Written questions

528 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Newport Wafer Fab: Nexperia

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings he has had with Nexperia on the takeover of Newport Wafer Fab.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Semiconductors

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that UK access to semiconductors is not hindered by lack of domestic production.

19 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the day-to-day impact of fraud on the general public.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Advanced Research and Invention Agency: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he expects to announce the new chief executive of the Advance Research and Innovation Agency.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what percentage of requests for flexible working by staff working in his Department were granted in each of the last five years.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department’s flexible working policy was last updated.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that it retains its leader status in the disability confident employer scheme.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether has has made an assessment of the effect of increases in energy prices on the cost of running buildings owned by his Department.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Apprentices: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has met the public sector apprenticeship target in each of the last five years.

28 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Sanctions: Russia

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any Ministers or senior civil servants in his Department have met anyone currently subject to sanctions imposed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the last 18 months.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Bounce Back Loan Scheme: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2022 to Question 135713 on Business: Coronavirus, how much of the amount lost from the public purse to fraud in the Bounce Back Loan Scheme has

28 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Health and Social Care Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to employers of the health and social care levy, by region.

28 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Health and Social Care Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to employers of the health and social care levy by sector.

28 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Infosys: Russia

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on UK involvement with Infosys in response to that company's ongoing operational links to Russia.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many proposals launched in the 2020 consultation entitled Reforming Regulation Initiative, have been implemented by his Department as of 18 February 2022.

14 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Audit: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of auditors required to extend the definition of public interest entities under the proposals set out in their consultation on

14 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Banks: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether defining non-complex retail financial institutions as Public Interest Entities is in line with (a) HM Treasury's work on proportionate regulation, (b) the Prudential Regul

14 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Banks: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of continuing to include small non-complex retail financial institutions in the definition of public interest entit

13 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

SureScreen Diagnostics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 lateral flow tests were supplied to NHS Test and Trace by SureScreen Diagnostics in each month between February 2021 and January 2022.

13 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surescreen Diagnostics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when approval was sought for the packaging design of covid-19 lateral flow tests by SureScreen Diagnostics; and when that approval was granted.

13 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surescreen Diagnostics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department gave approval to SureScreen Diagnostics for the supply of their covid-19 lateral flow tests.

13 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surescreen Diagnostics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when SureScreen Diagnostics sought Government approval for the use of their covid-19 lateral flow tests.

9 Dec 2021 · Treasury

Business: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the economic impact of the covid-19 restrictions announced on 8 December 2021.

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current level of staffing of the Child Maintenance Service.

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Job Entry Targeted Support

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who were receiving support from the Job Entry Support Scheme have been subsequently referred to the Restart scheme.

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Restart Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are currently receiving support from the Restart scheme.

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Restart Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have successfully moved into employment after a referral to the Restart scheme.

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the recent Thanksgiving holiday in the United States on the ability of pensioners abroad to receive their weekly state pension.

26 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the 12 month limit for back-payments to those couples affected by the underpayment of their state pension where the wife of a man who turned 65 before 17 March 2008 did n

26 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the appropriateness of exclusively using an American company to process payments of the state pension to British citizens living overseas which leaves claimants without

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