Joe Powell MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Foreign Companies: PropertyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 1 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12343More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including publicly accessible trust data in the Register of Overseas Entities.
Answer: While the Government remains committed to enhancing transparency in relation to trusts within the Register of Overseas entities (ROE), we must carefully consider the privacy risks that come with it. The government will be laying regulations in due course ...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOverseas Territories Joint Ministerial CouncilForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12334More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans he has to publish the results of the UK and Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council on 19-21 November 2024.
Answer: The conclusions of the Joint Ministerial Council will be published through a communiqué jointly agreed by the UK and the Overseas Territories. We will also make a Written Ministerial Statement.
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOpen Government Partnership: Departmental ResponsibilitiesDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11509More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress he has made on appointing a Ministerial lead for the UK's seat on the Open Government Partnership Steering Committee.
Answer: The responsibility for the interrelated areas of open government and open data is currently held in the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO). However, as part of a Machinery of Government change to create the Digital Centre of Government, CDDO has moved...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBangladesh: HinduismForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure the safety of Hindus in Bangladesh.
Answer: The UK has a long-standing commitment to the protection of human rights. We are committed to Freedom of Religion or Belief for all. In July, the Foreign Secretary and I raised concerns publicly and privately about the unprecedented levels of violence and ...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAzerbaijan: PrisonersForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the arbitrary detention of prisoners in Azerbaijan.
Answer: The UK remains concerned at the increased number of detentions of independent journalists, human rights defenders and civil society representatives over the last year, and we continue to urge Azerbaijan to improve human rights protections for all its citi...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLeaseholdMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to commence Section 64 of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024.
Answer: The Government intend to act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights, powers, and protections over their homes by implementing the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. These include the provisions at Sections 49 and 64 of th...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLeaseholdMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to commence Section 49 of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024.
Answer: The Government intend to act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights, powers, and protections over their homes by implementing the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. These include the provisions at Sections 49 and 64 of th...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordInternet: SafetyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 900703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help protect people online.
Answer: In line with our Safer Streets Mission, the Online Safety Act brings much needed protections to the online world by protecting children from harmful and age-inappropriate content, tackling violence against women and girls, and taking down criminal activit...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Ground RentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to respond to the consultation entitled Modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases which closed on 17 January 2024.
Answer: Over the course of this Parliament, the Government will further reform the leasehold system. We will enact remaining Law Commission recommendations relating to enfranchisement and the Right to Manage, tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rents, rein...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordGeorgia: ElectionsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support free, fair and peaceful elections in Georgia.
Answer: On 9 October, I [Minister Doughty] made clear to Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili that Georgia's parliamentary elections must be held in accordance with international democratic standards. We have allocated £500,000 to support independent elec...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordProcurement: CoronavirusTreasuryTabled 27 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 900215More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to recover public money spent on contracts for goods and services that were not provided during the pandemic.
Answer: We are appointing a fixed-term Covid Fraud Commissioner through an open competition that is running now. The Commissioner will make sure that everything is done to return the money owed to the public purse, with a primary focus on pandemic PPE contracts. ...
Answered 3 Sept 2024
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