Written questions

2,704 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Google: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 9, Part 2 of the Government's Digital Strategy, published in March 2017, whether those people Google has already trained are included within the four million free digital s

3 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many of the 200,000 digital businesses identified in the UK Digital Strategy 2017, published on 1 March 2017, are based in London.

3 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Digital Sector Economic Estimates 2016, published by her Department on 26 January 2016, what proportion of the gross value added of the digital sector was produced in London

3 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release of 1 March 2017, Digital Strategy to make Britain the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business, how many free digital training

3 Mar 2017 · Department for Transport

Railways: WiFi

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Part 1 of the UK Digital Strategy, published on 1 March 2017, what estimate his Department has made of the data speed per (a) passenger and (b) train that will be required to meet new train op

3 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release of 1 March 2017, Digital Strategy to make Britain the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business, whether people doing work plac

3 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the total number of people employed in the digital economy nationally are based in London.

3 Mar 2017 · Cabinet Office

Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Office for National Statistics publication entitled, What defines the Digital Sector? published in October 2015, how many (a) UK and (b) non-UK EU nationals were employed in the digital eco

2 Mar 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley of 15 February 2017 on section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015.

2 Mar 2017 · Department for Education

Digital Technology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 5, Part 2 of the Government's Digital Strategy, published on 1 March 2017, whether additional funding will be provided to ensure that adults who lack core digital skills can access specif

2 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Libraries: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Part 2 of the Government's UK Digital Strategy, published on 1 March 2017, whether additional funding will be provided to libraries to help make them the go-to provider of digit

2 Mar 2017 · Department for Education

Digital Technology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 5, Part 2 of the Government's Digital Strategy, published on 1 March 2017, with whom she plans to consult to ensure that adults who lack core digital skills can access specified basic dig

2 Mar 2017 · Department for Education

Ada, National College for Digital Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of how many National College for Digital Skills students in the (a) current and (b) next cohort are resident outside London.

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Transport

Railways: Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 5, Part 1 of the Digital Strategy published on 1 March 2017, what broadband speed train operators will be required to deliver to provide high-speed connectivity to ensure fast and reliabl

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Motorways

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 6, Part 1 of her Department's Digital Strategy published on 1 March 2017, what estimate she has made of the 4G coverage on UK motorways provided by each of the four major o

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Part 4 of the Digital Strategy released on 1 March 2017, what estimate his Department has made of the number of businesses the Productivity Council will connect,

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 2, Part 1 of her Department's Digital Strategy, published on 1 March 2017, whether the independent research cited indicates the speed to which broadband would need to be in

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the UK Digital Strategy published on 1 March 2017, how many people are expected to take part in pilots of new ways to include digital skills and careers in the National Citizen

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Education

Digital Technology: Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the UK Digital Strategy published on 1 March 2017, by what date the Government expects to deliver coding in the National Curriculum from Key Stage 1 onwards.

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the change in the number of librarians trained in digital skills from 2010 to date.

1 Mar 2017 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Digital Technology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 3, Part 2 of the Digital Strategy 2017, what budget has been provided to the Council for Digital Inclusion to increase collaboration and deliver initiatives to help more ci

28 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants have been sanctioned for being late by jobcentres in Yorkshire and the Humber since 2015.

28 Feb 2017 · Home Office

Home Office: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the treatment of disabled employees in her Department.

28 Feb 2017 · Home Office

Home Office: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases under the Equality Act 2010 have been brought against her Department by current or former staff since 2010.

28 Feb 2017 · Home Office

Home Office: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on application of the attendance procedure to disabled employees in her Department; whether that policy has changed in the last seven years; and if she will make a statement.

27 Feb 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mergers: Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many of the firm bids received for mergers and acquisitions of UK companies were made by bidders based outside the UK in financial year (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 to date.

27 Feb 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mergers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many firm offers were made for mergers and acquisitions of UK companies in financial year (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 to date.

23 Feb 2017 · Department for International Trade

EU Trade: Antidumping

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2017 to Question 58975, what the Government's policy is on the modernisation of EU trade defence measures.

23 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Sheffield

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employees at Eastern Avenue Jobcentre, Sheffield opted out of the Employee Deal.

23 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his departmental officials used google maps to calculate estimates of travel time between those jobcentres which his Department proposes to close and those jobcentres from where replacement serv

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