Written answers

Thursday, 18 February 2021

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Broadband: Scotland and Wales

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has had discussions with his counterparts in the Scottish and Welsh Governments on the implementation of the...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • International Court of Justice

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made for implications of his policies on the decision of the International Criminal Court...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Coronavirus: Health Services and Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) support clinically vulnerable patients with underlying respiratory conditions suffering complications from...

    • Coronavirus: Cornwall

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the correlation between the high number of people from all tiers who visited Cornwall in summer 2020 and...

      Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure access to medical-grade FFP3 facemasks in all occupational settings for frontline health...

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that care home staff are able to obtain a QR code to attend walk-in testing facilities.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of using overseas testing capacity to meet (a) short, (b) medium...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) people over the age of 80 and (b) frontline health and social care staff in Greater Manchester have received the first dose...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish percentage rates of covid-19 vaccination for the (a) first and (b) second dose, by priority group, at Clinical...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether immunosuppressed people will receive the second dose of the covid-19 vaccine within the recommended three week period; and if he...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Weddings: Coronavirus

      To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Government will adjust the current restrictions on wedding ceremonies to allow them to be held in...

  • Department for Transport

    • East-West Rail Link: Electrification

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the planned rail link between Oxford and Cambridge will involve electrification of the entire line; and if not, why not.

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Employment Agencies: EU Countries

      To ask Her Majesty's Government to define whether hybrid companies, which offer both services and recruitment services in the EU, would be categorised as agencies or as service companies under...

    • Employment Agencies: EU Countries

      To ask Her Majesty's Government why the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement restricts service provision to a maximum of 12 months.

      Employment Agencies: EU Countries

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their understanding of the term 'agency' as it appears in the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement in the context of the employment of 'contractual...

      Employment Agencies: EU Countries

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, under the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, contract brokers are to be treated as service providers in a business-to-business relationship with...

      Sizewell C Power Station

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the response by Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist on 3 February (HL Deb, col 2168), whether they have made a decision to proceed with...

      Hydrogen: Job Creation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase manufacturing jobs in the UK hydrogen market.

      Hydrogen: Investment

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to incentivise private investment in the UK hydrogen market.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether migrants who have not paid the International Health Surcharge will be charged for a COVID-19 vaccination; and whether there will be any checks on a...

    • Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 tests were processed on each day between 7 and 14 October; and how long did it take to notify individuals of the results of those tests.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the concerns expressed by the Alzheimer’s Society on 1 February about the impact of delaying the second dose of COVID-19...

      Healthy Start Scheme: Vitamins

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the shelf life of Healthy Start vitamins; and what steps they take to ensure that such vitamins are delivered within at least three months of expiry.

      Test and Trace Support Payment

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether councils will be given discretion over the payment of the £500 self-isolation Test and Trace support grant so that councils can pay those claimants...

      Healthy Start Scheme: Vitamin D

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) level, and (2) adequacy, of Vitamin D content in Healthy Start vitamins.

      National Institute for Health Protection

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they made towards the development of the National Institute for Health Protection.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Honey Bees: Northern Ireland

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether honey bees moved from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK must be destroyed; and if so, why.

    • Animal Welfare: Brexit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what legislation is in place that expressly recognises animals as “sentient beings” and requires Government to pay full regard to animals as sentient...

  • Cabinet Office

    • UK Trade with EU

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 2 February (HL12298), whether they will now (1) answer the question put, namely whether they have made any...

    • Local Government: Elections

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to make provision for (1) the suspension, or (2) the cancellation, of polls on 6 May in the event of a local emergency, including a local...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Farmers: Broadband

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the report by the National Farmers Union NFU digital survey results, published on 8 February, and (2) the finding in that...

    • Rural Areas: Broadband and Mobile Phones

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the lack of rural broadband and mobile phone connectivity; and how they plan to address the issue.

      Gambling

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Barran on 7 January (HL Deb, col 281), and the statement that "the vast majority of people who gamble do not experience...

      UK Trade with EU: Non-tariff Barriers

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of non-tariff barriers to trade on small and medium-sized enterprises in the cultural sector which have exported to EU...

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