Published: Monday 8 June 2020
Questions tabled on Friday 5 June 2020
Includes questions tabled on earlier days which have been transferred. T Indicates a topical oral question. Members are selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question. † Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. N Indicates a question for written answer on a named day under S.O. No. 22(4). [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.
Questions for Answer on Monday 8 June
Questions for Written Answer
1 Nick Fletcher (Don Valley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had Cabinet colleagues on allowing registry office ceremonies to resume by 2 July 2020. [Transferred] (55060)
2 Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has bring forward legislative proposals to ban companies from profiteering during the covid-19 outbreak. [Transferred] (55035)
3 N Dr Dan Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to make it compulsory to use gloves and face masks in the preparation of food in cafes and takeaways during the covid-19 outbreak. [Transferred] (53386)
4 Dawn Butler (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of support for BAME charities that are helping people disproportionately affected by covid- 19. [Transferred] (54027)
5 Dawn Butler (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that BAME charities are receiving support through the charity relief package announced in April 2020. [Transferred] (54028)
6 Dawn Butler (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he has taken to protect BAME charities from closure during the covid-19 outbreak. [Transferred] (54029) 2 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
7 Dawn Butler (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will ring-fence part of the charity relief package, announced in April 2020, for BAME charities. [Transferred] (54030)
8 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that distribution of food to communities with specific needs is maintained during the school holidays. [Transferred] (54156)
9 Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Department on the survey of wholesalers affected by the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (54085)
10 N Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice he is giving to local authorities, members of the public and others on the risk to health posed by giant hogweed; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (51620)
11 Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the decrease in the number of high street ATMs on (a) small businesses and retailers and (b) consumers. [Transferred] (54871)
12 Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on securing free access to cash through ATMs. [Transferred] (54872)
Questions for Answer on Tuesday 9 June
Questions for Written Answer
1 Alex Davies-Jones (Pontypridd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria his Department will use to determine the success of the Geospatial Commission’s National Underground Asset Register trials in London and the North East, announced in April 2019. (55137)
2 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people declared themselves as self-employed in each of the last three years in Linlithgow and East Falkirk. (55085)
3 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people in employment which primarily requires working at night in (a) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK in the last 12 months. (55088)
4 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of household debt in (a) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK in each year since 2015. (55089) Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020 3
5 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) women and (b) men working in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency earn less than £10 per hour. (55090)
6 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the ability of people who are shielding to access existing support for accessing (a) food, (b) medicines, (c) other essentials. (55056)
7 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) financial, (b) emotional an (c) additional support the Government plans to provide to people (i) who are shielding, (ii) who live with people who are shielding and (iii) identified as clinically vulnerable when the family members and volunteers they rely on return to work as lockdown restrictions are lifted during the covid-19 outbreak. (55058)
8 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency have received income under the feed-in tariff in the last five years for which figures are available. (55092)
9 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in (a) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK have prepayment meters; and what the change in the number of such meters was in each of those areas over the last five years. (55093)
10 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps is taking to ensure that people (a) who are shielding, (b) who live with people who are shielding and (c) identified as clinically vulnerable during the covid-19 outbreak but are not shielding are furloughed by employers where that is an option. (55057)
11 Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what contact his Department has had with regulatory agencies on the business practices of Yell Ltd. (55071)
12 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason Ofgem has halted work on the electricity charging reform. (55141)
13 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what percentage of the gas used in the UK each day currently qualifies for short-haul tariffs. (55142)
14 Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will undertake a consultation on how clean hydrogen can help cost-effectively decarbonise the UK economy. (55017) 4 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
15 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential financial effect on the higher education institutions of UK Research and Innovation's review of its Open Access policy. (55065)
16 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if UK Research and Innovation’s review of Open Access policy is independent from the work of the cOAlition S consortium. (55066)
17 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the UK Research and Innovation’s review of Open Access policy will be considered as part of the work undertaken by the Department’s research sustainability taskforce. (55067)
18 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate the Government has made of the number of people in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency who do not have access to the internet. (55086)
19 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to promote digital inclusion in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency (a) in general and (b) for hard to reach groups who have never accessed online content. (55087)
20 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many community radio stations have been awarded grants through the Community Radio Fund since its creation. (55052)
21 Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to support the families of pupils on free school meals in West Lancashire during the school summer holidays in 2020. (55037)
22 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to support the families of pupils on free school meals in Harlow during the school summer holidays in 2020. (55049)
23 Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support he plans to allocate to universities that lose income due to the loss of international student fees during the covid-19 outbreak. (55040)
24 Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to ensure the continued viability of subject-specialist universities after the covid-19 outbreak. (55041)
25 Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to support universities with international students who may be subject to quarantine policy due to the covid-19 outbreak. (55042) Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020 5
26 Navendu Mishra (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether additional Government funding will be made available to schools to cover the costs those schools have incurred in responding to the covid-19 crisis. (55133)
27 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of participation levels in the home learning curriculum set by schools during the covid-19 lockdown. (55051)
28 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the cost of requiring VI-1 import forms on all EU wines imported into the UK; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (54850)
29 Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average length of time was for the Environment Agency to process a waste permit application from point of first application to final determination in each of the last two years; and what proportion of waste permit applications took longer than six months to process. (55018)
30 Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) length of potential delays in processing waste permit applications at the Environment Agency and (b) potential effect of those delays on investment in new waste processing facilities. (55019)
31 Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of waste permit applications have taken longer than 12 months to process from point of first application to final determination in each of the last two years. (55020)
32 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what joint working officials in his Department are undertaking with officials in the (a) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (b) Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on providing financial support for agricultural and country shows. (55064)
33 Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how she plans to build on the UK’s leadership at the Global Vaccine Summit to help ensure a globally co-ordinated response to the covid-19 pandemic. (55038)
34 Sir George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will publish (a) a list of all current export licenses to the US of riot control projectiles and equipment including (i) who has purchased those items and (ii) their declared purpose; and if she will (A) suspend all existing licenses and (B) halt any new licenses for the export of riot control projectiles and equipment to the US if it is determined that such equipment is being used in the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. (55033) 6 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
35 David Simmonds (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that the UK benefits from Israeli thermal scanning technologies to detect covid-19. (55146)
36 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the British Transport Police on its investigation into the death of Belly Mujinga. [Transferred] (54933)
37 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the British Transport Police on releasing the CCTV footage of the assault of Belly Mujinga at Victoria Station on 21 March 2020. [Transferred] (54934)
38 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the (a) British Transport Police and (b) Crown Prosecution service on the decision by the British Transport Police not to refer the alleged assault of Belly Mujinga at Victoria Station on 21 March 2020 to the Crown Prosecution Service. [Transferred] (54935)
39 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies on quarantine for people entering the UK of the COVID-19 Aviation Health Safety Protocol published by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on 20 May 2020. (55053)
40 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (b) the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the effect of the covid-19 quarantine on the aviation industry. (55054)
41 Gareth Davies (Grantham and Stamford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that (a) public and (b) hospitality venue toilet facilities accessible for people with hidden disabilities and disabled children. (55140)
42 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Government has made of the number of workless households in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency. (55091)
43 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were discharged from mental health hospitals as part of the Government's response to the covid-19 outbreak between March and April 2020. (55098)
44 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new referrals there were to NHS secondary mental health services in March and April 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. (55099) Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020 7
45 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a safe return to face to face mental health appointments for people with severe mental illness. (55100)
46 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many inpatients in mental health hospitals have been diagnosed with covid-19 since March 2020. (55101)
47 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of whether the number of (a) detentions under the Mental Health Act, (b) referrals to NHS community mental health teams and (c) presentations at A&E with a primary recorded psychiatric diagnosis has been affected by the covid-19 pandemic. (55102)
48 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to data on deaths of people subject to the Mental Health Act 1983 from the Care Quality Commission on 7 May 2020, what assessment he has of changes in the level of deaths of people subject to that Act (a) where covid-19 was a factor in the death (b) overall since 1 March 2020. (55103)
49 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on school-based support for children with mental health needs when schools reopen to all pupils. (55104)
50 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that child and adolescent mental health service can meet the needs of children and young people when covid-19 lockdown is fully lifted. (55105)
51 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made in implementing the actions in chapters 3 and 4 of the Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper, published in December 2017. (55106)
52 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of updating the Carers Action Plan 2018-2020 with regard to support for BAME young carers in light of the disproportionate affect covid-19 has had on those communities. (55107)
53 Scott Benton (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Israel’s use of plasma samples obtained by Magen David Adom from patients who have recovered from covid-19 on patients with severe symptoms of that disease. (55132) 8 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
54 Nick Fletcher (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the level of risk of dentists using FFP2 masks instead of FFP3 masks when carrying out dental work; and what discussions he plans to have with representatives from insurance providers to ensure that dental practices using FFP2 masks are insured. (55136)
55 Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to issue revised guidance for managing a funeral during the covid-19 outbreak; and what changes the Government plans to make to that guidance. (55114)
56 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussion (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in the Treasury on plans to introduce a compensation fund for people affected by mesh implants. (55036)
57 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the length of time that people identified as extremely clinically vulnerable will have to continue to shield for during the covid-19 outbreak. (55075)
58 Navendu Mishra (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide more level three personal protective equipment (PPE) to urgent dental care sites in Greater Manchester so that those sites have adequate PPE required to deliver aerosol generating procedures. (55134)
59 Navendu Mishra (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of a potential increase in cancer mortality rates as a result of delays to treatment and surgery arising from the covid-19 outbreak. (55135)
60 Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2020 to Question 47250 on Dyslexia: Diagnosis, what his policy is on identifying and diagnosing dyslexia in the adult population. (55048)
61 David Linden (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2020 to Question HL3434, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy on the veracity of statements on covid-19 in Bahrain prisons from the Bahraini National Institute for Human Rights of the 9 April 2020 Reuters article which found that prisoners in that country were subject to overcrowding, poor sanitation and lack of medical care. (55115)
62 Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what travel will be classed as essential under the terms of his Department's covid-19 Exceptional Travel Advisory Notice. (55039) Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020 9
63 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for regional security in Iran of the expiration of the UN conventional arms embargo on Iran in October 2020. (55143)
64 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the Middle East peace process. (55144)
65 Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of Hamas’s rule in Gaza on regional stability. (55145)
66 Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the effect provisions in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 relating to pre-charge bail on victims domestic abuse. (55017)
67 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times nuclear convoys travelled through Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency in the most recent year for which data is available. (55094)
68 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what scientific advice he has received on the safe reopening of places or worship, and if he will publish that advice. (55108)
69 Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the weddings industry on the timescale for easing covid-19 restrictions to allow small weddings to take place. (55045)
70 Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what scientific advice his Department received in advance of updated the guidance entitled, Government advice on home moving during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. (55121)
71 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2020 to Question HL3740, what assessment he has made of level of resources required to secure delivery of the over 10,000 affordable homes supported through the Community Housing Fund that can be delivered relatively quickly once capital funding is made available; if he will make it his policy to provide bridging funding to enable those projects that are ready to be delivered to get on site by the Autumn; and if he will make a statement. (55044)
72 Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the number of workers who only hold contracts covered by the off payroll working rules. (55021) 10 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
73 Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the (a) Financial Conduct Authority and (b) Payment Systems Regulator on a minimum service guarantee for cash; and what the planned timescale is for the introduction of new legislation protecting access to cash announced in Budget 2020. (55082)
74 Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support his Department is providing to people who require access to offline or face-to-face banking during the covid-19 outbreak. (55083)
75 Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of retailers refusing cash as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and what progress has been made on bringing forward legislative proposals to protect consumer access to cash. (55084)
76 Kate Hollern (Blackburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to extend eligibility for the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant to food and drink wholesalers that supply to care homes, hospitals and schools. (55060)
77 Kate Hollern (Blackburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the application of business rates relief to food and drink wholesalers. (55061)
78 John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent comparative assessment he has made of the competitiveness of NS&I and high street bank savings product interest rates. (55109)
79 Naz Shah (Bradford West): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether supermarkets that remain open during the covid-19 outbreak have been provided with business rates relief. (55068)
80 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment the Government has made of the economic effect of the covid-19 quarantine on (a) airlines, (b) airports, and (c) tourism and hospitality businesses. (55055)
81 N John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of (a) tear gas, (b) rubber bullets and (c) riot shields exported to the US in each of the last five years. [Transferred] (54854)
82 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial support is available for providers of agricultural and country shows during the covid-19 outbreak; and what support is available for mobile providers of those shows who do not have fixed property. (55063) Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020 11
Questions for Answer on Wednesday 10 June
Questions for Written Answer
1 N Alex Davies-Jones (Pontypridd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that the National Underground Asset Register developed by the Geospatial Commission will not affect the financial sustainability of private business that map underground assets and support utility strike avoidance. (55138)
2 N Alex Davies-Jones (Pontypridd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Geospatial Commission plans to publish (a) the full findings of its trial to develop a National Underground Asset Register and (b) the business case and timeframe for the development of that service. (55139)
3 N Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his oral contribution of 28 April 2020, Official Report, column 218, how many face coverings have been produced since 28 April 2020. (55073)
4 N Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many face coverings for use by the general population are held by Government. (55074)
5 N Naz Shah (Bradford West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on advertisements in print newspapers during the covid-19 outbreak; which newspapers have received sponsored content from the Government during the outbreak; and what criteria the Government uses to determine which newspapers will receive such sponsored advertisements. (55070)
6 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what adjustment his Department has made to the grant allocated to NCS Trust as a result of the cancellation of summer programmes this year following the covid-19 outbreak. (55022)
7 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been allocated to NCS in each year since its inception; how much funding was budgeted for in 2020; and if he will also publish that figure as spend per participant. (55023)
8 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many youth workers contracted by the NCS programme have been furloughed. (55024)
9 N Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to issue guidance on the reopening of caravan parks in accordance with the Good to Go pan-UK kite mark scheme for tourism businesses. [R] (55050) 12 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
10 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by what date schools will start teaching Relationships Education, Health Education and Relationships and Sex Education; and if he will make a statement. (55031)
11 N Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to establish a Food Standards Commission to regulate standards of food safety. (55095)
12 N 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 effect on the welfare of animals in zoos, safari parks, aquariums and farm visitor attractions of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020. (55122)
13 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date he plans to publish a further consultation on the design of the deposit return scheme. (55111)
14 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date he plans to introduce (a) a deposit return scheme and (b) extended producer responsibility. (55112)
15 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential for consumers to switch from aluminium cans in multi-packs to large plastic bottles as an unintended consequence of a deposit return scheme. (55113)
16 N Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has allocated fifty per cent of Official Development Assistance to support the response of fragile states to the covid-19 pandemic. (55128)
17 N Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to (a) local markets, (b) SMEs and (c) the informal economy in fragile and conflict affected states during the covid-19 pandemic. (55129)
18 N Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how overseas aid is being used to mitigate the economic effect of the covid-19 pandemic by supporting people in the informal economy in fragile places. (55130)
19 N Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how Overseas Development Assistance is helping communities manage social tensions that are being exacerbated by the covid-19 pandemic. (55131)
20 N Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with representatives of the International Airlines Group on the proposed redundancies at British Airways. (55097) Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020 13
21 N Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what evidence he has received on the use of face coverings on public transport to help prevent the spread of covid-19 since 22 May 2020. (55072)
22 N Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claims for universal credit that have been processed by her Department since 29 March 2020 have resulted in people not qualifying for a payment. (55062)
23 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what equality impact assessments her Department has undertaken on people who have been refused access to social security benefits as a result of being subject to No Recourse to Public Funds restrictions with in relation to (a) race and (b) other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. (55079)
24 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has in place to ensure that benefit claimants who (a) are shielding due to the covid- 19 outbreak and (b) have caring responsibilities are not sanctioned if they are unable to take up employment when conditionality easements for (i) universal credit and (ii) jobseeker's allowance come to an end on 30 June 2020. (55028)
25 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June to Question 51540, on Social Security Benefits, if she will publish the equality impact assessment on the potential effect of the benefit cap in relation to the recent increase to (a) the standard allowance of universal credit and (b) local housing allowance. (55030)
26 N Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many care settings have applied for covid-19 tests through the gov.uk online portal; and how many of those tests have been completed in England, broken down by county. (55123)
27 N Geraint Davies (Swansea West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits for people's health of the reduction in air pollution during the covid-19 lockdown. (55027)
28 N Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the planned timescale is for the roll-out of Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy; and if he will make a statement. (55043)
29 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what equality impact assessments his Department has undertaken in relation to the effect of No Recourse to Public Funds restrictions on health outcomes by (a) race and (b) other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. (55080) 14 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
30 N Alex Sobel (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release of 18 December 2019, All nursing students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back, when student nurses will receive that payment. (55116)
31 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2020 to Question 47169, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the resourcing of NHS England to enable it to publish timely standard operating procedures during the covid-19 outbreak. (55029)
32 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish the White Paper on reforming the Mental Health Act 1983. (55124)
33 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether plans to implement the NHS Long Term Plan in respect of mental health will be affected by the covid-19 outbreak. (55125)
34 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new referrals there were to NHS secondary mental health services in March and April (a) 2020 and (b) 2019. (55126)
35 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a safe return to face-to-face mental health appointments for people with severe mental illness during the covid-19 outbreak. (55127)
36 N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral statement of 2 June 2020, Official Report, column 682 on Hong Kong National Security Legislation: UK Response, and his response at column 691 that the Home Office is considering representations on behalf of former Hong Kong Military Service Corps personnel who were not awarded UK passports between 1990 and 1997, if he will take steps with the Home Secretary to ensure that those estimated remaining 250 to 300 military and naval veterans and their families are now permitted to apply for UK passports. (55016)
37 N Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timescale is for UK ratification of the Istanbul Convention; and if she will make a statement. (55096)
38 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the instruction to caseworkers that was ordered to be published in paragraph 76(b) of the judgment of W&J v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/3036/2019). (55076) Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020 15
39 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her department has made of the effect of the No Recourse to Public Funds restrictions on (a) BAME communities and (b) other communities. (55077)
40 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what equality impact assessments her Department has undertaken on the effect of No Recourse to Public Funds’ restrictions in relation to (a) race and (b) other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. (55078)
41 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her Department’s equality impact assessment on the No Recourse to Public Funds policy. (55032)
42 N Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release, published on 14 May 2020, if he will publish local authority data in the format of Table 3 in that document for all (a) social sector buildings identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations, (b) social sector buildings identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations yet to be remediated, (c) private sector buildings identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations and (d) private sector buildings identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations yet to be remediated. (55117)
43 N Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 10 of his Department's Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release published on 14 May 2020, in which regions the 13,500 to 17,200 dwellings in the 180 private blocks with aluminium composite material cladding systems yet to be remediated are. (55119)
44 N Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page nine of his Department's Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release published on 14 May 2020, in which regions the 6,400 dwellings in social sector blocks with aluminium composite material cladding systems yet to be remediated are. (55120)
45 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress he has made on enabling local authorities to issue fines for (a) inconsiderate driving and (b) pavement parking. (55025)
46 N Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) powers and (b) guidance has been given to Local Authorities to enable local lockdowns in the event of an increase in covid-19 cases in their local area. (55059) 16 Published: Monday 8 June 2020 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Friday 5 June 2020
47 N Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to enable faith venues that are approved for the registration of marriages to hold small wedding ceremonies with only the couple, celebrant and witnesses in attendance. (55035)
48 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on enabling coroners to investigate stillbirths; and when he plans to publish the outcome of the public consultation entitled, Consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths, that closed in June 2019. (55026)
49 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average custodial sentence was for people convicted of assaulting an emergency worker in the most recent period for which figures are available. (55046)
50 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many maximum 12-month custodial sentences have been given since the sentence for assaulting an emergency worker was doubled. (55047)
51 N Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Prime Minister, for what reasons the Government has purchased £5 million worth of hydroxychloroquine before clinical trials have proved the effectiveness of that drug against covid-19. (55110)
52 N Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he made of the (a) number of blocks (b) cost per block and (c) cost per dwelling of removing dangerous non-ACM cladding when calculating the £1 billion Building Safety Fund. (55118)
53 N Naz Shah (Bradford West): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether business rate relief has been paid to businesses that are registered in tax havens. (55069)
54 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what equality impact assessments have been undertaken on the differential effect of No Recourse to Public Funds in relation to (a) race and (b) other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. (55081)
Questions for Answer on Thursday 11 June
Questions for Written Answer
1 N Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received in support of a reduced UK VAT rate of 5 per cent for tourism attractions and accommodation providers; and if he will make an assessment of the potential benefit to the tourism sector of that proposition in advance of his next Budget. (55034)