Written and Oral Questions to Ministers

TREES: IMPORTS

24th October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of bio-security controls on the number of trees imported; and if he will make a statement.

MALDIVES: FOREIGN RELATIONS

24th October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the strength of the UK's relationship with the Maldives; what the objectives are of the Government's policies on the Maldives; and if he will make a statement.

PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM

23rd October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the extent of the spread of sudden oak death; and if he will make a statement.

EDUCATION: WEST SUSSEX

23rd October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to work with West Sussex County Council on improving educational results in that area.

PRIMARY EDUCATION: STANDARDS

23rd October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the level of performance in West Sussex in the 2017 Key Stage 2 results for (a) reading, (b) mathematics and (c) reading, writing and mathematics; and if she will set out that level of performance for all local authorities in England in order of standard.

PRIMARY EDUCATION: WEST SUSSEX

23rd October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded primary schools in West Sussex are rated in the top 250 such schools in England for key stage 2 national curriculum assessment outcomes at level 5 in (a) reading, (b) writing, (c) mathematics and (c) all three of those subjects.

SIR NICHOLAS SOAMES’S QUESTION ON IRAN

16th October 2017

Sir Nicholas Soames's Question to the Minister for the Middle East on Iran.

PSYCHIATRY: TRAINING

12th October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the training of more child psychiatrists; and if he will make a statement.

GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS: EMPTY PROPERTY

12th October 2017

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many buildings owned by government departments are empty in (a) West Sussex and (b) Mid Sussex constituency; which those buildings are; to which departments those buildings belong; and what plans he has for the future use of those buildings.

SIR NICHOLAS SOAMES’S QUESTION ON BREXIT

9th October 2017

Sir Nicholas Soames’s Question following the Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons on UK plans for leaving the EU on Monday, 9th October, 2017.

 

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