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Commons written questions and answers

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Question for Home Office
Windrush Generation: Compensation
Stuart C McDonald
Scottish National Party, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Answer of 15 April 2021 to Question 179171, on Windrush Generation: Compensation, if she will estimate the number of applications to the Windrush Compensation Scheme that remain outsta...

Asked 19 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Priti Patel (Conservative, Witham)
Answer corrected
By Priti Patel (Witham, Witham)
183169
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Home Office
Windrush Generation: Compensation
Stuart C McDonald
Scottish National Party, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 April 2021 to Question 179170 on Windrush Generation: Compensation, notwithstanding that her Department does not routinely publish the information requested, how many appl...

Asked 19 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Priti Patel (Conservative, Witham)
Answer corrected
By Priti Patel (Witham, Witham)
183168
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Northern Ireland Office
Parking: Northern Ireland
Ruth Jones
Labour, Newport West

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of on-street car parking charges in (a) Newry, (b) Lisburn, (c) Belfast and (d) Northern Ireland.

Asked 27 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Mr Robin Walker (Conservative, Worcester)
Answer corrected
By Mr Robin Walker (Worcester, Worcester)
188164
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fishing Catches: Territorial Waters
Deidre Brock
Scottish National Party, Edinburgh North and Leith

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2021 to Question 141502, on Fishing Catches: Territorial Waters, what progress has been made on establishing the mechanism to allow data exchange.

Asked 22 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
185934
Answered
Commons

Lords written questions and answers

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Gardens: Peat
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Labour, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to ban the sale of horticultural garden peat; and if so, when.

Asked 22 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Conservative, Life peer)
HL15216
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Litter: Tobacco
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Labour, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to set a timetable for establishing a regulatory mechanism for imposing extended producer responsibility on the tobacco industry.

Asked 21 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Conservative, Life peer)
HL15155
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Litter: Tobacco
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Labour, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to establish regulatory mechanisms for imposing extended producer responsibility on the tobacco industry; and how any such plans will ensure the industry takes financial responsibility for the costs ass...

Asked 21 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Conservative, Life peer)
HL15154
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Owls: Animal Welfare
Lord Patten
Conservative, Life peer

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) number, (2) welfare, and (3) distribution, of barn owls in England.

Asked 20 April 2021
Answered 29 April 2021
By Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Conservative, Life peer)
HL15115
Answered
Lords

Commons written statements

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Department of Health and Social Care
COVID-19 Update
Matt Hancock
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Conservative, West Suffolk
Statement made 13 May 2021
HCWS28
Commons
Department for Transport
Draft Legislation: The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) and the Biofuel (Labelling) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
Rachel Maclean
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
Conservative, Redditch
Statement made 13 May 2021
HCWS27
Commons
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Pensions
Luke Hall
Minister of State for Regional Growth and Local Government
Conservative, Thornbury and Yate
Statement made 13 May 2021
HCWS26
Commons
Treasury
Treasury update
Steve Barclay
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire
Statement made 13 May 2021
HCWS25
Commons

Lords written statements

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Department of Health and Social Care
COVID-19 Update
Lord Bethell
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Innovation)
Conservative, Excepted Hereditary
Statement made 13 May 2021
HLWS26
Lords
Treasury
Treasury update
Lord Agnew of Oulton
Minister of State
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 13 May 2021
HLWS25
Lords
Department for Work and Pensions
Fraud and Error National Statistics
Baroness Stedman-Scott
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 13 May 2021
HLWS24
Lords
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Pensions
Lord Greenhalgh
Minister of State for Building Safety and Communities
Conservative, Life peer
Statement made 13 May 2021
HLWS23
Lords

Commons daily reports

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House of Commons written answers and statements
29 April 2021
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House of Commons written answers and statements
28 April 2021
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House of Commons written answers and statements
27 April 2021
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House of Commons written answers and statements
26 April 2021
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House of Lords written answers and statements
13 May 2021
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House of Lords written answers and statements
12 May 2021
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House of Lords written answers and statements
29 April 2021
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House of Lords written answers and statements
28 April 2021
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