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1285891

registered interest
date	11/02/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on support for manufacturers that are subject to non-tariff barriers to trade with the EU.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	912200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not usually disclosed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 11/02/2021 17:47:05 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1285892

registered interest
date	11/02/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential opportunities for the UK of leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Grantham and Stamford
tabling member printed	Gareth Davies
uin	912201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p><p>The Government is clear however that leaving the EU presents the UK with many opportunities. The Government has already established a new points-based immigration system to attract the brightest and best, new trade agreements, and a replacement of the bureaucratic Common Agricultural Policy. This Government will continue to maximise opportunities to support long-term economic growth and strengthen the UK’s global position.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 11/02/2021 17:48:39 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies

1285893

registered interest
date	11/02/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Select Committees: Ministers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will take steps to help ensure that Ministers make themselves available for select committee evidence sessions.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	912214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government is absolutely committed to Parliamentary scrutiny, and recognises the important role played by Select Committees.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 11/02/2021 17:49:10 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1283502

registered interest
date	03/02/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Funerals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a cross-Departmental lead group to assess the issues affecting the funeral and death care sector.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	148683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>The pan-UK and cross-departmental C19 Death Management programme provides strategic and operational support to those looking after the deceased and supporting the bereaved. This programme is led by the Cabinet Office working closely with the relevant sector, local responders and government departments to ensure the deceased are treated with dignity and respect.</p><p>The Government is considering, as part of its response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s ‘Funeral Markets Investigation’ into the operation of the funeral sector, the enduring requirement for such structures once the immediate pressures from the pandemic have eased. The Government response is being led by the Ministry of Justice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 11/02/2021 19:59:39 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1281892

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	NHS: George Cross
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to award the George Cross to the National Health Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Crisp
uin	HL12707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government appreciates there is a huge appetite across the country to recognise all those on the frontline, particularly the NHS, who have been contributing so much through these extraordinary times.</p><p>The Government is carefully considering the appropriate way to remember, reward and recognise those involved in the COVID-19 response. We will ensure that any recognition is both timely and appropriate, and takes into account key workers and volunteers across all critical sectors.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 11/02/2021 17:59:09 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	3783 label Biography information for Lord Crisp

1281896

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conservative Party: Peers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord True on 27 January (HL Deb, col 1600), what is the statistical basis for the statement that "the Conservative Party has been underrepresented in your Lordships’ House".
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL12711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>The Conservative voice is under-represented in the Lords and has been for some time. The Conservative Party has been the largest party in the 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections. In the 2019 general election, Conservatives won 56 per cent of the seats. Yet the Conservative Party still only has 33 per cent of the seats in the Lords, a figure which has remained substantively unchanged despite that repeated pattern of strong electoral support.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 11/02/2021 17:59:57 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1281908

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Campaigns
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to raise the spending limits for candidates standing for (1) local authority, (2) mayoral, and (3) Parliamentary, elections in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL12726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government uprated spending limits for candidates standing for local authority elections in England in December 2020.</p><p>As set out in the Written Ministerial Statements laid on 3 December 2020 from the <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-12-03/hcws618" target="_blank">Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution</a>, and <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-12-03/hlws610" target="_blank">Lord True</a>, it is the Government’s intention to review party and candidate spending limits for all other polls (within the legislative competence of the UK Government) this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 11/02/2021 17:51:55 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1280605

registered interest
date	26/01/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of postal votes which will be used by voters in the upcoming May 2021 local elections.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	143819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>Any elector is able to register to vote by post on demand, if they wish. We understand that the pandemic may change voters’ needs and preferences, and encourage anyone who is shielding, or who does not wish to visit a polling station, to apply for a postal or proxy vote and to do so early. We are working with postal vote suppliers, electoral sector partners and election teams.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 11/02/2021 20:00:45 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith