Stewart McDonald To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his Department's policy to include an assessment of the effect of unpaid work trials on levels of...
Lord Taylor of Warwick To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce measures to improve the transparency of company ownership in the Crown Dependencies.
Chris Ruane To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of changes to permitted development rights on the long-term...
Mohammad Yasin To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to reinstate East Midland Train services to Bedford.
Frank Field To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the Honours Forfeiture Committee will respond to the letter from the rt hon. Member for Birkenhead of 14 February 2019 on Sir Philip...
The parliamentary question is a great way for MPs and Peers to discover information which the government may not wish to reveal. Ministers reply via written answers, a list of which gets published daily.
We let you vote on whether or not the answer given is adequate.
Chloe Smith I am pleased to announce the publication of Public Bodies 2018-19 and will today be placing a copy in the library of both Houses. Public Bodies play a vital role in the delivery of public...
Stephen Hammond Today, I am updating the House on the Department for Health and Social Care’s plans for the continuity of reciprocal healthcare arrangements in the event we exit the EU without a deal....
Claire Perry On 11 March, the Government published legislation which changed the compliance deadline to surrender allowances for the 2018 reporting year under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) from 15...
Gavin Williamson I am today announcing that I have set the baseline profit rate for single source defence contracts at 7.63%, in line with the rate recommended by the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO). I...
Robert Jenrick At Budget 2013, the government announced it would begin signing decommissioning relief deeds. These deeds represented a new contractual approach to provide oil and gas companies with certainty...
Jackie Doyle-Price The NHS Long Term Plan set out this Government’s ambition to transform how the NHS supports mental health, building on the work already underway to deliver the commitments in the Five...
Sajid Javid The UK stands shoulder to shoulder with New Zealand against terrorism and we will not falter in our commitment to uphold the values of tolerance, religious freedom, and democracy. I have...
Alun Cairns On 6 December 2018 I announced to the House that the UK and Welsh Governments had commissioned a joint independent review of the Swansea Bay City Region City Deal. That review has now...
Theresa May This statement is being made for the purposes of Section 13(4) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and outlines how the Government intends to proceed in the light of the House’s...
Therese Coffey I attended the EU Environment Council on 5 March in Brussels. I wish to update the House on the matters discussed. Strategic EU long-term vision for a climate neutral economy – policy...
Karen Bradley I am today laying before Parliament a statutory instrument which extends the period for Executive formation under the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018...
David Gauke The Damages Act 1996 (“the Act”) requires the Lord Chancellor to start a review of the personal injury discount rate within 90 days of and including the date on which the...
Philip Hammond A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) was held in Brussels on 12 March 2019. The UK was represented by Mark Bowman (Director General, International Finance, HM...
Victoria Atkins I am today placing in the Library of both Houses the Home Office’s analysis on the application of Standing Order 83O of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons relating to public...
Chloe Smith The Minister for the Constitution wishes to report that a repayable cash advance from the Contingencies Fund of £1,297,000 has been sought for the Parliamentary and Health Service...
Michael Ellis Today I am laying before Parliament a Departmental Minute describing a liability that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport intends to take on in relation to the British Tourist...
Jesse Norman The U.K. is in the early stages of a transport revolution. For much of the past half century, many of the improvements to transport have been gradual and incremental, focused on increasing the...
Stuart Andrew Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr Stuart Andrew): I am pleased to inform the House today that a $1.98 billion contract to deliver five E-7 Airborne Early...
Sajid Javid The final meeting of EU Interior and Justice Ministers that the UK is expected to attend as an EU Member State took place on 7 and 8 March in Brussels. I represented the UK for Interior Day....
Lord Callanan Ministers were unable to attend the Informal General Affairs Council (GAC) due to parliamentary business. Alex Ellis, Director General of the Department of Exiting the European Union,...
Written Ministerial Statements were introducted in late 2002 to stop the practice of having “planted” or “inspired” questions designed to elicit Government statements.
They are just that – statements on a particular topic by a Government Minister.