To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the implications are for his Department's policies of a British judge not sitting on the International Court of Justice.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department takes to (a) record the number of (a) birds, (b) cormorants and (c) gossanders shot annually under licence and (b) verify that licence conditions are met.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on non-UK citizens wishing to bring non-EU spouses into the UK of plans to make them subject to the same income requirements as British citizens once the UK ...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which government departments have freephone numbers for public use.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with charities for the deaf on the service received by people registered as deaf in the justice system.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will propose reforms to the system for disclosure of youth criminal records to remove barriers to rehabilitation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will replace the single list of non-filterable offences with customised lists relevant to broad areas of employment, professional activity and licences.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will remove the rule preventing the filtering of multiple convictions.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a new approach for disclosing the criminal records of young adults.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reduce the qualifying period for filterable childhood convictions from five and a half years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to consolidate responsibility for criminal records disclosure into a single department as recommended by the Justice Select Committee report on the disclosure of youth criminal records, published...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on educational providers not using information about spent criminal records to deny access to courses for young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to review the current rehabilitation periods under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, particularly in the case of Detention and Training Orders and Youth Rehabilitation Orders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending a ban the box employment policy in respect of ex-offender job applicants with unspent convictions to public sector vacancies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with representatives from the Design, Trade Marks and Brands sectors on the future practical arrangements that will need to exist between the UK, the I...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the artist's resale right will continue to apply to artists and their heirs after the UK leaves the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which areas of the UK coastline have no lifeboat coverage within a one hour journey time.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Ceredigion, (b) Wales and (c) the UK are not eligible for the new state pension due to having less than 10 years of National Insurance contributions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the requirement for a person to have 10 years of qualifying national insurance contributions to receive any state pension on poverty and homeless...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to bring the maximum amount for the old state pension in line with the new state pension.