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Written questions allow MPs and Members of the House of Lords to ask for information on the work, policy and activities of Government departments, related bodies, and the administration of Parliament. Oral or written statements to Parliament are also made by the Government and others to inform both Houses of their work. Written statements are normally used to put the day-to-day business of Government on the official record and in the public domain.

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Question for Department for International Trade
Department for International Trade: Freedom of Information
Ruth Cadbury
Labour, Brentford and Isleworth

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when her Department expects to publish its action plan in response to the Information Commissioner's Office's enforcement notice issued on the 5 September 2022 regarding Freedom of Information request...

Asked 8 September 2022
Answered 7 October 2022
By James Duddridge (Conservative, Rochford and Southend East)
49700
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for International Trade
Department for International Trade: Freedom of Information
Ruth Cadbury
Labour, Brentford and Isleworth

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department plans to appeal the enforcement notice issued by the Information Commissioner on the 5 September 2022 on Freedom of Information requests.

Asked 8 September 2022
Answered 7 October 2022
By James Duddridge (Conservative, Rochford and Southend East)
49698
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Products: Imports
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to publish the Animals Abroad Bill.

Asked 7 September 2022
Answered 7 October 2022
By Scott Mann (Conservative, North Cornwall)
49248
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Ministry of Defence
Afghanistan: Interpreters
Dan Jarvis
Labour, Barnsley Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many injury compensation claims submitted to his Department in the UK by (a) Afghan civilian interpreters and (b) other locally employed civilians (i) have been accepted and (ii) are pending more than (A) six...

Asked 7 September 2022
Answered 7 October 2022
By Sarah Atherton (Conservative, Wrexham)
49149
Named day
Answered
Commons

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Question for Cabinet Office
War Memorials: Greater London
Lord West of Spithead
Labour, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 28 April (HL7898), whether the Government Property Agency has received the list of works needed on the Royal Naval Division war memorial from Heritage England; if not, why not;...

Asked 8 September 2022
Answered 7 October 2022
By Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2313
Answered
Lords
Question for Cabinet Office
Natural Disasters
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government which recommendations from the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction have so far been implemented; and which they plan to implement in the future.

Asked 6 September 2022
Answered 7 October 2022
By Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2240
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Djibouti: Development Aid
The Lord Bishop of St Albans
Bishops, Bishops

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much UK overseas aid they provided to Djibouti in (1) 2017, (2) 2018, (3) 2019, (4) 2020, and (5) 2021.

Asked 6 September 2022
Answered 6 October 2022
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2248
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
South Sudan: Development Aid
The Lord Bishop of St Albans
Bishops, Bishops

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much UK overseas aid they provided to South Sudan in (1) 2017, (2) 2018, (3) 2019, (4) 2020, and (5) 2021.

Asked 7 September 2022
Answered 6 October 2022
By Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2281
Answered
Lords

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Prime Minister
Cabinet Committees
Elizabeth Truss
Prime Minister
Conservative, South West Norfolk
Statement made 23 September 2022
HCWS305
Commons
Department for International Trade
Trade Negotiations Update
Kemi Badenoch
Secretary of State For International Trade
Conservative, Saffron Walden
Statement made 23 September 2022
HCWS304
Commons
Treasury
Tax exemptions for compensation payments paid by the Post Office for Overturned Historical Convictions
Richard Fuller
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Conservative, North East Bedfordshire
Statement made 23 September 2022
HCWS303
Commons
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UN General Assembly update
James Cleverly
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Conservative, Braintree
Statement made 23 September 2022
HCWS302
Commons

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Leader of the House of Lords
Cabinet Committees
Lord True
Lord Privy Seal
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 27 September 2022
HLWS298
Lords
Department for International Trade
Trade Negotiations Update
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Government Whip
Conservative, Excepted Hereditary
Statement made 23 September 2022
HLWS297
Lords
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility)
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 22 September 2022
HLWS296
Lords
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
UK’s Updated 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility)
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 22 September 2022
HLWS295
Lords

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House of Commons written answers and statements
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23 September 2022
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22 September 2022
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21 September 2022
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20 September 2022
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8 September 2022
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6 September 2022
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5 September 2022
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21 July 2022
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