Questions Tabled on Fri 28 Feb 2020
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Published: Monday 2 March 2020 Questions tabled on Friday 28 February 2020 Includes questions tabled on earlier days which have been transferred. T Indicates a topical oral question. Members are selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question. † Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. N Indicates a question for written answer on a named day under S.O. No. 22(4). [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. Questions for Answer on Monday 2 March Questions for Written Answer 1 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to tackle the effect of counterfeit goods on UK businesses. [Transferred] (21880) 2 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of counterfeit goods are sold (a) online and (b) offline. [Transferred] (21881) 3 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of counterfeit goods on UK businesses. [Transferred] (21882) 4 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of value of counterfeit goods sold in the UK that have been imported from overseas, by country, in each of the last three years. [Transferred] (21883) 5 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to tackle the sale of counterfeit cigarettes in Lincolnshire. [Transferred] (21884) 6 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effect of the BBC World Service on tackling levels of state propaganda throughout the world. [Transferred] (20609) 2 Published: Monday 2 March 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2020 7 N Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy will be completed before the finalisation of a UK-EU security partnership. [Transferred] (21185) 8 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are adequately prepared to deal with a Covid-19 outbreak. [Transferred] (20546) 9 John McNally (Falkirk): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment he has made of the equity of the application of the plastic packaging tax to businesses that use (a) recyclable and (b) single use packaging. [Transferred] (21997) 10 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress the Government has made on establishing free ports since the UK left the EU. [Transferred] (22011) 11 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the potential number of jobs created by freeports and (b) how many of those jobs will be transferred from elsewhere in the UK. [Transferred] (22012) Questions for Answer on Tuesday 3 March Questions for Written Answer 1 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much money has been spent on (a) recruiting, (b) employing and (c) dismissing special advisers since he took office. [Transferred] (22028) 2 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to review the existing surplus sharing arrangements of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme. [Transferred] (21972) 3 Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Green Deal loan appeals in respect of Home Energy and Lifestyle Management Ltd have been referred to her Department for (a) less than three months, (b) between three and six months, (c) between six and nine months, (d) between nine and twelve months and (e) more than twelve months without a final decision having been made in each (i) constituency, (ii) local authority area and (iii) NUTS first level region. (22403) 4 Kate Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of properties in Burton constituency have access to superfast broadband. (22433) Published: Monday 2 March 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2020 3 5 Kate Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the roll-out of superfast broadband in areas where it is unavailable. (22434) 6 Mr Richard Holden (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the forthcoming ban on the use of credit card transactions for online gambling, what discussions he has had with casino owners on banning credit card cash machine withdrawals on their premises. [R] (22440) 7 John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average housing costs were for full-time students in England in each of the last 10 years. (22359) 8 John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the extent to which maintenance loans cover the cost of housing for students in England. (22360) 9 Mr Richard Holden (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Ofsted monitoring of schools' policies on reading material provided to pupils for reading at home. (22438) 10 Mr Richard Holden (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what content the PHSE curriculum contains on gambling; and whether that content has been updated to include reference to (a) loot boxes and (b) other new forms of gambling made accessible within games. [R] (22439) 11 Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for increasing the number of places in (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in Sutton Coldfield after 2022. (22364) 12 Mr Richard Holden (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the judgement in the judicial review brought by the Commons Committees for Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons, what steps the Rural Payments Agency has taken to reduce payments in respect of Bollihope Common. (22437) 13 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library the results of the UK’s inventories of open and closed sources of Polychlorinated Biphenyls that formed part of the overall inventories by OSPAR in 2000-2001 and 2005-06. (22381) 14 Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to increase biodiversity in the Midlands. (22365) 15 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the transport of pets by companies that do not have the required authorisation. (22430) 4 Published: Monday 2 March 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2020 16 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to his written statement on the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy HCWS126, if he will include in that review a commitment to help end extreme poverty around the world. [Transferred] (22023) 17 Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress her Department's Export Control Joint Unit is making on the re-evaluating of extant export licences in relation to the export of arms and military equipment to Saudi Arabia. (22386) 18 Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what support his Department is providing to companies in the rail industry to export their goods to the EU. (22416) 19 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 21 January 2020 to Question 3859 on Cycling and Walking: Finance, what funding has been allocated to the £350 million cycling infrastructure fund; and whether and that fund has (a) tendered for bids and (b) received applications for funding from that fund; and whether any cycling schemes have been allocated financial support from that fund. (22423) 20 Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has received representations from representatives of the coach sector on the reasons for the low compliance by that sector with the requirement for coaches to be fully accessible by 1 January 2020. (22384) 21 Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the third year (a) interim and (b) final reports on the evaluation of the national HGV speed limit increase in England and Wales. (22404) 22 Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on CO² emissions of making permanent the longer semi-trailer trial that is scheduled to end in 2027.