To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to withdraw any current List X accreditation, or other Government endorsed security clearance, granted to (1) Cambridge Analytica, and (2) Strategic Communication Laboratories.
- Contact information
- Parliamentary career
- Experience
- Focus areas
- Voting record
- Spoken contributions
- Written questions
- Register of Interests
- APPG officer roles
- Staff
- Official portrait
Written questions
Review the written questions submitted by Lord Hain.
To perform a more comprehensive search of written questions, visit the Parliamentary written questions and answers website.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they (1) have contacted, or (2) plan to contact, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) in relation to Lord Hain's referral of Hogan Lovells LLP to the SRA over allegations that Hogan Lovells LLP was complicit in...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Trustees of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme have asked Ministers for meetings to re-negotiate the surplus sharing arrangements of the Scheme since privatisation of the industry; what were the responses to ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bates on Thursday 19 October (HL Deb, cols 663–4), what monitoring activities the British High Commission is undertaking in relation to the allegations of money laundering from South Africa re...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bates on 19 October (HL Deb, col 665) and Lord Hain's letter to the Minister of 25 September, whether they intend to discuss allegations that the Bank of Boroda, HSBC, and Standard Chartered B...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the answer by Lord Bates on 19 October (HL Deb, col 665) and Lord Hain's letter to the Minister of 25 September, what discussions they have had with the President of the European Commission in relation to allegat...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bates on 19 October (HL Deb, col 665) and Lord Hain's letter to the Minister of 25 September, what engagement they have had with the President of the European Commission in relation to allegat...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bates on 19 October (HL Deb, col 665), which banks falling under UK jurisdiction have been referred to (1) the Serious Fraud Office, (2) the Financial Conduct Authority, and (3) the National C...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bates on 19 October (HL Deb, col 665), whether the Chancellor has referred the Bank of Baroda to (1) the Serious Fraud Office, (2) the Financial Conduct Authority, and (3) the National Crime A...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many bookshops have closed in the UK since 2010.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the conclusions of the report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research Bookselling Britain that bookshops pay 11 times more tax than Amazon, and whether they have plans to address ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the taking of income by UK Directors of Bell Pottinger for public affairs work in South Africa commissioned by businesspeople linked to President Zuma was in line with their policy ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether Bell Pottinger's recent public affairs work in South Africa was in line with their policy on international trade conducted by British firms.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Government staff, in the UK or in South Africa, were consulted by Bell Pottinger's Directors before they took income for public affairs work in South Africa commissioned by businesspeople linked to President Zuma.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the finding that Bell Pottinger was in breach of the UK Public Relations and Communications Association code of conduct regarding its recent activities in South Africa, what assessment they have made of the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they intend to take, if any, to review the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 following Bell Pottinger's expulsion from the Public Relations and Communication...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will review the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, in the light of the Registrar's inability to remove organisations such as Bell Pottinger from the Registe...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what meetings, telephone calls, or formal or informal contacts UK High Commission staff stationed in South Africa had with Bell Pottinger inside or outside that country in 2016 and in 2017 to date.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any UK High Commission staff stationed in South Africa (1) assisted, (2) advised, or (3) were in contact at any time with, Bell Pottinger over its activities in South Africa on behalf of President Zuma's business su...
Her Majesty's Government how many EEA nationals have been denied a job in the public sector in each of the last five years on the grounds that the UK has invoked the employment in the public service derogation provided for by Article 45(4) of the Treaty o...