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Sarah Olney: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether news publishers will be included in the types of third parties that firms designated as having Strategic Market Status by the Digital Markets Unit will be required to trade with on fair and reasonable grounds.
Lord Markham: .... The timing of the decommissioning of existing vehicles is a matter for individual ambulance trusts. NHS England is working with ambulance trusts to quantify fleet replacement plans as they are firmed up over the coming months.
Lord Sahota: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps are being taken to promote free movement for lawyers between England and Wales and India, including steps (1) to make visas easier to obtain, and (2) to streamline processes relating to qualifications.
Nigel Huddleston: The opportunity to use the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will depend on individual firms’ supply chains and investment decisions, but will be additional to opportunities under a number of existing bilateral agreements with individual CPTPP member states. Using CPTPP rules of origin, British businesses could take advantage of new export...
Mike Freer: ...actions for 2023 in December 2022: https://judicialappointments.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/ 12/JDF-Priorities.pdf which includes actions we are taking as a Department. This includes support for lawyers from groups under-represented in the judiciary through the Pre-Application Judicial Education programme and reviewing the application processes and barriers for non-traditional lawyers,...
Andrew Griffith: ...arrears nationally remain at historically low levels for the last six and twelve months. Where mortgage borrowers do fall in financial difficulty, Financial Conduct Authority guidance requires firms to offer tailored support. This could include a range of measures depending on individual circumstances. The Government has also taken a number of measures aimed at helping people to avoid...
Andrew Griffith: The FCA has a clear process for evaluating cryptoasset firms' applications to ensure they meet the minimum Anti Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing standards for operating in the UK. This involves assessing the fitness and propriety of the individuals running the firms and the adequacy of their systems to prevent criminal financial flows. The FCA has received over 300 applications...
Andrew Griffith: ...checks. These confirm whether the name of a payee’s account matches the name and account details provided by a payer. In 2022 the PSR issued a direction which will require the vast majority of firms to rollout Confirmation of Payee, increasing coverage from 92% to 99% of all payments by October 2023.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: ...held by the Mandatory Provident Fund in Hong Kong. The root of the problem is the Chinese Government's decision not to recognise the BN(O) passport as a valid identity document in Hong Kong. The UK firmly opposes the discrimination of BN(O)s in this way. We have urged the Hong Kong authorities to facilitate the early drawdown of funds as is the case for other Hong Kong residents who move...
Baroness Neville-Rolfe: ...is using the current period of engagement to listen and gather views through a series of thematic in-person and virtual workshops with the UK’s major supermarkets, logistics and transport firms, and with Business Representative Organisations, to further explore the costs of implementing the new model, and to ensure importing is as smooth as possible where checks are needed. We will...
Baroness Neville-Rolfe: ...is using the current period of engagement to listen and gather views through a series of thematic in-person and virtual workshops with the UK’s major supermarkets, logistics and transport firms, and with Business Representative Organisations, to further explore the costs of implementing the new model, and to ensure importing is as smooth as possible where checks are needed. We will...
Dan Carden: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department will begin to record information on the reasons for the granting of warrants to allow energy firms to force entry into people's homes.
Matthew Offord: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take legislative steps to prevent the use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.
Andrew Griffith: ...continues to support numerous fraud-prevention initiatives, including the Payments Systems Regulator’s work to enhance information sharing between payment providers. Information sharing between firms plays a key role in identifying scammers and preventing scams. As noted in the Home Office’s recent Fraud Strategy, the Government, regulators and industry are working together to identify...
Andrew Griffith: ...Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England, which is independent of Government. Where mortgage holders do fall into financial difficulty, Financial Conduct Authority guidance requires firms to offer tailored support. This could include a range of measures depending on individual circumstances. The Government has also taken a number of measures aimed at helping people to...
Andrew Griffith: ...access to these products. In developing this approach, the Government consulted extensively with consumer groups and industry stakeholders to understand the impact of its proposals on consumers and firms. A further consultation on the draft secondary legislation that will bring BNPL into regulation closed on 11 April. The Government is now carefully considering stakeholder feedback and...
Nusrat Ghani: ...prices. The British Industry Supercharger aims to remove policy costs to reduce the long-term industrial electricity price gap between the UK and competitor countries. Proposals will exempt firms from costs arising from renewable energy obligations and GB Capacity Market costs. It will also offer support with network charges, for which an amendment has been introduced to the Energy Bill....
Robert Jenrick: I recognise the important work of the APPG for Safeguarding in Faith Communities and I responded to your 17 April letter on 12 May. The Government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse, and the Inquiry’s final report marks an important milestone in that regard. We have been working across government to carefully consider the Inquiry’s final recommendations....
David Rutley: The UK firmly supports the right of civil society to operate freely in all countries, including Venezuela. Recent years have seen a worrying deterioration of the human rights situation in Venezuela, where the Maduro regime has used force against peaceful protesters, stifled media freedom, carried out arbitrary detentions and harassed journalists and human rights defenders. The UK is closely...
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: Sports policy is a devolved matter, and the allocation of funding for stadia is a matter for the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. It remains the UK Government’s firm view that the right people to make these decisions are locally elected politicians in a fully functioning Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly.
