Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, how they define "unfettered market access for goods moving from Northern Ireland to other parts of the United Kingdom's internal market."
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
As set out on gov.uk, and in the Government's December Command Paper, our unfettered access policy will mean that Northern Ireland businesses can continue to move their goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain, and place them on the whole UK market, without new barriers being put in place. That is given full effect through our phased approach. In the first phase, which has been operating since 1 January, goods moving directly from Northern Ireland directly to Great Britain will benefit from unfettered access. There will be no new checks or controls on those movements. And even where goods move indirectly via Ireland, there will be no tariffs on those movements. This will be followed up with a second phase over the course of 2021 which will focus the benefits of unfettered access specifically on genuine Northern Ireland businesses. Alongside that, the UK Internal Market Act 2020 ensures that those businesses will continue to place those goods on the GB market.
Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of civil servants are currently working from home.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information on Civil Servants currently working from home is not held centrally.
Civil Servants are required to follow the local COVID measures wherever they are deployed throughout the UK. Where staff are able to work from home effectively they are doing so and Civil Servants working in essential services will continue to go into our COVID secure workplaces where necessary.
During September we collected data weekly; the number of employees working in the workplace in the London area for some or all of their working patterns were 27,724 individuals by the end of the month. Moving to a monthly collection period from October, workplace attendance increased to 33,151.
Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many civil servants worked from an office in London during September and October.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information on Civil Servants currently working from home is not held centrally.
Civil Servants are required to follow the local COVID measures wherever they are deployed throughout the UK. Where staff are able to work from home effectively they are doing so and Civil Servants working in essential services will continue to go into our COVID secure workplaces where necessary.
During September we collected data weekly; the number of employees working in the workplace in the London area for some or all of their working patterns were 27,724 individuals by the end of the month. Moving to a monthly collection period from October, workplace attendance increased to 33,151.
Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to her Oral contribution of 9 October 2017, Official Report, column 55, what sea area she referred to as coastal waters.
Answered by Theresa May
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Camborne and Redruth (Mr Eustice) on 10 July 2017, UIN 2642.
Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which government websites include a link to information on the EU referendum.
Answered by John Penrose
The only Government websites currently linking to information on the EU referendum are Gov.uk and eureferendum.gov.uk.
Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost was of inserting the link to information on the EU referendum on the DVLA website.
Answered by John Penrose
As the DVLA website sits on the Gov.uk website, there was no cost associated with inserting a link to information on the eureferendum.gov.uk website.
Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the link on the DVLA website to information on the EU referendum will be removed when the purdah period comes into force.
Answered by John Penrose
All links to the eureferendum.gov.uk website will be removed from government channels such as GOV.UK at the start of the 28 day restricted period ahead of the EU Referendum.