Ben Lake MP: written questions 2025
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Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction AgreementForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24912More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to ratify the Global Ocean Treaty.
Answer: The Government is completely committed to ratification of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement,...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSales: RegulationTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23418More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending deemed reseller rules to include UK-established sellers.
Answer: Since 1 January 2021 overseas sellers, or online marketplaces where they facilitate the sale, are required to be registered and account for VAT for supplies of low value imports of £135 or less. Where an overseas seller sells goods located in the UK at th...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVAT: Tax EvasionTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23417More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the extent of VAT non-compliance by overseas retailers selling (a) goods and (b) services in the UK through online marketplaces.
Answer: Since 1 January 2021 overseas sellers, or online marketplaces where they facilitate the sale, are required to be registered and account for VAT for supplies of low value imports of £135 or less. Where an overseas seller sells goods located in the UK at th...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSales: RegulationTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23416More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the revenue raised by extending deemed reseller rules to include UK-established sellers.
Answer: Since 1 January 2021 overseas sellers, or online marketplaces where they facilitate the sale, are required to be registered and account for VAT for supplies of low value imports of £135 or less. Where an overseas seller sells goods located in the UK at th...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23415More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussion he has had with (a) Skills England and (b) the equivalent agencies in the devolved nations on the AI Opportunity Action Plan.
Answer: The AI Opportunities Action Plan government response commits to working with Skills England, as well as devolved and local governments, to assess the country’s AI and digital skills. This will expand education pathways into AI, ensure lifelong skills prog...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23414More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that that the skills needed for the implementation of the AI Opportunity Action Plan are developed across all four nations of the UK.
Answer: The AI Opportunities Action Plan will ensure the UK builds a strong and diverse talent pipeline, realising AI benefits across all UK nations.Skills England will build highly trained workforces to meet national, regional and local skills needs of the next ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: DevolutionDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with the devolved Administrations on the AI Opportunity Action Plan.
Answer: We are committed to building an AI sector that can scale and win globally, ensuring global AI companies want to call the UK home, and boosting the responsible adoption of AI across all parts of the economy.The plan sets out our intention to deliver growth...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeath CertificatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (England and Wales) Regulations 2024 on the timely registration of deaths.
Answer: The Government is monitoring the impact of the death certification reforms, including the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024, which came into legal effect on 9 September 2024. The median time taken to register a death since the introdu...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeath Certificates: WalesCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23411More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, of the deaths registered in Wales between 9 September 2024 and 31 December 2024 and which were not reported to the Coroner, how long on average did it take for a certificate for (a) burial or (b) cremation to be
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Questions of 13th January is attached.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeath Certificates: WalesCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23410More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, of the deaths registered in Wales between 1 January 2024 and 8 September 2024 and which were not reported to the Coroner, how long on average did it take for a certificate for (a) burial or (b) cremation to be i
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Questions of 13th January is attached.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeath: WalesCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23409More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths were registered in Wales between 9 September 2024 and 31 December 2024.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Questions of 13th January is attached.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeath: WalesCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23408More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths were registered in Wales between 1 January 2024 and 8 September 2024.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Questions of 13th January is attached.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the retained margin element of the NHS drug tariff.
Answer: The adequacy of medicine margin that pharmacies are allowed to retain, with medicine margin being the difference between how much pharmacies are reimbursed and how much pharmacies were charged by suppliers, is currently being considered as part of the wid...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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