Written questions

Carolyn Harris

793 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Dec 2021 · Treasury

Bank Services: Gambling

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require gambling firms to disclose their bank account details on a central registry to empower banks to extend gambling blocks to bank transfers made to gambling companies.

3 Dec 2021 · Treasury

Banks: Gambling

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that all banks provide a gambling block to help prevent gambling harm.

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will facilitate discussions between the gambling industry and financial services institutions to ensure gambling operators provide data to prevent harm.

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Payment Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps in the forthcoming gambling White Paper to end online gambling via payment mechanisms other than direct debit such as Klarna and alternative payment systems.

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps in the forthcoming gambling White Paper to end front of shirt sponsorship by gambling companies which do not have an operational website and offer gambling via cry

23 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps in the forthcoming gambling White Paper to end football club sponsorship by gambling companies which do not have an operational website and which offer gambling vi

19 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Black Economy

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of organisations that claim to uphold gambling standards representing companies that are being investigated for black ma

19 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Black Economy

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has plans to remove gambling licences in the UK from operators that are found to be engaged in black market activity.

12 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

HMP/YOI Styal: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pregnant women tested positive for covid-19 at HMP Styal in the last two years.

12 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women known to be pregnant from July 2020 to March 2021, as reported in the HMPPS Annual Digest 2020/21, were (a) sentenced (b) on remand, at the point at which they were first recorded as being pregnant

12 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Self-harm and Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women known to be pregnant from July 2020 to March 2021, as reported in the HMPPS Annual Digest 2020/21, were under Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) monitoring for risks of self-harm and/o

9 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Drugs: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the national county lines operation reported by the National Police Chiefs Council on 21 October 2021, how many people have been charged with criminal offences in respect of the act

8 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Addictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Gambling Commission on Sky Vegas or its parent company Flutter offering free spins to recovering addicts during Safer Gambling Week.

8 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Gambling Commission has taken to protect vulnerable gamblers in response to Sky Vegas’ breach of licence terms by failing to remove self-excluded people from marketing com

8 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will include steps to ban free bets and other inducements to gamble in the upcoming gambling White Paper.

8 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, (a) what sanctions apply to gambling companies which breach license terms by failing to remove self excluded people from marketing communications and (b) whether those sanctions will be

5 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people who wish to be vaccinated against covid-19 but are allergic to ingredients in the covid-19 vaccines available in the UK.

2 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 available per business or per premise.

2 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Food: Wholesale Trade

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether food and drink wholesalers will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount.

2 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Food: Wholesale Trade

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether food and drink wholesalers will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount available to the retail, leisure and hospitality industry.

25 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the publication of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s independent investigation into the death of a baby (Baby A) at HMP Bronzefield on 27 September 2019, what assessment he has made of the p