Written questions
4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.
27 Apr 2020 · Cabinet Office
Telecommunications: EU Nationals
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many EU workers are employed in the telecommunications sector.
24 Apr 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Mobile Phones: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on network resilience.
24 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office
Mobile Phones: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, what use (a) the Government and (b) local government is making of emergency messaging on mobile phones during the covid-19 outbreak.
24 Mar 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Small Businesses: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether currency exchange kiosks are eligible to apply for covid-19 small business support.
19 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Telecommunications: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will ask Ofcom to model the effect of the covid-19 on changes in the level of traffic in relation to (a) work, (b) leisure and (c) other patterns.
18 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Video Conferencing: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to help meet the demand for video conferencing as a consequence of self-isolation in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
18 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Internet: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to support vulnerable people to use the internet during periods of self-isolation as a result of covid-19.
18 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Google: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2020 to Question 28618, whether UK citizen data has been involved in cases concerning Google investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commission since
18 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Disinformation: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how her Department's covid-19 misinformation unit will differ from the anti-disinformation unit in the Cabinet Office; and for what reasons that unit is separate from the anti-disinforma
18 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Disclosure of Information: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what advice or guidance his Department has provided on public interest data sharing throughout the public sector in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Coronavirus: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has in place to ensure that coronavirus research patents are available to the NHS.
17 Mar 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Coronavirus: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much public funding has been allocated to coronavirus research since the 2002 SARS outbreak; and which organisations received that funding.
13 Mar 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 Budget 2020, whether £22 billion of funding allocated to R&D includes funding to replace EU funding.
13 Mar 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Science: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to paragraph 1.220 of the Budget 2020 Red Book, how much and what proportion of the funding for science has already been allocated to institutions (a) in London, th
13 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he plans to take to reserve broadband capacity for essential (a) workers and (b) services in the event that networks are overloaded as a result of increased home-working.
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Google: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many cases concerning Google have been investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commission since 25 May 2018.
12 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office
Internet: Disinformation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2020 to Question 1979, how much funding from the public purse has been provided to initiatives such as Don’t Feed The Beat that seek to reduce misinformation online in the l
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Ofcom: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2020 to Question 1977, how the new statutory functions of Ofcom relating to online harms will be funded and resourced.
12 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Data Protection: EU Law
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his Department are working on securing a data adequacy agreement between the EU and the UK.
11 Mar 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Artificial Intelligence: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential contribution of (a) machine learning and (b) artificial intelligence to the reduction of carbon emissions.
9 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has he made of the vulnerability of the prison population to covid-19; and what steps he is taking to reduce the risk of the spread of that virus in that population.
9 Mar 2020 · Cabinet Office
DXC Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has he made of (a) the level of dependence of Government services on DXC Technology and (b) the effect that company's stock market performance on the provision of its services.
4 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband: Tenants
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Telecoms Infrastructure Bill enables tenants to make a request for broadband under the terms of the bill; and what the definition of tenant is.
4 Mar 2020 · Home Office
Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis is that the increased use of technology and automation by employers will be able to reduce the demand of migrant workers.
4 Mar 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the remit of the Digital Identity Unit is; and what steps he is taking with the Cabinet Secretary to help ensure coherence between that Unit’s work and the digital identity policy r
28 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office
Technology: Finance
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to support the development of (a) quantum computing (b) 5G technologies, (c) cyber security and (d) artificial intelligence in the (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019
27 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office
Media: Ministers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government provides guidance to Government ministers on criteria for determining whether to accept invitations for media appearances.
27 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office
Radio: Ministers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is the Government's policy that ministers do not appear on the Radio 4 Today programme.
26 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office
Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on UK Government digital identity providers located in EU member states.
26 Feb 2020 · Cabinet Office
Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the findings of the digital identity consultation, which closed on 15 September 2019.
Source: official written-questions record.