Parliamentary activity - Paul Blomfield

Coronavirus: EU Action

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to apply for funding proposed by the EU Commission for covid-19-related projects before the end of 2020.

Clinical Trials: Standards

Department of Health and Social Care

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) clinical trials and (b) market authorisations from the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare...

Home Office: Written Questions

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to answer Question 14690 tabled on 10 February 2020 by the hon. Member for Sheffield Central.

Immigration: EU Nationals

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department did not include the right to rent in the UK in the list of options for a person with (a) settled and (b)...

Gambling: Video Games

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 13 May 2020 to Question 41511 on Gambling: Video Games, when he plans to publish a response to the...

Migrant Workers: Conditions of Employment

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that migrant workers can report labour market abuse to the police and other labour enforcement agencies...

Migrant Workers: Conditions of Employment

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the closure of immigration routes to lower paid work on levels of labour market...

Duty to commission an independent evaluation: health and social care sectors

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He is absolutely right. It is not simply the case that alternatives to detention are more humane—they are more efficient, more effective...

Duty to commission an independent evaluation: health and social care sectors

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

There is clearly much to comment on in this Bill, but I rise specifically to speak in support of new clause 7 and to commend the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) for the...

Duty to commission an independent evaluation: health and social care sectors

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

My right hon. Friend will know that the Government have talked about their “proud record on supporting the most vulnerable children”.—[Official Report, 22 January 2020; Vol....

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Directors

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the RTI Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme deadline for company directors on annual payroll schemes.

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that taxpayers who are unable to make an application for the Self Employment Grant Scheme themselves can have their...

Slavery: Detainees

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to regularly publish data on the number of victims of modern slavery in immigration detention.

Windrush Compensation Scheme

Commons debates

I am pleased that the Home Secretary accepts Wendy Williams’s call for “major cultural change” in the Home Office. One of the things that needs to change is the over-dependence...

Marriage: Coronavirus

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 55054, what indicators his Department plans to use to determine whether to lift covid-19 lockdown...

Leaving the EU: Transition Period

Paul Blomfield made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister talks about certainty, and he is right: businesses need certainty on the outcome of the talks. On Tuesday, the Paymaster General told the House: “On… zero tariffs and...

Universal Credit: Coronavirus

Department for Work and Pensions

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the decision not to extend the covid-19 emergency £20 funding for universal credit...

EU-UK Partnership: EU’s Mandate

Commons debates

I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Main Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House, having regard to the constitutional and legal functions...

EU-UK Partnership: EU’s Mandate

Commons debates

And the question will be answered, but one of the things the hon. Gentleman will learn is that there is no firmer upholder of standards than you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman is right...

EU-UK Partnership: EU’s Mandate

Commons debates

I do indeed, and that is a concern that has, I think, been widely expressed by others as well. Indeed, it reflects the Government’s approach to this Parliament. They keep us a little bit...