In Parliament - Rupa Huq MP

Topical Questions

International Trade

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

The Prime Minister promised barrier-free trade with the EU post Brexit, but local firms that now find costly obstacles in VAT issues are finding the opposite, so could the Government please...

Educational Institutions: Coronavirus

Department for Education

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the criteria is for reopening schools and educational settings during the covid-19 outbreak in England.

Dementia: Coronavirus

Department of Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq 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 draft explicit guidance for carers of people with dementia to ensure that dementia patients are able to...

Pre-school Education: Coronavirus

Department for Education

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that nursery and early years staff have access to (a) mass testing, (b) PPE and (c) covid-19 vaccines following the...

Coronavirus: Leisure

Department of Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the data used to differentiate between leisure centre activities when setting out which could be pursued under the...

Covid-19: NHS Bed Capacity

Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

It is great that the NHS, as I have heard locally, is working hard to stop intensive care beds from running out after a decade of no expansion, now that a major incident has been declared in...

Covid-19: NHS Bed Capacity

Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on bed capacity throughout the NHS.

India: Agriculture

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Indian counterpart on reports of water cannons and tear gas being used...

Global Britain

Commons debates

Global Britain—a lofty ideal, but with recent months witnessing a dramatic reduction of the UK’s international aid and a hard Brexit, I want to strike a note of realism into the...

Dental Services: Coronavirus

Department of Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether dental care staff will receive priority access to the covid-19 vaccine.

Coronavirus

Department of Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide evidence that covid-19 can be spread by asymptomatic people.

Coronavirus

Department of Health and Social Care

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the most common pathways of covid-19 transmission are.

Hospitality Industry: Government Support - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Will the Minister give way?

Hospitality Industry: Government Support - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

To say that the coronavirus has been a shock to the system is an understatement. What was once a health crisis spread quickly to become an economic crisis—indeed, the biggest recession on...

Education: Return in January

Commons debates

All teachers want rapid testing, but at a time when they feel exposed and scared by the new variant—80% of my schools have cases anyway—will the Secretary of State develop stronger...

Covid-19 Update

Commons debates

By not needing extreme refrigeration, the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is a real breakthrough. Will the Health Secretary tell us how it will be administered to over-80s in care homes or at home...

Tree Planting

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to ensure that uprooted mature trees are replanted.

UK Preparedness: End of Transition

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister is forever the smooth talker, as we saw in his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield), but how exactly will our police access those real-time...

UK Preparedness: End of Transition

Rupa Huq made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK’s preparedness for the end of the transition period.

Occupied Territories

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Rupa Huq received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK-Israel Agreement will continue to regard settlements as part of Palestine.

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