Written answers

Friday, 24 April 2020

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    • China: Uighurs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the treatment of the Uyghur community in the Xinjiang Region of...

    • Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the withdrawal of press credentials from journalists from the Wall...

      China: Uighurs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the detainment of people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Health Services: EU Action

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is participating in daily EU Health Ministers conference calls; and if he will make a statement.

    • Coronavirus: Public Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which languages public health information and guidance on covid-19 guidance will be translated into by the Government; if he will make it...

      NHS: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people working in (a) warehouse, (b) packing and (c) delivery services of manufacturers of medical devices supplied to the NHS...

      Dementia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish its strategy for the delivery the dementia moonshot.

      Dementia

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Comprehensive Spending review will include funding for the delivery of the dementia ,moonshot.

      Coronavirus: Delivery Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) warehouse and (b) delivery staff are classified as key workers during the covid-19 outbreak.

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Aerospace Industry: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the outcomes of contracts between his Department and companies within the aerospace industry are not...

    • Aerospace Industry: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that payments made to companies that have aerospace contracts with that Department are timely.

      Aerospace Industry: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of the financial security of the aerospace sector on SMEs in the supply chain for Government contracts.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2020 to Question 10759, what the value of deductions to universal credit payments has been, by...

    • Redundancy: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to publish guidance for people that have been made redundant as a result of covid-19 on the JobCentre Plus...

      Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of how many and what proportion of people need support accessing food; and what proportion of these people need...

      Universal Credit: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish information on the increase in the number of universal credit claimants by local authority area since the...

      Occupational Pensions: Stoke-on-trent North

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Stoke-on-Trent North constituency have (a) opted out after being auto-enrolled into a workplace...

      Universal Credit: Pensioners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have been required to make a claim for universal credit rather than pension credit due to the fact that their partner did...

      Pensions: Advisory Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Money and Pensions Service will publish a report on the behavioural trials it has conducted on nudging savers towards pensions guidance.

      Pensions: Advisory Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discusssions she has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on when it plans to (a) publish and (b) implement regulations on providing...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Migrant Workers

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of UK nationals working as contractors who have been replaced by specialists from overseas in the latest period...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Broadband: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to meet the demands placed on the national broadband infrastructure to support people...

    • Broadcasting: Equality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page four of the report published by Ofcom on 18 September 2019 entitled Diversity and equal opportunities...

      Telecommunications: Stoke On Trent

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the effective delivery of broadband and telecommunications in (a)...

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