Questions Tabled on Wed 1 Jul 2020
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Published: Thursday 2 July 2020 Questions tabled on Wednesday 1 July 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 2 July Questions for Written Answer 1 Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the delivery of the Youth Fund. [Transferred] (66997) 2 N Tracy Brabin (Batley and Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance the Government plans to provide for (a) singing and (b) wind instrument teachers to enable them to safely return to work as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased. [Transferred] (66156) 3 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to allow the reopening of day centres for people with special educational needs. [Transferred] (66824) 4 Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequate capacity of mental health services in schools for the start of the next academic year. [Transferred] (66845) 5 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps with UK manufacturers to ensure that the country is self-sufficient in PPE production and supporting British enterprises; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (66848) 6 Scott Mann (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where the revenue generated from fixed speed cameras is held. [Transferred] (66939) 2 Published: Thursday 2 July 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 2020 7 Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what scientific advice the Government has issued to local authorities on (a) the risk of public toilets spreading covid-19 and (a) opening public toilets as the covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased. [Transferred] (66859) 8 Elliot Colburn (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, when the Commission plans to lay before Parliament the draft Order to give affect to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England's recommended boundary changes for the London Borough of Sutton. [R] [Transferred] (66982) 9 Sir Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many local authority staff are furloughed in each local authority; and what the cost to the public purse is of furloughed staff in each local authority. [Transferred] (66809) Questions for Answer on Monday 6 July Questions for Written Answer 1 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff are working four hour shifts at any time under the Serco track and trace contract. (67710) 2 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff are employed under the Serco test and trace contract. (67711) 3 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many calls on average are tracers making during a four hour shift under the Serco track and trace contract. (67712) 4 N Sarah Atherton (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made on discussions with Airbus UK on avoiding large scale redundancies at Airbus plants throughout (a) the UK and (b) its supply chairs. (67827) 5 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to (a) continue and (b) extend the scope of the Warm Home Discount scheme, after the current scheme finishes at the end of March 2021. (67591) 6 N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much the Government has spent on subsidising biomass for electricity in each of the last three years, and if he will make a statement. (67583) Published: Thursday 2 July 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 2020 3 7 Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his timescale is for responding to the Statutory audit services: initial consultation on the Competition and Markets Authority recommendations which closed in September 2019. (67598) 8 Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to implement the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) proposed reforms to the statutory audit market published on 18 April 2019. (67599) 9 Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to reform of the statutory audit market in the current session of Parliament. (67600) 10 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the legal basis is for implementing a local covid-19 lockdown; and what the consequences are for businesses if they do not comply with those lockdown restrictions. (67730) 11 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2020 to Question 46121, what support is available to businesses with highly perishable stock that have been forced to close or delay reopening as a result of a local covid- 19 lockdown. (67731) 12 N Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what lessons the Government has learnt from the ability to rapidly approve covid-19 clinical trials; and how the Government plans to implement that learning to expedite the approval process for all clinical trials. (67640) 13 Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure the energy regulatory framework supports (a) Greater Manchester’s 2038 carbon-neutral target and (b) distribution network operators’ net zero innovation plans; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on consumers’ (i) willingness and (ii) ability to pay for energy efficiency improvements through their energy bills. (67753) 14 Danny Kruger (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the Government has decided not to implement a carbon fee dividends scheme. (67828) 15 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of compensation received by subpostmasters affected by the Horizon scandal. (67636) 4 Published: Thursday 2 July 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 2020 16 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the financial effect on university research capacity of the potential reduction in international students studying in the UK in 2020-21. (67637) 17 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recent award of Copernicus contracts on the UK space sector. (67638) 18 Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans for the Construction Leadership Council to produce advice on JCT and NEC contracts and include them as part of the industry recovery plan. (67694) 19 Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has carried out on the potential effect of the use JCT and NEC contracts on the construction industry's post-covid-19 recovery. (67695) 20 N Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2020 to Question 64970 on Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the benefit of the CBILS guarantee is passed through to the borrower. (67697) 21 N Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2020 to Question 64971 on Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), what steps the Government is taking to ensure that lenders pass the economic benefit of the existence of the Government's 80 per cent guarantee of a CBILS facility to the borrower through lower pricing than that borrower may otherwise have had. (67698) 22 N Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answers of 30 June 2020 to Questions 64970 and 64971 on Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), whether interest rates of Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme loans are required to remain in line with the lender’s normal pricing framework after the initial 12 month period of the loan. (67699) 23 N Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (a) how many businesses have received Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme loans and (b) how many of those loans have had interest rates of 10 per cent or more.