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Written questions

Emily Thornberry

4,857 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Litigation Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what services the Government Legal Department’s Litigation Group has provided to his Department since 1 January 2021.

6 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Litigation Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what services the Government Legal Department’s Litigation Group has provided to his Department since 1 January 2021.

6 Dec 2021 · Home Office

Home Office: Litigation Group

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what services the Government Legal Department’s Litigation Group has provided to her Department since 1 January 2021.

6 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Litigation Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what services the Government Legal Department’s Litigation Group has provided to her Department since 1 January 2021.

6 Dec 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Litigation Group

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what services the Government Legal Department’s Litigation Group has provided to his Department since 1 January 2021.

6 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Litigation Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what services the Government Legal Department’s Litigation Group has provided to his Department since 1 January 2021.

29 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Overseas Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the provisions on trade in the new Trade and Defence Pact she signed with Israel on 29 November 2021 will remove or supersede the prohibitions to duty drawback in the UK-Israel Tr

29 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Overseas Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the new Trade and Defence Pact she signed with Israel on 29 November 2021 will permit manufacturers in UK freeports making tariff-free imports of raw materials to utilise tariff r

26 Nov 2021 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU: Exports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be any change in the frequency of (a) customs, (b) sanitary and phytosanitary and (c) safety and security checks applied at UK ports in relation to exports to the EU in the weeks leading up to Chr

26 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Ports: Infrastructure

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the impact of the construction of additional border infrastructure on the functioning of UK ports in the weeks leading up to Christmas 2021

26 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Trade Barriers: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment she has made of the effect of increased non-tariff barriers facing UK imports from the EU on (a) supply chains for UK manufacturers, and (b) the availabil

26 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Shipping: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of increased shipping costs on (a) supply chains for UK manufacturers and (b) the availability of imported goods in the weeks leading up

26 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reason the figure of 175 published in her Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20 on 16 July 2020 for the number of market access barriers fully or partly resolved in financial year 2

26 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reason the figure of 1,238 published in her Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20 on 16 July 2020 for the number of market access barriers reported to the Digital Market Access Serv

26 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of the market access barriers fully or partly resolved by her Department between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020 were reported to the Government’s Digital Market Access Service (a) between tho

26 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of the 217 market access barriers fully or partly resolved in financial year 2020-21 were reported to the Government’s Digital Market Access Service prior to 1 April 2020.

26 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of the 787 market access barriers reported to the Government’s Digital Market Access Service between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021 were (a) fully resolved or (b) partly resolved within that

25 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Teesside Freeport: Switzerland

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2021 to Question 78372, on Teesside Freeport: Switzerland, when and through which forums were changes to the rules of origin provisions in the UK-Switzerland FTA

25 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Teesside Freeport: Switzerland

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2021 to Question 78372, Teesside Freeport: Switzerland, which products that were previously subject to duty drawback prohibitions under the UK-Switzerland FTA are

25 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Overseas Trade: Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the announcement on 22 September 2021 of an end to the ban on the export of UK lamb to the United States, when she plans to update her Department’s list of market access barriers to

25 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

UK Trade with EU: Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of the market access barriers logged on the Government’s Digital Market Access Service system as of 1 November 2021 relate to access to markets within the European Union.

25 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

UK Trade with EU: Trade Barriers

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of the market access barriers resolved by her Department in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22 up to 1 November 2021 have related to access to markets within the European Union.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Exports: Middle Class

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which of the income thresholds referred to in Footnote 5 of her departmental strategy paper, Made in Britain, Sold to the World, published on 17 November 2021, were used to define the global middle cl

23 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Overseas Trade: Middle Class

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what income thresholds were used to define the global middle class in the Board of Trade's report Global Britain, Local Jobs, published on 10 March 2021.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: India

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what income thresholds were used to define the (a) global and (b) Indian middle class in her departmental information note on a Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom and India, published on

23 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Overseas Trade: Middle Class

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what income thresholds were used to define the global middle class in her departmental report Global Trade Outlook, published on 13 September 2021.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: Middle Class

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what income thresholds were used to define the global middle class in her departmental paper UK Accession to CPTPP: The UK’s Strategic Approach, published on 22 June 2021.

19 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Teesside Freeport: Mexico

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if manufacturers in the Teesside Freeport making tariff-free imports of raw materials can utilise the tariff reductions agreed in the UK-Mexico Trade Continuity Agreement when exporting their finished

19 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Teesside Freeport: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether manufacturers in the Teesside Freeport making tariff-free imports of raw materials can utilise the tariff reductions agreed in the UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement when exporting thei

19 Nov 2021 · Department for International Trade

Teesside Freeport: Singapore

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if manufacturers in the Teesside Freeport making tariff-free imports of raw materials can utilise the tariff reductions agreed in the UK-Singapore Free Trade Agreement when exporting their finished pr

Source: official written-questions record.