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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 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Members: Correspondence
Drew Hendry
Scottish National Party, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter of 6 June 2022 from the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey on raptor licence applications.

Asked 2 September 2022
Answered 30 September 2022
By Scott Mann (Conservative, North Cornwall)
45510
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: EU Law
Stewart Hosie
Scottish National Party, Dundee East

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many officials in their Department are working on Retained EU Law legislation.

Asked 2 September 2022
Answered 30 September 2022
By Dean Russell (Conservative, Watford)
45748
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dogs: Imports
Kenny MacAskill
Alba Party, East Lothian

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2022 to Question 40929 on Dogs: Imports, if he will publish a breakdown of the countries of origin of the dogs commercially imported into the UK f...

Asked 6 September 2022
Answered 29 September 2022
By Scott Mann (Conservative, North Cornwall)
48499
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dangerous Dogs
Yasmin Qureshi
Labour, Bolton South East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the number of dog attacks.

Asked 2 September 2022
Answered 29 September 2022
By Scott Mann (Conservative, North Cornwall)
45089
Answered
Commons

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Carers: Migrant Workers
Baroness Masham of Ilton
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to make it easier to employ personal carers from abroad.

Asked 6 September 2022
Answered 29 September 2022
By Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2233
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Development Aid
The Lord Bishop of St Albans
Bishops, Bishops

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

Asked 8 September 2022
Answered 29 September 2022
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2303
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Ethnic Groups
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the conclusion of the report by the Hazara Inquiry The Situation of the Hazara in Afghanistan, published on 3 September, that under the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the...

Asked 5 September 2022
Answered 29 September 2022
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2060
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Afghanistan: Ethnic Groups
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Hazara Inquiry The Situation of the Hazara in Afghanistan, published on 3 September, which found that this religious and ethnic minority are at serious risk of genocide at...

Asked 5 September 2022
Answered 29 September 2022
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL2059
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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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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