Questions Tabled on Wed 10 Jun 2020
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Published: Thursday 11 June 2020 Questions tabled on Wednesday 10 June 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 Thursday 11 June Questions for Written Answer 1 Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the criteria is for adding an ethnicity to the options in the national census. [Transferred] (57248) 2 Nick Fletcher (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses that need to increase the amount of money they have borrowed through the Bounce Back Loan Scheme. [Transferred] (57406) 3 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will review the Business in difficulty criteria of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme to support smaller businesses. [Transferred] (57217) 4 Alex Norris (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that funding from the charity relief package announced in April 2020 is reaching those that most need it. [Transferred] (57333) 5 Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to make an assessment of the effect on BAME communities of the requirement that non-EU nationals must in general have indefinite leave to remain in order to apply for student finance. [Transferred] (57094) 2 Published: Thursday 11 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2020 6 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has in place for the establishment of the new legal enforcement process of environmental review as proposed in the Environment Bill; and whether that process will be ready to receive cases by 1 January 2021. [Transferred] (57163) 7 Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the Government’s £160 million humanitarian aid package for Yemen is being allocated to help the covid-19 pandemic response in that country. [Transferred] (57385) 8 Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to ensure that some of the Government’s £160 million humanitarian aid package for Yemen is used to stop the spread of covid-19 in communities on both sides of the conflict; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using UN-backed Yemeni-led frameworks established by (a) the International Initiative on COVID-19 in Yemen and (b) other private sector organisations to deliver aid to both sides. [Transferred] (57386) 9 Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of collaborating with (a) the International Initiative on covid-19 in Yemen and (b) other UN-backed Yemeni-led frameworks established by the private sector to support the WHO’s response to the covid-19 pandemic in Yemen, in order to distribute the £160 million humanitarian aid package announced by the Government on 2 June 2020. [Transferred] (57387) 10 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of personal protective equipment procured by the Government during the covid-19 outbreak has been manufactured by UK businesses. [Transferred] (57364) 11 Christian Wakeford (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to allocate additional funding for mental health support for victims of domestic abuse. [Transferred] (57413) 12 Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of changes in the level of (a) attacks by settlers and (b) demolitions of Palestinian structures in the occupied Palestinian territory since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. [Transferred] (57197) 13 N Neil Gray (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Minister for the Home Office, when the Government plans to ratify the 2012 Istanbul Convention on violence against women and girls. [Transferred] (56004) Published: Thursday 11 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2020 3 14 Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) quantity and (b) value of α-Bromobenzeneacetonitrile, known as Bromobenzyl cyanide that was exported to end users in the US in the last five years. [Transferred] (57116) 15 Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) quantity and (b) value of [2-chlorophenyl) methylene] propanedinitrile, o-Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile; exported to end users in the US in the last five years. [Transferred] (57117) 16 Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) quantity and (b) value of 2-Chloro-1- phenylethanone, Phenylacyl chloride, α-chloroacetophenone exported to end users in the US in the last five years. [Transferred] (57118) 17 Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) quantity and (b) value of Dibenz-(b,f)-1,4- oxazephine exported to end users in the US in the last five years. [Transferred] (57119) 18 Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) quantity and (b) value of 10-Chloro-5,10- dihydrophenarsazine, Phenarsazine chloride, (Adamsite) exported to end users in the US in the last five years. [Transferred] (57120) 19 Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) quantity and (b) value of N-Nonanoylmorpholine exported to end users in US law enforcement in the last five years. [Transferred] (57121) Questions for Answer on Monday 15 June Questions for Written Answer 1 Sir Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in her Office had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years. (57889) 2 Wera Hobhouse (Bath): To ask the Attorney General, whether she has made a recent assessment of levels of compliance among local authorities with the guidance issued by the Government Legal Department on the referral to the Bona Vacantia Division of estates of people who have died without (a) known entitled relatives and (b) leaving a will and instead passing the details directly to a single heir hunting firm. (58045) 3 Wera Hobhouse (Bath): To ask the Attorney General, if she will make it her policy to strengthen the guidance issued by the Government Legal Department to local authorities on handling the estates of people who have died without (a) known 4 Published: Thursday 11 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2020 entitled relatives and (b) leaving a will to ensure that they refer all eligible estates as soon as possible after death to the Bona Vacantia Division and do not pass the details directly to a single heir hunting firm. (58046) 4 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the guidelines on measuring and managing supplier performance provided in the Contract Management Standards; and if he would make a statement. (58022) 5 Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent officials were employed by the Government in the Racial Disparity Unit on June 10 (a) 2020, (b) 2019 and (c) 2018. (57945) 6 David Linden (Glasgow East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the dates of the meetings between Government Ministers and Amit Patel held in (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018, (d) 2019 and (e) 2020. (58060) 7 N Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report published by Public Health England on 2 June 2020 entitled COVID-19: review of disparities in risks and outcomes, what cross- departmental steps the Government plans to take to reduce the disproportionate effect of the covid-19 outbreak on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. (57938) 8 John McNally (Falkirk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of people who have lost money through telephone scams in each of the last five years in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Falkirk Constituency. (58002) 9 John McNally (Falkirk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people declared themselves as self-employed in each of the last three years in Falkirk constituency. (58003) 10 N Simon Baynes (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to facilitate the development of electric vehicle battery manufacturing in the UK; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits for North Wales and Wrexham of Stoke-on- Trent becoming a manufacturing location for those batteries. (58103) 11 N Douglas Chapman (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses based in the Dunfermline and West Fife constituency have applied for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.