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.