Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the value of bilateral trade with St Kitts and Nevis was in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
Answered by John Glen - Shadow Paymaster General
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 6th December is attached.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the value of trade between Britain and St Kitts and Nevis was in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentlemen’s Parliamentary Question of 15 March is attached.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether contacts between Palantir and (a) Cambridge Analytica and (b) foreign national security organisations will be considered in future procurement opportunities for that company in relation to contracts that require handling of sensitive data and information.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
UK public procurement is regulated by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and public procurement policy is to award contracts on the basis of value for money, which means the optimum combination of cost and quality over the lifetime of the project.
Public sector procurers are required by law to assess the most economically advantageous tender from the perspective of the contracting authority, using criteria linked to the subject matter of the contract, including compliance with the published specification for all contracts.
Security implications are considered in detail on a case-by-case basis by commercial teams, and security clauses and schedules are included in government contracts, where necessary.
Public bodies must also comply with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 when letting contracts involving personal data, including adequacy for the purposes of off-shoring, where relevant.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the UK's largest exports are to China.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the hon. Member's Parliamentary Questions of 26 May is attached.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the UK's largest imports are from China.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the hon. Member's Parliamentary Questions of 26 May is attached.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of diverging from the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive in favour of progressive tobacco harm reduction policies that support the Government's levelling up agenda.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
No formal assessment has been made but I have received correspondence on this matter from members of the public in response to my requests to readers of the Sun and the Sunday Express. It is for the Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to consider any changes to the policy. As set out in the ‘Benefits of Brexit’ paper, published on 31 January, DHSC will set out proposals for regulatory reforms in a new Tobacco Control Plan due to be published later this year.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the level of bilateral trade was with Poland in (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether weddings with one hundred or more guests are likely to be allowed before the end of the year as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The Government has been working closely with stakeholders in the wedding industry, the Places of Worship Taskforce, and the National Panel for Registration to enable small marriages and civil partnerships to begin safely from 4 July 2020. Guidance can be found at the link below, which remains under review and may be updated in line with the changing situation:
Large gatherings, for example of one hundred or more people, present greater risks of transmission.The Government continues to work with relevant stakeholders to consider how to enable receptions and larger marriage and civil partnership ceremonies to take place safely.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, how many official meetings she has had with each of her EU counterparts since June 2016.
Answered by Baroness May of Maidenhead
Details of my Official meetings are in the public domain and can be found on the gov.uk website.
Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that those non-UK citizens who are not eligible to vote are not able to vote in the EU referendum.
Answered by John Penrose
The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales that meant that some non-eligible EU citizens had mistakenly received poll cards and, in some instances, postal votes. The Commission explains that the software provider has resolved the issue and none of the affected electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on the 23 June. Any incorrectly issued postal votes will be cancelled.