Seema Malhotra

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

Business: Subsidy Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that subsidies are not awarded to firms who do not comply with UK law.

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

Hospitality Industry: Inflation and Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Hospitality Sector Council is taking steps to help hospitality businesses with the increases in (a) VAT rate, (b) National Income Contributions and (c) the rate of inf

19 May 2022 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of (a) ownership of electric vehicles and (b) availability of charging points in each nation and region of the UK.

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

Help to Grow Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 29 March 2022 to Question 145878 on Help to Grow Scheme: Digital Technology, when his Department plans to publish data on the take-up and completio

18 May 2022 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals the UNHCR has made to the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme to date.

17 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the report by the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed entitled The Self Employed 2021 Landscape Report, published on 31 January 2022,

10 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of business deaths per quarter.

10 May 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Diplomatic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has plans to establish the UK's consular presence in Afghanistan again; and whether she has plans to evacuate vulnerable Afghans without having a consular presenc

10 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2022 to Question 119598, on Business: Coronavirus, whether companies with links to the Russian government have received a covid-19-rela

10 May 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled, Support for British and non-British nationals in Afghanistan, published on 22 August 2021, how many calls have been made to the support helpl

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to prioritise research into brain cancer.

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to encourage research into (a) causes of and (b) treatments for brain cancer.

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

Brain Cancer: Innovation and Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with representatives of (a) UK Research and Innovation and (b) the Medical Research Council on brain cancer research a

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of English waters are projected to reach good ecological status by 2027; and what steps he plans to take to achieve that target.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Environment Agency takes in the event that a water company discharges untreated sewage into UK waterways and coastal regions outside periods of heavy rainfall; and how m

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether UK law prohibits water companies from discharging untreated sewage into waterways and coastal regions outside periods of heavy rainfall.

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

Hospitality Industry: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to update the Government's hospitality strategy in the context of the increase in the VAT rate, National Insurance contributions and inflation and

14 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Financial Conduct Authority

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Future Regulatory Framework Review, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on economic stability of proposals to introduce new statutory objectives of competitiveness and growth fo

14 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Financial Services: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Future Regulatory Framework Review, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the representation of consumers on the financial regulators’ stakeholder panels.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Business: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he plans to take through proposals in the Levelling Up White Paper to assist ethnic minority business owners.

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

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of rising energy prices on small and medium size enterprises.

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

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of rising energy prices on energy-intensive industries.

31 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the rise in VAT on businesses in the hospitality sector.

31 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

National Curriculum Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what advice his Department has given to schools on how SAT results will be used in the 2021-22 academic year to measure future performance.

31 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of teachers and school staff off sick with covid=19 in the last two months for which data is available; what discussions he (a) has had and (b) plans to have with

31 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

National Tutoring Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how his Department plans to divide the £349 million catch up premium for tutoring between schools; and whether his Department plans to weight that funding so schools receiving high levels of Pupil Premium will

30 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Education: Feltham and Heston

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the change in the attainment gap since March 2020 for pupils in Feltham and Heston constituency in (a) EYFS, (b) primary school and (c) secondary school.

30 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Education: Feltham and Heston

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the attainment gap is in Feltham and Heston constituency at (a) EYFS, (b) Year 6/7, (c) GCSE; and what proportion of students started primary school deemed to be school ready in (i) 2018, (ii) 2019, (iii)

30 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Teachers: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of impact of lifting of covid-19 restrictions on the ability of schools to get substitute teachers for staff off-work with covid-19; and what discussions he (a) has had and (b

30 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Coronavirus Catch-up Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department plans to take to assess the effectiveness of the £650 million catch-up premium for the 2021-22 academic year; and what conditions need to be met for more funding to be made available i