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Written Question
Crime and Justice Taskforce
Tuesday 13th June 2023

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the Government's Crime and Justice Taskforce has met since January 2020; and on what dates those meetings occurred.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

I refer the Hon. Member to the list of current Cabinet Committees contained here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-cabinet-committees-system-and-list-of-cabinet-committees, and would also like to refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to PQ107708. It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees, and how often they have met, is not normally shared publicly.


Written Question
Nicotine Replacement Therapy: Imports
Thursday 29th April 2021

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has published on the import of Nordic Spirit nicotine patches since the end of the transition period.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.


Written Question
Debt Collection
Thursday 17th December 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward a new UK Government Debt Management Bill to help ensure debt collection is fair in the long term.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Government is currently considering responses to a Call for Evidence on public sector debt management, which closed in September 2020. The government will publish an update in due course and make further announcements in the usual way.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups
Wednesday 7th October 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much Government funding has been allocated to covid-19 messaging for non-English speaking BAME groups through (a) television, (b) radio and (c) written publications.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

I refer the Hon. member to the answers given to PQ 55066 on 10 June 2020, PQ 46692 on 29 May 2020 and to PQ 45460 on 11 May 2020.

The Government is working with specialist multicultural marketing agencies, addressing barriers by targeting audiences with bespoke COVID communications. Core marketing materials are translated into multiple languages nationally and on request from Local Authorities and external stakeholder groups. We are also utilising trusted voices, relevant channels, and translated messages to reach a wide range of audiences across the country. This helps the Government to maximise the impact of its ongoing multichannel communications strategy.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups
Wednesday 7th October 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to help ensure that critical covid-19 messaging is able to reach (a) Pakistani / Urdu / Pushto, (b) Bangladeshi / Sylheti, (c) Sikh / Punjabi, (d) Indian / Hindi and (e) Gujarati people.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

I refer the Hon. member to the answers given to PQ 55066 on 10 June 2020, PQ 46692 on 29 May 2020 and to PQ 45460 on 11 May 2020.

The Government is working with specialist multicultural marketing agencies, addressing barriers by targeting audiences with bespoke COVID communications. Core marketing materials are translated into multiple languages nationally and on request from Local Authorities and external stakeholder groups. We are also utilising trusted voices, relevant channels, and translated messages to reach a wide range of audiences across the country. This helps the Government to maximise the impact of its ongoing multichannel communications strategy.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups
Wednesday 7th October 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has made agreements with any (a) Muslim, (b) Sikh and (c) Hindu media channels to help ensure that critical covid-19 messaging is broadcast to BAME viewers.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

I refer the Hon. member to the answers given to PQ 55066 on 10 June 2020, PQ 46692 on 29 May 2020 and to PQ 45460 on 11 May 2020.

The Government is working with specialist multicultural marketing agencies, addressing barriers by targeting audiences with bespoke COVID communications. Core marketing materials are translated into multiple languages nationally and on request from Local Authorities and external stakeholder groups. We are also utilising trusted voices, relevant channels, and translated messages to reach a wide range of audiences across the country. This helps the Government to maximise the impact of its ongoing multichannel communications strategy.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Advertising
Monday 21st September 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Government covid-19 advertising spend has been allocated to (a) radio, (b) TV, (c) social media and (d) print media; and how much and what proportion of that spend has been allocated to (i) BAME sources of media and (ii) other media outlets in each category.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

I refer the hon. Member to the answers given to PQ 46692 given on 29 May 2020 and to PQ 45460 on 11 May 2020.


Written Question
Public Appointments
Monday 13th July 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) processes and (b) procedures are in place to elect members to commissions established by the Government.

Answered by Chloe Smith

As has been the case under successive administrations, Government establishes a range of statutory and non-statutory commissions, with different functions. Where a commission’s work is long term it may be listed on the public appointments Order in Council and appointments will be made by ministers in line with the Governance Code for Public Appointments. If the work of a commission is short-term, members may be appointed in line with the long standing practice that ministers can directly appoint individuals to undertake short-term pieces of work.


Written Question
Newspaper Press: Coronavirus
Tuesday 16th June 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on advertisements in print newspapers during the covid-19 outbreak; which newspapers have received sponsored content from the Government during the outbreak; and what criteria the Government uses to determine which newspapers will receive such sponsored advertisements.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the Hon. Member to the answers given to PQ 45535 on 18 May 2020 and to PQ 46692 on 29 May 2020.


Written Question
Public Bodies
Monday 9th March 2020

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government has taken to ensure that the boards of public bodies are representative.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the Hon. member to the response given to PQ 23397 on 5 March 2020.