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
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