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Questions Tabled on Friday 23 October 2020 Published: Monday 26 October 2020 Questions tabled on Friday 23 October 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 November Questions for Written Answer 1 N Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many companies or entities his Department (a) controls or (b) has significant influence over whose accounts are not audited by the National Audit Office. (108274) 2 N Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what review he has made of (a) his Department’s and (c) cross-Government audit arrangements for Government contracts in the last 12 months; and what changes he has made to those arrangements to ensure (i) their adequacy and (ii) manage risk in relation to the extraordinary procurements undertaken during the covid-19 outbreak. (108275) 3 N Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2020 to Question 100441 on Elections, which stakeholders from the Traveller and Roma community the Government has consulted to ensure reforms are delivered in a way that is inclusive for voters from that community. (108249) 4 Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2020 to Question 100441 on Elections, whether the Government holds data identifying the proportion of the Traveller and Roma community in the UK that is in possession of a form of photographic ID. (108250) 2 Published: Monday 26 October 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2020 5 Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2020 to Question 100441 on Elections, what assessment he has made of the effect of introducing Voter ID on the Traveller and Roma community's ability to vote in the next General Election. (108251) 6 N Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what equality impact assessment his Department has carried out on the effect on blind and partially sighted people of the Government's local authority voter ID pilot schemes. (108252) 7 N Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the IP Crime Group’s finding in its IP Crime and Enforcement Report that cigarettes and tobacco products were the most reported counterfeit goods in the UK in 2019-20. (108262) 8 N Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the IP Crime Group’s finding in its IP Crime and Enforcement Report that cigarettes and tobacco products were the most reported counterfeit goods in the UK in 2019-20, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Government’s illicit tobacco control strategy. (108263) 9 N Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the flow of counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco products into the UK. (108264) 10 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2020 to Question 67591 on Warm Home Discount Scheme, if he will increase the amount of the Warm Home Discount to improve that scheme's targeting of fuel poverty beyond 2022. (108271) 11 N Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Article III point 1 b) of the UK/USA Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Notes between the United Kingdom and the United States of America on Technology Safeguards associated with United States Participation in Space Launches from the United Kingdom [CS USA No.1/2020], what the process is for determining significant quantitative or qualitative inputs of equipment, technology, manpower, or funds. [Transferred] (107675) 12 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on supporting people who live with problem gambling. (108285) Published: Monday 26 October 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2020 3 13 Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendation in the Duty of Care in Sport independent report to Government by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, published in April 2017, that the Government should create a sports ombudsman or sports duty of care quality commission, with powers to hold national governing bodies to account for the duty of care they provide to all athletes, coaching staff and support staff. (108218) 14 N Conor McGinn (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the casino industry on its offer to withdraw the sale of alcohol to avoid closure in the tiered system of covid-19 alert levels. (108254) 15 N Conor McGinn (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 tier restrictions on the level of funding for horse racing. [R] (108255) 16 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to provide funding to the UK Safer Internet Centre when its funding from the EU ends. [Transferred] (107587) 17 N Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether materials from religious organisations are permitted in schools under the Plan your relationships, sex and health curriculum guidance published by his Department on 24 September 2020. (108223) 18 N Colleen Fletcher (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to make an assessment of the effect of academic publishing industry (a) pricing and (b) licensing practices for ebooks on (i) students and (ii) universities. (108241) 19 Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress he has made on his SEND review; on what date he plans to conclude that review; and what progress he has made on the implementation of the SEND system leadership board. (108200) 20 Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the (a) recommendation on establishing a transitions support bank to centrally hold all funding available to care leavers and young people with Education, Health and Care plans after they reach 18 years old and (b) other recommendations in the Children’s Services Development Group’s Destination Unknown report; and if he will make a statement. (108201) 21 Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendation in the Children’s Services Development Group’s Destination Unknown report on ensuring that every looked after child and each 4 Published: Monday 26 October 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2020 young person with an Education, Health and Care plan is formally allocated a personal budget to fund all care needs, education needs separate from those covered by the national funding formula for schools and health needs. (108202) 22 Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to launch the children’s care system review. (108204) 23 N Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many zoos have (a) successfully made a claim from the Zoo Animals Fund and (b) had an application rejected from that scheme. (108233) 24 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to review the safety of cannabidiol-containing products sold to consumers. (108270) 25 Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has he made of the effect of untreated sewage being discharged in storm water released into Langstone Harbour on the safety of local swimming in that area. (108307) 26 Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has he made of the effect of stormwater releases into Langstone Harbour on the health of the local environment; and what recent estimate he has made of the frequency of untreated sewage being discharged in storm overflows in that area in the latest period for which figures are available.
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