Written Question
Wednesday 7th June 2023
Asked by:
Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make (a) Returning Officers and (b) Electoral Registration Officers subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Answered by Alex Burghart
- Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
It is the Government’s intention to bring forward proposals to make Returning Officers and Electoral Registration Officers subject to the Freedom of Information Act when legislative time allows and following appropriate consultation.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
Papers Relating to the Home Secretary
"Many a person who has gone through our court system will get 12 months’ probation. Why is six days good enough for the Home Secretary?..."Alex Cunningham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Oct 2022
Doncaster Sheffield Airport
"You’ve got to be joking!..."Alex Cunningham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Oct 2022
Doncaster Sheffield Airport
"I am bamboozled by Government Members’ comments. Our smaller, regional airports are in deep trouble, and Peel will not do anyone any favours at Doncaster or anywhere else. However, it did do a great deal with the Tees Valley Mayor. It got him to part with tens of millions of …..."Alex Cunningham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
"What a rant, Mr Deputy Speaker. We all know that the Prime Minister is unfit for office, but rather than remove him, Tory MPs will tonight be whipped to keep an incompetent, lawbreaker in power, a person who has a problem with the truth.
I do not have confidence in …..."Alex Cunningham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 May 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Let me remind the Minister that 67% of a small number is still a small number. The recent criminal justice joint inspection report into pandemic recovery noted:
“The prospect of waiting years for justice is likely to be traumatising for victims and their families and has a damaging impact on …..."Alex Cunningham - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Apr 2022
Easter Recess: Government Update
"My constituent Jason Green wrote to me today to tell me how his wife lost her mother suddenly last year but could not travel to be with her father, who himself died three days later, because they were following the law. They did not get to the funerals either, because …..."Alex Cunningham - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 19th April 2022
Asked by:
Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has paid in fees to all counsel to public inquiries in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Michael Ellis
Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.
Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.
Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.
Written Question
Tuesday 19th April 2022
Asked by:
Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the process is for the selection of counsel for the forthcoming public inquiry into the covid-19 pandemic.
Answered by Michael Ellis
Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.
Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.
Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.
Written Question
Tuesday 19th April 2022
Asked by:
Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will confirm the process by which counsel to public inquiries are selected.
Answered by Michael Ellis
Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.
Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.
Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.