Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1550602

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Africa: Migration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level and flows of migration on the African continent.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	108181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government relies on international data on African migration flows. The United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) World Migration Report 2022 revealed that Africans living in another African country increased from 18 million in 2015 to 21 million in 2020. South Africa settled the most African emigrants (2.9 million), though final destinations are spread widely across Africa. In 2020, East Africa, The Horn and The Great Lakes were the origin of most refugees (5 million). 2 million people were internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1.6 million in Ethiopia and 1.9 million in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 20/12/2022 09:47:07 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

772369

registered interest
date	17/10/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to tackle incidents of late payments to small and medium-sized enterprises by larger businesses.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	108181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government knows how important tackling late payment is, especially for smaller businesses. We have recently introduced a number of measures to improve payment practices, specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises.</p><p>The Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017 came in to force this year. This statutory requirement increases transparency, providing small and medium-sized businesses with better information about the payment practices of large businesses they intend to trade with.</p><p>The recently announced Small Business Commissioner builds on a package of measures to tackle late payment and unfavourable payment practices in the private sector. The Commissioner will empower small businesses to resolve payment disputes with larger businesses and avoid future issues by encouraging a culture change in payment practices and how businesses deal with each other.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/10/2017 13:56:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien