To ask Her Majesty's Government, following their announcement that they aim to eliminate rough sleeping by 2027, what assessment they have made of changes to West Sussex County Council’s Housing Related Support Budget; and whether the closure of Crawley O...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the daily cost to the Exchequer of the continued occupation of the Foreign Secretary's residence at Carlton Gardens by former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the impact of the changes to free school meals entitlement following the Free School Lunches and Milk, and School and Early Years Finance (Amendments Relating to Universal Credit) (England...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that research into the use of medicinal cannabis as a potential treatment will be shared following the UK exiting the EU.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have carried out any research into the number of potential beneficiaries of a relaxation of the current restrictions on the use of medicinal cannabis.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 16 July (HL9124), whether they will now provide an estimate of the number of working families with two children or more currently using foodbanks following reductions in benef...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the National Audit Office Rolling out Universal Credit, published 15 June, which states that of those transferred onto Universal Credit (1) 40 per cent are experiencing financ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they provide to rail companies about the provision of rail replacement services in the event of a failure of train services.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to conduct a review of the relationship between Network Rail and rail franchising companies with an action plan to improve (1) services, and (2) provision of information to passengers.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of compensation Southern and Govia Thameslink Railway expect to pay to passengers following the network failure on 2 July.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many passengers suffered delays and cancellations across the Southern railway network as a result of service failures on 2 July.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the quality and timeliness of information for passengers produced on the Southern rail network following the failure of services on 2 July.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many families who have been affected by the two-child benefit policy are using, or have used, food banks; and what estimate they have made of the saving to the Exchequer from that policy ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Home Office officials received a bonus payment for securing immigration removals in the period 2012 to 2017.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were wrongfully detained under immigration powers between 2012 and 2017; and, of those, how many were part of the Windrush generation.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs sought permission from the Prime Minister before embarking for Afghanistan on his recent visit.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what urgent business the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs discussed with the government of Afghanistan during his recent visit to Afghanistan.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether consideration was given to sending a Minister of State to visit Afghanistan this month as an alternative to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people complained about ill treatment by the Home Office since 2010; how many of those complaints are still outstanding; and what is the estimated time it will take to resolve those outstanding cases.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of individuals and families affected by the impact of the hostile environment policy.