Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Wirral South)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many written parliamentary questions to his Department remained unanswered when Parliament prorogued on 26 October 2023.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
There were two written parliamentary questions where the department was unable to provide a substantive answer before Prorogation. The following questions received the standard Prorogation response: 203976 and HL10597.
Hl10597 was answered substantively by letter, as is protocol.
Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: Legal advice and counsel exceeding £50,000, 2017-23: FOI releaseFound: Matters counsel or legal advice was sought for any cumulative cost of legal fees of more than £50,000
Found: the Court of Session
Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) taken place: the referendum in 2016 and our departure from the EU; developments in devolution; and the Prorogation - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Cabinet Manual, which says:“When Parliament is in session the most important announcements of government - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (Lab - Life peer) announcement that has not been extensively briefed out to the press before it was given to Parliament - Speech Link
Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community diagnostic centres have been opened over the course of this Parliament; and how many and what percentage of diagnostic centres have been opened (a) in existing health settings and (b) elsewhere in the community.
Answered by Will Quince
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Nov. 01 2023
Source Page: Letter dated 26/10/2023 from Baroness Goldie to Lord West of Spithead regarding Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployments and Solid Support shipping. 1p.Found: Letter dated 26/10/2023 from Baroness Goldie to Lord West of Spithead regarding Royal Navy Carrier Strike
Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) to be accountable to Parliament.”The Leader of the House, however, responded to a point that he had - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Parliament and be put in due execution accordingly. - Speech Link
2: None and considerations Us especially moving We have thought fit to prorogue Our said Parliament. - Speech Link
3: None and continue Our present Parliament at Our City of Westminster aforesaid on a day no earlier than Thursday - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Lord Advocate:“The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle - Speech Link
2: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) the good that has come from our Parliament. - Speech Link