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Written Question
Immigration: Climate Change
Tuesday 23rd March 2021

Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data his Department holds on potential climate-related migration to the UK as a result of global climate change.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
UK Trade with EU: Bureaucracy
Thursday 25th February 2021

Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps he has taken to simplify trading arrangements between the UK and the EU.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

I refer the Hon Members to the answers given in Cabinet Office orals on 11 February. Guidance and published information are available on gov.uk.


Written Question
UK Trade with EU
Thursday 11th February 2021

Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on support for manufacturers that are subject to non-tariff barriers to trade with the EU.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

As has been the case under successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not usually disclosed.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Jan 2021
Covid-19 Update

"I have self-employed constituents who are coming up to a year without support, businesses in supply chains that are unable to furlough staff and newly established businesses and others that have fallen foul of administrative deadlines, as obviously do other hon. Members. I welcome the support that has been provided, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Dec 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"This is how the Prime Minister described his oven-ready deal last November:

“put it in Gas Mark 4, 20 minutes and Bob’s your uncle.”

The Minister is nodding. Clearly, the Government have delivered half of it—leaving the European Union—but we have now passed six of the Prime Minister’s deadlines for …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Dec 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"I think we are all waiting to see.

Let me ask the Minister about a different part of the negotiations. When I have asked him previously, he has been unable to confirm that we will have access to the real-time information systems that we need to identify foreign criminals at …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" What steps she is taking to support women returning to work to access childcare during the covid-19 outbreak. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Prime Minister has urged everybody who can do so to work at home until April, and obviously many people have been doing that for the past eight months, but childcare responsibilities are still falling largely on women. As a result, recent data has shown that 67% of women with …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Nov 2020
Exiting the European Union (European Union)

"I am sure that the Minister is wrong and that all eyes are on us and not on the Prime Minister’s press conference. I congratulate her for her introduction of this most exciting of the statutory instruments we are looking at over the current period. We are broadly supportive of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"When the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster made his statement to the House on the negotiations on 19 October, his former boss, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), was left incredulous when he told her that without access to previously shared databases, the UK could act

“more …..."

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