Questions Tabled on Thu 23 May 2019
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Published: Friday 24 May 2019 Questions tabled on Thursday 23 May 2019 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 4 June Questions for Written Answer 1 Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) fines and (b) penalty notices his Department issued to public sector bodies for not adhering to the prompt pay policy in 2018. (257777) 2 Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 215097, what proportion of the £1,549 million total reported spend on consultancy services in 2017-18 was attributable to each Government Department. (257803) 3 Stephen Pound (Ealing North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people did not meet the personal identification requirement to be eligible to vote in the most recent Voter ID pilot areas. (257636) 4 Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK steel and steel products procured by his Department in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018. (257731) 5 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide a list of the guidance and regulations that his Department has issued across Government that are active. (257648) 6 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to review the EC6/UC1 process for the registration of EU citizens resident in the UK. (257792) 2 Published: Friday 24 May 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON THURSDAY 23 MAY 2019 7 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many EU citizens were registered to vote in the 2019 local elections. (257793) 8 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints were lodged with the Electoral Commission in (a) March 2019, (b) April 2019 and (c) May 2019. (257795) 9 Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his timescale is for publication of the Green Finance Strategy. (257760) 10 Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his plan is for the removal of the Under investigation marker from Flue Gas Heat Recovery products in the Government's Standard Assessment Procedure product characteristic database. (257639) 11 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2919 to Question 246964 on Post Office, which Ministers met with Tim Parker in the last 12 months. (257662) 12 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 246968 on Post Office: Corporate Hospitality, which Senior officials accepted hospitality from the Post Office; and what the dates were of the two board dinners hosted by the Post Office. (257663) 13 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2019 to Question 246965 on Post Office: Civil Proceedings, which Ministers met with Directors and Officials of the Post Office on each of those four occasions; and who were the Directors and Officials representing the Post Office at those occasions. (257664) 14 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of whether the Public Grant Funding Agreement between the Post Office and the NFSP Ltd represents value for money for the public purse. (257665) 15 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits that the use of public grant funding between Post Office and NFSP Ltd brings to Sub Postmasters. (257666) 16 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Public Grant Funding offered by the Post Office to NFSP Ltd was also offered to other organisations to bid for. (257668) Published: Friday 24 May 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON THURSDAY 23 MAY 2019 3 17 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many postmasters (a) are company members of NFSP Ltd and (b) have been registered as voting members with Companies House, as required by the Articles of Association of NFSP Ltd and the Grant Funding Agreement between Post Office and NFSP Ltd. (257669) 18 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether there is currently a policy of auto-enrolment to NFSP Ltd for individual postmasters. (257670) 19 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times (a) he and (b) his officials have met with the CEO of NFSP Ltd in the last 12 months. (257671) 20 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times the CEO of Post Office met with the CEO of NFSP Ltd in the last 12 months. (257672) 21 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the grant funding agreement between Post Office and NFSP Ltd was sanctioned by (a) the Board of Directors of Post Office and (b) his Department. (257673) 22 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment has he made of the ability of NFSP Ltd to act as an Independent representative body for Sub Postmasters. (257674) 23 Faisal Rashid (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to nationalise British Steel. (257820) 24 Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK steel and steel products procured by his Department in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018. (257727) 25 Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to request information from mobile operators on the localised effects of the installation of 5G on (a) people and (b) the natural environment. (257637) 26 Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the potential military applications of 5G technology. (257638) 27 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has any plans to increase the level of high needs block funding. (257811) 4 Published: Friday 24 May 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON THURSDAY 23 MAY 2019 28 Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how long the transitionary relief will last under the forthcoming increase in employer’s contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme; and whether that relief will apply to all institutions that employ staff in that scheme. (257732) 29 Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment on the effect of the increase to the employer’s contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme on the quality of education provided by Higher Education Institutions after the transitional protection has passed. (257733) 30 Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether non-UK EU students starting courses in September 2019 will be eligible for student loans. (257734) 31 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Philip Augur report on funding and post-18 education is planned for publication. (257746) 32 Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many official visits (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department made to educational facilities in (i) Barnsley and (ii) South Yorkshire in each year since their respective appointments. (257802) 33 Royston Smith (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has of the effect of people accessing the adult education budget on employment outcomes. (257779) 34 Royston Smith (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the socio-economic characteristics of people who have applied for Advanced Learner Loans in the most recent period for which figures are available. (257780) 35 Karin Smyth (Bristol South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to introduce a student premium modelled on the pupil premium for full- time students aged 16 to 19 as recommended by the Social Mobility Commission. (257771) 36 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of (a) rewilding and (b) other natural methods to tackle climate change.