Written answers

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

  • Department for Transport

    • Elizabeth Line: Iron and Steel

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the provenance was of the steel used by Crossrail Ltd in the construction of the Elizabeth Line.

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Jewellery: Hallmarking

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of the EU's decision to not recognise British hallmarking...

    • Insolvency Service: Cambridge

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what equality impact assessment the Government has carried out for the closure of the Insolvency Service office in...

      Insolvency Service: Cambridge

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the planned closure of the Insolvency Service office in Cambridge, where interviews previously...

      Insolvency Service: Cambridge

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the local Chambers of Commerce or Federation of Small Businesses were consulted on the decision to close the...

      Warm Home Discount Scheme: Solihull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will publish the data it holds on the number of households in the Solihull Constituency that received...

      District Heating: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government plans to introduce legislative proposals regulating the heat networks sector.

      Natural Gas: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to cap the cost charged to residents who wish to remove the gas supply from their...

      Nuclear Reactors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to (a) identify and (b) allocate sites for new small modular reactors.

      Nuclear Reactors: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of deploying small modular reactors in Northern Ireland.

      Nuclear Power

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of nuclear power’s contribution to energy security in the UK.

      Energy Company Obligation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish details of ECO4; when he plans for that scheme to be operational; and what steps he is taking...

      Energy: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what further steps he is taking to improve the energy efficiency of domestic buildings.

      Ofgem: Carbon Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to reform Ofgem’s statutory duty to include oversight of meeting net-zero commitments.

      Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the process on retrofitting homes; and if he...

      Shipbuilding Credit Guarantee Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Home Shipbuilding Credit Guarantee Scheme.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Smoking: Reviews

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent staff from his Department worked on the Independent review of Smokefree 2030 policies.

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government accepts that some people have died as a direct result of having received a covid-19 vaccination; and if he will...

      Research: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the application process is for research funding from the National institute for Health and Care research and UKRI.

      Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: Surgery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the extent of backlogs in elective surgery at (a) the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust...

      Hospitals: Sutton

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his revised timetable is for the delivery of the new specialist emergency care hospital in Sutton.

      North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has had made on the adequacy of North-West Ambulance Service ambulance response times.

      Cystic Fibrosis: Mental Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) children and (b) adults with cystic fibrosis in England saw a clinical psychologist at their annual...

      Brain: Injuries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with permanent brain damage.

      Dementia: Diagnosis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the barriers to timely dementia diagnosis; what estimate he has made of the size of the...

      Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will increase funding for research into myalgic encephalomyelitis; and what steps he is taking to meet the additional needs of...

      Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2022 to Question 1082, on Disease Control, if he will provide details of the formal public hearings...

      World Health Assembly

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who will be the UK delegates attending the 75th World Health Assembly; what are their qualifications; what were the criteria governing...

      Dementia: Diagnosis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help promote innovation in dementia diagnosis.

      Disability Aids: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 16 March 2022 to Question 137964, if he will publish the joint letter sent on 15 December 2021 to all...

  • Department for Education

    • Free School Meals: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of ring-fencing the Universal Free School Meals allowance for catering use only.

    • Care Leavers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government plans to take to improve outcomes for care experienced young people.

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of refocusing the care system on early intervention as recommended by the independent...

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Sefton Council's Children's Social Care department.

      Pupils: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pre-reception and post-reception children can recover their ability to speak and understand...

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how membership of the Care Review Implementation Board of experts will be decided.

      Children: Day Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will undertake urgent reforms to the childcare sector, including allocating adequate funding to ensure that staff are sufficiently...

      Special Educational Needs: Sutton

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his revised timetable is for the delivery of a special educational needs school at the Rose Hill site in Sutton.

      Carers: Government Assistance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of support available to kinship carers.

      Apprentices: Environment Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Net Zero strategy, what steps the Government is taking to help promote apprenticeships in the environmental sector.

      Children: Social Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for the care system in response to the independent review of children's...

      John Fisher School

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Archdiocese of Southwark on the diocese's decision to (a) remove foundational governors from the Governing Board...

      Carew Academy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish his revised timetable for the (a) delivery of The Futures Academy school on the Sheen Way site and (b) decamp of staff and pupils...

      Further Education: Equality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact on pupils' learning of inclusive learning teams in each further education college.

      Schools: Asbestos

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to increase annual capital expenditure on schools in order to fund the removal of all dangerous asbestos from school...

      Free Schools: Sutton

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to revisit the decision on funding for Sutton Free School 1 in the event that data demonstrates a need for further secondary school...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Criminal Injuries Compensation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to respond to the Criminal Injury Compensation Scheme Review 2020.

    • Prisoners: Repatriation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the circumstances under which voluntary deportation to countries of origin is the appropriate course of action for people serving...

      Defamation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to prevent UK libel laws from being used to (a) prevent or (b) punish the exposure of wrongdoing in the international...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • China: Uyghurs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she is considering imposing additional sanctions on China due to the continued persecution of Uyghur...

    • UNRWA: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s stated zero tolerance approach to...

      Horn of Africa and East Africa: Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support the East and Horn of Africa in (a) preparing for future droughts,...

      British Overseas Territories: Ownership

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, in the context of the conflict in Ukraine, whether the Government plans to encourage British Overseas Territories...

      Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of her Department’s planned reduction of funding to multilateral...

      Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department plans to update the International Development Strategy to include specific targets on (a)...

      British Overseas Territories: Companies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has had discussions with authorities in (a) Bermuda, (b) British Virgin Islands and (c) the...

      British Overseas Territories: Companies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential risk that listed companies, including those that are Chinese...

      British Overseas Territories: Companies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to prevent companies from using lower regulatory standards in (a) Bermuda, (b)...

      British Overseas Territories

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that British Overseas Territories are not being used to...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • National Shipbuilding Office

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that the National Shipbuilding Office will maximise opportunities for work for UK shipyards in future public...

    • Army: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria his Department uses to measure social value in relation to army procurement.

      Defence: Innovation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which office in his Department will oversee the Defence BattleLab.

      Asylum: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which of his Department's sites are being considered for use as asylum accommodation in the future.

      Asylum: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether sites in his Department's estate were considered alongside RAF Linton-on-Ouse for use as an asylum accommodation site.

      Asylum: Linton-on-Ouse

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will (a) provide details of and (b) publish any agreement his Department has reached with the Home Office to enable the site at Linton-on-Ouse to...

      RAF Linton-on-Ouse

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who the owner or tenant is of the site at RAF Linton-on-Ouse; and whether that site has recently been sold or rented.

      Cybersecurity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle cyber attacks against the UK.

      Russia: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an estimate of the number of false flag operations conducted by Russia with the intention of legitimising military action in Ukraine.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Dogs: Electronic Training Aids

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2020 to Question 24232 on Dogs: Electronic Training Aids, what the merits for animal...

    • Gun Sports: Lead

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to encourage game hunters the change from lead-shot to steel-shot ammunition for shotguns.

      Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the recent outbreak of foot and mouth in Southeast Asia does not...

      Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the email dated 5 May 2022 from his Department's Bovine TB Programme to authors of a report cited in the...

      Water: Pyridine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the levels of pyridine in UK waters.

      Poultry: Factory Farming

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the implications for its policies of the Dispatches programme broadcast on 29...

      UK Trade with EU: Perishable Goods

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of facilitating a fast-track route for exports of perishable goods from...

      UK-EU Partnership Council

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish (a) the minutes of the last meeting of the Trade Specialist Committee, (b) a full list of Ministers who...

      Agriculture: Subsidies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing support payments and grants to farmers in England in the...

      Agriculture: Subsidies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of uplifting support payments and grants to farmers in England in the...

  • Home Office

    • Seasonal Workers: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which licenced sponsors under the T5 Temporary Worker Seasonal Worker immigration route are operating in Northern Ireland.

    • Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have arrived in the UK under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy Scheme and (b) Afghan Resettlement Scheme as...

      Immigration: EU Nationals

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average processing time for (a) applications to the EU Settlement Scheme and (b) a family permit under the EU Settlement Scheme...

      Aviation: Travel Requirements

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of introducing greater flexibility on the use of diacritics beyond the...

      Asylum: Employment

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2022 to Question 847, on Asylum: Employment, what steps her Department is taking to promote employment...

      Naturalisation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) number of recorded incidents there have been of errors on naturalisation certificates and (b) the average time for a corrected...

      Visas: Russia

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the war in Ukraine is having an impact on the (a) eligibility of Russian nationals for skilled worker visas and (b) availability of...

      Migrant Workers: Visas

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken for a skilled worker application linked to a defined certificate of sponsorship to be approved is; what...

      Migrant Workers: Visas

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken for a defined certificate of sponsorship to be approved is; what assessment she has made of backlogs for defined...

      Asylum: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2022 to Question 371, what proportion of Section 95 applications are resolved within the target time...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) number of enquiries were received in her Department's dedicated inbox for hon. Members and (b) proportion of those were responded...

      Seasonal Workers: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seasonal worker visas were issued to Ukrainian nationals registered to work for an employer located in Northern Ireland in 2021.

      Visas: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to resolve delays to processing of (a) visa applications for highly skilled workers and (b) visa sponsor licences.

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to provide data to the Hertfordshire Strategic Migration Steering Group on arrivals to Hertfordshire through the...

      UK Visas and Immigration: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to increase staffing levels on the dedicated advice line for hon. Members at UK Visas and Immigration in the context...

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications, where no additional information was needed to be requested from the applicant after receipt, were...

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications processed by her Department missed the 10-week processing target since 1 January 2022; and if she will make a...

      Windrush Compensation Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who sought a tier one review through the Windrush Compensation Scheme received an increased offer of compensation in each...

      Migrants: Employment and Private Rented Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an (a) equalities or (b) data impact assessment was undertaken before the introduction of changes to a digital-only portal for (i)...

      Immigration: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young people under 18 who hold limited leave to remain status are resident in each of the nations of the UK; and what estimate she...

      Immigration

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) applications and (b) appeals for indefinite leave to remain have been awaiting a final decision for longer than six months as...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 7 April and (b) 5 May 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11296.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 22 February 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11383.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 11 February 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL10748.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 23 March 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11393.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 9 February and (b) 17 March 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11291.

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 30 March 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL8349.

      Safer Streets Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) communications, (b) advertising and (c) marketing for the Safer Streets Fund.

      Catalytic Converters: Theft

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce catalytic converter thefts in (a) Carshalton and Wallington, (b) London and (c) the rest of the UK.

      Police: Protest

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the financial impact on police forces of lock-on protests.

      Asylum: Deportation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers have been deported from the UK since 2020.

      Undocumented Migrants: Rwanda

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a cap on the number of illegal immigrants who can be transferred to Rwanda under the Migration and Economic Development...

      British Nationality: Ilois

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason it is her policy that the new route for Chagossians to acquire British Nationality will be time-limited to five years from...

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that resettled Afghans are informed about life in the area of the UK in which they are offered...

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's MP hotline and subsequent selection of option 2 relating to the Homes for Ukraine scheme, what the...

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with HM Passport Office on tackling administrative delays that are lengthening the time taken to process...

      Passports: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to reduce the time taken to process passport applications and passport renewal applications.

      UK Visas and Immigration: Telephone Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the average waiting time on the MP UK Visas and Immigration helpline.

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Lewisham

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have arrived (a) in Lewisham East constituency and (b) within the Lewisham Council area through the Ukraine Family Scheme...

      Deportation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a record of the number of parents separated from their children as a result of deportations by her Department.

      Refugees: Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) administration of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and (b) routes by which...

      Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applications under the Homes for Ukraine scheme can be accepted where the applicant is a minor travelling with a family member who...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Buildings: Fire Prevention

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that building developers, which have not signed the building safety repairs...

    • Planning Authorities

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the (a) leadership, (b) capacity or (c) capability of planning departments in local...

      Council Housing: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to regularly inspect the (a) policies and (b) practices of local authority housing...

      Travellers: Sutton

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he has held discussions with representatives of the London Borough of Sutton on its Gypsy and Traveller site plan due...

      Green Belt: Planning Permission

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to urgently introduce statutory protections to protect green belt and greenfield sites from...

      Affordable Housing: Key Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will take steps to build affordable homes to ensure that keyworkers are able to afford homes in their...

      Buildings: Insulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that property developers are not able to avoid responsibility for...

      Planning: Renewable Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps through local planning to ensure that land approved...

      Help to Buy Scheme: Solihull

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will publish the data it holds on the number of households in the Solihull constituency that have...

      Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the timely delivery of house building programmes by local authorities...

  • Northern Ireland Office

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Internet: Bullying

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to address allegations of cyber bullying in the UK.

  • Home Office

    • Peers: Correspondence

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will respond to the email from Lord Berkeley to Lord Harrington of Watford sent on 22 April concerning the visa applications GWF064118049 and...

    • Educational Visits: EU Nationals

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reduction in the number of school groups visiting the UK from EU countries since the introduction of the requirement for...

      Coronavirus: Fixed Penalties

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many fixed penalty notices have been issued for infringements of the COVID-19 lockdown regulations; what was the (1) total, and (2) average, value of those...

      Asylum: Rwanda

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether asylum seekers removed to Rwanda as part of the UK–Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement will receive vaccinations for (1) Hepatitis A, (2) Tetanus,...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Company Accounts

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 20 May (HL31), what assessment they have made of the judgment given in the Caparo V Dickman case; and...

    • Advanced Research and Invention Agency

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in establishing the Advanced Research and Invention Agency; and when they expect it will start operating.

      Companies: Audit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to respond to the results of their consultation on Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance, which was published on 18 March 2021.

      Audit: Reform

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish their draft Audit Reform Bill; and what the next steps will be.

      Companies: Audit

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the draft Audit Reform Bill will include measures set out in the Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance white paper for stronger internal...

      Intellectual Property: Entertainers

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by Equity Stop AI Stealing the Show, published on 21 April, what assessment they have made of the effect of artificial intelligence,...

      Horizon Europe

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the UK’s application to be an associated country to Horizon Europe is not delayed because of problems relating to...

      Pauline Wallace

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 20 May (HL131), whether they asked Pauline Wallace for information when preparing their response; and...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Tunisia: Politics and Government

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the protests against President Kais Saied on 15 May, what assessment they have made of the political situation in Tunisia; and what discussions they...

    • Jerusalem: Religious Freedom

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of religious freedom for (1) Christians, and (2) Muslims, in Jerusalem, especially during Jewish festivals.

  • Treasury

    • Apprentices: Taxation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to modify the Apprenticeship Levy scheme to address (1) dissatisfaction from participants, and (2) concerns about its effectiveness.

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