To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to transpose the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking into UK law.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will develop a strategy to phase out the shooting of seals in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the pension actuarially of Gurkha's who transferred to the Armed Forces Pension Scheme is 23 to 36 per cent for service that took place prior to 1st July 1997.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when citizens of The Gambia resident in the UK with leave to remain will be permitted to register as UK electors following that country re-joining the Commonwealth on 8 February 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated to the London Borough of Barnet from the Affordable Homes Programme; and how much money from that programme has been allocated for affordable ...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merit of placing a cap or upper limit on letting agent fees.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of how letting agents in England would cover costs currently paid from the fee on tenants in the event that letting agent fees are abolished.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost was to his Department of issuing bridging payments to applicants of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme who have not received full payments on their 1 January 2017 applica...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason farmers in the (a) Entry Level and (b) Higher Level Stewardship Scheme are excluded from bridging payments in Countryside Stewardship applications.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many 2017 Countryside Stewardship claimants have received their full payment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will create a rollover option for those farmers whose Entry Level Stewardship and Higher Level Stewardship Schemes will finish soon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers have indicated they will not continue as participants in the Countryside Stewardship Scheme beyond their current agreement in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Rural Payments Agency failed to make full payments to applicants of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme with an agreement starting on 1 January 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what priority has been accorded to the policy areas of (a) energy security, (b) action on climate change and (c) renewable energy since his Department took on responsibilities fro...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on making a breach of the proposed Domestic Abuse Protection Orders a criminal offence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received on the extent of the damage caused to farmland in Israel by fire kites being launched from Gaza.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Litter Strategy for England, issued in Aril 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to provide military support to NATO allies in (a) Estonia and (b) Iceland in the next 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to recruit (a) more engineers and (b) intelligence specialists in the armed forces.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on the Royal Navy's Dreadnought submarine programme.