Written answers

Gwener, 23 Chwefror 2024

  • Home Office

    • Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of responses to correspondence from hon. Members were provided in the name of (a) officials and (b) Ministers...

    • Immigration Controls: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reason is for the time taken to publish reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration on (a) illegal...

      Antisemitism

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will ensure an urgent investigation of the anti-Semitic defacing of a birth certificate submitted to the Passport Office.

      Hate Crime: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle hate crime in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.

      Spiking: Mid Bedfordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to prevent drink spiking in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.

      Ask for ANI Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosures of domestic abuse his Department’s Ask for ANI scheme received in its pharmacy sites in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

      Police: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an estimate of the cost of implementing the redesigned government crown logo for each police force in Wales.

      Arson: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle arson in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.

      Anti-social Behaviour: Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.

      Visas: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information his Department holds on how many people admitted to the UK as care workers under the Health and Care Worker visa scheme took...

      Horticulture: Seasonal Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people on horticultural seasonal worker visas are permitted to transfer to different scheme operators in the event of their scheme...

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 February 2024, HCWS258, on changes to the Immigration Rules, for what reasons the...

      Cardington Airfield: Asylum

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Cardington Sheds are being used to train border force staff for the removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

  • Treasury

    • Treasury: Information Officers

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department were working in communications roles in each of the last two years.

    • Developing Countries: Debts

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the University of Warwick GLOBE Centre and University of Leeds CBLP...

      Business: Accountability

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to help support the adoption of environmental, social and governance practices.

      Treasury: Health and Safety

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under Section 3 of the...

      Oil and Natural Gas: Finance

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 12 June 2023 on Energy tax update, HCWS845, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of...

      Employee Ownership

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's call for evidence on non-discretionary tax-advantaged share schemes, which closed on 25 August 2023, when he plans to...

      Theatre: Tax Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of extending the current rate of Theatre Tax Relief beyond April 2025.

      Hearing Aids: VAT

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason VAT relief is not available on hearing aids.

      Treasury: Mortgages

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department worked on mortgage support in each of the last two years.

      Income Tax

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much income tax was paid in each parliamentary constituency in the 2022-23 financial year.

      Housing: Environment Protection

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing employees who environmentally upgrade their home to be able to pay for this from their...

      Childcare

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward measures in the Budget to provide further support for (a) parents with childcare costs and (b) reforms to the childcare sector.

      First Time Buyers: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Northern Ireland Executive has received a Barnett consequential as a result of the First Homes scheme.

      Inheritance Tax

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the inheritance tax threshold to £1 million.

      Beer and Cider: Tax Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the temporary off-sales regulatory easement to allow beer and cider festival volunteers...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: British Overseas Territories

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he plans to visit any British Overseas Territories in the next six months.

    • British Overseas Territories

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to (a) improve links and (b) increase cooperation with the British Overseas Territories.

      Afghanistan: Women

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of (a) detentions and (b) arrests of Afghan women and...

      Afghanistan: Women

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recent arrests of Afghan women and girls for...

      Egypt: Elections

      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 sentencing of Ahmed Tantawy following...

      British Indian Ocean Territory: Asylum

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps the Government is taking to safeguard asylum seekers in the British Indian Ocean Territory at risk of (a)...

      Palestinians: Detainees

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made representations to his Israeli counterpart on the (a) location and (b) manner of the detention of...

      Gaza: Israel

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment the Government has made of the potential implications for the Government’s policies of the...

      China: Foreign Relations

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he made representations to his Chinese counterpart on the (a) repeal of the Beijing-imposed National Security...

      China: Foreign Relations

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he made representations on (a) repeal of the National Security Law and (b) release of all political prisoners...

      Gaza: Israel

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for the UK's obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and...

      Developing Countries: Genito-urinary Medicine

      To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to his announcement of £16 million funding for integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights...

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport

    • Video Games: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what grant funding is available to help support training in small and medium-sized enterprises in the video games development sector.

    • Arts: Disadvantaged

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with Arts Council England on funding for art and cultural activities in deprived areas not...

      Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Health and Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under...

      Holiday Accommodation: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of traditional short-term lets on the local economies of (a) rural and (b)...

      Lotteries: Sales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of (a) removing and (b) raising the annual sales limit for society...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Information Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in his Department; and what the...

    • Public Lavatories

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many public toilet facilities there were in (a) Stockport borough and (b) England in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2023.

      Social Services: Greater London

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the per capita funding for adult social care received...

      Social Services: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to reform the funding system for the delivery of adult social care by local councils.

      Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Domicile

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether any non-executive directors employed in his Department are non-domiciled.

      Shared Ownership Schemes: Mid Bedfordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what fiscal steps his Department is taking to support shared ownership homeowners in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.

      Ground Rent

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2023 to Question 4731 on Ground Rent, if he will make it his policy that the proposed...

      Housing: Floods

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to (a) authorise and (b) fund local authorities to purchase homes which have been subject to...

      Temporary Accommodation: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national regulator for temporary accommodation.

      Electoral Register: EU Nationals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the potential number of EU citizens resident in the UK who will be removed from the electoral...

      Public Sector: Scotland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the four-day working week trial for the public sector...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Bowel Cancer: Disadvantaged

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) extent of and (b) reasons for inequalities in bowel cancer outcomes.

    • Liver Cancer: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on (a) care for patients with and (b) treatment for liver cancer.

      Cancer: Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment for young people with cancer.

      Mental Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to help support NHS England with trends in the level of demand on mental...

      Emergency Calls: Mental Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulances were despatched to incidents where police officers attended as part of Right Care, Right Person policy in each of the...

      Social Services: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will develop a long-term workforce plan for the social care sector.

      Families: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to expand the eligibility of familial mapping services.

      Heart Diseases: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to improve the reach of screening programmes for inherited cardiac conditions.

      Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of issuing a commissioning policy for the use of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair...

      Clinical Priorities Advisory Group

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times the Clinical Priorities Action Group are meeting each year; and what the dates are for each meeting in 2024.

      Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access and growth represents value for...

      Electronic Cigarettes: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take legislative steps to tackle the promotion of e-cigarettes and disposable vapes to children.

      Drugs: Shortages

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has she made on tackling medicine shortages.

      Midwives: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 5.60 of the Autumn Statement Green Book 2022, how many FTE midwives (a) have been recruited by and (b) left...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Global Combat Air Programme: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to meet the Global Combat Air Programme’s trilateral partners to discuss delivery of the next stage of the programme.

    • Guided Weapons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rockets have been fired during operational deployments in each year since 2015.

      Antitank Missiles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Javelin missiles have been fired during operational deployments in each year since 2015.

      Armed Forces: Surveys

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish data from the UK Regular Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey illustrating the Impact of Service life on family and personal life...

      Armed Forces: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to join full time the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) RAF were made in each year since 2010.

      Armed Forces: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applicants to join the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) RAF were rejected on medical grounds in each year since 2010.

      Defence Reform Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department completed the review of the Levene Framework set as a condition by HM Treasury in the Spring 2023 Settlement Letter.

      Ministry of Defence: Health and Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under Section 3 of the...

      Armed Forces: Parachuting

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel sustained injuries from parachuting in each of the last eight years.

      Royal Navy Careers Service: Vacancies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many vacancies there were in the Naval Careers Service on 1 February in each year since 2017.

      Army: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) mean, (b) median and (c) mode average salary was for personnel in the Army in each year since 2010, by rank.

      Navy: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) mean, (b) median and (c) mode average salary for personnel in the Royal Navy was in each year since 2010 by rank.

      Littoral Warfare: HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2024 to Question 10415 on Amphibious Forces, what role HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark will have until 2034.

      Armed Forces: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2024 to Question 9639 on Armed Forces: Housing, if he will provide an update on how many homes undergoing repair...

  • Department for Transport

    • Department for Transport: Domicil

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any non-executive directors employed in his Department are non-domiciled.

    • Great British Railways: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what budget was allocated for the Consolidated Online Retail Solution project by the Great British Railways Transition Team in the financial years (a)...

      Southeastern Trains: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has received correspondence from Southeastern Trains Ltd on service quality standards on the Southeastern franchise since ownership was...

      Railways: WiFi

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 20 October 2023 to Question 201667 on Railways: WiFi, what were the results of his Department’s discussions on...

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether officials in his Department had discussions with Treasury officials on his decision to cancel a centralised online rail ticket retailer in...

      Railway Stations: Access

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent staff are assessing nominations for funding under the Access for All programme.

      Train Operating Companies: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an estimate of the number of full-time equivalent hours spent (a) monitoring performance of train operating companies and (b)...

      Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has received correspondence from Govia Thameslink Railways on service quality standards on the (a) Thameslink, (b) Southern and (c) Great...

      Railways: WiFi

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 19 July 2023 to Question 194228 on Railways: WiFi, what the results were of his Department's analysis of responses...

      Railways: Crew

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of train drivers recruited in each of the last 10 years.

      Railway Stations: Access

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 12367 on Railway Stations: Acess, what discussions he has had with the Great British Railways...

      Railways: Tickets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he had with the representatives of the rail sector before his decision to cancel the proposal to deliver a centralised Great British...

      Train Operating Companies: Armed Forces Covenant

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of mandating train operating companies (a) contracted to the private sector and (b) under...

      Euston Station

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2024 to Question 12368 on Euston Station, whether it is his policy to appoint a development company to manage the...

      Motorcycles: Driving Licences

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2023 to Question 1424 on Motorcycles: Carbon Emissions, what plans he has to simplify the L-category licensing...

      Community Transport: Driving

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the National Disability Strategy, published on 28 July 2021, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle shortages in...

      Railways: Educational Visits

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2024 to Question 13609 on Rail Fares, which operators offer the dedicated discounts for group travel; and whether...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Children: Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving our enforcement powers through the commencement of curfew...

    • Universal Credit: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of Universal Credit had their Universal Credit housing cost element removed for a period due to moving properties midway...

      Driving Licences and Passports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many driving licences have been cancelled due to avoid order to disqualification; and how many passports have been cancelled due to lack...

      Health and Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to meet its obligations under the International Labour Organisation Convention on Occupational Safety and...

      Employment: Health and Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure worker safety for those working (a) shifts and (b) unsociable hours.

      AEA Group: Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Q329 of the oral evidence given by the Minister for Pensions to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 10 January 2024,...

      Sick Pay: Women

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to help support women to meet the lower earnings limit for statutory sick pay.

      Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number and proportion of monthly universal credit payments that differed from the amount...

      Pensions Dashboard Programme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of when he will receive an updated assessment of the pensions dashboard programme from the Infrastructure and...

      Department for Work and Pensions: Information Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department worked in communications roles in each of the last two years.

      Universal Credit: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls to the universal credit helpline were abandoned in each of the last two years.

      Department for Work and Pensions: Mortgages

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department worked on support for mortgage interest in each of the last two years.

      Support for Mortgage Interest

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money has been paid out for Support for Mortgage Interest loans in each of the last 2 years.

      Universal Credit: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for a caller to the universal credit helpline was in each month in the last two years.

      Support for Mortgage Interest

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Support for Mortgage Interest loans have been (a) rejected and (b) accepted in each of the last two years.

      Remploy: Workplace Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what payments his Department has made to the Remploy Ltd Pension and Assurance Scheme in each of the last 15 years.

      Universal Credit: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls were received by the universal credit helpline in each month of the last two years.

      Department for Work and Pensions: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department’s publication entitled DWP commercial pipeline at September 2023, published on 28 September 2023, when...

      Personal Independence Payment: Veterans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of veterans that claim Personal Independence Payments in the West Midlands.

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 139 of his Department’s publication entitled Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, published on 28...

    • Legal Aid Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the judgment in the case of the Law Society of England and Wales v The Lord...

      Criminal Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to legal aid in criminal cases and what criteria his Department uses to make...

      Legal Aid Scheme: Solicitors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will have discussions with the Legal Aid Agency on the effectiveness of the duty solicitor scheme at providing duty solicitor coverage 24 hours a...

      Legal Aid Scheme: Solicitors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what modelling his Department is undertaking to estimate the number of criminal legal aid duty solicitors that will be working over the next five years.

      Adoption

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report entitled Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, published on 28 November 2023, for what reason (a) there...

      Prison and Probation Service: Databases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 139 of his Department’s publication, Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, HC13, for what reason the new...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Cats: Sales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licensed cat sellers there are in England.

    • Hornets and Non-native Species

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department plans to provide to tackle (a) Asian hornet and (b) other non-native invasive species that...

      Land Use

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for the publication of the Land Use Framework.

      Hill Farming

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many upland farms have closed in each year since 2015 by region.

      Agriculture: Government Assistance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to support the agriculture sector in the context of changing immigration rules.

      Agriculture: Subsidies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that future multi-annual farming support funding is given in seven-year blocks.

      Agriculture: Subsidies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will guarantee funding for farming subsidies after 2025.

      Hornets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) beekeepers and (b) the wider beekeeping industry in the context of the...

      Honey: Labelling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will require food labelling for honey to display the proportion of honey contained.

      Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: ICT

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, With reference to the Fifty-first Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2022-23 on Tackling Defra’s...

      Food: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Border Target Operating Model on the cost of food for...

      Inland Border Facilities: Ashford

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average daily operational costs for Sevington Internal Border Facility were in 2023; and what the average daily...

      Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ministers' Private Offices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2024 to Question 11394 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:...

      Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Domicil

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any non-executive directors employed in his Department are non-domiciled.

      Sustainable Farming Incentive: Suffolk Coastal

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive were (a) made and (b) approved in Suffolk Coastal constituency in...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Stirling of 13 September 2023 on a shock collar ban.

      Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Health and Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk...

      Dangerous Dogs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much revenue was raised from charging for an exemption certificate as part of the American XL Bully ban; and whether...

      Farmers: Mental Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's guidance to officials visiting farms about (a)...

      Timber in Construction Innovation Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications have been received for the Timber in Construction Innovation Fund; and what assessment he has made of...

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Horizon IT System

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when the Government received the review by Jonathan Swift KC entitled A review on behalf of the Chairman of Post Office Limited concerning...

    • Counterfeit Manufacturing and Electric Bicycles: Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to promote public safety messages on (a) dangerous, (b) counterfeit products and (c) e-bikes.

      Employment: Surveys

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to conduct a new Workplace Employment Relations Study.

  • Attorney General

    • Prosecutions

      To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions under section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 there have been in each of the last two years; and how many and what proportion of those cases...

    • Attorney General: Information Officers

      To ask the Attorney General, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in her Department; and what the salary band is for each post.

      Attorney General: Health and Safety

      To ask the Attorney General, whether all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under Section 3 of the Management of...

      Legal Profession: Accountability

      To ask the Attorney General, whether she is taking steps to encourage the legal sector to engage in corporate social responsibility.

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

    • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Domicil

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether any non-executive directors employed in her Department are non-domiciled.

    • EU Framework Programme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has had discussions with her EU counterparts on priorities for the EU Framework Programme for Research and...

      Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Health and Safety

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 3 November and (b) 4 December 2023 from the hon. Member for...

      Broadband: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of rural broadband coverage.

      Quantum Technology: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to page 29 of the National Quantum Strategy published on 15 March 2023, how much funding her Department has...

      Gene Therapies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled National vision for engineering biology, published 5 December 2023,...

      Animal Experiments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a mandatory review of all animal-dependent...

      Animal Experiments

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has considered the potential merits of instructing the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction...

      Sickle Cell Diseases: Manufacturing Industries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to support the growth of manufacturing capacity to (a) develop and (b) deliver treatments...

      Gene Therapies: Manufacturing Industries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to encourage the growth of the (a) manufacturing capacity for and (b) delivery of cell...

      Horizon Europe

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to encourage UK participation in Horizon Europe.

      Broadband: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to improve rural connectivity.

      Project Gigabit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the selection criteria were for Project Gigabit.

  • Department for Education

    • Nurseries: Special Educational Needs and Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding provided to nurseries for infants and toddlers diagnosed as having special educational...

    • Children: Hearing Impairment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that (a) deaf children and (b) their families receive the support necessary from specialist...

      Pupils: Absenteeism

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of listing school absence as illness without more detail.

      Primary Education: Free School Meals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure primary schools in England are fulfilling their legal requirement to provide free milk for children as...

      English Language and Mathematics: GCSE

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2024 to Question 11876 on English Language and Mathematics: GCSE, how many and what proportion of young people...

      Special Educational Needs: Cerebral Palsy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children with cerebral palsy have been assigned education, health and care plans in (a) Enfield North constituency,...

      Pupils: Transgender People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether training is being developed for (a) teachers and (b) other school staff on the needs of transgender pupils.

      Schools: Cadets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which Minister in her Department is responsible for the delivery of the Cadet Expansion Programme.

      Mobile Phones: Pupils

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of removing mobile phones from children during school.

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    • Energy Bills Rebate

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make it her policy to provide energy bill support to households with the most need.

    • Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the reports from the Social Market Foundation entitled Fairer,...

      Boilers: Heat Pumps

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the impact of the clean heat market mechanism on the price of boilers.

      Energy Charter Treaty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2024 to Question 11418 on Energy Charter Treaty, how her Department is consulting stakeholders...

      Boilers: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to encourage competitive pricing by boiler manufacturers.

      Heat Pumps: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to increase the uptake of heat pumps in rural homes.

      Heating: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to reduce the long-term heating costs of rural homes.

      Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Domicil

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether any non-executive directors employed in her Department are non-domiciled.

      Energy: Costs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will work with industry stakeholders to create a permanent targeted support system to help people with energy costs in...

      Wind Power: Seas and Oceans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will publish the supply chain plans for (a) fixed and (b) floating offshore wind farms submitted by developers in the sixth...

  • Scotland Office

    • Scotland Office: Information Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in his Department; and what the salary band is for each post.

  • Leader of the House

    • Taxation: Scotland

      To ask the Leader of the House, with reference to (a) her oral contribution on 11 January 2024, Official Report, columns 455-456, (b) the findings on page 2 of the Scottish Government’s...

  • Department for Transport

    • Parking: Pedestrian Areas

      To ask His Majesty's Government, following the publication on 10 February of the report of the Local Government Association (LGA) The Path To Inclusive Footways, what assessment they have...

    • Road Signs and Markings: Rural Areas

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how much was spent on the installation and maintenance of traffic signs on minor roads in small villages in England in the...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Food: Labelling

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the information on food packaging to enable consumers to make informed choices.

    • Food: Hospitals

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that there is no significant cost increase to the NHS from proposed changes to the Government Buying Standards for Food and...

      Import Controls: Disease Control

      To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of consignments will be physically inspected for compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary controls under their Border Target Operating Model; and...

      Fertilisers: Sales

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that ammonium nitrate, calcium ammonium nitrate and potassium nitrate are sold securely for lawful purposes.

      Food and Nutrition

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether, under the proposed new Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering, they have completed an assessment to determine if it is possible for food to be...

      Glyphosate

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to commission or gather evidence about the real-world impacts of glyphosate on human health and the natural environment, ahead of the decision...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Health: Disadvantaged

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Institute of Health Equity’s report Health Inequalities published in January, which showed that between 2010 and...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Hamas: UNRWA

      To ask His Majesty's Government when they first received any information or intelligence of allegations that staff of UNRWA were aiding and abetting Hamas.

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • EU Law

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Retained EU Law Parliamentary Report for the period June 2023–December 2023, published on 22 January, what is the departmental breakdown...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Child Benefit

      To ask His Majesty's Government what research they have carried out, if any, to ascertain the effect of the two-child benefit cap on the lives of the affected children and their families.

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Probate

      To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that probate applications are processed within 16 weeks of being submitted, in line with the Government's target, following...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Alice Perkins

      To ask His Majesty's Government what were their reasons for nominating Alice Perkins, former Chair of the Post Office from 2011 to 2015, for a recommendation for honours.

  • Department for Education

    • Schools: Inspections

      To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many Ofsted inspections have been impacted by inspectors losing live notes because of faults in the electronic evidence...

  • Northern Ireland Office

    • UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland

      To ask His Majesty's Government, following publication of the Safeguarding the Union Command Paper (CP 1021) on 31 January, when they intend to introduce legislation to fulfil the...

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    • Energy Charter Treaty

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty.

  • Treasury

    • VAT: Northern Ireland

      To ask His Majesty's Government in which areas Northern Ireland is not subject to VAT changes which apply to other parts of the UK under the provisions of the Windsor Framework.

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