Written questions
1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 May 2020 · Treasury
Boats: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support is available to hire and passenger boat companies who are ineligible for Government grant schemes because they do not operate from rateable premises.
14 May 2020 · Home Office
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to tackle the backlog of appointments to register new births when birth registry offices that are currently closed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak reopen.
14 May 2020 · Home Office
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing new births to be registered over the phone where birth registry offices are closed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
13 May 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether an agency worker on a Contract for Services will continue to accrue holiday pay whilst they are not working due to being furloughed; and whether an employer is entitled to
13 May 2020 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether employers are entitled to claim 80 per cent of an employee's holiday pay when calculating their wage under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme; and if he will update the guidance on the scheme to provide cl
12 May 2020 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Government Assistance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend Government financial support for (a) English Language Teaching centres and (b) other seasonal industries after the covid-10 lockdown has ended.
12 May 2020 · Treasury
English Language: Education
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide financial support to English Language Teaching centres in the form of (a) a business rates holiday or (b) grants.
12 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Clinics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of private clinics offering covid-19 tests on the supply of testing available through the NHS.
12 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Clinics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure private clinics that are offering covid-19 tests are not price gouging.
12 May 2020 · Cabinet Office
Coronavirus: Death
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing the total number of UK deaths alongside the daily number of covid-19 related deaths.
12 May 2020 · Treasury
Insurance: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department had with the Financial Conduct Authority on enforcing the payment of insurance claims arising from the covid-19 outbreak.
12 May 2020 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Directors
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that company directors who receive part of their income through an salary paid annually are eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
11 May 2020 · Treasury
Self-employment Income Support Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support from the public purse is available to people who have become self-employed in the last 12 months who are ineligible for the Self-employed Income Support Scheme.
11 May 2020 · Treasury
Business: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses that had applications for covid-19 grant funding declined because (a) their business rates are included in their rent or (b) their offices are based from hom
6 May 2020 · Treasury
Business: Insurance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the insurance industry on fulfilling their responsibilities to policy-holders who have paid enhanced premiums for policies that include enforced closure as a result of in
5 May 2020 · Treasury
Self-employment Income Support Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to support people who have recently become self-employed and are therefore ineligible for the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme.
5 May 2020 · Cabinet Office
Press Conferences: Coronavirus
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons the Government chose not to provide a live British Sign Language interpreter at each daily covid-19 briefing.
4 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure more detailed data collection for the purposes of covid-19 case identification.
4 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Death Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to death certification on the operation of covid-19 data gathering.
4 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in (a) Philippines, (b) Turkey and (c) New Zealand on facilitating the repatriation of UK nationals from those countries.
4 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Contact Tracing: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals to NHS Volunteer Responders have been made through the GoodSAM Responder app by (a) type of support required and (b) local authority.
4 May 2020 · Treasury
Charities: Coronavirus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support is available for small charities that are not eligible for emergency funding due to covid-19.
4 May 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Charities: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will publish the criteria being used for charities to receive part of the £360 million direct from Government Departments within the Government’s £750 million charity f
4 May 2020 · Department for Education
Nannies: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish guidance on whether nannies who do not live with their employer are permitted to work during lockdown.
1 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Horticulture: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling garden centres to re-open with appropriate social distancing measures due to the covid-19 outbreak.
16 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Hospital Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to secure additional critical care beds to meet the demand created by the covid-19 outbreak.
16 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Hospital Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional critical care beds have been made available since the outbreak of covid-19.
9 Mar 2020 · Treasury
European Investment Bank
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the level of borrowing that the UK will be able to undertake from the European Investment Bank after the transition period.
9 Mar 2020 · Treasury
European Investment Bank
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of borrowing was that the UK undertook from the European Investment Bank in (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018 and (d) 2019.
9 Mar 2020 · Department for Transport
South Western Railway: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that South Western Railway passengers who pay using daily tickets, Oyster or contactless pay-as-you go are aware of their entitlement to compensation arising from service cance
Source: official written-questions record.