Gareth Bacon

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 18 October 2023 to Question 201370 on Apprentices: Finance, how she plans to fund the policy of allowing levy-paying companies to retain 50% of their contributions under the Grow

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the economic impact of growth and skills levy proposals to allow levy-paying companies to retain 50% of their contributions.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the financial impact of the proposed growth and skills levy on (a) non-levy paying companies, (b) the apprenticeship budget and (c) overall apprenticeship spending.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the growth and skills levy on non-levy paying companies.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing proposals for a growth and skills levy.

27 Aug 2024 · Treasury

Public Finance

What recent assessment she has made of the impact of levels of borrowing on public finances.

19 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Contracts for Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what services are outsourced by his Department.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether civil servants in his private office will have the right to switch off on (a) weekends and (b) evenings.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Union Officials: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the cost to employers of plans to introduce statutory rights for trade union equality representatives.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable is for each consultation relating to worker's rights.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many separate Government consultations are planned to support implementation of the proposals relating to worker's rights; and what the planned scope of each consultation is.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Government's plans to legislate on employment law within 100 days, what his planned timetable if for consulting on those legislative proposals.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Collective Bargaining: Picketing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his policy is on whether secondary picketing would apply in sectors subject to sectoral collective bargaining.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Collective Bargaining: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether it is his policy that trade unions should be able to initiate industrial action across all employers in a sector subject to collective bargaining.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Collective Bargaining

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, in which sectors his Department plans to introduce sectoral collective bargaining.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Unions: Electronic Voting

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his policy is on electronic voting for trade union ballots; and if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of cyber security for electronic voting.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Unions: Ballots

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to allow workplace voting for trade union ballots; and whether he plans to introduce changes to secret trade union ballots.

18 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Unions: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to (a) increase the level and (b) promote the use of trade union facility time in the private sector.

14 Jul 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the impact of the land-based gambling industry on the economy.

14 Jul 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Gambling White paper entitled High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age, published on 27 April 2023, what her timeline is for publishing the findings of consultations

14 Jul 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Gambling White Paper entitled High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age, published in April 2023, what steps her Department is taking to engage with the land-based ga

14 Jul 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to support the land-based gambling industry.

14 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department’s consultation on Consistency in household and business recycling in England, for what reason her Department has not yet published (a) the results of a

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to provide guidance to all local authorities on minimum service standards following her proposed reforms to waste collection services.

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Waste Disposal: Bromley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to provide additional funding to the London Borough of Bromley as compensation for the potential loss of income from the sale of recyclates arising from he

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Waste Disposal: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her proposed reforms to waste collection services of the ability of local authorities to purchase (a) new vehicles, (b)

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Waste Disposal: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to group local authorities for funding purposes as part of her reforms to the collection of waste; and whether local authorities will be able to cha

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Waste Disposal: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to fully fund any additional costs incurred by local authorities arising from her proposed reforms to waste collection.

13 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gardens: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her proposed reform of waste collection practices will include a requirement that local authorities provide a free garden waste collection service.

3 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Air Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times his Department has made an estimate of the savings to the public purse attributable to charity air ambulance services in the last five years.