Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

CDC: Feronia

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any of CDC Group's USD 80.66 million investment in Feronia was written off by the CDC after the transfer of shares in that company to private equity firm KKM.

30 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Feronia: Community Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether CDC Group made and assessment of the potential development benefits of issuing shares in Feronia Inc. to local community co-operatives.

30 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he is planning to undertake equality impact assessments of any proposed staffing restructure in his Department.

30 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the strategic direction of his Department set out in the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy will be used to inform any future staf

30 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to make any staffing changes before the publication of the integrated review.

30 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans he has to make redundancies in his Department.

21 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many people were employed by his Department on 1 September 2020; and what assessment he has made of the number of employees needed to fulfil the functions of his Departme

21 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will wait for the publication of the Integrated Review before conducting any staffing restructures following the merger of his Department and the Department for Interna

21 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the postponement of the three year Comprehensive Spending Review on the setting of his Department's development priorities.

21 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Government Departments: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2020 to Question 82256 on Government Departments: Overseas Aid, whether he currently has final sign-off of Official Development Assistan

21 Oct 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to deals the Government have signed related to finding a vaccine for covid-19, whether (a) pharmaceutical companies, (b) the Government or (c) both have the authori

14 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support the Government is providing to Birmingham City Council to assist with covid-19 contact tracing in that area.

9 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he is taking to steps to prevent Government departments from spending UK aid that do not achieve a (a) good or (b) very good at the next assessment by the Aid Transpa

8 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of covid-19 restrictions on people in flat shares; and what steps he is taking to (a) support the mental health and (b) combat loneliness of people living

7 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Non-governmental Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October 2020 to Question 95714, how many of the non-Government Organisations are defined by his Department as (a) big, (b) medium and (c) small.

7 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Non-governmental Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October to Question 95714 on Non-Governmental Organisations, what criteria his Department used to select the NGOs to discuss the merger with.

7 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Non-governmental Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October to Question 95714 on Non-Governmental Organisations, how many of the 50 calls with stakeholders he conducted; and whether he attended the

7 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Non-governmental Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October to Question 95714, whether any of the 26 NGOs consulted on the merger prior to the Prime Minister's statement on the 16th of June.

7 Oct 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to Written Question 95716, whether any Parliamentarians were consulted on the merger prior to the Prime Minister's 16 June statement.

5 Oct 2020 · Treasury

Unemployment: West Midlands

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of his Winter Recovery Plan on unemployment in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands by (i) gender, (ii) age, (iii) religion, (iv) ethnicity, and (v) socio-economic group

29 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the cumulative cancer backlog of undiagnosed, relapsed, and delayed treatments in Birmingham as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria are being used to assess the effectiveness of support for people shielding and the clinically extremely vulnerable in Birmingham; and how regularly that support is assessed.

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria is being used to review guidance to (a) people shielding and (b) the clinically extremely vulnerable living in local covid-19 lockdown areas; and how regularly that guidance is being

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to plan for the distribution of a potential covid-19 vaccine.

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the medical logistics sector on the distribution of a potential covid-19 vaccine.

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity and ability of (a) refrigerated lorries, (b) aircraft and (c) other elements of the supply chain to distribute (i) a covid-19 vaccine, (ii) medical grade

28 Sep 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rwanda: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 91695 on Rwanda: Females, on what dates the process and principles were discussed with the Prime Minister.

28 Sep 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Commuters: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether employers are required to provide alternative transport for workers who cannot work from home and need to use public transport and who shielded during the covid-19 lockdow

28 Sep 2020 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to update guidance for public transport providers to ensure that health risks for workers who shielded during the covid-19 lockdown are minimised.

28 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to update guidance for workplaces to ensure that health risks for nurses who shielded during the covid-19 lockdown are minimised.

Source: official written-questions record.