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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.

All oral statements and any written content from before 2014 can be found in Hansard.

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Question for Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Photography
John Healey
Labour, Wentworth and Dearne

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on photography at Ministerial (a) events, (b) visits, and (c) meetings in each month since October 2022.

Asked 29 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Alex Burghart (Conservative, Brentwood and Ongar)
4343
Answered
Commons
Question for Cabinet Office
Cision: Contracts
Emily Thornberry
Labour, Islington South and Finsbury

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the contract agreed by his Department with Cision Group Ltd on 13 October 2023, procurement reference CCZZ23A23, if he will publish the Schedule 20 annexes specifying the services to be deliver...

Asked 30 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Alex Burghart (Conservative, Brentwood and Ongar)
4649
Answered
Commons
Question for Cabinet Office
House of Lords Reform Act 2014
Andrew Rosindell
Conservative, Romford

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to amend the House of Lords Reform Act 1999 to restore the position of hereditary peers.

Asked 30 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Alex Burghart (Conservative, Brentwood and Ongar)
4657
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fisheries
Peter Aldous
Conservative, Waveney

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support fishing communities.

Asked 30 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Mark Spencer (Conservative, Sherwood)
900515
Named day
Answered
Commons

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animals: Northern Ireland
Lord Dodds of Duncairn
Democratic Unionist Party, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government why it is not possible to ban the export of live animals from Northern Ireland.

Asked 29 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL698
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fisheries
Lord Hay of Ballyore
Democratic Unionist Party, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the UK is actively enforcing its fishing rights.

Asked 29 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL704
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: East of England
Baroness Scott of Needham Market
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome services commissioned by (1) Norfolk and Waveney, and (2) Suffolk and North East Essex, Integrated Care Board.

Asked 30 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Lord Markham (Conservative, Life peer)
HL777
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services
Baroness Scott of Needham Market
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) ensure people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have access to specialist ME/chronic fatigue syndrome services, and (2) increase funding available for such services.

Asked 30 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Lord Markham (Conservative, Life peer)
HL776
Answered
Lords

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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
BBC Update
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Conservative, South East Cambridgeshire
Statement made 7 December 2023
HCWS107
Commons
Home Office
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules
James Cleverly
The Secretary of State for the Home Department
Conservative, Braintree
Statement made 7 December 2023
HCWS106
Commons
Department of Health and Social Care
Publication of the Factual Summary of Responses to the Consultation on Coronial Investigations of Term Stillbirths
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy)
Conservative, Lewes
Statement made 7 December 2023
HCWS105
Commons
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Response to the Independent Review of FCDO Funded Scholarship Schemes
Mr Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State for Development and Africa
Conservative, Sutton Coldfield
Statement made 7 December 2023
HCWS104
Commons

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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
SLAPPs Taskforce Workplan
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Minister for Arts and Heritage
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 7 December 2023
HLWS99
Lords
Department for Transport
Response to the Union Connectivity Review
Lord Davies of Gower
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 7 December 2023
HLWS98
Lords
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
BBC Update
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Minister for Arts and Heritage
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 7 December 2023
HLWS103
Lords
Department of Health and Social Care
Publication of the Factual Summary of Responses to the Consultation on Coronial Investigations of Term Stillbirths
Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the Lords)
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 7 December 2023
HLWS102
Lords

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House of Commons written answers and statements
8 December 2023
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House of Commons written answers and statements
7 December 2023
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House of Commons written answers and statements
6 December 2023
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House of Commons written answers and statements
5 December 2023
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8 December 2023
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7 December 2023
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House of Lords written answers and statements
6 December 2023
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House of Lords written answers and statements
5 December 2023
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