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Meg Hillier
Meg Hillier
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Hackney South and Shoreditch
📅 2005–2026
1,665 speeches on Hansard record
⚠️ Votes attended: 69.95% (#318 of 643 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 1.89%
📝 Topics: Credit, Immigration: Appeals, Coronavirus: Protective Clothing
🤝 Member of 4 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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2000 written answers on parliamentary record
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Business, Innovation and Skills
Technology: Greater London 24 February 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills under what cost headings the £2 million of funding allocated by his Department to Tech City will be spent.
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Broadband 22 January 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what representations he has received from businesses on the time taken by broadband suppliers to provide a broadband connection; and what discussions he has had with broadband suppliers on that subject.
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Broadband: Greater London 22 November 2012
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) if he will assess the effect of broadband service suppliers speed of connection on the establishment of start-up businesses in and around Shoreditch;(2) how many meetings he has had with start-up companies or their…
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Export Credits Guarantees: Egypt 12 December 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether any of the debt owed by Egypt to the Export Credits Guarantee Department comes from sales of military equipment.
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Trade Promotion: Nigeria 9 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what trade missions UK Trade and Investment has carried out in Nigeria in each of the last two years; and what missions are planned in the next 12 months.
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Electricity Generation: Nigeria 24 October 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to promote business links with the power supply sector in Nigeria.
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Cabinet Office
Vote Leave: Election Offences 13 November 2018
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2018 to Question 183310 on Vote Leave: Election Offences, what steps he has taken as a result of the findings of the report of the Electoral Commission into the activities of Vote Leave.
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Vote Leave: Election Offences 31 October 2018
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the recent report of the Electoral Commission into the activities of Vote Leave, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Government's policies of the findings in that report.
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Government Departments: Procurement 3 September 2014
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what proportion of central Government procurement spend was with small and medium-sized enterprises on 21 August 2014.
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Government Contracts: Small Businesses 29 January 2014
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what progress he has made on opening up procurement of government contracts to the small business sector.
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Procurement 6 February 2013
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps he has taken to remove barriers to small and medium-sized enterprises participating in Government procurement.
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Communities and Local Government
Organised Crime: Departmental Coordination 15 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which Minister in his Department is a member of the inter-ministerial group dealing with gang culture; and on what dates they have attended meetings of the group.
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Organised Crime: Departmental Co-ordination 1 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral statement of 11 August 2011, Official Report, column 1055, on public disorder, what meetings he and his Ministers have had with Home Office Ministers to assist in compiling the report to the…
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Organised Crime: Departmental Co-ordination 1 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral statement of 11 August 2011, Official Report, column 1055, on public disorder, what meetings his officials have had with the Home Office to assist in compiling the report to the House on gang…
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Culture Media and Sport
Betting Shops 1 May 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the effects of betting shops located in areas with high levels of deprivation on those areas.
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Betting 14 January 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether she plans to alter the stakes and rate of play of fixed odds betting terminals; and if she will make a statement.
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Basketball 7 January 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what support her Department is providing to basketball and wheelchair basketball in (a) London and (b) the rest of the UK following the London 2012 Olympics.
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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Public Sector: Greenhouse Gas Emissions 17 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of guidance for measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions in the public sector.
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Clothing: Manufacturing Industries 12 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to help tackle unethical supply chains in the fashion industry.
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Post Offices: Energy Bill Relief Scheme 9 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support Post Offices after the end of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme.
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Energy: Prices 15 March 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking with Ofgem to help support residents with communal heating systems not subject to the energy price cap.
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Green Homes Grant Scheme 21 September 2021
What steps his Department plans to take to learn from the findings of the National Audit Office report entitled Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme published on 8 September 2021.
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Weddings: Coronavirus 3 February 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the planned timescale is for allowing statutory wedding ceremonies to reconvene with a minimum number of participants during the covid-19 outbreak.
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Written Questions: Government Responses 26 March 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will ensure that a substantive Answer to Questions 227859 and 227860 is provided before prorogation.
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Adult Education: Hackney 25 March 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Skills Funding Letter 2015 to 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential effects of the change in adult skills funding between 2014-15 and 2015-16 on (a) students and (b) colleges in Hackney South and…
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Adult Education: Hackney 25 March 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of changes in adult skills funding since 2010 on (a) students and (b) colleges in Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency.
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Adult Education: Hackney 23 March 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of changes in adult skills funding since 2010 on (a) students and (b) colleges in Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency.
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Apprentices 11 November 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices have been employed through the employer ownership pilot for apprenticeships; and how much of the £340 million allocated to this pilot has been spent.
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Department for Communities and Local Government
Non-domestic Rates: Valuation 12 September 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2017 to Question 900568, what compensation is available for businesses that win at appeal but have suffered losses between the original valuation and appeal.
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Non-domestic Rates: Valuation 12 September 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2017 to Question 900568, what support is available to businesses that have had their property incorrectly valued by the Valuation Office Agency.
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Non-domestic Rates: Hackney 16 March 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the revaluation of business rates on businesses in Hackney.
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Right to Buy Scheme: Publications 30 January 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) producing and (b) distributing the Right to Buy information booklet to households.
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Right to Buy Scheme: Publications 30 January 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department used to decide where the Right to Buy information booklet was distributed.
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Department for Culture Media and Sport
Mobile Phones 20 November 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what grounds he decided that the consultation on tackling partial not-spots in mobile telephone coverage should last for three weeks.
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Telecommunications Systems 14 September 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to help people without a broadband connection prepare for the closure of the public switched telephone network in 2025.
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Staff 8 September 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of the staff of his Department are politically restricted.
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Events Industry: Beverage Containers 21 May 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the use of reusable cups at outdoor events will be permitted as covid-19 restrictions are eased.
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Youth Review 29 April 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department plans to publish the findings from its Youth Review, which closed on 7 March 2021.
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Gambling 31 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking in response to the finding by the Gambling Commission that 2 million people in the UK are addicted to gambling.
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Photographs: Disclosure of Information 15 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will change the law to make it illegal to take a photograph of someone naked without their consent.
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Photographs: Disclosure of Information 15 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if the Secretary of State has any plans to update the law on consent to be photographed.
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Photographs: Disclosure of Information 15 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will assess the effectiveness of legislation governing photographic consent.
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Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus 6 September 2021
What progress has been made on catch-up learning for pupils in response to the disruption caused by the covid-19 outbreak.
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Adult Education: Finance 21 May 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has conducted an impact assessment of the decision to change the reconciliation threshold rate for Education and Skills Funding Agency grant funded AEB adult skills.
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Turing Scheme: Youth Services 10 March 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provisions in the Turing scheme are accessible for youth groups.
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Schools: Asbestos 17 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to assess the presence of asbestos in schools which did not respond to the recent Asbestos Management Assurance Process request.
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Schools: Asbestos 11 June 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many incidents of asbestos released in schools were reported to his Department in each year between September 2011 and September 2017; how many school staff and pupils have been exposed in such incidents; and what action was taken by the Heath and…
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Schools: Asbestos 14 December 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on earmarking an asbestos removal fund to tackle asbestos in schools.
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Schools: Asbestos 12 December 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what analysis and data her Department holds on the number of school buildings which contain asbestos.
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Fire Stations: Greater London 18 April 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether VAT was charged on the purchase of Kingsland Fire Station from the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.
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Hackney New Primary School 16 February 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the purchase of the Kingsland Fire Station site for use by the Hackney New Primary School; and what the gain to the public purse was of the sale of that site.
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Fire Stations: Greater London 15 February 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the purchase of the Kingsland Fire Station site for use by the Hackney New Primary School; and how much accrued to the public purse from the sale of that site.
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Department for Energy and Climate Change
Solar Power: Finance 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what support her Department provides for community solar projects.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Air Pollution: Schools 10 June 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve air quality around schools in Hackney.
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Rivers: Sewage 26 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many litres of sewage is discharged into rivers in (a) London and (b) the rest of the South-East because of misconnected pipes; and what steps he is taking to bring the matter to the attention of the public.
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Department for International Development
St Helena: Airports 21 November 2018
How many planes have successfully (a) landed and (b) taken off from St Helena's airport since that airport was built.
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Gaza: Humanitarian Aid 11 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps are being taken by his Department to tackle the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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Department for International Trade
Small Businesses: Trade Promotion 30 November 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to help support small businesses that are not eligible to participate in the UK Tradeshow Programme to develop commercial relationships.
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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Building Safety Fund 4 July 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to reopen the Building Safety Fund for applications in 2022.
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Council Tax: Payment Methods 10 March 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the council tax rebate scheme, what steps he is taking to help support local authorities with residents who pay council tax in cash.
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Council Tax: Rebates 10 February 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to whom the council tax rebate will be paid in cases where tenants pay rent with all bills included, including council tax; and in cases where the landlord receives the rebate, whether there will be a requirement for the…
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Council Tax: Rebates 10 February 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether additional administrative costs incurred by local authorities in the implementation of the £150 council tax rebate will be a new burdens requirement.
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Council Tax: Rebates 10 February 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether local authorities will receive central Government funding for the additional administrative costs incurred in the rollout of the £144 million discretionary fund for vulnerable people and individuals on low incomes…
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Department for Transport
Public Transport: Greater London 3 September 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the Equalities Impact Assessment on the decision to remove free travel for under-18s in London.
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Seaborne Freight 10 January 2019
What due diligence was undertaken by his Department in advance of its award of a contract to Seaborne Freight.
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Cycling 26 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to extend cycling’s popularity to groups that are currently under-represented.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Child Benefit 3 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of ending the two child benefit cap.
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Employment and Support Allowance 3 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the fixed disregard rate for the New Style Employment and Support Allowance.
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Tax Credits: Universal Credit 18 March 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential reasons why people receiving tax credits are not voluntarily migrating to Universal Credit.
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Pension Credit: Hackney South and Shoreditch 16 March 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make a comparative assessment of the level of pension credit uptake in Hackney South and Shoreditch in the financial years (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
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Poverty: Children 5 June 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to reduce the number of children living in poverty in London.
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Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness 2 November 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether health professionals undertaking personal independence payment assessments for people with mental health issues are required to have a qualification in mental health.
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Personal Independence Payment 17 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that staff conducting medical assessments of personal independence payment applicants are qualified to assess people with mental health issues.
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Children: Maintenance 6 March 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to ensure that child maintenance payments are paid by non-resident parents; and what steps her Department takes to support the resident parent.
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Children: Maintenance 5 March 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there are plans to reduce the amount of debt that a child maintenance paying parent owes before an application for a Liability Order can be made.
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Social Security Benefits: Appeals 18 April 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory reconsideration request decisions made by his Department have been overturned by HM Courts and Tribunals Service since the introduction of that process.
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Housing Benefit 28 January 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to enable special circumstances to be taken into account when making the decision to withhold housing benefit from people who are away from their homes for a period of more than four weeks.
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Pension Credit 28 January 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to enable special circumstances to be taken into account when making the decision to withhold pension credit to people who are away from their homes for a period of more than four weeks.
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Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Hackney South and Shoreditch 25 October 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices were open in Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency on (a) 20 October 2022 and (b) in 2013.
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Coronavirus: Disease Control 21 September 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will publish the daily recovery rates for confirmed covid-19 cases.
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Coronavirus: Protective Clothing 10 June 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the (a) evidence and (b) modelling that indicated that the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit for Personal Protective Equipment set on 25 March 2020 was sufficient for his Department’s needs.
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Coronavirus: Protective Clothing 10 June 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the process by which Resource Departmental Expenditure Limits for Personal Protective Equipment are set in his Department.
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Coronavirus: Protective Clothing 10 June 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limits were for Personal Protective Equipment set by his Department on 25 March 2020.
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Coronavirus: Protective Clothing 4 June 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the process by which Resource Departmental Expenditure Limits for Personal Protective Equipment are set in his Department.
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Coronavirus: Protective Clothing 4 June 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limits were for Personal Protective Equipment set by his Department on 25 March 2020.
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Protective Clothing: EU Action 20 May 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he was first made aware of EU's personal protective equipment procurement scheme.
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Coronavirus: Intensive Care 14 May 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he was notified that the number of critical care beds would be inadequate to deal with the predicted number of cases of covid-19.
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Ventilators: Business 11 May 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 21 April 2020 to Question 34931 on Medical equipment: business, whether (a) his Department and (b) NHS England approached businesses to produce additional ventilators for the NHS between 1 December 2019 and 13 March…
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Public Health Laboratory Service: Coronavirus 21 April 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what function public health laboratories have in covid-19 testing.
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Coronavirus: Intensive Care 21 April 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether there was any scenario used in routine pandemic planning where the number of critical beds would meet increased demand.
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Medical Equipment: Business 21 April 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what dates his Department approached businesses to produce more ventilators for the NHS between 1 December 2019 and 24 March 2020.
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Coronavirus: Disease Control 15 April 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion figure for asymptomatic transmission the Government is using in its modelling of covid-19 contagion.
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Public Health Laboratory Service 24 March 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many public health laboratories have closed in England and Wales from 2010 to 2020.
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Paramedical Staff: Training 12 February 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include student paramedics on the NHS scheme for claiming student placement expenses.
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Paramedical Staff: Training 12 February 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the effect on student paramedic recruitment of the decision to exclude student paramedics from the NHS scheme for claiming student placement expenses.
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Organs: Donors 7 June 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage organ donation in BAME communities.
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NHS: Pensions 31 January 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the consultation on changes to NHS pension schemes only runs from 4 January to 28 January 2019.
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Mental Health Services: Mothers 31 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department is doing to improve the diagnosis of mothers suffering with post-natal mental health problems.
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Education
Classroom Assistants 17 June 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what his Department's policy is on teaching assistants.
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Children: Disability 16 January 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what discussions he has had with colleagues on ensuring that the Children and Families Bill offers support to carers of disabled children along the lines of the support offered for adults in the draft Care and Support Bill; and if he will make a statement.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Trade with Nigeria 21 January 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what change there has been in levels of trade between Nigeria and the UK since the Prime Minister’s visit to Nigeria in 2011.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Sri Lanka: Politics and Government 28 February 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of progress on UN Human Rights Commission resolution L30/1 on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.
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Burma: Rohingya 16 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help (a) prevent further violence towards and (b) resolve the causes of the Rohingya crisis.
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Burma: Rohingya 16 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to refer the Government of Myanmar to the International Criminal Court for their actions towards the Rohingya.
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Libya: Terrorism 7 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made on securing compensation for the victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA bombings.
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Turkey: Press Freedom 29 October 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral contribution of 20 October 2015, Official Report, column 813, what discussions he has had with ministers in the Turkish government on ensuring that freedom of the press is upheld in that country as it relates…
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Isabel Rose 5 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will take steps to support Isabel Rose in Hong Kong.
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Karim Ennarah 5 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information her Department holds on the status of Karim Ennarah's case.
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China and Hong Kong: Assets 21 June 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will undertake an audit of the UK assets owned by Hong Kong and Chinese officials who have been linked to human rights violations.
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China: Human Rights 20 April 2021
What recent diplomatic steps he has taken in response to human rights abuses against (a) the Uyghurs and (b) other minorities in China.
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HM Treasury
Non-domestic Rates: Valuation 18 July 2017
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the time taken by the Valuation Office Agency to process rateable value appeals.
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Credit 24 February 2016
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that there is full market participation in real-time data-sharing in the short-term credit market.
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Fuels: Tax Evasion 14 October 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to tackle fuel fraud in Northern Ireland.
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Credit 26 March 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the progress made by the short-term credit industry on full market participation in real-time data-sharing.
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Credit 26 March 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that full market participation in real-time data-sharing in the short-term credit market includes participants who are non-payday lenders.
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Credit 26 March 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to secure full market participation in real-time data-sharing in the short-term credit market.
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Credit 26 March 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the affordability criteria used by the Financial Conduct Authority to set rules to protect consumers taking out loans in the short-term credit market.
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Health
General Practitioners 3 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many GP surgeries which receive income from the minimum price income guarantee are in areas which are high on the deprivation index;(2) what the cost to the public purse is of freezing the withdrawal of the minimum price income guarantee from GP…
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Health Services: Foreign Nationals 24 February 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on retaining access to free diagnosis and treatment for every resident in England for all the diseases included in Schedule 1 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011.
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Redundancy Costs 22 October 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to reduce costs of redundancy in the NHS.
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NHS: Redundancy Payments 16 July 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS has spent on redundancy payments since June 2010.
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Meningitis: Vaccination 30 January 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure the prompt introduction of the new meningitis B vaccine into the childhood immunisation schedule.
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Carers 16 January 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on bringing forward legislative proposals to provide support to carers of disabled children similar to that which would be provided for adults under the draft Care and Support Bill.
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Home Department
Passports 1 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications were received by HM Passport Office in each week since 6 January 2014; and what proportion of those applications (i) were completed in three weeks, (ii) were…
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Passports 8 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications have been received by HM Passport Office since the beginning of the current financial year; and what proportion of such applications were completed and dispatched…
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Stop and Search 10 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to her statement of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 831, on Stop-and-Search, which police forces have signed up to the revised code on stop-and-search to date.
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Entry Clearances 24 January 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many family visitor visa applications there were in each of the last five years; how many were refused in each year; and of those refused how many were allowed on appeal in each year.
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Organised Crime: Injunctions 7 February 2012
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many gang injunctions have been issued since 9 January 2012; and what monitoring system she has put in place to ensure their effectiveness.
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Immigration 10 January 2012
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will list the (a) ports, (b) airports and (c) other immigration facilities visited by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship between May 2010 and the end of October 2011; and on what date each such visit took place.
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Gang Injunctions 21 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many injunctions to restrict the movement of persons accused of gang membership have been issued in (a) England and (b) London since their inception.
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Gang Injunctions: Greater London 21 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which London boroughs gang injunctions have been issued.
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Organised Crime 31 October 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to report to the House on her work on a cross-government programme of action to deal with gang culture, as indicated in the Prime Minister’s statement of 11 August 2011, Official Report, columns 1051-55, on public disorder.
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Gang Injunctions 25 October 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many gang injunctions have been implemented since their inception.
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Home Office
Biometric Residence Permits and Work Permits 27 April 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) biometric residence cards, (b) biometric residence permits and (c) frontier working permits were issued in the last 12 months for which data is available.
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Offensive Weapons 17 November 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to include butter knives in the exemptions in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Exemption) Order 1996.
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Asylum: Employment 24 September 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been granted permission to work as a result of the time taken for her Department process their case in last 12 months.
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Asylum 23 September 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims are awaiting resolution as at 16 September 2021.
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Asylum 23 September 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims have been awaiting a decision from her Department for over 12 months.
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Extradition Act 2003: Arrests 10 March 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2021 to Question 156290, on Extradition Act 2003: Arrests, for what reason her Department does not hold the information requested; and if she will request that information from the National Crime Agency.
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Extradition Act 2003: Arrests 25 February 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests there have been in the UK under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 on and after 1 January 2021.
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British Nationality: Applications 16 February 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what fee changes she plans to propose for British Citizenship applications in the 2021-22 financial year.
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Immigrants: Finance 12 May 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications have been made to lift the no recourse to public funds restrictions by residents with leave to remain since 23 March 2020.
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Immigrants: Finance 12 May 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many no recourse to public funds restrictions have been removed since 23 March 2020.
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Knives: Crime 10 June 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to support the public health approach to tackling knife crime in Hackney.
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Biometrics: Applications 4 June 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason his Department does not retain data on delays in the issue of Biometric Resident Permits.
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Visas: Applications 4 June 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of UK settlement visa applicants that paid for the priority service received a response within his Department's deadline.
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Immigration: Biometrics 8 November 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many biometric residence permits have been issued in the last three months; and what the average time taken has been for issuing such permits in the most recent period for which figures are available.
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Immigration: Biometrics 8 November 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 176098, how his Department plans to contact people with existing leave to remain in the UK on applying for a biometric residence permit.
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Immigration: Biometrics 16 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to advise individuals with indefinite leave to remain to apply for a biometric residence permit.
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Immigration: Biometrics 16 October 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time is for processing biometric residence permits for people (a) applying with existing indefinite leave to remain and (b) making new claims in the most recent period for which figures are available.
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Refugees 31 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of refugees who will be resettled in the UK under the Gateway Protection Programme in 2018.
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Refugees 31 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of refugees who will be resettled in the UK under the asylum route in 2018.
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Immigration 11 September 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for immigration applications that fell outside service standards because they raised human rights issues between 1 September 2016 and 31 August 2017.
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Refugees: Syria 17 July 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian families have been resettled in Hackney through the Syrian Resettlement Programme.
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Immigration: EU Nationals 17 July 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much it will cost EU citizens wishing to register to remain in the UK.
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Immigration: EU Nationals 17 July 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for details to be made available to EU citizens on how to register to remain in the UK.
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Domestic Violence 5 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme has been applied in each police authority area in England.
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Vetting 13 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long since the date of initial application the longest outstanding disclosure and barring check has been outstanding.
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Vetting 18 April 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces take longest to process applications from the Disclosure and Barring Service; and what the average processing time for such application is for each police force in England.
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Vetting 18 April 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on priority categories in Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
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Police: Expenditure 10 February 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2016 to Question 20730, what change there has been in the level of overall police spending in real terms over the Spending Review period when precept is not taken into account.
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Police: Finance 7 January 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the funding received by police forces operating in areas where crime levels are rising.
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Vetting 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosure and barring applications have been sent to the Metropolitan Police in each year of the last five years; and what the average time taken by the Metropolitan Police to process checks for Disclosure and Barring Service…
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HM Passport Office 9 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings the Minister for Security and Immigration has had with the Chief Executive and senior officials of HM Passport Service since November 2013.
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House of Commons Commission
Parliamentary Estate: Repairs and Modernisation 28 February 2013
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, what recent progress has been made on plans to carry out repairs and modernisation of the Parliamentary Estate.
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Justice
Prisoners: Nigeria 24 February 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what discussions he has had with the Nigerian government about including James Ibori in a prisoner transfer agreement.
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Probation 19 March 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has for the future of the probation service; and if he will make a statement.
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Civil Disorder 1 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral statement of 11 August 2011, Official Report, column 1055, on public disorder, what meetings he and his Ministers have had with Home Office Ministers to assist in compiling the report to the House on gang culture.
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Civil Disorder 1 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral statement of 11 August 2011, Official Report, column 1055, on public disorder, what meetings his officials have had with the Home Office to assist in compiling the report to the House on gang culture.
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Leader of the House
Intelligence and Security Committee 11 June 2020
To ask the Leader of the House, when the Intelligence and Security Committee will be reconstituted.
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Written Questions: Government Responses 8 July 2014
To ask the Leader of the House what guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues about providing substantive answers to written questions.
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Ministry of Defence
LGBT Veterans Independent Review 7 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the LGBT Veterans Independent Review.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Buildings: Insurance 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will take steps to encourage insurance companies to insure buildings with a PAS 9980 assessment of (a) low and (b) medium tolerable that do not require remediation.
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Ministry of Justice
Juries: Greater London 25 October 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had recent discussions with representatives of local authorities in north London on agreeing a new jury venue to help clear the backlog in jury inquests.
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Crimes of Violence: Retail Trade 10 February 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of convictions are were there for violent offences committed against the person (i) on retail premises and (ii) against retail workers in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
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Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority: Standards 7 September 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the target time is for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority to assess a claim.
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Immigration: Appeals 7 September 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what target his Department has set for the length of time between an appeal being lodged with the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal and the hearing date.
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Immigration: Appeals 7 September 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of appeals lodged with the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal met the target time for a hearing date between 31 July 2016 to 31 July 2017.
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First-tier Tribunal 18 April 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time period is between the submission of an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal and the hearing date.
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Immigration: Appeals 5 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking in conjunction with HM Courts and Tribunals Service to reduce the length of time taken to grant hearing dates for accepted immigration appeals.
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Immigration: Appeals 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and (b) Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) hearing centres have closed in (i) London and (ii) the UK in the last five years.
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Immigration: Appeals 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and (b) Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) hearing centres are projected to close in (i) London and (ii) the UK in the next five years.
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Immigration: Appeals 3 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the appropriateness of the time taken to secure appeal hearings at the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
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Entry Clearances: Appeals 29 October 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average time taken to secure appeal hearings for people whose entry clearance applications have been refused.
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Legal Representation 14 October 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his oral contribution of 8 September 2015, Official Report, column 222, what progress he has made on talks with the Bar and the solicitors' profession on maintaining access to justice and enhancing the quality of advocacy in courts.
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Legal Aid Scheme 8 September 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that people eligible for legal aid are able to access such aid.
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Scotland Office
Ports: Disease Control 12 October 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of trade and biosecurity controls at the ports of Cairnryan and Stranraer.
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Ports: Scotland 20 September 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2021 to Question 903227 on Ports: Scotland, what additional resources have been deployed by the Border Force at Scottish ports since the Northern Ireland Protocol came into effect on 1 January 2021.
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Ports: Scotland 8 September 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on resources deployed at Scottish ports to help manage the movement of goods since the Northern Ireland Protocol came into effect on 1 January 2021.
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Transport
Cycle Safety 19 December 2013
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he is taking to improve cycle safety.
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Treasury
Customs Declaration Services Programme 17 November 2022
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses registered for CHIEF have yet to register for the Customs Declaration Service.
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Customs Declaration Services Programme 17 November 2022
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses have applied to extend their use of CHIEF and have yet to register for the Customs Declaration Service.
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Beer: Excise Duties 16 March 2021
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact assessment he has undertaken on the proposed changes to Small Brewers' Relief.
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Beer: Excise Duties 11 March 2021
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to respond to the consultation on the review of Small Brewers' Relief that ran from 30 January 2019 to 17 March 2019; and what steps he is taking to use the findings of that consultation to inform the consultation on Small Brewers' Relief…
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Credit: Interest Rates 8 September 2014
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to introduce regulation which requires payday lenders and credit reference agencies to contribute data on a real-time basis.
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Credit 5 February 2014
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will support real time data sharing for credit records;(2) what estimate he has made of (a) the cost to the public purse and (b) the benefits of real time credit data sharing.
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Women and Equalities
Equal Pay 1 May 2014
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what assessment she has made of progress in closing the gender pay gap.
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Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment 1 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how long the average wait for an assessment for a personal independence payment was on the latest date for which figures are available.
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Vocational Training 20 December 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he plans to publish his skills strategy.
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Organised Crime: Departmental Co-ordination 1 November 2011
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral statement of 11 August 2011, Official Report, column 1055, on public disorder, what meetings he and his Ministers have had with Home Office Ministers to assist in compiling the report to the House on gang…
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