To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Written Question
Hitachi
Tuesday 8th May 2018

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, whether she has recently had discussions with chairman of Hitachi, Hiroaki Nakanishi, or representatives of that company on the building and operation of a nuclear power plant in Wales; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Theresa May

Details of Ministerial UK official visits and official meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly and made available on the gov.uk website.


Written Question
Hitachi
Tuesday 8th May 2018

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, whether she has plans to meet the chairman of Hitachi, Hiroaki Nakanishi.

Answered by Theresa May

Details of Ministerial UK official visits and official meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly and made available on the gov.uk website.


Written Question
Intelligence and Security Committee
Tuesday 28th November 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the Intelligence Security Committee for the current Parliament to be formally reconstituted; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Damian Green

The Intelligence and Security Committee has been appointed following the approval of motions in both Houses of Parliament.


Written Question
Prime Minister: Japan
Tuesday 12th September 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, which representatives of which companies accompanied her on her visit to Japan from 30 August to 1 September 2017.

Answered by Theresa May

Details of my visit to Japan including those who accompanied me on the visit can be found in the press release issued on 30 August and which is available on the gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-heads-to-japan-to-build-strong-post-brexit-relationship-with-toyko


Written Question
Iraq Committee of Inquiry
Wednesday 26th July 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the lessons learned investigation across Whitehall co-ordinated by the National Security Adviser to report.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

The Government has received the report of Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Iraq Inquiry, and will be responding in due course, setting out the lessons learned.


Written Question
Election Offences
Monday 17th July 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the findings of Oxford University Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Research Project into voter manipulation, what steps he is taking to ensure that elections are not influenced by botnets spreading fake news.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The National Cyber Security Centre is actively working with local authorities and will continue to work with Cabinet Office to implement successful delivery of secure elections. Our manifesto included various commitments regarding the media, including the need to protect the reliability and objectivity of information essential to our democracy.


Written Question
Political Parties: Advertising
Wednesday 5th July 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he plans to introduce legislation to regulate spending by political parties on online advertising.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

Legislation is already in place to regulate spending by political parties on online advertising. The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 regulates certain spending by political parties in the period running up to major elections. This includes spending on advertising both online and offline.


Written Question
Political Parties: Advertising
Tuesday 4th July 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Electoral Commission's powers to regulate online political campaign advertising.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The Government is currently considering its response to both the Electoral Commission report on campaign spending and to the Lord Hodgson Review into third party campaigning.

Online political campaign advertising is regulated by the Political Parties, Election and Referendums Act 2000, in the same way as offline political campaign advertising.


Written Question
Business Appointments Advisory Committee
Thursday 20th April 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to encourage the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments to diversify its membership beyond the current required senior (a) military, (b) diplomatic and (c) business experience.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The Government is committed to ensuring we have the very best people appointed to our public bodies and that the boards of public bodies reflect society as a whole.

We encourage applications from candidates with a diverse range of skills and backgrounds and have recently made a number of improvements to the appointments process, which are aimed at making public appointments accessible to the widest possible group of people.


Written Question
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Tuesday 18th April 2017

Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment she has made of the work of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.

Answered by Theresa May

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, my right hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Mr Gummer) on 17 October 2016 , UIN 47620.