Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she is taking to ensure that that public contracts are not awarded to companies that engage in blacklisting workers who are members of trade unions.
Answered by Mark Ferguson - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010 prohibit the compilation, usage, sale or supply of blacklists of trade union members.
Suppliers may be excluded for blacklisting offences under the Procurement Act exclusion regime in certain circumstances. We will make use of those powers where there is evidence of wrongdoing.
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer given to written question UIN 111113, when does her department plan to publish an equalities impact assessment on the freeze to the Plan 2 student loan repayment threshold due to take effect in April 2027.
Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department is expected to publish an equality impact assessment in relation to the Plan 2 repayment threshold and interest threshold freeze after the next Autumn Budget. This assessment will include consideration of the impact on borrowers' lifetime repayments, alongside other impacts on borrowers.
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the recommendations from the 2024 Civil Aviation Authority report into the 2023 National Air Traffic Service failure have been a) implemented in full and b) partially implemented.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The CAA confirmed in June 2026 that all of the 34 recommendations made following the independent review into the NATS Technical Failure of August 2023 have either been completed or embedded in its ongoing regulatory programme.