Questions Tabled on Tue 5 May 20201 Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died from covid-19 in the UK, by faith

Published: Wednesday 6 May 2020

Questions for Answer on Wednesday 6 May

Questions for Written Answer

1 Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died from covid-19 in the UK, by faith group. [Transferred] (42873)

2 Alex Sobel (Leeds North West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to release sex-disaggregated data on covid-19 victims. [Transferred] (43159)

3 Scott Benton (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to take steps to support small hotels and bed and breakfasts by temporarily suspending fees for (a) motion picture, (b) television and (c) music licences during the covid-19 outbreak. [Transferred] (43187)

4 Richard Burgon (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the value of Small Business rate relief that businesses in (a) Leeds, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK have been unable to access as a result of being ineligible to apply for that funding as a result of paying business rates as part of their rent or through serviced office costs. [Transferred] (43075)

5 N Neil Gray (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a response to EDM 418 on British Airways job losses. [Transferred] (42058)

6 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the (a) level of late payments and non-payments for services provided in the road transport industry and (b) potential effect of those payments on the viability of haulage companies. [Transferred] (42933)

Questions tabled on Tuesday 5 May 2020

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2 QUESTIONS TABLED ON TUESDAy 5 MAy 2020Published: Wednesday 6 May 2020

7 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the proportion of trucks in the haulage industry that are idle as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. [Transferred] (42943)

8 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what financial support his Department has made available to haulage companies whose vehicles are currently idle as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. [Transferred] (42944)

9 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a financial support scheme for haulage businesses whose vehicles are idle during the covid-19 outbreak. [Transferred] (42945)

10 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what powers local authorities have been granted to close roads to create more cycling and pedestrian space during the covid-19 outbreak; and for how road closures can be in place for. [Transferred] (42157)

11 Matt Vickers (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the bioethanol industry. [Transferred] (43204)

12 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to standardise NHS and care home approaches to covid-19 testing for residents in care homes. (43691)

13 Chris Elmore (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of precautionary plans in place at UK borders for people travelling into the UK during the covid-19 pandemic. [Transferred] (43091)

14 Dr Ben Spencer (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress the Government is making on bringing forward legislative proposals to ensure that local authorities can extend legal notices on marriages postponed as a result of the covid-19 lockdown. [Transferred] (43181)

15 N Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 901881 on Arts: Coronavirus, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposal from Directors UK to the Treasury on 6 April 2020 on the issue of dividend certificates to (a) limited company directors and (b) freelancers that could be (i) uploaded to a portal linked to HMRC online self-assessments and (b) independently verified by accountants. [Transferred] (42192)

16 Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) barristers and (b) solicitors have made applications to the Self-employment Income Support Scheme during the covid-19 outbreak; and how many of those applications have been accepted. [Transferred] (42888)

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17 Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been received by (a) barristers and (b) solicitors through the self-employment Income Support Scheme due to the covid-19 outbreak to date. [Transferred] (42889)

Questions for Answer on Monday 11 May

Questions for Written Answer

1 Rachel Hopkins (Luton South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, in which properties in London managed by the Government Property Agency civil servants from more than one Department work in the same building; and what the names are of those Departments. (43779)

2 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish an update of the document entitled, Government ministers and responsibilities; and if he will make it his policy to publish that document in (a) CSV and (b) PDF formats. (43737)

3 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to increase support for areas identified by the Office for National Statistics as having the largest number of deaths involving covid-19. (43576)

4 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): 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. (43762)

5 Mhairi Black (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to honour the work of Royal Mail workers during the covid-19 outbreak. (43682)

6 N Richard Burgon (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of businesses in (a) Leeds, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK that are ineligible for the Small Business rate relief as a result of paying business rates as part of their rent or through serviced office costs. [Transferred] (43073)

7 N Richard Burgon (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people employed in businesses in (a) Leeds, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK that are ineligible to receive funding through the Small Business rate relief as a result of their employers paying business rates as part of their rent or through serviced office costs. [Transferred] (43074)

8 N Sir Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the contract for the Meteorological Office Civil Contingency Aircraft is not being renewed; and what


alternative arrangements his Department is making to (a) assess the risk and (b) mitigate the potential effect of future volcanic eruptions on the economy; and if he will make a statement. (43583)

9 Nick Fletcher (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with stakeholders in the hospitality industry on the equity of single supplement charges. (43774)

10 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 902140 on Small Business Grants Fund: Coronavirus, what additional support his Department is providing to local authorities to ensure grant funding is made available as quickly as possible. (43723)

11 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions the Government has had with Rolls Royce on (a) worker safety, (b) job protections, (c) financial support from the public purse and (d) manufacturing personal protective equipment during the covid-19 outbreak. (43653)

12 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to support the manufacturing sector during the covid-19 outbreak. (43654)

13 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to incentivise companies to use their manufacturing facilities to produce personal protective equipment during the covid-19 outbreak. (43655)

14 N Gavin Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that consumers who were unable to travel on package holidays due to the covid-19 outbreak receive (a) a full refund or (b) a Government-backed transferable voucher equal to the amount paid. (43669)

15 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with large wholesale beverage manufacturers to encourage them to engage constructively with distributors, who are unable to sell stock due to the covid-19 lockdown. (43604)

16 N Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether furloughed nursery staff are permitted to offer private nannying services. (43713)

17 John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions the Government has had with Rolls Royce on (a) worker safety, (b) job protections, (c) financial assistance from the Government and (d) manufacturing of personal protective equipment during the covid-19 outbreak. (43590)


18 John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to support the manufacturing sector during the covid-19 outbreak. (43591)

19 John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to incentivise companies to use their manufacturing facilities to produce personal protective equipment during the covid-19 outbreak. (43592)

20 Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to include hydropower schemes in the terms of the Feed in Tariff Order of 30 March 2020. (43575)

21 Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has had recent discussions with football authorities on the involvement of gambling companies in the streaming of future football matches. (43689)

22 N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the financial effect of the covid-19 outbreak on (a) Age-concern, (b) other county-based charities and (c) large charities; what assessment he has made of the contribution of such charities to the delivery of front-line services to vulnerable elderly people; and if he will urgently make it his policy to allow larger charities that are continuing to deliver front-line services to benefit from support from the National Lottery Community Fund. (43573)

23 N Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what process the Government is using to provide sporting organisations overseeing elite sports with up to date medical advice in relation to covid-19; and what discussions the Government is having with those organisations on the medical advice they receive. (43627)

24 N Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many rugby league clubs have (a) applied for and (b) received funding from Government backed business support loans. (43628)

25 N Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions officials in his Department have had with representatives of sporting organisations on the provision of financial support from the Government to protect sports clubs from the effect of the covid-19 outbreak. (43629)

26 N Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has assessed the health risks of (a) cricket and (b) other non-contact sports resuming in the summer at grassroots level. (43630)


27 N Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many cricket clubs have (a) applied for and (b) been awarded business support grant funding from the Government during the covid-19 outbreak. (43631)

28 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what resources have been allocated to tackling the spread of misinformation on covid-19. [Transferred] (43223)

29 Dr Dan Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to support the roll-out of superfast broadband to rural areas in response to the increase in remote working during the covid-19 outbreak. (43616)

30 Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the proportion of self-employed workers in the creative sector that are not eligible for the Self-Employed Income Support scheme. (43684)

31 Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the support available for creative sector businesses that are not eligible for the (a) Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund and (b) Small Business Grant Fund. (43685)

32 Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government support packages made available for charities, the tech sector and rugby league, whether the Government plans to provide additional sector-specific support packages during the covid-19 outbreak. (43686)

33 Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing financial support packages for (a) music, (b) arts and (c) other festivals as a result of the covid-19 outbreak. (43687)

34 Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of (a) workers and (b) businesses in the creative sector that are not eligible for any of the Government's covid-19- specific financial support packages. (43688)

35 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): 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 funding package. [Transferred] (43175)


36 Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to ensure university students are not financially penalised due to a delay to the academic year as a result of the covid-19 outbreak. (43754)

37 N Sir Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will enable (a) schools and (b) education authorities to impose penalties on parents that do not permit their children to return to school on account of a fear of contracting covid-19; and if he will make a statement. (43584)

38 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that disabled pupils in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools are able to access (i) home learning and (ii) educational support during the covid-19 outbreak. (43707)

39 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that disabled students in (a) further and (b) higher education are able to access (i) home learning and (ii) educational support during the covid-19 outbreak. (43708)

40 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending the national voucher scheme over future school holidays during the outbreak of covid-19 for pupils in receipt of free school meals. (43650)

41 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to bring forward (a) limits on and (b) eligibility requirements for funding reimbursed and refunded to schools that procure free school meals from retailers not included in the National Voucher Scheme. (43651)

42 Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, from which budget he plans to reimburse funding for schools procuring free school meals from retailers not included in the National Voucher Scheme. (43652)

43 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which organisations he consulted before bringing forward the Special Educational Needs and Disability (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020. (43710)

44 N Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities have requested easements on statutory duties for (a) children’s social care and (b) special educational needs provision since the start of the covid-19 outbreak; and what assessment he has made of the effect of those absences on the adequacy of provision of those services. (43711)

45 Dr Ben Spencer (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the covid-19 outbreak, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of availability of courses for international students at UK universities for academic year 2020-2021. (43766)


46 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): 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. [Transferred] (43174)

47 Douglas Chapman (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Barnett consequentials are for each of the devolved nations from the Zoo Support Fund. (43677)

48 N Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much emergency funding he plans to allocate to Forestry England to enable that organisation to continue (a) operating and (b) paying staff (i) during and (ii) after lockdown. (43644)

49 N Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the level of funding required from the public purse to enable Forestry England to maintain its activities (a) during and (b) after the covid-19 lockdown. [R] (43645)

50 N Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that Forestry England is able to maintain the (a) wages of its staff, and (b) number of jobs in its organisation during the covid-19 pandemic. [R] (43646)

51 N Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people in the covid-19 shielding group receive a Government food parcel every week. (43667)

52 N Alex Norris (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 40742, on Dogs: Animal Breeding, whether a puppy bred by a person that is licensed to sell a puppy in England can be sold in the UK if it was bred by that person outside the UK. (43750)

53 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency's water quality monitoring programme, what number of (a) samples have been taken and (b) sampling points there have been in (i) each year since 2010 and (ii) each month since January 2020. (43729)

54 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to resume sampling of rivers, groundwater and bathing waters to measure water quality. (43730)

55 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many samples of England's designated bathing waters have been taken to monitor water quality (a) since 2010 and (b) in each month of 2020. (43731)


56 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the timetable is for the publication of the Water Framework Directive water body classifications. (43732)

57 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated to water quality monitoring since 2010. (43733)

58 N John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the covid-19 outbreak, what steps his Department is taking to enable the early resumption of angling. (43589)

59 N Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to support international health NGOs to continue pre-existing immunisation programmes in developing countries during the covid-19 pandemic. (43767)

60 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 40723 on Overseas Aid: Coronavirus, which of her Department's planned spend and objectives have been deprioritised in order to divert resources to the covid-19 response. (43720)

61 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 40723 on Overseas Aid: Coronavirus, how many FTE staff have been moved to work on (a) her Department's and (b) other Departments' covid-19 response. (43721)

62 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 41134 on Department for International Development: Ministers' Private Offices, which of her Department's Ministers have their private offices in the (a) Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (b) Department for International Development and (c) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. (43722)

63 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish her Department's plan to ensure equitable access to vaccines and medical tools for people in the Global South. (43724)

64 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government will take to ensure pharamceutical companies in receipt of public funds allow equitable access to covid-19 vaccines and medical tools for people living in the global south. (43725)

65 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has made to her counterpart in the US Administration on ensuring equitable access for countries in the Global South to (a) a covid-19 vaccine and (b) medical equipment needed to treat covid-19. (43726)


66 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to place conditions on ODA funding to large pharmaceutical companies that are developing vaccines and medical tools for covid-19. (43727)

67 Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2020 on Developing Countries: Forests, how much funding her Department allocated to each of those international forestry projects. (43600)

68 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many ventilators has the UK pledged to donate to developing countries. (43693)

69 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she has plans to introduce a volunteering scheme to help developing countries have insufficient staff to support a covid-19 response. (43694)

70 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) international partners on the UK's response to covid-19 in developing countries. (43695)

71 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) international partners on protecting refugees in UNHCR camps and other camps during the covid-19 pandemic. (43696)

72 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions has she had with her (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) international partners on prioritising developing countries in the global vaccine programme. (43697)

73 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department has taken to mitigate the effect of locust plagues in Africa. (43698)

74 N Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure logistical strategies are in place to help ensure the timely distribution of vaccines to international NGOs working on the ground in low-income and fragile states. (43741)

75 N Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts in the (a) G7, (b) G20, (c) UN and (d) World Health Organisation on the scaling up of WASH facilities available in refugee camps in (i) Greece, (ii) Turkey, and (iii) throughout the Middle East. (43742)


76 N Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the need to increase the UK Government's contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to meet increased demand for core services for Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East. (43743)

77 N Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of UK Government-funded nutrition programmes in developing countries. (43744)

78 N Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the extent to which her Department’s funding for nutrition programmes in low-income and fragile states throughout the Middle East is meeting demand for those programmes. (43745)

79 Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on the need to tackle (a) malnutrition and (b) food scarcity among vulnerable people throughout the Middle East. (43746)

80 Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to support supply chains in the ceramics industry in (a) the UK and (b) Stoke-on-Trent North constituency. (43772)

81 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy on the reported plan of the Nissan Motor Company to move its investment away from Europe; and if she will make a statement. (43581)

82 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of confidentiality for proposals by US negotiators in relation to a future UK-US trade deal for (a) 5 years and (b) until that trade deal is concluded; and if she will make a statement. (43582)

83 N Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what video conferencing system her Department will be using to conduct trade negotiations. (43599)

84 Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department has received from Network Rail on the feasibility of the North Cotswold Line taskforce strategic outline business case. (43635)

85 Dr Luke Evans (Bosworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to (a) monitor increases in (i) walking and (ii) cycling during the covid 19 outbreak and (b) develop a post-covid-19 sustainable transport strategy. (43764)


86 Dr Luke Evans (Bosworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help ensure that social distancing measures can be effectively introduced for regional public transport during the covid-19 outbreak. (43765)

87 Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans the Government has to reinstate non-essential (a) vocational driving tests and (b) non-vocational car driving tests during the covid-19 outbreak. (43612)

88 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 39619 on Railways: Coronavirus, what assessment he has made of the difference in cost to railway season ticket holders that have not used their season tickets as a result of the Government's measures to prevent the transmission of covid-19 of obtaining (a) a refund and (b) an extension for time unused on those tickets. (43615)

89 Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to implement social distancing in Jobcentre Plus branches. (43594)

90 Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of her Department's ability to undertake (a) work capability and (b) disability assessments remotely. (43595)

91 Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her timetable is for the resumption of her Department's (a) work capability and (b) disability assessments. (43596)

92 Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit tribunals in (a) Liverpool, (b) the Northwest and (c) the UK have been postponed since March 2020. (43597)

93 Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payment were made in (a) March and (b) April 2020. (43598)

94 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on the National Disability Strategy; and what the timeframe is for that strategy to be published. (43705)

95 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) employment support allowance and (b) personal independence payment tribunals have been postponed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak since 16 March 2020. (43706)

96 N Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to enable its officials to work from home during the covid-19 outbreak. (43607)


97 N Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new universal credit applicants there have been in each month since March 2020; and how many of those new applicants have successfully applied for a universal credit advance loan payment. (43662)

98 N Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of universal credit before March 2020 have not received the 1.7 per cent increase in that benefit on 6 April; and how many new claimants have received that increase. (43663)

99 Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have ceased their child maintenance payments having been made unemployed since March 2020. (43665)

100 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the appropriateness of the savings thresholds for means tested benefits during the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will make a statement. (43578)

101 N Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will he bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a statutory requirement for care workers to receive a real living wage. (43768)

102 Mhairi Black (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that covid-19 social distancing advice is accessible to young people. (43683)

103 N Olivia Blake (Sheffield, Hallam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure covid-19 tests are not double counted when returned. (43778)

104 Sara Britcliffe (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to allocate additional funding to pharmacies during the covid-19 outbreak. (43776)

105 Dr Lisa Cameron (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extending eligibility for covid-19 testing to include people under 65 who have symptoms and who receive care in (a) their own homes and (b) supported living; and if he will make a statement. (43679)

106 N Sir Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reduce the (a) administrative cost and (b) bureaucratic burden resulting from the annual re validation process for nurses; and if he will make a statement. (43587)

107 N Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what redress mechanisms for data subjects are in place in respect of the personal data collected by the new covid-19 tracing app being developed by NHSX. [Transferred] (43170)


108 N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allocate additional funding to the social care system to ensure disabled people and their families are adequately supported to stay healthy and safe. (43609)

109 N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure (a) transparent monitoring of Care Act Easements so that there is a comprehensive record of all reduced or withdrawn packages of care and support during the covid-19 outbreak. (43610)

110 Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to waive Nursing and Midwifery Council registration fees for (a) nurses and (b) midwives that are working in response to the covid-19 outbreak. (43703)

111 N Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the data his Department holds on the (a) prevalence rate, (b) R rate and (c) total number of infections assessed by the UK Government to be present in (i) France, (ii) Italy, (iii) Spain, (iv) Iran, (v) USA, (vi) China, (vii) Belgium (viii) Paris, (ix) Milan, (x) Brussels, (xi) Madrid, (xii) Tehran, (xiii) Wuhan, (xiv) Shanghai, (xv) Beijing, (xvii) New York City and (xvii) Brussels on (A) 1 January, (B) 1 February, (C) 1 March and (D) 1 April 2020. (43660)

112 Laura Farris (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Public Health England (PHE) to address concerns of frontline NHS staff working in hospital settings with covid-19 positive patients that the current PHE guidance for non-core covid-19 treatment centres, which does not include gowns or visors, leaves staff underprotected. (43773)

113 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people in receipt of a shielding letter sent by the Government in response to the covid-19 outbreak have severe asthma. (43704)

114 Peter Gibson (Darlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that hospices have a reliable supply of personal protective equipment. [R] (43755)

115 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 7, subheading 5. Advice for staff, of the Government's guidance published on 2 April 2020 entitled Admission and Care of Residents during COVID-19 Incident in a Care Home, what the evidential basis is for the statement that Care home staff who come into contact with a COVID-19 patient while not wearing PPE can remain at work ... because in most instances this will be a short-lived exposure. (43728)

116 James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with representatives of Public Health England about Fairways Care Home in Chippenham, Wiltshire; what steps his Department is taking to ensure that staff of that home have access to testing for covid-19;


where the nearest covid-19 testing centre is to that home; what steps those staff should take to prevent the spread of covid-19 in that home in the event that they are not routinely tested; and if he will make a statement. (43588)

117 Mike Hill (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that elderly people who do not have access to new technologies to sign up online can access testing facilities. (43751)

118 N Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he held discussions with his counterparts in the (a) Welsh Government, (b) Scottish Government and (c) Northern Ireland Executive on trialling the NHS contact tracing app in those parts of the UK. (43608)

119 N Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reason for the number excess deaths reported by the Office of National Statistics. (43753)

120 N Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people diagnosed with covid-19 have been discharged from hospital into residential care since the start of the covid-19 outbreak. (43666)

121 N Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS volunteer responders have been cleared to undertake tasks to support the NHS; and whether it is his policy that those volunteers should also undertake tasks in support of (a) care homes and the (b) National Care Force. (43574)

122 N Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of employees of NHS Ambulance Trusts in England (a) were on sick leave, (b) were self-isolating due to covid-19 and (c) had tested positive for covid-19 in each of the last six weeks. (43769)

123 Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate support for extremely vulnerable children and families that are required to self-isolate. (43605)

124 Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure dialysis nurses treating patients who are shielding and vulnerable have access to adequate personal protective equipment. (43593)

125 N Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much personal protective equipment has been allocated to (a) early years settings, (b) SEN schools, (c) children’s homes and (d) social workers in each of the last six months. (43712)

126 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which covid-free hospitals are specifically dedicated to the treatment of people with cancer; and on what date each such hospital started in that capacity. (43620)


127 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the people who have been advised by the Government to shield at home for 12 weeks in response to the covid-19 outbreak (a) are undergoing active chemotherapy (b) have lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy; (c) have a cancer of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment (d) are having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer; (e) are having other targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors; (f) have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last six months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs; (g) have severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary; (h) have severe combined immunodeficiency and homozygous sickle cell or other rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase the risk of infections; (i) are on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection and (j) are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired. (43621)

128 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people received chemotherapy treatment in (a) April 2019 and (b) April 2020 for the treatment of (i) breast cancer, (ii) bowel cancer, (iii) lung cancer, (iv) blood cancer and (v) prostate cancer. (43622)

129 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many two week urgent cancer referrals there were in (a) April 2019 (b) April 2020 for suspected (i) breast cancer, (ii) bowel cancer, (iii) lung cancer, (iv) blood cancer and (v) prostate cancer. (43623)

130 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the process is for NHS England's review of the existing criteria to determine who should receive letters asking them to shield at home as a result of covid-19. (43624)

131 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) men (b) women with blood cancer in each age group have (i) contracted covid-19 (ii) received intensive care support and (iii) died with covid-19. (43625)

132 Jeremy Wright (Kenilworth and Southam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the Children’s Air Ambulance charity during the covid-19 outbreak. (43611)

133 N Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2020 to Question 41027 on Taliban: Peace Negotiations, what discussions he has with his German counterpart on the formation of the US negotiating position in the US-Taliban peace negotiations. (43617)


134 N Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2020 to Question 41027 on Taliban: Peace Negotiations, what discussions he had with his French counterpart on the formation of the US negotiating position in the US-Taliban peace negotiations. (43618)

135 N Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2020 to Question 41027, what discussions he had with the Secretary of General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, on the formation of the US negotiating position in the US-Taliban peace negotiations. (43619)

136 Gill Furniss (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on the humanitarian situation in Yemen. [R] (43718)

137 N Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart on the execution of juvenile offenders Shayan Saeedpour and Majid Esmailzadeh. (43606)

138 N Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to ensure that the Government of Bangladesh works with the international community to offer safe haven to the Rohingya refugees stranded at sea in the Bay of Bengal. (43668)

139 Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the strength of relations between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government of Iraq. (43626)

140 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals registered an interest by the close of registration on 19 April 2020 to return to the UK as a result of the covid-19 pandemic from (a) India, (b) Pakistan and (c) Bangladesh; and if he will make a statement. (43579)

141 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of those UK nationals who had registered by 19 April 2020 to return to the UK from (a) India, (b) Pakistan and (c) Bangladesh were categorised as vulnerable by Corporate Travel Management; and if he will make a statement. (43580)

142 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether furloughed salaries will be calculated as part of the earnings requirement for applications for spousal visas. (43719)


143 Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the timetable announced by her Department in April 2019 for appointing an Independent Reviewer of Prevent remains in place; and whether the independent review of that strategy will be completed by August 2020. (43671)

144 Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the deadline for submissions to the independent review of Prevent is 7 July 2020, as announced by her Department. (43672)

145 Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses to (a) commission and (b) monitor the services which support the Prevent Strategy. (43673)

146 N Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date SAGE first discussed the potential effect of introducing restrictions at the UK borders on the (a) rate of covid-19 infections in the UK and (b) ability of the NHS to respond to that rate; and whether SAGE reported the conclusions of those discussion to her. (43656)

147 N Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the scientific assessment that informed the decision to (a) introduce formal quarantine measures for the flights from (i) Wuhan, China on (A) 31 January, (B) 2 February and (C) 9 February 2020 and (b) Tokyo, Japan on 22 February, and (b) not to introduce formal quarantine measures for other UK arrivals from 1 January 2020. (43657)

148 N Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what dates SAGE provided advice to Ministers on the potential effect of introducing restrictions at the UK borders on the spread of covid-19 in the UK. (43658)

149 N Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) Minister and (b) officials in her Department were provided with SAGE (a) advice and (b) modelling on the potential effect of introducing restrictions at the UK borders on the spread of covid-19 in the UK. (43659)

150 Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the provisional management information on the number of arrivals at the UK border from 23 March to 5 May 2020. (43661)

151 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to permanently exempt (a) NHS staff and (b) the families of NHS staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge. (43715)

152 Alex Sobel (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set asylum support at 70 per cent of universal credit. (43752)


153 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an area-based assessment of the correlation between numbers of residents having no recourse to public funds and the largest numbers of deaths involving covid-19; and if she will make a statement. (43577)

154 N Liz Twist (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the time frame is for the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s review of community-based support. (43738)

155 N Liz Twist (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the scope is of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s review of community-based support. (43739)

156 N Liz Twist (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the number of domestic abuse victims who do not live in safe accommodation and would not qualify for statutory support as set out in clause 53 of the Domestic Abuse Bill. (43740)

157 Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to provide additional support to Business Crime Reduction Partnerships during the covid-19 outbreak. (43674)

158 Simon Baynes (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to support Government procurement during the covid-19 outbreak. (43771)

159 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which contract awards have been postponed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and which programmes have had their (a) initial operating capability or (b) full operating capability postponed as a result of that outbreak. (43601)

160 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on their plans to support their domestic defence industries after the covid-19 pandemic. (43602)

161 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to bring programmes forward to support UK prosperity, jobs, and export opportunities. (43603)

162 Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any projects involving the use of live animals in scientific procedures at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, were part of contracts with foreign Governments in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the value of those contracts was. (43760)

163 Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of removing females of a litter of triplets from the breeding programme of marmosets at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down and re-homing them to decrease the number of those animals that are euthanised. (43761)


164 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 14 January 2014 to Question 182081, if he will list the current appointments of all British forces personnel to foreign armed forces and governments by rank and task. (43735)

165 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's definition is of UK personnel in each of the categories of (a) loan service personnel, (b) exchange officers, (c) liaison officers, (d) embeds and (e) secondees. (43736)

166 N Sir Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will issue guidance to local authorities on the definition of eligibility for access to the £117 million fund for discretionary grant payments to businesses announced on 1 May 2020; and if he will make a statement. (43585)

167 N Sir Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the £617 million of funding allocated to local authorities on 1 May 2020 to enable them to make discretionary grant payments to businesses is available for (a) Dorset Council and (b) BCP Council; and if he will make a statement. (43586)

168 Nick Fletcher (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will list the (a) name and (b) value of each Government grant awarded to Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council as a result of covid-19 outbreak. (43775)

169 N Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of reducing the time limit for bringing a judicial review in planning cases to six weeks, as implemented by the Government on 1 July 2013. (43709)

170 N Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to increase the provision of allotments (a) during and (b) after the covid-19 outbreak. [Transferred] (42969)

171 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how homelessness accommodation providers can apply for financial support through the coronavirus funding package for frontline charities announced on 8 April 2020; what her Department’s timeline is for the delivery of that funding; and if he will make a statement. (43614)

172 Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to support people with alcohol and other drug problems who have been newly


housed in temporary accommodation under the emergency housing measures in response to covid-19; and what plans his Department has to manage this group when the lockdown is eased and lifted. (43759)

173 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): 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. [Transferred] (43220)

174 N Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the law on marriage to allow marriages to take place during the covid-19 lockdown. [Transferred] (42905)

175 N Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report entitled Transforming courts and tribunals – a progress update, published by the National Audit Office on 6 September 2019, HC2638, if he will review the proposed closure of 77 more courts by 2025/26. (43636)

176 N Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) effectiveness and (b) challenges of operating virtual courts. (43637)

177 Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time from offence to completion in criminal court cases. (43638)

178 Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many days (a) recorders and (b) judges have sat in each month from February 2019 to 2020. (43639)

179 Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Government has spent on developing virtual courts in response to the covid-19 outbreak. (43640)

180 N Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) his Department and (b) the HM Courts & Tribunals Service spent on communications and public relations in the 2019-20 financial year. (43641)

181 Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to promote non-custodial alternatives to prison. (43642)

182 Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the effect on children's social care services of mothers receiving custodial sentences. (43643)


183 Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2020 to Question 4350 on Children: Restraint Techniques, when the Charlie Taylor review on restraint techniques and children will be published; and what the time table is for the publication of the Government's response to that review. (43664)

184 Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason Government guidance entitled Coronavirus Restricted Temporary Release measures states that children serving sentences for drug offences, including simple possession of a class A drug under s5(1) and (2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act, are specifically excluded from consideration for release. (43758)

185 Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the level of undercounting of deaths from covid-19 on death certificates; and if he will make a statement. (43770)

186 Mhairi Black (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide support for (a) PAYE zero hour contract workers, (b) casual workers and (c) seasonal workers who cannot access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. (43680)

187 Mhairi Black (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending maternity pay for people affected by the covid-19 outbreak. (43681)

188 Dr Lisa Cameron (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will amend the Treasury Direction in relation to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to enable directors who have furloughed themselves to undertake action beyond filing accounts. [R] (43678)

189 Douglas Chapman (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to support zoos and aquariums that are unable to furlough their employees. (43675)

190 Douglas Chapman (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to provide financial support to visitor attractions that rely on a high income during summer months but are ineligible for covid-19 business support during to the covid-19 pandemic. (43676)

191 N Daisy Cooper (St Albans): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 41174, whether he has entered into correspondence with (a) Star Pubs and Bars (Heineken), (b) Punch Taverns, (c) Greene King, (d) Marston's and (e) EI Group (Stonegate Pubs) on those companies continuing to charge rent to pub tenants during the covid-19 lockdown. (43757)

192 Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure businesses who do not bank with a high street provider are able to apply for a Bounce Bank Loan. (43690)


193 N Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) removing the £51,000 limit on retail, hospitality and leisure grants and (b) directing local authorities that supply chain businesses are eligible for rate relief and business support. (43634)

194 N Colum Eastwood (Foyle): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will lower the minimum lending criteria under the Bounce Back Loan Scheme from £10 million per lender in order to ensure credit unions are able to provide loans. (43777)

195 N Neil Gray (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a furlough appeals process for employees to challenge the decision of their employer. (43670)

196 N Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide specific guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for umbrella employers and employees; and whether employees of umbrella companies can be furloughed. (43613)

197 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that agency workers employed by umbrella companies can access financial support following the outbreak of covid-19. (43647)

198 Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to extend financial support during the covid-19 outbreak to businesses that do not pay business rates. (43648)

199 N Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that specialised social economy lenders are included as (a) Bounce Back Loans and (b) Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme accredited lenders. (43649)

200 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether businesses that have taken out a loan under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme are able to convert that loan into a Bounce Back Loan. (43692)

201 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to ensure that the Self-Employment Support Scheme does not indirectly discriminate against people taking maternity leave. (43699)

202 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether sole trader directors receiving a single dividend from their company can be included in the (a) Self-employment Income Support Scheme and (b) Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme if they submit their certificate of incorporation from Companies House. (43700)

203 Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have registered as self-employed with HMRC since 6 April 2019. (43702)


204 Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure environmental charities are financially supported during the covid-19 outbreak. (43747)

205 Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government plans to take to support environmental charities that have experienced reduced income and capacity to deliver on the Government’s environmental objectives as a result of the covid-19 outbreak. (43748)

206 Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether emergency Government funding will be made available to environmental charities during the covid-19 outbreak. (43749)

207 Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Streatham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to include agricultural businesses in the support packages introduced by the Government. (43756)

208 N Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether furloughed workers under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme are entitled to earn additional money through work for (a) themselves and (b) another employer when their employment contract has a no moonlighting clause. (43714)

209 N Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the HM Treasury Direction on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been updated to reflect the guidance issued that states employees whose contracts came to a natural end during the covid-19 outbreak pandemic can be rehired and placed on furlough. (43716)

210 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a company can rehire and place on furlough an employee whose contract came to a natural end during or before the covid-19 outbreak. (43717)

211 N Munira Wilson (Twickenham): 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. (43763)

212 N Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to support women (a) returning to work and (b) accessing childcare after the covid-19 lockdown. (43632)

213 N Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on (a) the gender pay gap and (b) indirect discrimination. (43633)

214 N Rachael Maskell (York Central): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what equalities impact assessment the Government has made of the effect of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme on women that have taken maternity leave. (43701)


215 N Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating their plasma to a trial to provide treatment for covid-19. (43734)

Questions for Answer on Tuesday 12 May

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for International Trade

1 Grahame Morris (Easington): What steps she is taking to expedite the import of essential medical products during covid-19 outbreak. (902518)

2 Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton): What steps she is taking to facilitate trade with Saudi Arabia. (902519)

3 Daisy Cooper (St Albans): What recent assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of a US trade agreement on SMEs. (902520)

4 David Linden (Glasgow East): What recent assessment the Government has made of the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on the progress of trade negotiations with the EU. (902521)

5 Mark Eastwood (Dewsbury): What assessment she has made of the potential merits of a free trade agreement with the US. (902522)

6 Chris Green (Bolton West): What steps her Department is taking to protect the global supply chains of UK businesses. (902523)

7 Ruth Edwards (Rushcliffe): What her policy is on protectionism. (902524)

8 Olivia Blake (Sheffield, Hallam): Whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ban the (a) import and (b) sale of real fur products. (902525)

9 James Wild (North West Norfolk): What recent progress her Department has made on negotiating free trade deals. (902526)

10 Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): What recent progress her Department has made on trade negotiations with African countries. (902527)

11 Scott Mann (North Cornwall): What steps her Department is taking to help ensure the recovery of international trade after the covid-19 pandemic. (902528)

12 Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): What assessment she has made of the potential merits of a free trade agreement with the US. (902529)

13 Felicity Buchan (Kensington): What recent assessment she has made of the effect on the global economy of maintaining (a) free trade and (b) open supply chains during the covid-19 pandemic. (902530)


14 Matt Vickers (Stockton South): What steps she is taking to strengthen the UK's trade in medical research and development with Israel during the covid-19 pandemic. (902531)

15 Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith): What assessment she has made of the effect of trade barriers to UK exports on the UK’s contribution to the global economic recovery from the covid-19 pandemic. (902533)

16 Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): What recent steps she has taken to support businesses trading internationally that are affected by the covid-19 pandemic. (902539)

17 Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): What steps she is taking to expedite the import of essential medical products during covid-19 outbreak. (902543)

18 Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What recent progress the Government has made on EU trade deal negotiations; and if she will make a statement. (902549)

19 Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton): What recent discussions she has had with UK trade partners on including clauses on human rights in future trade deals. (902551)

20 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): What recent steps she has taken to support businesses trading internationally that are affected by the covid-19 pandemic. (902555)

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

1 Andrew Lewer (Northampton South): Whether the Royal Navy plans to continue operations in the South China Sea. (902468)

2 Patricia Gibson (North Ayrshire and Arran): What work the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is undertaking to tackle the spread of covid-19. (902469)

3 Christian Wakeford (Bury South): What support his Department has provided to veterans during the covid-19 outbreak. (902470)

4 Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What steps his Department has taken to support Government procurement during the covid-19 outbreak. (902471)

5 Dr Jamie Wallis (Bridgend): What support his Department has provided in tackling the covid-19 outbreak. (902472)

6 Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): What recent assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on the defence industry. (902473)

7 Carla Lockhart (Upper Bann): What steps the Government is taking to improve mental health and well-being support for armed forces personnel and their families. (902474)

8 James Sunderland (Bracknell): What steps his Department is taking to ensure that the projected capabilities of the armed forces over the next 10 years are adequate to meet future expected threats to national security. (902475)


9 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): What steps he is taking to ensure that military personnel have access to testing for covid-19. (902476)

10 David Duguid (Banff and Buchan): What support his Department has provided in tackling the covid-19 outbreak. (902477)

11 Mrs Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall): What steps his Department is taking to commemorate VE Day. (902478)

12 Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): What assessment his Department has made of the additional support that armed forces personnel could provide to help tackle the covid-19 outbreak. (902479)

13 Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): What support his Department is providing for veterans during the covid-19 outbreak. (902480)

14 Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): What assessment he has made of the effect on veteran welfare of closing the Veterans UK Helpline. (902481)

15 Paula Barker (Liverpool, Wavertree): What support his Department is providing for veterans during the covid-19 outbreak. (902482)

16 Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): What support his Department is providing for veterans during the covid-19 outbreak. (902483)

17 Royston Smith (Southampton, Itchen): What assessment he has made of the contribution of the armed forces in tackling the covid-19 outbreak. (902484)

18 Paul Bristow (Peterborough): What support his Department has provided to the Overseas Territories during the covid-19 pandemic. (902485)

19 Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): What support his Department is providing for veterans during the covid-19 outbreak. (902489)

20 Chris Law (Dundee West): What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on tackling the spread of disinformation on covid-19. (902492)

Documents

Questions Tabled on Tue 5 May 20201 Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died from covid-19 in the UK, by faith