Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
197,624 questions
Children: Swimming
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that all children have access to swimming lessons and achieve competency, including lifesaving techniques such as float to live.
Drownings: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle the rate of drowning for black children, in the context of an increase of 35% since 2020, given black children are three times more likely to drown than white children.
Drownings: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is she taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle drowning among children from lower socioeconomic areas.
Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Fire and Rescue Services on statutory funding for inland water rescues.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help improve consistency of local authority implementation of The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulation
Dogs: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of enforcement resources at main border points of entry to prevent the illegal movement of dogs into the UK.
Dogs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on determining the appropriate frequency of inspections for licensed dog home boarding businesses.
Dogs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of guidance to local authorities on publishing the costs of mid term inspections for licensed dog home boarding businesses.
Patents
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps the Intellectual Property Office is taking to simplify guidance for first-time patent applicants.
Patents
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether his Department has undertaken a review of the affordability of the patent system for individual inventors.
Rescue Services
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will specify which Minister in each government department holds responsibility for oversight of the operations of Mountain Rescue services; and if the Government will consider designating a single ministe
Youth Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisations, departments and practitioners the Department is consulting in the development of the forthcoming Youth Custody Transformation Plan; what the planned timeline is for developing and publishing
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of publishing the search history for strip searches at the local force level disaggregated by age, gender, and ethnicity.
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of piloting the use of decision-breaks and real-time supervision as a way of tackling racial profiling in the application of strip search powers.
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle police forces recording a) the location, b) whether a supervisor was consulted, and c) whether an appropriate adult was present during strip searches as ‘unknow
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the a) arrest rate, b) no further action rate, and c) linked outcome rate for police use of strip search powers.
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's annual stop and search data release finding that the majority of strip searches were carried out on the suspicion of drug possession.
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording of the ethnicity of individuals who are strip searched is based on their self-identification.
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording requirements in PACE Code A covering stop and search are extended to strip searches.
Body Searches: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle cases of police forces not routinely recording additional characteristics of vulnerability during child strip searches, including a) child in need status, b) lo
Body Searches: Children and Vulnerable Adults
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle cases of police forces not making a safeguarding referral following the strip search of a child or a vulnerable adult.
Police: Biometrics
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services on plans to consider facial recognition as an assessment criteria for the PEEL legitimacy inspec
Immigration: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to continue the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme.
Intelligence Services: China
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on the use of surveillance cameras manufactured by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of the People's Republic of China.
Small Businesses: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Making Tax Digital on small businesses.