Published: Monday 7 June 2021
Questions tabled on Friday 4 June 2021
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 Tuesday 8 June
Questions for Written Answer
1 Janet Daby (Lewisham East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to provide a photo identification card for every British citizen free of charge as a form of identification for general purposes. (10645)
2 Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications were accepted from organisations applying for a presence at COP26. [R] (10561)
3 Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a category breakdown of the successful applications to have a presence at COP26. [R] (10562)
4 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) need for voters to provide identification during elections and (b) potential effect that policy may have on particular demographics who may be less likely to hold identification. (10685)
5 Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Streatham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will allow up to 60 people to attend weddings after the 21 June 2021. (10661) 2 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
6 Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number of small businesses fined by Companies House and HMRC during the covid-19 outbreak for late (a) filing and (b) payment; and if he will make a statement. (10162)
7 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2021 to Question 6348 on Technology: Environment Protection, how much money was allocated from the UKRI’s Strategic Priority Fund to the low carbon fund. (10488)
8 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2021 to Question 6348 on Technology: Environment Protection, how much money was allocated from the Industrial Strategy Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to the low carbon fund. (10489)
9 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2021 to Question 6353 on Technology: Environment Protection, how many applications were (a) received and (b) rejected from (i) Scotland, (ii) England and (iii) Wales for the competitions referenced in that Answer. (10490)
10 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer of 23 April 2021 to Question 181214, in circumstances where the Valuation Office Agency failed to add a business to the Local Rating List in advance of 11th March 2020, as the result of an admitted administrative error on the part of the Agency, whether local authorities should (a) treat affected business applicants as if such errors had been rectified at the time a Business Support Grant was due to be issued and (b) be compensated for the additional cost of those applications. (10301)
11 Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of banning the export licensing of Paraquat. [R] (10466)
12 Steve Double (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to publish an assessment of the potential average costs to (a) pubs, restaurants and cafes and (b) bed and breakfast, hotels and self-catering accommodation providers associated with the decarbonisation of heating proposals contained within the forthcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy. (10472)
13 Stephen Flynn (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he last met with representatives of OFGEM to discuss transmission charging costs for renewables projects in Scotland. (10646)
14 Stephen Flynn (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the report published in May 2021 by the Renewables Infrastructure Development Group entitled Charging The Wrong Way, Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 3
what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding in that report that EU electricity generators pay £0.46 per megawatt hour (MWh) in transmission system charges while the average payment in Scotland is £6.42 per MWh. (10647)
15 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the income foregone to the UK economy as a result to STEM skills shortages; and what steps his Department is taking to work with local authorities and Combined Authority Mayors to tackle skill shortages locally. (10535)
16 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's plans are to (a) ensure the long-term future of the steel industry in Wales and (b) decarbonise Welsh steelmaking. (10568)
17 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will publish a breakdown of the (a) destination, (b) use, (c) type of product and (d) volume of Welsh steel exports in each year between 2010 and 2021. (10569)
18 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the ability of the Welsh hydrogen sector to support hydrogen-based steelmaking in Wales. (10570)
19 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the South Wales Industrial Cluster will publish its first progress report. (10571)
20 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using (a) hydrogen and (b) carbon capture, utilisation and storage to decarbonise steel production at Port Talbot. (10572)
21 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) effect on employment levels and (b) costs associated with retaining primary steelmaking capacity at Port Talbot. (10573)
22 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to create opportunities for young people in (a) the nuclear sector and (b) the wider green energy industry. (10337)
23 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help businesses in the construction sector tackle (a) supply chain issues and (b) the resulting increased costs. (10338) 4 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
24 Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of national covid-19 lockdown’s on the pub and brewery sector; what plans he has to support the recovery of that sector from those lockdowns; and if he will make a statement. (10611)
25 Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to incentivise and support investment in the UK’s hop sector; and if he will make a statement. (10612)
26 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to protect workers in (a) the social care sector and (b) other sectors from exploitative employment practices following the March 2021 decision of the Supreme Court that social care staff are not entitled to the national minimum wage for every hour of sleep-in shifts. (10433)
27 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory requirement on companies to report their disability pay gap. (10440)
28 Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to prevent the import of modified (a) e-scooters, (b) micro scooters and (c) e-bikes that are capable of being driven at speeds in excess of the permitted speed limit for public roads in the UK. (10283)
29 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the role of (a) technology in the critical minerals supply chain and (b) the Government in catalysing usage of that technology. (10718)
30 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the role of assured data in mineral supply chains including in (a) specific commodities, (b) trade corridors, and (c) benefit generation. (10719)
31 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to develop the technology and standards for (a) traceability, (b) sustainable development goal-compliance and (c) whole life assurance of mineral use in the critical minerals supply chain. (10720)
32 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the role of Government in the stimulus and advancement of deployment of technology including distributed ledger technology that is used in distributed systems (a) for critical minerals and (b) more widely. (10721) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 5
33 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will allocate resources to the undertaking of practical proofs of value and pilots in assured data technology on a joint collaborative and open Government and industry basis. (10722)
34 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to support assured data technology for critical minerals. (10723)
35 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has with the President of COP26 to use the COP26 to promote the UK's green hydrogen sector. (10724)
36 Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the BBC on the reform to the over 75's TV Licence concession. (10654)
37 Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to help ensure that the Honresfeld Library remains in the UK. (10165)
38 Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that technology companies support efforts to tackle wildlife crime and the illegal wildlife trade. (10153)
39 Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many site owners who lease their land to telecommunications companies for infrastructure have seen their rents reduced by more than 40 per cent as proposed by the Government's Impact Assessment accompanying the 2017 Electronic Communications Code. (10667)
40 Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the proportion of savings made in rent reductions as a result of the 2017 changes to the Electronic Communications Code that have been reinvested into telecommunications infrastructure in rural areas. (10668)
41 Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Digital Markets Unit has plans to create a code of conduct covering technology platforms' relationship with news organisations; when that code of conduct will be published; and if he will make a statement. (10133)
42 Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what role the Digital Markets Unit will have in tackling monopolistic behaviour among tech companies in promoting news content. (10134)
43 Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions the Government is having with other governments on the creation of international rules to ensure that online news publishers are fairly remunerated by technology companies for the news content they generate. (10135) 6 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
44 Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to consult on the final form and functions of the Digital Markets Unit; and if he will make a statement. (10136)
45 Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Landmark laws to protect children and stop abuse online published, published on 12 May 2021, what his timetable is for launching the consultation on online advertising and online fraud. (10223)
46 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of problem gambling in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) England. (10500)
47 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support services the Government is providing to people experiencing problem gambling in York; and how much funding those services have received in each of the last five years. (10501)
48 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the proportions of problem gambling disorders that result from gambling (a) in person and (b) online. (10502)
49 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote the UK as a tourist destination abroad and (b) attract more foreign visitors to (i) smaller towns and (ii) coastal areas. (10333)
50 Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that Shropshire plays a role in supporting the 2022 Commonwealth Games. (10281)
51 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the financial effect to professional sports of extending covid-19 restrictions beyond 21 June 2021. (10200)
52 Gary Sambrook (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement that the National Lottery will form a commercial partnership with the Rugby Football League, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the allocation of funds from the National Lottery promotional fund to that partnership on the ongoing Fourth National Lottery Licence Competition. (10659)
53 Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his timetable is for announcing arrangements for the primary PE and sport premium funding for the 2021-22 academic year; and how he plans to calculate that funding. (10698) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 7
54 Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring students to wear face coverings in schools following the increase in cases of the covid-19 variant originating in India. (10669)
55 James Daly (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the PE and Sport Premium for the 2021-22 academic year will be announced. (10707)
56 James Grundy (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has been made of the effect of the increase in students undertaking unpaid work placement years. (10703)
57 James Grundy (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Department is taking to support students experiencing financial difficulty who wish to undertake an unpaid placement year at university. (10704)
58 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the benefits of funding additional therapies for disabled children. (10531)
59 Peter Kyle (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) effectiveness and (b) potential challenges faced by regional schools commissioners. (10521)
60 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will extend the 15 hours a week free early education for three and four year olds to children once they turn three years old as opposed to when they commence the term after their third birthday. (10683)
61 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to provide grants to haulage businesses to pay for their drivers to train for Category C licences instead of introducing apprenticeships in the sector. (10687)
62 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessments he has made of the potential merits of spending £50 per pupil per year to help school children catch up with the curriculum following the covid- 19 outbreak. (10690)
63 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that a Passenger Assistant is compulsory on bus transport for vulnerable and adolescent teenagers provided by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. (10224)
64 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department has issued to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services on the provision of a Passenger Assistant on bus transport for vulnerable and adolescent teenagers. (10225) 8 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
65 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has received representations on the adequacy of funding for Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education; and if he will make a statement. (10631)
66 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the learning gap between girls and boys. (10325)
67 Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department is having with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the implementation of the Ivory Act 2018 and ensuring technology companies work with enforcement officers to prevent the illegal trade of ivory products. (10154)
68 Marsha De Cordova (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Environmental Agency in enabling the Government to meet its commitments to making the UKs rivers, lakes and streams healthy by 2027. (10627)
69 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the amount of CO2 produced by transporting waste produced in the UK outside of the UK. (10575)
70 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that waste exported for recycling is recycled and not disposed of in another manner. (10576)
71 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce the volume of waste exported out of the UK. (10577)
72 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will is take steps to encourage the expansion of refill stations in supermarkets to reduce the generation of non- recyclable waste. (10578)
73 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has (a) made an assessment of the potential merits of and (b) had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on introducing a tax or levy on peat based composts in order to incentivise the use of peat free alternatives. (10580)
74 Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether chicks are killed by maceration in the UK. (10517)
75 Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Food Standards Agency officers physically visit facilities where chicks are slaughtered. (10518) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 9
76 Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what system is in place to count the number of chicks macerated in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Scotland. (10519)
77 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Serious and organised waste crime: 2018 review published by his Department on 14 November 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the recommendation on the mandatory electronic tracking of waste. (10182)
78 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Environment Agency's surveillance powers in respect of tackling waste crime. (10183)
79 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Government agencies in addition to the Joint Unit for Waste Crime conduct separate investigations into waste crime. (10184)
80 Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that Portsmouth City Council bring forward an Order for a restricted Byway at the Camber. (10610)
81 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on bringing forward legislative proposals to ban microplastics; and if he will launch a review into the environmental impact of floral foam. (10686)
82 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to hi Departments consultation on controls on the import and export of hunting trophies, which closed on 25 February 2021, what plans he has to include the trophies of (a) lions, (b) tigers, (c) cheetahs and (d) other big cats bred in captivity for in a future ban on import and export of those trophies. (10632)
83 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the potential effect of the reported shortfall in available freight delivery drivers on the (a) supply and (b) cost of supply of food to the (i) hospitality and (ii) convenience retail sectors. (10633)
84 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on providing guidance to local authorities on the allocation to wholesale food distributors of funding under the Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill. (10634) 10 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
85 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to make it his policy that fishing quota swaps will continue to be available between producer organisations. (10635)
86 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential market effect of small quotas on demersal fisheries that rely on catching prawns to make trips commercially viable. (10636)
87 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Prime Minister's statement on EU negotiations: 24 December 2020, to whom the £100 million funding for the British fishing fleet has been allocated. (10637)
88 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of restarting international quota swaps between producer organisations, in addition to providing direct financial support, on the British fishing fleet. (10638)
89 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to support fishers who are experiencing losses over the (a) short, (b) medium and (c) longer term. (10639)
90 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of ivory items (a) owned and (b) collated in (i) Government Departments and (ii) other Government owned or managed institutions. (10640)
91 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's consultation on Implementing the Ivory Act, which closed on 4 May 2021, if he will take steps to help ensure that members of the public can securely donate or surrender items of ivory that they own. (10641)
92 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support family farmers in the UK. (10197)
93 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve flood defences in Britain. (10198)
94 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of lost revenue from reductions in Basic Payments Scheme payments that farmers will be able to recoup through the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme. (10406) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 11
95 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that farmers on common land can benefit from the (a) Sustainable Farming Incentive and (b) Environmental Land Management schemes. (10407)
96 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial effect for farmers of the replacement of the Basic Payment Scheme with the Sustainable Farming Incentive and Environmental Land Management schemes. (10408)
97 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking in addition to the Basic Payment Scheme lump sum exit scheme to encourage new entrants to the farming sector. (10409)
98 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of farms under five hectares not receiving basic payments that are expected to benefit from the Sustainable Farming Incentive and Environmental Land Management schemes. (10410)
99 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of UK farms received Basic Payment Scheme in each of the last five years. (10411)
100 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of UK farms were below five hectares in each of the last five years. (10412)
101 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the level of additional costs to UK wine importers following the end of the labelling grace period on 30 September 2022. (10413)
102 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the level of additional costs to UK wine importers resulting from changes in organic certification following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. (10414)
103 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of a free trade agreement with Australia on (a) Ceredigion and (b) Wales. (10565)
104 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of a free trade agreement with Australia on farmers and food producers in Wales. (10566) 12 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
105 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential cumulative effect on UK emissions of providing (a) duty-free and (b) tariff-free access to agricultural goods from Australia. (10567)
106 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has made an assessment of to which nation the UK exports the most beef. (10199)
107 Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent progress she has made on rolling over the trade agreement in place before 1 January 2021 with Montenegro; and whether she plans to (a) seek to remove or (b) amend the clause in that agreement relating to duty drawback and exemption to exclude its application to the UK's new of freeports. (10238)
108 Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what long term investment he is making in community transport infrastructure to support the mobility of elderly and disabled people across the West Midlands. (10655)
109 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 4014 on Railway Stations: Visual Impairment, whether he will publish data on facilities at stations in a database or other accessible format. (10579)
110 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff are employed by (a) Network Rail and (b) the Train Operating companies currently; and what estimate he has made of the number of staff that will be employed by those organisations in 2023. (10582)
111 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether proposals to create an integrated workforce strategy will include providing for rail workers to be promoted or transferred between different railway companies. (10587)
112 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, what plans he has to hold discussions with trade unions on creating an integrated workforce strategy. (10588)
113 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether the proposal that the Office for Road and Rail will publish data on rail workers salaries will include the mandatory publication of (a) directors pay and (b) rail company profits. (10589) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 13
114 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether the (a) Scottish (b) and Welsh Governments will be able to opt to run their rail passenger services in the public sector, without the need for a tendering process. (10590)
115 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether the (a) Scottish and (b) Welsh Governments will be able to opt to run their rail passenger services in the public sector without the need to appoint an operator of last resort. (10591)
116 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether the operator of last resort functions currently performed by his Department will subsumed by Great British Railways. (10592)
117 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether Transport for the North’s existing powers in respect of (a) Northern and (b) TPE rail passenger services will be (i) maintained and (ii) increased when contracts transfer to Great British Railways. (10593)
118 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether (a) Northern and (b) LNER services currently being run in the public sector will be transferred to Great British Railways to be run in the public sector. (10594)
119 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency enforces effectively the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulation 1986. (10332)
120 Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2021 to Question 173157, when he plans to publish the results of his Department’s pavement parking consultation, which closed on 22 November 2020. (10598)
121 Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2021 to Question 173157, how his Department collected the views of people with protected characteristics, such as blind and partially sighted people as part of the recent pavement parking consultation, which closed on 22 November 2020. (10599) 14 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
122 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2021 to Question 4576, if he will make it his policy to bring forward publication of the final prices for flexible season tickets; and if he will make a statement. (10316)
123 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average processing time is for the renewal of driving licences where there is a medical consideration. (10457)
124 Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to support National Rail to complete improvements to station platforms in Tatton constituency that are hazardous to passengers with impaired vision. (10369)
125 Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the suitability of station platforms in (a) Tatton constituency and (b) England for passengers with impaired vision. (10370)
126 Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of Network Rail on work to improve station platforms for passengers with impaired vision. (10371)
127 Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the need to bring forward the 2029 deadline for Network Rail to install tactile across operational platforms. (10372)
128 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to provide more accessible toilets in town centres. (10618)
129 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure all railway stations have a self-service ticket machine. (10619)
130 Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria was used to inform the decision include Qatar on the covid-19 red list for travel. (10251)
131 Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Royal National Institute of Blind People and The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association on ensuring that bikes are parked in docking stations to prevent them being parked at random on pavements and in pedestrian areas. (10282)
132 Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to protect (a) pedestrians and (b) disabled people from (i) micro scooters and (ii) other types of electric vehicles used on pedestrian walkways. (10284) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 15
133 Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the increased use of micro-mobility vehicles and e-scooters, if he include a new category in the STATS19 data system to record personal injuries and accidents caused by electric scooters and other micro-mobility vehicles on public highways and pedestrian areas. (10285)
134 Alyn Smith (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the backlog of driving theory tests. (10650)
135 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the response to the consultation on amending the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation will be published. (10725)
136 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what acceptable level of (a) fraud and (b) error her Department has set for its expenditure. (10269)
137 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to eliminate (a) fraud and (b) error from the spending in her Department. (10270)
138 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of her Department’s spending that was (a) fraud and (b) error in each of the last five years. (10271)
139 David Linden (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of covid-19 have been reported among staff in offices where the Indian variant of that virus is present in the community; and if she will make a statement. (10595)
140 David Linden (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of the rapid estates expansion programme; and how long those temporary offices are due to remain open. (10596)
141 David Linden (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil service jobs her Department and its agencies had in Scotland in (a) March 2011 and (b) the most recent period for which data are available. (10597)
142 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants had wages assigned to different assessment periods in each week from 1 April 2021 to 21 May 2021 under the legislation introduced in response to the judgment in Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Danielle Johnson, [2020] EWCA Civ 778. (10456)
143 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with HM Court and Tribunals Service on the restart of face to face tribunals. (10459) 16 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
144 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the carers' allowance. (10503)
145 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help ensure that carers have support into employment. (10504)
146 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that correspondence sent to her Department is responded to within 20 working days. (10624)
147 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the communication to customers of her Department's complaints processes. (10426)
148 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications have been processed for (a) universal credit, (b) jobseekers allowance and (c) employment support allowance in each of the last three years. (10427)
149 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about poor customer service have been lodged in respect of applications for (a) universal credit, (b) jobseekers allowance and (c) employment support allowance in each of the last three years. (10428)
150 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about poor customer service lodged in each of the last three years for (a) universal credit, (b) jobseekers allowance and (c) employment support allowance have been about delays in departmental responses. (10429)
151 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what quality assurance processes her Department has in place for the administration of (a) universal credit, (b) jobseekers allowance and (c) employment support allowance. (10430)
152 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what customer feedback procedures are used in assessing departmental performance in the administration of (a) universal credit, (b) jobseekers allowance and (c) employment support allowance. (10431)
153 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to ensure that up-to-date information is publicly available on the (a) number and (b) outcome of complaints to her Department about poor customer service. (10432)
154 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for mandatory reconsideration of an application for a personal independence payment were lodged by people with epilepsy in Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 17
each of the last three years; and how many of those mandatory reconsiderations resulted in (a) an award of benefit where this had previously been refused and (b) an increase in the level of benefit. (10434)
155 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payment lodged by people with epilepsy were referred to a tribunal in each of the last three years; and how many of those referrals resulted in (a) an award of benefit where this had previously been refused and (b) an increase in the level of benefit. (10435)
156 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support disabled employees during the covid-19 outbreak. (10436)
157 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,how many people with epilepsy receive (a) the daily living component and (b) the mobility component of the personal independence payment. (10437)
158 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that companies that are signed up to the Disability Confident Scheme are supporting their disabled employees. (10438)
159 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many companies are signed up to the Disability Confident scheme; and what estimate she has made of the impact that scheme has had on the number of disabled people in employment. (10439)
160 John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, further to the reply of 14 May 2021 to the letter from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of North Somerset Citizens' Advice Bureau, (a) why his Department was unable to provide figures of the number of claimants whose award has ended and were waiting for their new claim to be processed, (b) when he will provide them, (c) what estimate he has made of the number of claimants in this position; and (d) what the steps he is taking to resolve the issue. (10306)
161 Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of successful applications from volunteer vaccinators who have not been deployed during the covid-19 vaccine rollout. (10374)
162 Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how long the personal information and references provided by volunteer covid-19 vaccinator applicants will be retained by the National Vaccination Programme. (10375)
163 Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to set up an independent review of the use of electro convulsive therapy. (10376) 18 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
164 Scott Benton (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's consultation, Home use of both pills for early medical abortion, which closed on 26 February 2021, whether his Department has met with (a) relevant stakeholders, (b) hon. Members and (c) Peers to discuss that policy; and when he plans to publish a response to that consultation. (10682)
165 Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the processes in place to ensure that providers of covid-19 travel tests meet the targets they advertise for processing tests. (10360)
166 Ben Bradley (Mansfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour (HPV) pilots announced by his Department in September 2020, which two UK suppliers have been selected; what application process was used to select those two suppliers; and what the results of those pilots were. (10614)
167 Ben Bradley (Mansfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the advice given to the Government by the SAGE Environmental and Modelling Group of 4 November 2020 to take urgent action to support industry and consumers in ensuring that they are selecting and using air cleaning technologies safely and effectively, what steps his Department has taken in response to the provision of that advice. (10615)
168 Feryal Clark (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to preserve the future sustainability of pharmacies. (10692)
169 Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Do Not Attempt Resuscitation decisions made since 17 March 2020 which had not been agreed in discussion with the person, their relative or carer remain in place. (10665)
170 Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a ministerial oversight group to investigate the use of Do Not Attempt Resuscitation during the covid-19 outbreak has been established; and when that group plans to report. (10666)
171 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the purpose is of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium; and on what date that consortium was founded. (10256)
172 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the membership of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium; and on what date each Member was admitted to that consortium. (10257) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 19
173 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium (a) centrally and (b) to each of its members. (10258)
174 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the criteria is for membership of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium. (10259)
175 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has entered into any contracts for the provision of rapid covid-19 tests with organisations that are not members of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium. (10260)
176 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium's tendering process for contracts for rapid covid-19 tests is equitable and competitive. (10261)
177 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which companies and organisations competed for the contract that was awarded in October 2020 to Abingdon Health to provide 1 million rapid covid-19 tests; and which criteria Abingdon Health fulfilled in order to be awarded that contract. (10262)
178 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his cancellation of outstanding orders for rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) tests with Abingdon Health in January 2021, what steps he has taken to improve his Department’s commissioning process. (10263)
179 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason Surescreen Diagnostics has been awarded a contract for 24 months until January 2023 for the manufacture of lateral flow antigen tests for SARS- CoV-2 in the context of the potential removal of legal limits on social contact on 21 June 2021 as set out in the Government's roadmap out of lockdown. (10264)
180 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how Surescreen Diagnostics was awarded a contract for 24 months until January 2023 for the manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2; where and how that contract was advertised; and what criteria was used to select that company. (10265)
181 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the end date is of the contract with Omega Diagnostics signed in March 2021 for the manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2; and what the value is of that contract. (10266)
182 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what market engagement exercise took place which led to the formation of the contract with Omega Diagnostics in March 2021 for the manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2. (10267) 20 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
183 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of the equipment loaned by his Department to Omega Diagnostics; what the purpose is of each such loan; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the equipment is used exclusively for the purpose of delivering its contract with the Government formed in March 2021 for the manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2. (10268)
184 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 17 May 2021 to Question 165, what steps he has taken to record the number of urgent operations cancelled since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak. (10272)
185 Marsha De Cordova (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to make covid-19 testing kits for the purpose of international travel affordable. (10629)
186 Marsha De Cordova (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the disparities of race and ethnicity enclosed in the latest still birth data published by the ONS. (10630)
187 Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is adequate funding for support services for children and young people with eating disorders in the South West at (a) community services, (b) in-patient services and (c) psychiatry services. (10465)
188 Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the well-being of carers. (10384)
189 Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether advanced orders placed for new covid-19 vaccines such as the Janseen vaccine will be designed around the latest variants known to be in existence at the time of delivery. (10158)
190 Nick Fletcher (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on whether businesses are planned to be required to ensure compliance on health and safety grounds for their employees with (a) social distancing and (b) face-covering requirements after 21 June 2021. (10699)
191 Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the collection of general practice data by NHS Digital and the opt-out date of 23 June 2021, what steps his Department has taken to communicate the collection of that data to the public. (10381)
192 Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new GPs have entered primary care in the last two years. (10170) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 21
193 Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review guidance on postnatal visits during the covid-19 outbreak to remove restrictions on visiting times. (10600)
194 Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to reduce NHS orthodontic waiting times. (10602)
195 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that disabled children recover progress in physically managing their conditions during the covid-19 outbreak. (10527)
196 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the mental health of disabled children and their families. (10528)
197 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the merits of prioritising clinically extremely vulnerable children for a covid-19 vaccine if licensed for use in children. (10529)
198 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the capacity of the health system to provide the (a) therapies and (b) support that disabled children may have missed during the covid-19 outbreak. (10530)
199 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase the capacity of NHS staff to conduct medical research; and whether his Department has plans to increase the access of NHS staff to dedicated research time. (10532)
200 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of representation of pharmaceutical corporations on the General Pharmaceutical Council on regulatory oversight in the pharmaceutical industry. (10533)
201 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of appointing a statutory regulator to regulate the UK pharmaceutical industry. (10534)
202 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average waiting time for (a) screening and (b) treatment for endometriosis in (i) Lambeth, (ii) Southwark, (iii) London and (iv) England. (10536)
203 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for endometriosis screening and treatment. (10537) 22 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
204 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date he first became aware that the Delta variant of covid-19 was present in the UK. (10315)
205 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of acute hospital beds in (a) 2019 and (b) 2021. (10442)
206 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to expand capacity and restore the number of acute hospital beds. (10443)
207 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase clinical knowledge and skills training for (a) trainee doctors, (b) student nurses and (c) other health professionals. (10444)
208 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the future capacity needs of acute hospitals. (10446)
209 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to publish a strategy for unscheduled care to meet increases in demand. (10447)
210 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the numbers of (a) anaesthetists, (b) surgeons and (c) surgical care practitioners. (10448)
211 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to regulate surgical care practitioners. (10449)
212 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many private ambulances were used to respond to (a) 999 and (b) 111 calls (i) for each month since March 2019 and (ii) in each of the last five years. (10450)
213 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2020 to Question 99682 on NHS: 111, what proportion of the NHS 111 service across England is run by (a) private providers, (b) social enterprise and (c) NHS providers. (10451)
214 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has been made of potential risks of using covid-19 lateral flow tests regularly. (10452)
215 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that covid-19 vaccinations carried out by NHS Wales are recognised by NHS England. (10453) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 23
216 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of rules on food labelling for safeguarding people with allergies. (10454)
217 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston of 24 February 2021 on access to dental care. (10462)
218 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2021 to Question 787 on Gender Recognition: Health Services, how funding has been allocated to gender dysphoria services; which services have been in receipt of that funding; and how much each area in receipt of that funding has received in each of the last 10 years. (10493)
219 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) carers are able to secure adequate respite and (b) residential and non-residential respite care is available for the person they care for. (10505)
220 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) assess and (b) meet the health needs of carers. (10506)
221 Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans for his Department’s upcoming Women’s Health Strategy to contain specific action to (a) support women affected by HIV and (b) reduce new HIV diagnoses among women. (10217)
222 John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 12 May 2021, Official Report, column 158, what steps he is taking to increase brain tumour research. (10144)
223 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for NHS workers. (10616)
224 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure carers are prioritised for NHS dental care. (10617)
225 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the backlog for cancer treatment is prioritised in the context of the covid-19 outbreak. (10621)
226 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of booked vaccine appointments are subsequently cancelled by vaccine centres. (10622) 24 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
227 Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the appropriateness of the Vaccine Damage Payment’s severe disablement eligibility criteria in the context of the very rare blood clots reported in association with the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine. (10605)
228 Dr Kieran Mullan (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the 14-day right to return and refund contained within the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 applies to privately-purchased covid-19 tests. (10717)
229 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the scientific evidential basis was for the decision to allow non- essential shops to reopen on 12 April 2021 and to allow pubs to serve customers outside only. (10684)
230 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential correlation between statutory sick pay for long-term care facility staff and rates of covid-19 transmission and infection in care home residents; and if he will make a statement. (10688)
231 Mark Pawsey (Rugby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the UK delegation to the Ninth Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference in November 2021 takes the opportunity to speak about the UK’s progress on the implementation of tobacco harm reduction policies and the role of vaping in making that progress. (10356)
232 Mark Pawsey (Rugby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 18 May 2021 to Question 170 on Tobacco, in the context of the decision of the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP2) to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products to meet virtually, if he will extend the UK’s delegation to include (a) advocates for the Government’s harm reduction policies and (b) consumers as per the recommendations of the all-party Parliamentary group for Vaping's inquiry into COP9 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control published on 31 March 2021. (10357)
233 John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to letters from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of 7 March and 5 May 2021 on pay for NHS staff on behalf of his constituent John Weeks. (10307)
234 John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letters from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of 1 April and 5 May 2021 on covid tests for migrants on behalf of his constituent Michael Joyce. (10308) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 25
235 Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) investigate and (b) respond to concerns relating to Serenity Integrated Mentoring for mentally unwell patients, relating to the evidential basis, safety, legality, ethics, governance and approach to service users of that company. (10663)
236 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2021 to Question 180434 on Coronavirus, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the timescale for herd immunity to covid-19 being reached in the UK. (10201)
237 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 23 April 2021 to Question 18043 on Coronavirus, whether his Department plans to make an assessment on the effectiveness of covid-19 lockdown restrictions once herd immunity has been reached. (10202)
238 Alyn Smith (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timescale is for publishing the findings of the second phase of independent review into drug misuse by Professor Dame Carol Black, announced by his Department on 2 July 2020. (10652)
239 Karin Smyth (Bristol South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he took advice from the Permanent Secretary under S7.2 of the Ministerial Code when Topwood Ltd was awarded a place on a framework contract by SBS NHS from 2 January 2019. (10470)
240 Karin Smyth (Bristol South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice he received from the Permanent Secretary under S7.2 of the Ministerial Code when Topwood Ltd was awarded a place on a framework contract by SBS NHS from 2 January 2019. (10471)
241 John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of calories per day by which a person's diet will be reduced as a result of the restrictions proposed by the Government on (a) foods high in fat, salt or sugar, (b) broadcast advertising of those foods and (c) online advertising of those foods. (10317)
242 John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether reformulated food and drink which is high in fat, salt or sugar will not be allowed to be promoted or advertised under the Government’s proposals to restrict those practices. (10318)
243 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage hospitals to participate in the GBS3 clinical trial investigating Group B Strep infection. (10367) 26 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
244 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) assess the effectiveness of covid- 19 vaccines for people with blood cancer and (b) establish a testing programme to clarify whether people with blood cancer retain compromised immune systems against covid-19 even after vaccination. (10368)
245 Matt Vickers (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timetable is for the implementation of the dementia moonshot. (10706)
246 James Wild (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made in reforming services following the Winterbourne View review. (10680)
247 James Wild (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people with (a) learning disabilities and (b) autism who are in inpatient units; and what steps he is taking to reduce this number. (10681)
248 Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has put in place to prevent the input of faked Lateral Flow Test results taken at home into the NHS Covid app. (10673)
249 Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with local authorities on the impact of proposed reforms to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel as set out in the Health and Social Care White Paper. (10674)
250 Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the frequency with which he expects to use the reformed intervention powers set out in Point 5.84 of the Health and Social Care White Paper. (10675)
251 Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure there is a public consultation on the proposed reforms to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel as set out in the Health and Social Care White Paper. (10676)
252 Imran Ahmad Khan (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to help prevent the persecution of atheists in Saudi Arabia. (10700)
253 Imran Ahmad Khan (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Government of India on protections for people practicing minority religions in that country. (10701) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 27
254 Imran Ahmad Khan (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Government of Afghanistan on protections for religious minorities in that country. (10702)
255 Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of reports on the use of chemical weapons in Tigray. (10358)
256 Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure unfettered access to humanitarian aid for people in Tigray. (10359)
257 Anthony Browne (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has plans to support the safeguarding of historical British military artefacts, including the only surviving cannon of the Commonwealth of England, currently in Oman. (10691)
258 Janet Daby (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports that (a) the Chinese government is testing emotion recognition technology on detained Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region and (b) technology firms Hikvision and Dahua are developing facial recognition technologies to identify and track Uyghurs; and whether he plans to take steps to prevent (a) Government departments and (b) firms and consumers in the UK from purchasing goods from firms that are reportedly providing technology to the Chinese government for the surveillance of Uyghurs. (10643)
259 Marsha De Cordova (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. (10628)
260 Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the value of in-kind donations by the UK of (a) covid-19 vaccines, (b) ventilators, (c) oxygen- generating equipment and (d) PPE stocks to (i) India, (ii) countries in Africa and (iii) other Least-Developed or Middle-Income countries will be counted as Official Development Assistance. (10464)
261 Wera Hobhouse (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the G7 summit being held in Cornwall between 11 and 13 June 2021, whether he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a call to action on girls' education that includes tackling (a) violence against children and (b) all other barriers to education. (10555)
262 Wera Hobhouse (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the upcoming G7 summit being held in Cornwall between 11 and 13 June 2021, what steps the Government is taking 28 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
to ensure that its commitment to increasing the number of girls who have access to 12 years of education will be maintained following reductions in aid spending from 0.7 to 0.5 per cent of GNI. (10556)
263 Wera Hobhouse (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) increase awareness of (i) child marriage, (ii) sexual exploitation, (iii) child labour and (iv) other forms of violence and exploitation being significant barriers to girls' education and (b) remove those barriers to education. (10557)
264 Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong can apply for residency in the UK once their British National (Overseas) passports have been relinquished as required by the Chinese government. (10564)
265 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to support South American countries to tackle their high rates of covid-19 infections. (10340)
266 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department made of the effect on security in Iraq of escalating conflict between Governmental forces and the Popular Mobilisation Forces in Iraq. (10341)
267 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department ahs made of the effect of the arrest of Qasem Musleh on community tensions in Iraq. (10342)
268 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Ihab al-Wazni on 9 May 2021 in Karbala, Iraq. (10343)
269 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the influence of militia groups on community tensions in Iraq. (10344)
270 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the influence of foreign state-based actors upon militia groups in Iraq. (10345)
271 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2021 to Question 3815, what discussions he has had with the Bangladeshi Government on the evacuation procedures for the Rohingya refugees on Bhasan Char during the approaching monsoon season in that region. (10226) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 29
272 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2021 to Question 3815, what discussions he has had with the Bangladeshi Government on the sustainability of life on Bhasan Char. (10227)
273 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with their Australian counterparts on their decision to shut the Australian embassy in Afghanistan. (10203)
274 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential correlation between the Turkish Government’s support for terrorist groups in Palestine and the recent violence in Israel. (10204)
275 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the detention of Roman Protasevich on journalistic freedoms in Europe. (10205)
276 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with their French counterparts on the decision to impose mandatory quarantine on UK arrivals. (10206)
277 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has plans to authorise direct flights to North Cyprus. (10364)
278 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what role officials in his Department are undertaking in negotiations for a settlement on the island of Cyprus between North Cyprus and the Republic of Cyprus. (10365)
279 Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to tackle dog attacks on livestock. [R] (10361)
280 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting the proposals on visa renewal processes recommended by the report entitled We Are Here: Routes To Regularisation For The UK’s Undocumented Population, published by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in April 2021. (10287)
281 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting the proposals on costs of visa processes recommended by the report entitled We Are Here: Routes To Regularisation For The UK’s Undocumented Population, published by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in April 2021. (10288) 30 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
282 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting the proposals on responsiveness to human circumstances in the immigration system recommended by the report entitled We Are Here: Routes To Regularisation For The UK’s Undocumented Population, published by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in April 2021. (10289)
283 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting the proposals on entitlement to UK citizenship for children born in the UK recommended by the report entitled We Are Here: Routes To Regularisation For The UK’s Undocumented Population, published by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in April 2021. (10290)
284 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting the proposals on routes to regularisation of immigration status recommended by the report entitled We Are Here: Routes To Regularisation For The UK’s Undocumented Population, published by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in April 2021. (10291)
285 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on (a) no recourse to public funds, (b) right to work checks and (c) the offence of illegal working under section 34 of the Immigration Act 2016, of the findings of the report entitled We Are Here: Routes To Regularisation For The UK’s Undocumented Population, published by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in April 2021. (10292)
286 Bambos Charalambous (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the Government's ability to return UK citizens who are abroad in the event of closure of UK borders. (10559)
287 Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will assist the hon. Member for West Lancashire in obtaining a response to her letter dated 9 April 2021 to the Director General of UK Visas and Immigration on a constituent's asylum application, reference ZA56228. (10239)
288 Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will assist the hon. Member for West Lancashire in obtaining a response to her letter dated 9 April 2021 to the Director General of UK Visas and Immigration on a constituent's asylum application, reference ZA56216. (10242)
289 Janet Daby (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support the Government provides to families of people whose deaths are found to have been caused or partially caused by police actions; and where responsibility for funeral costs falls in such cases. (10644) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 31
290 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) effectiveness of the operation of ASPEN cards; and if she will make a statement. (10514)
291 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to occupation code 3415, Musicians, of the Skilled worker visa shortage occupations list published 6 April 2021, how many musicians she estimates the UK is short of. (10323)
292 Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports she has received of members of the Jewish community in Luton being advised to avoid parts of the town on 29 May 2021 when the Luton Council of Mosques organised a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine; and if she will make a statement. (10157)
293 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of asylum seekers who have (a) not received new Aspen cards and (b) experienced problems activating or using the new Aspen cards; and how many of those affected were (i) pregnant, (ii) children and (iii) disabled. (10538)
294 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what piloting or testing of the new Aspen Card her Department undertook prior to its roll out on 24 May 2021. (10539)
295 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what due diligence checks her Department carried out on Prepaid Financial Services prior to the award of the Aspen card contract; and how many other applicants there were for that contract. (10540)
296 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she is having with Prepaid Financial Services on the difficulties asylum seekers have experienced in using the new Aspen card; and what steps are being taken to improve those services. (10541)
297 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support she is making available to asylum seekers who have experienced hardship as a result of the rollout of new Aspen cards. (10542)
298 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of violence experienced by retail workers during the covid-19 outbreak in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) England. (10499)
299 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that applications for Emergency Travel Documents are processed in line with her Department's service standards. (10620) 32 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
300 Alyn Smith (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her target number is for refugees to be resettled in the UK under the global UK Resettlement Scheme. (10651)
301 Alyn Smith (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of licencing of pill presses. (10653)
302 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she plans to take into account the effect of the covid- 19 pandemic on international travel when considering applications to the EU Settlement Scheme where the applicant was unable to be resident in the UK by 31 December 2020 due to travel restrictions. (10551)
303 Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what estimate the Commission has made of the number of ivory items owned by or collated in the Houses of Parliament. (10642)
304 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the number of sorties by RAF (a) Typhoons, (b) Voyager, (c) Sentinel, (d) Rivet Joint and (e) E-3 Sentry in each month between January 2019 and May 2021. (10171)
305 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan interpreters have been relocated within Afghanistan under the intimidation scheme since its inception. (10173)
306 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Afghan interpreters are able to be considered for relocation if they do not have an LSU number. (10174)
307 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has he made of the Royal Navy's capacity to operate the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia once that ship comes into service. (10175)
308 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what tendering process he plans to outline for the (a) design and (b) construction of the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia. (10176)
309 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia is to be funded. (10177)
310 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to ensure that British steel is used in construction of the Royal Yacht. (10178)
311 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the construction of a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia on sovereign defence capability. (10179) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 33
312 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the costs of commissioning a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia will be shared with private investors. (10180)
313 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be created as a result of the decision to build a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia. (10181)
314 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the repercussions are for contracts that do not fulfil social value requirements under the terms of the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy. (10188)
315 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of the prospective foreign military sales option for the Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. (10189)
316 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the online verification tool for the purpose of verifying Veterans ID cards will be live. (10460)
317 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number services and discounts existing Veterans have been unable to access due to delays with phase 2 of the Veterans' recognition scheme. (10461)
318 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the impact of the Integrated Review on employment in Lancashire. (10336)
319 Kate Osborne (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK service personnel have left without medical discharge despite major injuries in each of the last 10 years. (10678)
320 Kate Osborne (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are in their last year of service in the TG 317.01. (10679)
321 Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement by his Department on 4 March 2021 of funding for accessible toilets under the Changing Places scheme, when his Department plans to provide further information on the application process for that funding. (10385)
322 Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many dwellings were granted planning permission in the London Borough of Hillingdon between 2018 and 2019. (10415)
323 Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many dwellings that were granted planning permission in the London Borough of Hillingdon between 2018 and 2019 have been completed. (10416) 34 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
324 Marsha De Cordova (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the affordability of housing association homes in London. (10625)
325 Marsha De Cordova (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a right to buy scheme for housing association tenants in London. (10626)
326 Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish in full the membership of all working groups convened by the Government to develop its proposals for changes to the planning system. (10467)
327 James Grundy (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of high quality social housing including (a) bungalows for pensioners and (b) homes for young families. (10705)
328 Kate Hollern (Blackburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people there are in out-of-area temporary accommodation. (10401)
329 Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to prevent leasehold management companies from imposing five year ground rent review periods which limits the owner's ability to secure a mortgage. (10563)
330 Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate is Department has made of the number of people in Wansbeck in rent arrears after the end of the ban on bailiff-forced evictions on 31 May 2021. (10386)
331 Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to provide additional support to tenants facing eviction following the end of the ban on bailiff-forced evictions came to an end on 31 May 2021. (10387)
332 Christian Matheson (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the (a) selection criteria, (b) assessment criteria and (c) scoring system for the assessment of applications for the first round of the Levelling Up Fund. (10425)
333 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that appropriate upgrades to (a) roads and (b) pedestrian access are made in areas with new housing developments. (10334) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 35
334 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homes damaged by flooding issues in the last twelve months. (10335)
335 Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to work with supermarket retailers to help ensure that elderly or disabled residents remain able to access (a) home delivery slots and (b) good quality produce with a suitable shelf life. (10339)
336 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the recent increase in antisemitic attacks. (10195)
337 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to protect Green Belt areas in outer London. (10196)
338 Sir Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is his policy if a developer cannot find sufficient purchasers to satisfy the First Homes policy. [R] (10155)
339 Sir Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the 30% discount of the First Homes policy is intended to replace the requirement for a deposit from the purchaser or whether a deposit is still required. [R] (10156)
340 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the value of wool as a thermal insulator in the construction of new environmentally-friendly homes. (10366)
341 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on reoffending of tax debts accrued as a result of lack of effective communication with HMRC after a person is taken into custody. (10297)
342 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve (a) communication with HMRC for prisoners and (b) awareness of tax matters affecting prisoners within Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service. (10298)
343 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a scheme whereby HMRC would be automatically informed of (a) a prisoner’s change of address and (b) any automatic change in a prisoner’s employment status when they are taken into custody. (10299) 36 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
344 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report entitled Working in UK Prisons and Secure Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic, published in May 2021 by the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law at Royal Holloway University of London. (10300)
345 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report on a scrutiny visit to HMP North Sea Camp by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, published on 2 June 2021, what steps he is taking to ensure that telephone call monitoring for public protection purposes at HMP North Sea Camp is robust. (10302)
346 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to report on a scrutiny visit to HMP North Sea Camp by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, published on 2 June 2021, what steps he is taking to ensure that there are enough suitable places in approved premises to ensure that prisoners who require this as part of their parole conditions are released without delay. (10303)
347 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Report on a scrutiny visit to HMP North Sea Camp by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, published on 2 June 2021, what steps he is taking to ensure that all prisons in England and Wales develop comprehensive equalities strategies. (10304)
348 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to report on a scrutiny visit to HMP North Sea Camp by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, published on 2 June 2021, what steps he is taking to ensure that offender management unit support is of high quality at HMP North Sea Camp. (10305)
349 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people convicted of assaulting an emergency worker have been given an immediate custodial sentence of longer than six months since that offence was introduced. (10273)
350 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason it is proposed to average over a 10-year period the raising of the judicial mandatory retirement age from 70 to 75; and how that averaging is planned to be implemented. (10274)
351 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2021 to Question 187180, what the relationship was between the victim and the perpetrator in each murder case in the male and female residential categories. (10275)
352 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2021 to Question 187180, what the (a) sex and (b) ethnicity was of the perpetrator responsible for each of the murders. (10276) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 37
353 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2021 to Question 187180, what the sex of the (a) perpetrator and (b) victim was in each of the cases of murder in the male and female residential categories. (10277)
354 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in each of the last five years what the average immediate custodial sentence was for (a) each offence in the violence against the person category; (b) burglary; (c) robbery and (d) possession of weapons. (10278)
355 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders convicted of (a) each offence in the violence against the person category; (b) burglary; (c) robbery and (d) possession of weapons were not given a sentence of immediate custody in each of the last five years. (10279)
356 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment support allowance and (c) work related activity component face to face tribunals are waiting for hearings to be listed. (10458)
357 Taiwo Owatemi (Coventry North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government plans to increase sentences for people who cause death by careless driving while not under the influence of drink or drugs. (10677)
358 Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the Government will support amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to strengthen protections for shopworkers. (10662)
359 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on introducing memorials across the UK in remembrance of people who have died from covid-19. (10455)
360 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions has he had with representatives of (a) Scottish Renewable Energy Companies and (b) the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of an Innovation Power Purchase Agreement to stimulate growth of marine and tidal projects. (10486)
361 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding was allocated to the seafood industry after the UK's departure from the EU; and how much of that funding has been allocated to companies based in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) England. (10487)
362 Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the new UK Infrastructure Bank will have a mandate to offer loan guarantees for at-scale retrofit projects. (10424) 38 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
363 Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to make specific financial support available to the motor trade industry to compensate loss of revenue as a result of the six month extension of MOTs following the covid-19 outbreak. (10601)
364 Clive Lewis (Norwich South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to extend full business rates relief to all English Language Teaching (ELT) schools in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22. (10520)
365 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of covid-19 business support grants that were paid directly to property owners whose tenants were granted that funding. (10494)
366 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of Government grants that are held in off- shore bank accounts by business landlords. (10495)
367 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data his Department holds on (a) landlords that are the ultimate recipients of covid-19 business support grants and (b) the UK tax status of those landlords. (10496)
368 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that non-UK resident landlords of commercial property publish transparent data on their tax affairs that are accessible to the public to scrutinise. (10497)
369 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to require landlords that have received covid-19 business support grants from the Government to support their tenants in the event that a tenant business goes into administration because it can no longer afford its lease due to financial difficulties resulting from the covid-19 outbreak. (10498)
370 John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the revenue impact in 2022-23 of introducing zero-rate contributions on secondary class 1 contributions for employees at freeport tax sites. (10145)
371 John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of employees that will benefit in 2022-23 from the introduction zero-rate contributions on secondary class 1 contributions for employees at freeport tax sites. (10146)
372 John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates his Department has made of the revenue impact of expanding the scope of dormant assets scheme in the Dormant Assets Bill. (10147)
373 Damien Moore (Southport): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure correspondence sent to his Department is responded to within 20 working days. (10623) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 39
374 Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a differential duty rate on administration costs for beer (a) producers and (b) retailers. (10246)
375 Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the cost of implementing a differential alcohol duty rate for the off-trade sector. (10247)
376 Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the economic impact of the proposal set out in his Department's Alcohol duty review to differentiate based on place of retail. (10248)
377 Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to support the brewery and pub sector in its recovery from covid-19 lockdowns as part of his Department’s review of alcohol duty; and if he will make a statement. (10613)
378 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to protect (a) long-term retail and (b) amateur investors in crypto-currencies; and what steps his Department plans to take in the event of significant or long-term falls in market values of the different types of (i) current and (ii) future cryptocurrencies. (10689)
379 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on compliance yield from activities relating to ensuring the proper payment of corporation tax in respect of the work of HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each year between 2014-15 and 2019-20. (10347)
380 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent number of staff employed in HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each year between 2014-15 and 2019-20. (10348)
381 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on the total spend on compliance activities by HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each year between 2014-15 and 2019-20. (10349)
382 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on the number of (a) active enquiries, (b) enquiries initiated and (c) enquiries closed by HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each year between 2014-15 and 2019-20. (10350)
383 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on the average (a) headcount and (b) full time equivalent number of staff working on each active enquiry undertaken by HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each year between 2014-15 to 2019-20. (10351) 40 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
384 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on the (a) number and (b) volume of enquiries undertaken by HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in respect of businesses of which the registered location of the parent group is in the (a) UK Crown dependencies and (b) British overseas territories, broken down by territory and dependency in each year between 2014-15 to 2019-20. (10352)
385 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on the (a) mean and (b) median duration of all enquiries concluded that year by HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each financial year between 2014-15 and 2019-20; and if he will make a statement. (10353)
386 Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Streatham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessments of the potential merits of increasing the Lifetime ISA threshold for people living in London. (10660)
387 Alyn Smith (Stirling): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to establish an independent quality assurance review of RBS Global Restructuring Group's treatment of SMEs. (10648)
388 Alyn Smith (Stirling): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have Government Gateway accounts for (a) personal and (b) business use. (10649)
389 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme on (a) recruitment and retention of LGBT+ employees, (b) well-being and productivity of LGBT+ employees, (c) positive work environments and (d) adherence to equality law of Government departments that have participated in that programme. (10293)
390 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of withdrawing Government departments from the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme on the Government's (a) reputation as an institution that upholds equality and diversity for LGBT+ employees, (b) international reputation for LGBT+ equality, (c) work to promote LGBT+ equality internationally and (d) adherence to equality law. (10294)
391 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what information her Department holds on employee satisfaction with the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme within Government departments that participate in that programme. (10295)
392 Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what representations she has received from LGBT+ civil service employees on the effect of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme on their employment experience. (10296) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 41
393 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of appointing a Minister responsible for male-specific issues. (10324)
Questions for Answer on Wednesday 9 June
Questions for Written Answer
1 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the his Department mandated the Infrastructure Projects Authority to report on Ajax. (10192)
2 N Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 May 2021 to Question 3819, whether work on a potential trade agreement with Australia has been prioritised as part of the full focus on recovering from the covid-19 pandemic. (10244)
3 N Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, which team in his Department is responsible for arrangements for Scottish people to demonstrate their (a) consent and (b) opposition to the Union; and what the work priorities of that team are for 2021. (10245)
4 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking with global partners to ensure (a) food and commodity supply chains are environmentally responsible (b) that the finance industry is bound by net-zero and the Paris Agreement targets. (10712)
5 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the President of COP26, what discussions he has had with (a) the Welsh Government, (b) the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (c) industry bodies to use the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference to promote the renewables industry of (i) Wales and (ii) Ynys Môn. (10713)
6 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking to work with the Welsh Government to ensure there are opportunities for civil society to engage with COP26. (10714)
7 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking to work with his international counterparts to reduce the impact of global deforestation; and what support the Government has provided to protect rainforests. (10715)
8 N Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish a response to the consultation on carer's leave, which closed on 3 August 2020. (10286) 42 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
9 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to create well paid and quality green jobs to level up opportunities in the UK; and what assessment he has made of the potential number of such new jobs to be created in (a) Wales and (b) Ynys Môn constituency. (10708)
10 N Ed Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Corporate Governance Code’s comply or explain regime. (10148)
11 N Ed Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the International Energy Agency’s report entitled Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector, published in May 2021, what steps his Department plans to take to tackle the (a) social and (b) economic effects on people and communities of achieving the UK’s climate change targets. (10149)
12 N Ed Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the International Energy Agency’s report entitled Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector, published in May 2021, what steps his Department is taking to cease investment in new fossil fuel projects. (10150)
13 N Peter Grant (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Green Deal appeal cases are due to be processed. (10483)
14 N Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a timetable for the delivery of the national space strategy, announced in the Queen's speech on 19 December 2019. (10512)
15 N Owen Thompson (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the (a) priorities and (b) policy objectives of the strategy delivery team in the UK Space Agency have been since January 2021. (10513)
16 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to allow amateur choirs to return to indoor rehearsals in groups of more than six. (10392)
17 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the data used to inform the policy that amateur choirs cannot rehearse indoors in a group of more than six people. (10393)
18 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to support girls and women pursue careers in football. (10394) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 43
19 N Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions officials in his Department have had with relevant stakeholders on the allocation of additional funding to support the running of tourist information centres following the covid-19 outbreak. (10396)
20 N Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the (a)workload of teachers, (b) retention rate of teachers in that profession and (c) reasons for which teachers leave that profession. (10383)
21 N Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if the Government will issue an official apology to people affected by historic forced adoptions. (10544)
22 N Dame Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of funding additional respite care for the families of disabled children to help alleviate exhaustion and social isolation. (10228)
23 N Dame Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allocating funding to the provision of additional therapies for disabled children. (10229)
24 N Dame Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is he taking to help disabled children recover lost progress in managing their conditions as a result of the covid-19 outbreak. (10230)
25 N Dame Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to invest in improving the (a) emotional well-being and (b) mental health of school children as part of the schools recovery plan. (10232)
26 N Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress his Department has made towards establishing a Takaful-based funding structure for financial support for students in higher and further education. (10312)
27 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the provision of digital devices by schools to students, whether those devices are to be returned to the school in the summer term 2021; and what steps he is taking to help ensure that students are able to maintain their (a) learning and (b) digital skills once those devices are returned. (10378)
28 N Mr William Wragg (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish details of the PE and Sport Premium for the 2021-22 academic year. (10463)
29 N Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to strengthen the law against hare coursing. (10164) 44 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
30 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ban the imports of trophy hunting memorabilia; and what his planned timescale is for such a ban. (10709)
31 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory deforestation target for UK supply food and commodity supply chains; and what steps he is taking to bind the finance industry into net- zero and Paris Agreement targets. (10716)
32 N Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his comments at the Wild Live event on 18 May 2021, how much funding previously allocated to the Basic Payment Scheme has been allocated to projects to improve public access to the countryside; and if he will publish the names of those projects. (10309)
33 N Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2021 to Question 634 on farms: local government finance, if he will publish the membership of the co-design steering group. (10213)
34 N Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has carried out an assessment of the effect of artificial lawns on species loss and biodiversity. (10218)
35 N Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with Natural England on the effect of artificial lawns on species loss and biodiversity. (10219)
36 N Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department spent on trade finance support programmes to Belarus in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021. (10480)
37 N Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 1279 on Trade Agreements: Japan, what discussions with Japanese authorities were required prior to the UK's application for the addition of new geographical indications; and what changes resulted from those discussions. (10233)
38 N Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 1279 on Trade Agreements: Japan, on what date officials in her Department began discussions with Japanese authorities on the addition of new geographical indications; and which unit in her Department was responsible for those discussions. (10234)
39 N Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 1279 on Trade Agreements: Japan, on what date officials in her Department Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 45
ordered the translation of technical documents necessary to apply for the addition of new geographical indications; and which unit in (a) the Government or (b) an external agency provided those translation services. (10235)
40 N Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent progress she has made on rolling over the trade agreement in place before 1 January 2021 with Algeria; and whether she plans to (a) seek to remove or (b) amend the clause in that agreement relating to duty drawback and exemption to exclude its application to the UK's new freeports. (10236)
41 N Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent progress she has made on rolling over the trade agreement in place before 1 January 2021 with Bosnia and Herzegovina; and whether she plans to (a) seek to remove or (b) amend the clause in that agreement relating to duty drawback and exemption to exclude its application to the UK's new of freeports. (10237)
42 N Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that the interests of the UK farming sector are taken into account in negotiations for a free trade agreement with Australia. (10220)
43 N Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she plans to include review mechanisms in a potential free trade agreement which could be agreed with Australia to ensure matters relating to agriculture can be regularly reviewed to help ensure they are operating fairly. (10221)
44 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to encourage people to use public transport instead of private cars; and what assessment he has made of the benefits of introducing flexible season tickets for commuters. (10710)
45 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report entitled Transport User Community – role of staff in passengers feeling safe, published by Transport Focus on 7 October 2020 that there is a strong sense that the ideal response to the pandemic would be to see more staff on trains and at the station, rather than less. (10581)
46 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, what estimate he has made of the total number of ticket offices broken down by ticket office category that (a) are operational in June 2021 and (b) are planned to be open in 2025. (10583)
47 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons the policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, proposes that the Office of Rail and Road will publish data on rail workers salaries. (10584) 46 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
48 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the proposal that the Office of Rail and Road will publish data on rail workers salaries in the policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams- Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether that data will include salaries of (a) employees of Great British Railways, (b) employees of operators of Passenger Service Contracts, (c) subcontracted staff on passenger service contracts, (d) employees of railway infrastructure sub-contractors, (e) workers on zero hours contracts, (f) railway infrastructure workers who are classified as self-employed, (g) agency railway workers, (h) workers on zero hours contracts and (i) employees of open access operators. (10585)
49 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail, published by his Department on 20 May 2021, whether trade unions have been consulted on the proposal for the Office of Rail and Road to publish data on rail workers salaries. (10586)
50 N Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the risk to UK travellers of the covid-19 infection rate on Madeira compared to mainland Portugal. (10363)
51 N Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions officials in his Department have had with representatives of the DVSA on using alternative testing sites in the Highlands for driver theory tests to increase test availability. (10484)
52 N Kate Hollern (Blackburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to speed up the installation of tactile paving at Network Rail- run train stations. (10402)
53 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is taking to clear the backlog for learner drivers wanting to take their driving test following the covid-19 outbreak. (10137)
54 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2021 to Question 3056 on Coronavirus: Screening, what discussions officials in his Department have had with relevant stakeholders on covid-19 testing provision at York Station, in particular in the context of York being a major tourist location. (10492)
55 N Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the total number of overnight parking spaces available to Heavy Goods Vehicle drivers in (a) the UK and (b) Kent. (10214)
56 N Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the demand for overnight parking spaces available to Heavy Goods Vehicle drivers in (a) the UK and (b) Kent. (10215) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 47
57 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with representatives of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on the Port State Control inspection of the Irish Ferries' vessel, Isle of Inishmore, which is planned to operate on the Dover to Calais route later in 2021. (10326)
58 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of seafarer (a) officer and (b) ratings jobs that will be created in the UK from Irish Ferries' planned operation of cross- Channel ferry services later in 2021. (10327)
59 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of Irish Ferries' planned operation of cross-Channel ferry services on the terms and conditions of employment of UK seafarers on ferry services between Dover and ports in France. (10328)
60 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of Irish Ferries' planned operation of cross-Channel ferry services on the number of UK (a) officers and (b) ratings in training each year. (10329)
61 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he last met representatives of the Maritime Register of Cyprus to discuss maritime safety standards on Cypriot registered ferries operating on international routes from UK ports. (10330)
62 N Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to reduce the cost of covid-19 testing for people wishing to travel to green list countries. (10222)
63 N Anne McLaughlin (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether easements in respect of universal credit introduced in response to the covid-19 outbreak will remain in place for the duration of that outbreak; and what discussions she has had with claimant groups on ensuring that the most vulnerable people are supported during that outbreak. (10468)
64 N Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of he number of carers able to access breaks from their caring responsibilities since the start of the covid-19 outbreak. (10388)
65 N Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposal by charities supporting Carers Week 2021 for £1.2 billion additional Government funding for carers’ breaks. (10389) 48 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
66 N Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment the Government has made of the effectiveness of the Serenity Integrated Mentoring model used in mental healthcare; and what plans he has to review the use of that model nationally. (10552)
67 N Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the (a) effectiveness and (b) safety of the Serenity Integrated Mentoring model in mental healthcare. (10553)
68 N Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has consulted mental health service users with complex needs on the use of the Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) model; and whether he has plans to further consult users about the SIM model. (10554)
69 N Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of covid-19 tests (a) which have been lost in transit and (b) where the results have not been reported to the person who took the test, in the last 12 months. (10167)
70 N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire, dated 12 April 2021 on quarantine hotels, reference ZA56235. (10240)
71 N Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) covid-19 vaccinations have been administered and (b) people are eligible for those vaccinations, by ethnicity, in each of the wards in Waltham Forest where that data is available over the last five months. (10373)
72 N Rosie Duffield (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish data on the airborne transmission of covid-19 as a result of groups of more than six people singing. (10560)
73 N Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using trained covid detection dogs to identify covid-19 infections; and if he will urgently set out a timescale for deployment of those dogs. [R] (10138)
74 N Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on the rate of (a) covid-19 vaccination and (b) supply of vaccines in London compared to the rest of England; and if he will make a statement. (10139)
75 N Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) NHS England and (b) SAGE on the potential risk of outbreaks of new variants of covid-19 originating from people who are in quarantine in hotels having recently arrived from abroad; and if he will make a statement. (10140) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 49
76 N Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of vaccinating workers in hotels being used to quarantine people who have recently arrived from abroad; and if he will make a statement. (10141)
77 N Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if any outbreaks of newcovid-19 variants have originated from people in quarantine in hotels having just arrived from abroad; and if he will make a statement. (10142)
78 N Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure a consistent supply of vaccines to those areas in London on the watch-list for the Delta variant of covid-19; and if he will make a statement. (10143)
79 N Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2021 to Question 6270 on NHS: Protective Clothing, if he will provide details of the companies that use Malaysian factories that have been contracted to supply surgical and examination gloves to the NHS since January 2020. (10362)
80 N Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the collection of general practice data by NHS Digital and the opt-out date of 23 June 2021, which patient details are planned to be shared with third parties. (10379)
81 N Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the collection of general practice data by NHS Digital and the opt-out date of 23 June 2021, what patients' data is planned to be used for; and who plans to use that data. (10380)
82 N Peter Grant (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring inclusion of carbohydrate content on food menus to help people with diabetes to accurately calculate their insulin requirements. (10481)
83 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of mental health vehicles used in an emergency. (10522)
84 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve culturally- focused mental health care for (a) Lambeth and (b) Southwark. (10523)
85 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve community engagement with Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to help tackle inequalities in mental health services. (10524) 50 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
86 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help mental health services in (a) Lambeth and (b) Southwark meet the increase in demand as a result of the covid-19 outbreak. (10525)
87 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase the NHS's capacity to conduct medical research; and if he will take steps to increase NHS staff's access to dedicated research time. (10526)
88 N John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2021 to Question 181, when that assessment is planned to be made. (10314)
89 N Dame Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2021 to Question 153166 on NHS and Social Services: Staff, what his Department's workforce priorities are for NHS and social care staff. (10231)
90 N Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the importance of personalised care for people affected by dementia. (10280)
91 N Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to help ensure that unpaid carers have been able to take a break from their caring role during the covid-19 outbreak. (10310)
92 N Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing an additional £50 per week to personal budgets for unpaid carers to help those carers access breaks from their caring responsibilities. (10311)
93 N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2021 to Question 6161 on the vaccination status of people hospitalised with the Indian variant of covid-19, for what reason those essential data are not held centrally in the format requested; in what format those data are held centrally; and if he will make it his policy without further delay to (a) gather centrally and (b) subsequently release to the media each day the numbers of people that have been hospitalised with the Indian variant of covid-19 who are (i) vaccinated with (A) one and (B) both doses and (ii) unvaccinated against coronavirus. (10131)
94 N Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the evaluation of the 111 First service. (10441)
95 N Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the 12-hour data from time of arrival for all accident and emergency departments. (10445) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 51
96 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps GP practices can take to maintain GP registers in the event that patients leave the country and do not inform their GP. (10507)
97 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether GP practices check their patient lists against other visa lists, council tax lists or other registers to ensure that they are current. (10508)
98 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what effect having non-resident patients on GP practice lists has on the funding of those practices; and whether funding is clawed back in those circumstances. (10509)
99 N Conor McGinn (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional support he has allocated to the dental sector to increase capacity for (a) routine patient appointments and (b) urgent care during the covid-19 outbreak. (10473)
100 N Conor McGinn (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients waiting for (a) routine and (b) urgent dental care across the St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group area. (10474)
101 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2021 to Question 3861 on Medical Records: Data Protection, in what format that information is held; and whether his Department holds information on the registered addresses of the organisations with which it shares NHS Digital data sets for the purposes of research and planning. (10377)
102 N Karin Smyth (Bristol South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the ownership of shares in Topwood Ltd by his family members were listed on his appointment under S7.3 of the Ministerial Code. (10469)
103 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) commission and (b) fund a long- term workforce strategy for the NHS that aligns with each of the priorities of the NHS Long Term Plan, including the expansion of mental health services. (10548)
104 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's policy paper, COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan, updated on 1 April 2021, if he will publish the (a) baseline, (b) timeframe and (c) specific definition of access that will be applied for improving access to eating disorder services. (10549)
105 N Mick Whitley (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people detained under the Mental Health Act between 1983 and 2000 who were misdiagnosed with (a) schizophrenia and (b) any other psychiatric disorder. (10656) 52 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
106 N Mick Whitley (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help ensure that clinicians engage with the concerns of people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 who believe that they have (a) been misdiagnosed and (b) wrongly medicated. (10657)
107 N Mick Whitley (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to provide (a) financial, (b) medical and (c) psychological support to people who have been wrongly diagnosed or medicated while detained under the Mental Health Act. (10658)
108 N Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to UN Security Council Resolution 2286 (2016), what steps his Department is taking to pursue accountability for attacks on health workers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. (10603)
109 N Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the unimpeded delivery of fuel and emergency humanitarian relief to Gaza. (10604)
110 N Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2021 to Question 185465 on Bahrain: Political Prisoners, whether they will now answer the question put, namely, what representations he will make to his Bahraini counterpart on (a) inviting the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture to visit and (b) allowing (i) Human Rights Watch, (ii) Amnesty International and (iii) other human rights organisations and monitoring bodies to enter Bahrain. (10515)
111 N Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the opinions of the 90th session of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on inmates of Jau Prison in Bahrain, what assessment he has made of the UK Ambassador to Bahrain's comment that Jau Prison is a well-run facility, with good medical provision on 6 May 2021. (10516)
112 N Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Israeli government on covid19 vaccinations in that region. (10382)
113 N Ms Nusrat Ghani (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his sanctioning of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps XPCC, what penalties apply to UK-based companies that continue to contract with the XPCC. (10475) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 53
114 N Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to the Croatian justice minister, Ivan Malenica, on halting the extradition of the UK whistleblower, Jonathan Taylor to Monaco. (10510)
115 N Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to the Government of Croatia on halting the extradition to Monaco of UK whistleblower, Jonathan Taylor, in the context of concerns expressed by international human rights and whistleblowing experts that that extradition is an abuse of process and in breach of Mr Taylor’s human rights. (10511)
116 N John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the role of the political leadership of Hamas in its military activities. [R] (10313)
117 N Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Azeri counterpart on the safe and immediate return of all Armenian prisoners of war. (10543)
118 N Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans his Department has to impose additional sanctions on the government of Belarus. (10545)
119 N Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress has been made towards the establishment of a parliamentary committee to examine allegations of genocide. (10398)
120 N Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that Taiwan can viably access an alternative source of covid-19 vaccine supply to that being offered by the Chinese Government. (10399)
121 N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to donate surplus covid-19 vaccines originally ordered for use in the UK to countries in need overseas; what estimate he has made of (a) the quantity of surplus doses which will become available and (b) the timeframe for when they will be available; what estimate he has made of the total monetary value of those surplus doses; and whether that monetary value will be included in calculations of the total of overseas aid given by the UK to poorer countries. (10132)
122 N Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what criteria his Department uses in Overseas Security and Justice Assessments to determine the deployment of UK police abroad; how those criteria are used; and who uses those criteria. (10672) 54 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
123 N Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK will continue to be the largest bilateral donor to the Global Partnership for Education of the G7 countries. (10216)
124 N Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to run subsequent Belarus-UK seasons following the 2020 event in Minsk. (10476)
125 N Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) military and (b) policing support his Department provided to Belarus in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021. (10477)
126 N Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has planned any ODA spending in Belarus in 2021-22. (10478)
127 N Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many financial investigations on Belarussian assets in the UK (a) the Government has undertaken and (b) have led to asset freezes or other repercussions. (10479)
128 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support is available to privately- contracted (non-LES) security workers in Afghanistan who face intimidation as a result of their employment supporting UK Government agencies. (10253)
129 N Brendan O'Hara (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has allocated funding to the University of Huddersfield for the provision of that university's PhD in human rights; and whether that PhD course is planned to be reserved for Bahraini nationals. (10403)
130 N Brendan O'Hara (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2021 to Question HL15129, if he will provide the allocated budget for the Gulf Strategy Fund, broken down by each financial year that that fund will operate. (10404)
131 N Brendan O'Hara (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to reports that imprisoned Bahraini opposition leader, Hasan Mushaima, has developed serious symptoms due to diabetes, what urgent representations the Government plans to make to its Bahraini counterparts on ensuring the immediate provision of adequate medical care to Hasan Mushaima. (10405)
132 N Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what circumstances an EU citizen coming to the UK as an au pair requires a work permit. (10161) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 55
133 N Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of people from covid-19 red list countries seeking to enter the UK via third countries; and if she will make a statement. (10163)
134 N Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department collects figures on the number of people detained in short-term detention facilities run by (a) UK border force and (b) contractors at airports and ports. (10166)
135 N Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to bring forward proposals to enable au pairs from the EU to live and work in the UK via the youth mobility visa scheme. (10664)
136 N Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Danish workers have been turned back from the UK's borders since 1 January 2021; and what steps she is taking to enforce the work permit and cross border rules that apply to Danish citizens working in the UK, particularly those in the offshore and the wind farm sector. (10711)
137 N Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to skills shortages in the food processing sector, for what reason (a) fishmongers, (b) butchers and (c) poultry processors are not included in the Skilled workers visa shortage list. (10320)
138 N Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to occupation code 3414, Dancers and choreographers, of the Skilled worker visa shortage occupations list published 6 April 2021, how many dancers and choreographers the UK is short of. (10321)
139 N Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to occupation code 3411, Artists, of the Skilled worker visa: shortage occupations list published 6 April 2021, how many artists the UK is short of. (10322)
140 N Peter Grant (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for Turkish Businessperson visas were (a) submitted, (b) successful and (c) refused in 2020; and how many of those applications are still to be processed. (10482)
141 N Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to criminalise public sexual harassment. (10546)
142 N Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants' report entitled We Are Here: routes to regularisation for the UK's undocumented population, published in April 2021, whether the Government 56 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
plans to (a) implement recommendations made in that report, (b) introduce new routes to regularisation and (c) remove barriers that can result in migrants becoming undocumented. (10547)
143 N Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2021 to Question 7944 on Drugs: Misuse, if she will publish any correspondence received from (a) the Lord Advocate, (b) the Crown Office and (c) Scottish Government Ministers on the use of drug consumption rooms in Scotland. (10671)
144 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on how UK citizens who have been working in the EU and have a spouse or partner from the EU can acquire settled status for their spouse or partner if their return date to the UK is after the closing date for settled status. (10491)
145 N Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings she has had with members of the National Retail Crime Steering Group since July 2020. (10574)
146 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support the Government is providing to Afghanistan-based spouses of Afghan interpreters who are based in the UK in cases where the marriage occurred after the interpreter re-settled in the UK. (10255)
147 N Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to protect police officers who are not yet vaccinated against covid-19 who are part of the reported deployment of 5000 additional officers to Cornwall for the G7 summit being held between 11 and 13 June 2021; and if she will make a statement. (10606)
148 N Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the G7 summit being held in Cornwall between 11 and 13 June 2021, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) potential risk of covid-19 infection to people who (i) live close to and (ii) are attending that summit, (b) the potential effect of that summit on the spread of the Indian variant and (c) the potential risk of covid-19 infection to younger police officers deployed to that summit who have not been vaccinated; and if she will make a statement. (10607)
149 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her timetable for publishing revised guidance on the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on applications under the EU Settlement Scheme after its withdrawal on 6 May 2021; and if she will make it her policy to (a) publish and (b) publicise that guidance in time for applicants to review its contents before the EU Settlement Scheme’s 30 June 2021 deadline. (10550) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 57
150 N Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what plans there are to provide a replacement to the Derby Gate library facilities for the staff of hon. Members. (10395)
151 N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide details of the (a) variants and (b) respective numbers of Boxer that have been ordered and financed for the Army. (10208)
152 N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Boxer variant for the infantry ordered to replace Warrior is classified as an (a) Armoured Fighting Vehicle or (b) Armoured Personnel Carrier. (10209)
153 N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role his Department (a) has or (b) plans to have in (i) monitoring and (ii) identifying international virus outbreaks in the future via an early bio-security warning system. (10210)
154 N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has plans to reduce the size of the fleet of RAF C-17 transport planes. (10211)
155 N Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Minister is responsible for deciding what Royal Navy ships may pass through the Taiwan Strait in 2021. (10212)
156 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications his Department has received for the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme; and how many applicants to that scheme have (a) been excluded from the UK relocation option, (b) been accepted for relocation to the UK under category (i) one (ii) two and (iii) four and (c) not yet been informed of a decision on their application. (10390)
157 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to offer former locally employed staff, who fall outside the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme as they fled to third countries due to security threats, a route to relocation in the UK. (10391)
158 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan interpreters have moved to the UK under the intimidation scheme since its inception. (10172)
159 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2021 to Question 1008 on Chinook Helicopters: Procurement, for what reason the UK workshare for every Chinook manufactured varies between three and six per cent. (10186)
160 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the social value requirement for his Department's procurement contracts is being fulfilled for the purchase of 14 Extended Range Chinooks. (10187) 58 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
161 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2021 to Question 1009 on Chinook Helicopters: Procurement, for what reason there is a discrepancy in the reported sales cost for Extended Range Chinook Helicopters between (a) £1.4 billion stated in that answer and (b) £2.8 billion stated in the 2018 Defence Security and Cooperation Agency. (10190)
162 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Infrastructure Projects Authority has previously reported on standalone defence programmes. (10191)
163 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when assessing capital adequacy for US-based contracts, whether the decision to advance payment is based upon an examination of the finances of the US-listed company or its UK subsidiary. (10193)
164 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the decision was made to make advanced payments to General Dynamics with regards to the Ajax contract. (10194)
165 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will extend the support available to UK locally employed staff in Afghanistan to those employed by private firms involved in security operations supporting UK government staff, buildings and agencies in Afghanistan. (10254)
166 N Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of his Department’s ability to meet the initial operating capability for Ajax’s scheduled deployment in summer 2021 as planned. (10608)
167 N Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has his Department spent on the (a) development and (b) procurement of Ajax, by financial year. (10609)
168 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to roll out phase 2 of the Veterans' ID card. (10558)
169 N Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Saudi Air Force pilots (a) are currently training at RAF Valley and (b) have trained at RAF Valley annually in the last three years. (10169)
170 N Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households were at risk of bailiff enforcement in (a) Liverpool West Derby constituency and (b) England as of 1 June 2021. (10693)
171 N Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, wat estimate he has made of the number of households with 4 months’ or more accumulated rent arrears as of 1 June in (a) Liverpool West Derby Constituency and (b) England. (10694) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 59
172 N Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the potential number of households that will be in 2 months’ or more accumulated rent arrears as of 1 August 2021 in (a) Liverpool West Derby constituency and (b) England. (10695)
173 N Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what impact assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the reintroduction of bailiff enforcement from 1 June 2021 on homelessness. (10696)
174 N Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what impact assessment his Department has made of the effect of reintroduction of bailiff enforcement from 1 June 2021 on the risk of covid-19 transmission. (10697)
175 N Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the number of dwellings in each London borough which were granted planning permission between 2018 and 2019; and if he will provide a breakdown of that number for each London borough. (10417)
176 N Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the number of dwellings in each London borough which were granted planning permission and completed between 2010 and 2019; and if he will provide a breakdown of that number for each London borough. (10418)
177 N Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the number of dwellings in each London borough which were granted planning permission between 2010 and 2019; and if he will provide a breakdown of that number for each London borough. (10419)
178 N Kate Hollern (Blackburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to tackle out-of-area temporary accommodation. (10400)
179 N Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the powers available to local authorities to regulate the length of time letting agents are allowed to retain letting signs outside properties once the property is off the market. (10159)
180 N Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adding tourist information centres and points to the list of statutory services provided by local authorities. (10397) 60 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
181 N Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure the regional equity of legal hourly rates recovery. (10168)
182 N Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to introduce a mileage allowance which reflects the additional costs incurred by magistrates living in rural areas in undertaking their duties. (10319)
183 N Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Law Commission plans to publish its report on Taking, Making and Sharing intimate images without consent; and what the Government's timescale is for taking forward the recommendations of that report. (10207)
184 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to ensure that all drivers who use mobile phones to film or take photographs whilst driving are prosecuted. (10249)
185 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that drivers who browse the internet whilst driving face prosecution. (10250)
186 N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 19 April 2021 to Question WPQ 180453, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 5 March 2021 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire, resent on 19 April 2021, on flooding to underpasses in Skelmersdale, reference ZA55528. (10241)
187 N Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties on (a) the rights of British nationals resident in France and (b) residency rights of British nationals living in the EU following the UK's departure from the EU. (10243)
188 N Ed Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the EU’s sustainable finance action plan; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that the financial services sector in the UK is competitive in sustainable finance. (10151)
189 N Ed Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of report by the Asset Management Taskforce’s entitled Investing with Purpose: placing stewardship at the heart of sustainable growth, published in November 2020. (10152)
190 N John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the financial impact on savers with a National Savings and Investments (NS&I) account after the reduction of the premium bond prize fund rate from 1.4 per cent to 1 per cent in December 2020. (10160) Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021 61
191 N Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the use of umbrella companies to employ contractors does not lead to a repeat of the IR35 disguised remuneration tax situation for those contractors employed through umbrella schemes. (10485)
192 N Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to extend the Customs Grant Scheme. (10420)
193 N Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications his Department has received for the Customs Grant Scheme. (10421)
194 N Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications to the Customs Grant Scheme have been successful. (10422)
195 N Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has allocated to businesses under the Customs Grant Scheme. (10423)
196 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2021 to Question 78 on Landfill Tax, how the £1.563bn yield was calculated; and how his Department defines the risks referred to. (10185)
197 N Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2021 to Question 7284 on Scottish Government: Borrowing, if he will publish the (a) date and (b) detail of any request he has received from the Scottish Government on the extension of borrowing powers since 2015. (10670)
198 N Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2021 to Question 188144 on Government Assistance: Coronavirus, what work (a) has been completed, (b) is in progress and (c) is planned on using the experience gained by his Department during the covid-19 pandemic to inform contingency plans for potential future pandemics, including recurrences of covid-19; and if he will make a statement. (10346)
199 N Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of HMRC’s Large Business Directorate since its establishment in the context of his Department's 2014 strategy on Tackling aggressive tax planning in the global economy; and if he will make a statement. (10354)
200 N Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what work (a) Theleme Partners LLP (OC347655) and (b) partners in that company have undertaken for (i) his Department, (ii) other Departments and (iii) organisations for whose operations he is responsible to Parliament since 13 February 2020. (10355) 62 Published: Monday 7 June 2021 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 4 June 2021
201 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government plans to take steps to formally recognise British Sign Language in law. (10252)
202 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will introduce an enforcement mechanism for the Equality Act 2010 for circumstances where a disabled person does not have the financial means to enforce their rights in civil court. (10331)