Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of opt-out schemes for unsolicited mail through letterboxes; and whether her Department (a) is taking and (b) plans to take steps to (i) increase awareness of and (ii) strengthen existing schemes.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Royal Mail is legally obliged to deliver all addressed mail, including mail addressed ‘To the Occupier’ or ‘The Homeowner’. Royal Mail’s ‘door-to-door’ service should stop unaddressed mailings delivered by Royal Mail, around a quarter of all such mail.

The UK’s data protection legislation sets out obligations on organisations processing personal data and provides individuals with certain rights in respect of their data, including the right to object to their personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes.

The Government has also ensured the provision of consumer advice by providing funding for Citizens Advice, the independent consumer body, which provides free, independent and impartial advice on consumer issues and provides details of all the opt-out schemes available in relation to direct marketing on its website.

Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent progress she has made on assessing proposals to amend the Equality Act 2010 to clarify the protected characteristic of sex.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Opposition Chief Whip (Commons)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, whether he has made recent representations to the relevant authority in Afghanistan on the treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan, in the context of the resumption of stoning in that country.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan

We have repeatedly condemned Taliban policies and actions that restrict the rights of Afghan women and girls, including through UN Security Council and Human Rights Council resolutions. Officials have directly raised the decision to impose capital and corporal punishments for certain so-called 'crimes' with Taliban leaders, and called on them to reverse the decision and the other discriminatory policies that target women and girls. We will continue to work with the international community to press the Taliban to alter course.

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