Written questions

1,768 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Publishing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if UK Research and Innovation’s review of Open Access policy is independent from the work of the cOAlition S consortium.

5 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Publishing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential financial effect on the higher education institutions of UK Research and Innovation's review of its Open Access

5 Jun 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agricultural Shows: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what joint working officials in his Department are undertaking with officials in the (a) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (b) Department for Digital, Culture

5 Jun 2020 · Treasury

Agricultural Shows: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial support is available for providers of agricultural and country shows during the covid-19 outbreak; and what support is available for mobile providers of those shows who do not have fixed property.

2 Jun 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) financial effect of the covid-19 outbreak on food wholesalers and (b) adequacy of the Government's support for food wholesalers durin

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Epidemiology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the estimated R rate in the community is not reported separately from the rate in health and social care settings at Downing Street briefings.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process his Department used to decide that personally identifiable information collected by the NHS test and trace service on people with covid-19 symptoms is retained by Public Health England

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the same criteria in respect of (a) time and (b) distance from an infected person will be used by the NHS clinical contact caseworkers and the NHS covid-19 contract tracing app.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the NHS clinical contact caseworkers that have been employed have completed the required e-learning course.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences: Key Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the covid-19 outbreak, what steps the DVLA has taken to process licence applications by key workers who hold a driving licence issued in another EU country.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contact Tracing: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how work on the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app was divided between (a) NHSX and (b) VMWare Pivotal Labs; and what criteria for success were defined in the contract for that project.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: VMWare Pivotal Labs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value was of the contract that was awarded to VMWare Pivotal Labs for work on the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether additional funding will be allocated to schools to implement measures to help prevent the transmission of covid-19.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Social Distancing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance he has provided to businesses on how to make social distancing accessible for people with sight loss and other hidden disabilities.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Social Distancing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to issue guidance to service providers on how to implement reasonable adjustments to enable people who are unable to social distance due to disability to a

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Social Distancing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to raise public awareness about the problems faced by people with sight loss and other hidden disabilities, who may find it hard to follow social distancing rules.

1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance was provided to NHS hospitals on face fit tests for people wearing FFP3 masks between February and May 2020.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing all schools, regardless of budget, to be reimbursed for providing free school meal vouchers where it has not been possible for those schools to

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of capping the maximum amount a school is required to pay from its own in-year surplus to meet the cost of providing free school meal vouchers.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason schools with a budget surplus in the current financial year are not able to reclaim the costs of providing free school meal vouchers to eligible students where it has not been possible for them

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Small Businesses: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish further guidance to councils on the top-up to local business grant funds scheme.

1 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Protective Clothing: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the New High-Volume Manufacturers of COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment guide applies to voluntary manufacturers of masks, face shields and face coverings.

20 May 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason schools that are able to reclaim the costs of making alternative arrangements to the National Voucher Scheme to provide free school meal vouchers are required to draw on the Emergency Fund that

20 May 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether children who receive school meal vouchers will continue to be entitled to those vouchers if they do not return to school during the proposed partial reopening of schools during the covid-19 outbreak.

19 May 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in other countries on best practices on the reopening of schools during the covid-19 pandemic.

18 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contact Tracing: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how work on the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app was divided between (a) NHSX and (b) Zuhlke Engineering; and what success criteria were defined in the contract for that project.

18 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the procurement process was for the NHS testing app.

15 May 2020 · Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Coronavirus

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, when the telephone line for IPSA will be re-opened.

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the official calculation is of the covid-19 R rate in the East of England region as of 19 May 2020.

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of including the loss of smell and taste as a potential symptom of covid-19 on the NHS covid-19 website.

Source: official written-questions record.