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Written Question
Retail Trade: Employment
Wednesday 15th July 2026

Asked by: Mims Davies (Conservative - East Grinstead and Uckfield)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of trends in employment levels in the retail sector in East Grinstead and Uckfield.

Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Parliamentary Question of 7th July is attached.


Written Question
Civil Service: Menopause and Periods
Tuesday 14th July 2026

Asked by: Mims Davies (Conservative - East Grinstead and Uckfield)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what consideration has been given to roll out British Standard BS 30416 to the civil service workforce.

Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Civil Service is committed to being an inclusive employer. The adoption for British Standard BS 30416, is delegated to departments as individual employers.


Written Question
Communication: Outages
Tuesday 14th July 2026

Asked by: Mims Davies (Conservative - East Grinstead and Uckfield)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of how the public will receive critical information in the event of widespread and prolonged broadband or power outages.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

There are plans in place for the public to receive critical information in both of these scenarios. This includes the use of both BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4 which will continue to broadcast key advice to the public.

In a prolonged broadband outage there are other ways to send critical information, such as emergency alerts, which do not require broadband connection to function.


Written Question
Government Departments: Official Cars
Wednesday 26th November 2025

Asked by: Mims Davies (Conservative - East Grinstead and Uckfield)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Government Departments use a ministerial car.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)

The Government Car Service (GCS) provides Departmental Pool Cars (DPC) to the following Government departments:

  • Attorney General’s Office

  • Cabinet Office

  • Department for Business and Trade

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport

  • Department for Education

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  • Department for Health and Social Care

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

  • Department for Transport

  • Department for Work and Pensions

  • HM Treasury

  • Home Office

  • Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government

  • Ministry of Justice

  • Scotland Office


Written Question
Elections
Wednesday 22nd November 2017

Asked by: Mims Davies (Conservative - East Grinstead and Uckfield)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to improve levels of confidence in the electoral process.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The Government treat the integrity of our democratic processes extremely seriously. The Government continue work to deliver voter identification pilots in May 2018 local elections, look for opportunities to end postal vote harvesting and to tackle the threat of disinformation and propaganda.