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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to table motions for consideration at (1) the UN Human Rights Council, (2) the General Assembly, and (3) the Security Council, following the United Nations report OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department outsources the security of the Atomic Weapons Establishment to a private contractor.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the £66 million of R&D expenditure to support the commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies, whether that expenditure is additional to tha...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of UK supplied next generation light anti-tank weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine; and what estimate he has made of the number of Russian tanks incapacitated by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) his European counterparts on plans to respond to a nuclear detonation in (i) Europe and (ii) the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran’s regional activity.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings in the United Nations report OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, published on 31 August; and what di...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of revoking (a) the Working Time Regulations and (b) other EU regulations on worker rights.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the article in Pécs Journal of International and European Law entitled UK Nuclear Deterrence Policy and International Law: Terrorism with Impu...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of private investment that will be leveraged in by the Government's £100 million of new Research and Development funding for th...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) original cost expectations and (b) cost expectations as at 16 September 2022 were for the TEUTATES programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) original cost expectations and (b) cost expectations as at 16 September 2022 were for the Spearcap 3 programme.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in securing an international convention prohibiting the use of rape or sexual violence as a weapon of war, including enforceable and effective sanctions in response to any breaches.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the timescale for bringing into force of section 52 of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 on the offence of threatening with an offensive weapon etc in a private place.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether British military personnel in Mali have fired white phosphorus munitions.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she made of the number of crimes involving a machete in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) England in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the (a) original and (b) current cost expectations for the FCASW programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the (a) original and (b) current cost expectations for the Marlett programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the (a) original and (b) current cost expectations for the AURORA programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the BAE Systems’ Mk 45 127mm gun scheduled to equip the UK’s Type 26 Frigates, what (a) the total value of this contract is and (b) the value of the UK content of this contract will be.