Written answers

Llun, 8 Ebrill 2024

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Forests and Land: Environment Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on forests and land use. what steps he has taken to halt and reverse...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Affordable Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2024 to Question 17100 on Affordable Housing, how many thousands of affordable homes he...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Free Trade: Trade Agreements

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Overseas Territories are permitted to negotiate their own free trade agreements with third countries.

    • Gaza and Sudan: Famine

      To ask His Majesty's Government what (1) funding, and (2) other assistance, they will provide along with international partners to prevent famine and starvation in (a) Gaza, and (b) Sudan.

      Iraq: International Assistance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what funding they are currently providing to the government of Iraq broken down in terms of (1) how much funding is provided, and (2) where this funding is...

      Iraq: International Assistance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what mechanisms for oversight, checks and balances, and due diligence they have in place for funding to the government in Iraq; and whether the Foreign,...

      Democracy and Human Rights

      To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to publish the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's strategy on Open Societies, Democracy and Human Rights.

      Hamas

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to impede Hamas acquiring or retaining the resources to make war.

      Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report Famine Review Committee: Gaza Strip, March 2024, published on 18 March, what steps they...

      Sudan: Armed Conflict

      To ask His Majesty's Government what explanation they have received from the Sudanese authorities for an air strike on a school in South Kordofan state on 14 March, which resulted in the...

      Sudan: Armed Conflict

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to liaise with the new US Special Envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, and to further develop a coordinated international response to help to bring...

      Sudan: Armed Conflict

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the civil war in Sudan and the humanitarian consequences for communities and individuals across that country.

      The Gambia: Female Genital Mutilation

      To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of the Gambia concerning new legislation which would decriminalise female genital mutilation.

  • Department for Business and Trade

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Regional Planning and Development: Finance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of programmes funded under (1) the Levelling Up Fund, (2) the Towns Fund, and (3)...

    • Community Development: Isles of Scilly

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, have they made of the cultural and economic welfare of the permanent residents of the Scilly Isles.

      Housing: Rents

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of figures released by the Office for National Statistics on 20 March showing an average increase in monthly rent paid by tenants in...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Household Support Fund

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Budget Statement on 6 March that the Household Support Fund has been extended until...

    • Workplace Pensions: Private Sector

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies that around 3.5 million private sector employees do not pay anything into...

      Welfare Assistance Schemes

      To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to strengthening local welfare services.

      Poverty: Children

      To ask His Majesty's Government, following the child poverty statistics published on 21 March, what plans they have to initiate a cross-government strategy to address child poverty.

      Poverty: Children

      To ask His Majesty's Government, following the release of data showing that the number of children living in absolute poverty has risen by the highest rate in 30 years, what steps they are taking...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Rights of Way: Islands

      To ask His Majesty's Government why Natural England has not used its power to apply to the Secretary of State for creation orders to be made to create rights of way to inaccessible islands...

    • Import Controls

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to dismantle the border control posts at UK ports, following the publication of Safeguarding the Union in January (CP 1021).

  • Cabinet Office

    • Vaccination: UK Internal Trade

      To ask His Majesty's Government what restrictions, if any, exist for the movement of thawed COVID-19 vaccine products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland for commercial purposes as a...

  • Department for Education

    • Students: Visual Impairment

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the educational attainment gap for blind and visually impaired students at (1) Key Stage 2, (2) GCSE, and (3) A Level; by what date, if any, they aim to...

    • Financial Services: Education

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 19 February (HL2185), what steps they are taking to ensure financial literacy education is actually reaching...

      Financial Services: Education

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 19 February (HL2185), what proportion of (1) primary, and (2) secondary, schools the Maths Hubs’...

      GCE A-level

      To ask His Majesty's Government what are the latest available data on the number and percentage of students who left school after their A-levels to go into work; and what percentage of them...

      Financial Services: Education

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 19 February (HL2185), whether they plan to undertake a detailed review of the teaching of financial literacy...

      Breakfast Clubs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of (1) primary, and (2) secondary, schools currently provide breakfast clubs.

      Childcare

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the percentage of eligible families who will be able to take advantage of free childcare care hours committed by April.

      Childcare

      To ask His Majesty's Government what additional support they are providing to enable local authorities and childcare providers to meet demand arising from their commitment to provide free...

      Visas: British National (Overseas)

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Hong Kong Watch report, Tuition Fees for BNO Visa Holders: The Case for Home Fee Status, and the impact of the cost of...

      Teachers: Training

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the Department for Education’s teacher training recruitment targets for (1) secondary school teachers, and (2)...

  • Treasury

    • Food: Prices

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the easing grocery price inflation on (1) consumer spending habits, and (2) household budgets.

    • Housing Market

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) ensure that stabilising mortgage rates contribute to sustained growth in the housing market, and (2) address challenges faced by...

      Taxation: Electronic Government

      To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they gave to the Report from the Communications and Digital Committee Digital exclusion (3rd Report, Session 2022–23, HL Paper 219) when...

      Public Finance

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether any work is underway to prepare for a fiscal event outside of the usual Treasury timetable.

      UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland

      To ask His Majesty's Government, following the commencement of section 45B of the UK Internal Market Act 2020, what export procedures will apply to goods moving from Northern Ireland to Great...

      Economic Situation

      To ask His Majesty's Government, following the revision to the UK's sovereign credit outlook by global ratings agency Fitch from negative to stable, what assessment they have made of the...

      Consumer Prices Index

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the factors contributing to the recent decline in consumer prices inflation.

      Consumers: Expenditure

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent trends in consumer spending; and what assessment they have made of the impact of this on (1) the retail sector, and (2)...

      National Insurance Contributions

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks of Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 18 March (HL Deb col 82), what is their assessment of the implications for calculating entitlement to...

  • Home Office

    • Counter-terrorism

      To ask His Majesty's Government what evidence they have for describing socialism and communism as "united by a set of grievance narratives" in the latest version of the Home Office online Prevent...

    • Crime: Rural Areas

      To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the National Rural Crime Network’s call for the Home Office to undertake a comprehensive economic impact assessment of...

      Immigration: Databases

      To ask His Majesty's Government what progress has been made in correcting the errors in the Person Centric Data Platform and Atlas system, which have led to the merging of different immigration...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Cancer: Prescription Drugs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s severity modifier on the prescribing of cancer medicines.

    • NHS England: Data Protection

      To ask His Majesty's Government what deficiency in NHS England’s Secure Data Environment was described in paragraph 5.1.10 of the minutes from the 29 February meeting of the Advisory Group...

      Cancer: Research

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will establish targeted funding to prioritise and drive research investment into pancreatic cancer and the other less survivable cancers.

      Surgery: Waiting Lists

      To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the role of insourcing as a solution to eliminating waiting list backlogs for elective procedures.

      Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Research

      To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made on the funding of biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Veterans: Radiation Exposure

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by The Earl of Minto on 19 March (HL3052), to what extent they take into account (1) the age of nuclear test veterans, and (2)...

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    • Natural Gas and Oil: Azerbaijan

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Global Witness on 8 November 2023 that BP and its project partners had transferred $35 billion-worth of oil...

    • Energy: Prices

      To ask His Majesty's Government what support they intend to provide to households to adapt to changes in energy prices.

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