Written questions

4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Dec 2020 · Department for Transport

Travel: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide Test to Release capacity in the North East of England.

15 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the recommendations on regional innovation made in the Core Cities UK Universities Declaration.

15 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide local public health teams with flexibility to co-ordinate vaccine rollout with risk levels in local areas.

15 Dec 2020 · Treasury

Google: Digital Services Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of Google's reported treatment of Digital Services Tax as a regulatory cost in an email to customers of that company.

15 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Retail Trade: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the implications of Amazon's decision to pass the Digital Services Tax onto its retail customers for the level of competition in digital retai

15 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Google: Digital Services Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of Google's decision to pass the Digital Services Tax onto its advertising customers on the level of competition in digital advertising; a

15 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Manufacturing Industries: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Made Smarter scheme has been rolled-out across the country.

15 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his oral answer on 14 December 2020, Official Report, column 46, whether people with learning disabilities are in the same priority category for covid-19 vaccinations as 75 year olds; a

15 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his oral answer on 14 December 2020, Official Report, column 46, what definition of elderly is being used for prioritisation of covid-19 vaccinations for people in care homes for the el

15 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Training: Remote Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many digital skills courses have been provided to UK SMEs by the Skills Toolkit since April 2020.

15 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Business: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses that have used the Digital Boost platform since April 2020.

15 Dec 2020 · Treasury

Financial Services: Digital Technology

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Royal Society's report entitled, Digital Technology and the Planet, published on 3 December 2020, what plans he has to ask the Financial Conduct Authority to develop guidance on the energy prop

15 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Digital Services Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect on small businesses of large technology firms directly passing on the Digital Services Tax to online retailers using their platforms; and

15 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the UK Shared Prosperity Fund will match existing financial support for research infrastructure, skills programmes and research intensive businesses provided by European

15 Dec 2020 · Cabinet Office

Health

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will introduce a quarterly report on gross domestic wellbeing as proposed by the CarnegieUK Trust in its 2020 report entitled Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GDWe): an al

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Counterfeit Manufacturing: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to recognise the European Commission Memorandum of Understanding on the sale of counterfeit goods on the internet after the end of the transition per

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Digital Technology: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the implications for (a) his policies, (b) research funding frameworks and (c) Industrial Strategy Challenge Funds of the findings of the report ent

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he had has with the Minister for the Cabinet office on proposals for a new UK research funding agency broadly modelled on the US Defense Advanced Research

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

OneWeb

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2020 to Question 83800 on OneWeb and with reference to the Spending Review 2020, from which area of his Departmental budget will the funding

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2020 to Question 124750 on Research: Public Expenditure, whether the Government has targets for increasing R&D investment year on year to meet

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Postal Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps he has taken to reduce delays to postal services.

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovate UK

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his timescale is for the publication of Innovate UK delivery plans for (a) 2021, (b) 2022, and 2023.

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to section 5.18 of the Spending Review 2020, published in November 2020, CP330, what his Department's timescale is for announcing the Governments research and innov

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of support sessions that have been provided by the Digital Boost Platform since April 2020.

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Royal Society's report entitled, Digital Technology and the Planet, published on 3 December 2020, what plans he has to establish (a) frameworks for collecting, shar

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Royal Society's report entitled, Digital Technology and the Planet, published on 3 December 2020, what plans he has to ensure that tech firms (a) publicly share emi

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Markets Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the Digital Markets Taskforce will advise his Department on the methodology for determining what companies should be designated as having strategic market status.

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Markets Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department plans to publish the code of conduct that will be enforced by the Digital Markets Unit from April 2021.

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Markets Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department plans to publish the full powers that will be awarded to the new Digital Markets Unit.

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Internet: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2020 to Question 126026 on Digital Technology, how many people over the age of 50 with earnings below £20,000 a year are internet users; and what pl

Source: official written-questions record.