Written questions

Emma Lewell

1,298 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Government plans to implement proposals for households to switch automatically onto the cheapest energy tariffs.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Family Resources Survey

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including data at a local authority area level in the household food insecurity element of the Family Resources Survey.

9 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the impact on large business that have several venues of introducing the 50 per cent business rates relief discount on a (a) per business and (b) per premises basis.

9 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government plans to publish guidance on the businesses that will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount; and whether (a) seaside and (b) high street arcades will be included.

9 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the 50 per cent business rates relief discount will be afforded per businesses or per premises; and whether high street and seaside arcades will be eligible for that support.

9 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Amusement Arcades: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether seaside and high street arcades will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount as announced for the leisure industry in the Autumn Budget 2021.

9 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Gaming Machines: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the amusement machine industry will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount afforded to the retail, leisure and hospitality industry, as announced in the Autumn Budget 2021.

23 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) Substitute Single Service Accommodation and (b) Substitute Service Family Accommodation meet the standards required.

23 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Service Family Accommodation for Armed Forces personnel across the country is outside the usual ten mile radius from the duty station.

23 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Armed Forces onsite Single Living Accommodation was last upgraded across the Defence Estate.

22 Sep 2021 · Cabinet Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff across Whitehall (a) were working on and (b) are working on the relocation of Afghan nationals (i) prior to and (b) after the fall of Kabul.

22 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Interpreters

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the 260 interpreters his Department has made contact with since the data breach on 20 September 2021; and in what form that contact was made.

22 Sep 2021 · Cabinet Office

National Space Council

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the National Space Council has met; and which Secretaries of State have attended each meeting.

16 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Foster Care: Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether legislation is in place to prevent local authorities from not paying the minimum foster care allowance to foster carers.

16 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what legislation is in place to ensure that family members who look after children in care are appropriately remunerated; and what steps he is taking to prevent the use of time limited arrangement orders as a s

3 Sep 2021 · Treasury

Universal Credit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the impact on the Exchequer of ending the £20 uplift to universal credit.

22 Jul 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers and Seas and Oceans: Sewage

What steps he is taking to help ensure untreated sewage is not discharged into rivers, inland waterways and the sea.

21 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Arms Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any licences issued for the export of arms to Israel have been revoked as a result of the violence in that country and the neighbouring Palestinian Territory in May 2

20 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agent of Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has held with Cabinet colleagues on the Agent of Change principle and the protection of pre-existing cultural venues and businesses within the planning system

20 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agent of Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to enshrine the Agent of Change planning principle in primary legislatio