 8608, Aiding and Abetting, if she will direct the Crown Prosecution Service to clarify in future guidance that...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Security Minister's role leading the Defending Democracy Taskforce, if he will take steps to appoint (a) a lead police...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle cyber-related crime in Solihull constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) schemes and (b) grants their Department administers that are open for (i) individuals, (ii) organisations and (iii) other groups in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what alternative accommodation his Department is providing for asylum seekers being moved out of hotels.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2023 to Question 171 on Home Office: Consultants, whether his Department plans to publish the outcome...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has received recent representations on the financial impact of the police pension scheme 2015 on retired police officers.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had discussions with his Irish counterpart on trends in irregular migration flows via Irish ports in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department carried out an equality impact assessment on the recent proposed changes to visa salary thresholds.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the rise in fatal knife related incidents in Bournemouth East constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of awarding a pay rise to interpreters working for the Home Office.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 5 December 2023 to Question 3839 on Dangerous Dogs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers accommodated in Woolston, Warrington are included in the cleared asylum backlog.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Government’s draft legislative changes to part 15C of the Corporation Tax Act 2009 on (a)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the technology used in HMRC's trader support service system; and if he will require the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Government Departments will contribute towards the recently announced £2.5 billion assistance package for Ukraine; how much each Department will...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 17 October 2023 to Question 200203 on Financial Services: Environment Protection, when he plans to publish the next stage...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential role of Non-Fungible Tokens in tackling corruption in the administration of public finances.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Payment Systems Regulator on ATM interchange fees.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what financial support is available to businesses that have (a) been disrupted and (b) had stock damaged as a result of flooding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the decision to make a protective award to former employees of MADE.COM, what steps she is taking to help tackle the delays...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people who paid into the British Shipbuilders pension fund were not receiving pension payments on 15 January 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his planned timetable is for the publication of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Review 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 19 December 2023 to Question 7116 on Wetherby Young Offender Institution: Females, what his estimate is of the cost to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many former prisoners were given tents to live in when leaving prison in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drug recovery programmes were delivered in prisons in (a) 2010, (b) 2018 and (c) 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the re-offending rate for individuals serving a custodial sentence for burglary is.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Discretionary Friday/pre-Bank Holiday Release Scheme Policy Framework, last updated on 8...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were released on temporary licence for Christmas Day in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023, broken down by each offence committed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many purchases with a value of less than £500 were made against his Department’s budget using a Government procurement card (a) in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the College of Policing's publication entitled Imprisonment and other custodial sanctions, published on 30 November 2023, if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to (a) support clients of McClure Solicitors and (b) ensure former clients are aware of the firm’s...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to help promote the freedom of religion or belief in Nicaragua.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what information his Department holds on (a) the raid by Israel Defence Forces on the premises of Action around...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has had discussions with its Nicaraguan counterparts on the arrests of Catholic priests.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has held recent discussions with his counterpart in Nigeria on the persecution of Christians in that country.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps he had taken to support the humanitarian situation in Sudan.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he discussed a timeline for the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah at his meeting with the Egyptian President on 20...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January to Question 8388 on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Procurement, if...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he plans to pause discussions with Mauritius on the proposed transfer of the Chagos Islands to that country in...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help secure the permanent opening of the Kerem Shalom crossing.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what his Department's remaining budgeting is for supporting Marshall scholarships in the current spending review period.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential risk to civilians of a closure of Hudaydah port.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many purchases with a value of less than £500 were made against his Department’s budget through a...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, when he plans to respond to Questions 8440, 8441 and 8442 on Israel:Gaza tabled on 8 January 2024 by the hon. Member...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Bangladesh.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has a strategy on protecting children and civilian in conflict zones.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much his Department has spent on official development assistance for sexual and reproductive health and rights in...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that individuals are held to account for alleged human rights...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Countering Illegal Migration during the debate on the Draft...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of tensions between India and China over the Maldives.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the imprisonment of Apollinaris Darmawan in Indonesia.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many discussions he had with his counterpart in the People’s Republic of China in the final quarter of 2023.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he had made of the potential impact of the election of Lai Ching-te on regional stability.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he has taken to help prevent risk of conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the increase in Chinese aerial incursions...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the adequacy of aid to Ukraine.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much official development assistance his Department plans to provide to Ukraine in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether recent progress has been made towards opening the Kerem Shalom border crossing into Gaza for humanitarian aid.
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting the case brought against Israel by South Africa at...
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to UK International Development's white paper entitled International development in a contested world:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he pans to reply to the letters of 1 November and 6 December 2023 from the hon. member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of a constituent about the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of levels of (a) public and (b) stakeholder support for the construction of a new mainline station at Old Oak Common.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the creation of a mainline station at Old Oak Common on journey times on the Great Western Mainline.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of the electrification of the North Wales mainline.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the (a) number and (b) individual value of contracts with Fujitsu entered into by (i) executive agencies of the Department for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the impact on the cost of ownership of an electronic vehicle of only using public charging points.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 12 September 2023 to Question 198296 on Driving Licences: USA, whether his Department has written to the American...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 26 October 2023 to Question 203762 on Buses: Driving, what (a) actions are required by his Department and (b) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure the survival of curlews in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will ask the Permanent Secretary of the Northern Ireland Department of Health to publish an update on the Report of the Expert Review of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees have been planted in England in (a) 2020, (b) 2021,(c) 2022 and (d) 2023 using tax payer money.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many CL50 licenses were issued by Natural England in 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will support wetlands-focused research on barriers relating to (a) private finance for, (b) land use...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to celebrate World Wetlands Day.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the business case considered by the trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for moving the herbarium...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate (a) his Department has and (b) the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have made of the energy costs of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the Equality Impact Assessment relating to the move of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the level of (a) damage and (b) loss posed to the contents of the herbarium at Royal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the likelihood of other countries asking for elements of the herbarium at Royal Botanic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to Question (a) 5477 and (b) 5478 tabled by the Rt hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell on 6 December 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using non-fungible tokens in the issuing of North Sea licences.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many Bevin Boys were conscripted from Rother Valley constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information her Department holds on which collieries in (a) Rother Valley constituency and (b) the UK had Bevin Boys as part...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to help ensure that disabled people with high energy usage do not fall into fuel poverty.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will have discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of introducing an energy social tariff to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent progress her Department has made on reviewing the UK's membership of the Energy Charter Treaty.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the report from the Parliamentary Office of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what her planned timeline is for the publication of her Department's fuel poverty strategy; and if she will take steps to ensure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will take steps to extend the warm home discount for disabled households.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people have started on the (a) low carbon heating technician apprenticeship scheme, (b) Home Decarbonisation Skills...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people have started on the (a) low carbon heating technician apprenticeship scheme, (b) Home Decarbonisation Skills...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what (a) schemes and (b) grants their Department administers that are open for (i) individuals, (ii) organisations and (iii) other...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Transport, (b) Network Rail and (c) the Welsh government on the electrification...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Transport and (b) Network Rail on the potential impact of Control Period 7...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when the Tata Steel/ Port Talbot Transition Board will next meet.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure those diagnosed with HIV through opt-out testing in emergency departments are effectively referred for treatment, whether...
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to setting a target for reducing the infant mortality rate.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the outcomes arising from the 2020 final progress report of the Each Baby Counts programme run by the Royal College of...
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for the Health Service Safety Investigations Body to take forward the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Each Baby Counts...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reasons for the increase in the stillbirth rate in 2021.
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards meeting the national maternity safety ambition in England to reduce stillbirth and neonatal mortality by 50 per cent of 2010...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Government Actuary was consulted by Reclaim Fund Ltd when it implemented the Internal Capital Guidance issued by the Financial Conduct Authority for...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the positive impacts of the Canada Child Benefit that was introduced in 2016, and what lessons they have learned from it in...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposal by the Victims Commissioner to provide payments to the relatives of those killed during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the proposal by the Victims Commissioner to issue payments to the relatives of those killed during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, whether the scheme...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role of the environmental horticulture sector in helping the UK to reach its net zero targets.
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