Owen Thompson MP

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has raised with (a) his Chilean counterpart and (b) the Chilean Ambassador in the UK the matter of media and press freedom in Chile following findings in the 9 rep...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the report by the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIPER), published on 9 April 2021 alleging that the Chilean army has monitored journalists covering c...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reform parliamentary scrutiny of procurement within the broader reforms proposed in the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement, published in D...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to include reform of parliamentary scrutiny of procurement within the broader reforms in the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy, published in March 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether plans in the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy, published in March 2021 to reform the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations as part of the broader government review of procurement regul...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to not freeze the threshold for payment of the basic rate of income tax in the financial year 2021-22 to avoid penalising low earners.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what additional safety measures are being considered to ensure that the decision to move to an overall nuclear weapon stockpile of no more than 260 warheads does not increase risks to the public safety of civilia...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has undertaken an impact assessment of any potential increase in nuclear convoy movements in the UK as a result of the Government’s decision to move to an overall nuclear weapon stockpile of no more th...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many additional convoys will be required to maintain increases in stocks of nuclear weapons as a result of the Government’s decision to move to an overall nuclear weapon stockpile of no more than 260 warheads...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the Government’s decision to move to an overall nuclear weapon stockpile of no more than 260 warheads with trends away from conventional warfare towards cyber w...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment was made of the (a) financial and (b) social merits of revising the timetable for replacing the Trident nuclear submarines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the delay to replacing the Trident nuclear submarines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government plans to take to determine the appropriateness of hotels for use as Managed Quarantine Facilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the assessment metrics used to assess local authorities in relation to the Levelling Up Fund.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultation will be undertaken with (a) the Scottish Government and (b) local Members of the Scottish Parliament when considering applications to the Levelling Up Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the recent report entitled Industrialized Disinformation: 2020 Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation, published by the University of Oxford, what plan...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has any plans to ensure that the Counter Disinformation Unit is active outside of periods of heightened vulnerability in order to tackle the persistent circulation...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 20221 to Question 145080 on CITB and CITB Northern Ireland: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, when HMRC's guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme that organisations can ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Construction Industry Training Board was able to access support under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the first national covid-19 lockdown in 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to (a) ensure free and fair elections and (b) ensure public trust in elections in response to the findings on threats to democracy in the report, Indu...