Access to Elected Office Fund (Report) Bill: Second Reading – Daisy Cooper.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to use immunology to tackle (a) cancer and (b) other major public health challenges.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2022 to Question 7971 on Park Homes: Fees and Charges, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to change the annual index of park home pitch fees from the Retail Price Index to the Consumer Price Index before the summer recess.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has held discussions with her Brazilian counterpart on the UK’s deforestation footprint in that country, and in particular on the production and export of cattle and cattle products to the United Kingdom.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the eligibility for Cost of Living Payments for people on Low Income Benefits, if she will make it her policy to include receipt of Housing Benefit in the eligibility criteria for the award of £650 payments.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the eligibility for Cost of Living Payments, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a discretionary scheme for people who are (a) on low incomes and (b) in receipt of legacy benefits that are not included in the existing eligibility criteria.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the policy paper, Levelling Up and Regeneration: further information, published on 11 May 2022, whether it is his intention to allow councils to increase tax liability for second homes by up to 100 per cent, where the owners divide their time between their main home and their second home approximately...
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the policy paper, Levelling Up and Regeneration: further information, published on 11 May 2022, how many local authorities have indicated to his Department that they would welcome the power to increase council tax liability by up to 100 per cent on second homes.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to facilitate wider uptake of rapid point-of-care diagnostics in primary care settings in respect of covid-19 and influenza.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures his Department is putting in place to help support primary care settings to quickly and effectively access diagnostic testing platforms as part of their approach to managing respiratory infections.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to financially support local health systems to achieve greater uptake of rapid point-of-care diagnostics ahead of the forthcoming winter season.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Academy of Medical Sciences report, COVID-19: Preparing for the future, what steps his Department is taking to integrate multiplex testing that can distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza in primary and community care settings to help to reduce the transmission of both viruses.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report of Global Witness entitled Cash Cow, published on 23 June 2022, what steps his Department plans to take to prevent UK financiers from providing support to companies associated with deforestation.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June to Question 14617, with reference to the around £780 million funding allocated for bus infrastructure from the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements, how much and what proportion of that funding has been (a) allocated to (i) local authorities and (ii) city region partners and (b) spent by those authorities...
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June to Question 14617, with reference to the £42 million per year funding for Local Transport Authorities under the Bus Service Operators Grant scheme, how much and what proportion of that funding has been spent by those authorities on expenditure other than directly financing bus routes in each of the last five...
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that Afghan refugees accepted under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme receive their Biometric Residence Permits without undue delay.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's guidance entitled, Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 3: eligibility for British Council and GardaWorld contractors and Chevening Alumni, published on 13 June 2022, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the limit of 1,500...
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2022 to Question 14617, how much of the £525 million funding to deliver zero emissions buses has been allocated to local authorities as at 8 June 2022; and how much of that funding has been spent by local authorities on expenditure other than that which will deliver zero emissions buses.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June to Question 14617, with reference to the £1.1 billion funding for bus transformation deals for local transport authorities, how much (a) has been allocated to local authorities as at 8 June 2022, and (b) has been spent by local authorities on expenditure other than that which will deliver (i) London-style fares,...
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will develop a system to enable proxy access for patients via the NHS App between the EMIS and TPP systems used by GP surgeries.