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982808

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Radioisotopes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of not having consistent and timely access to radioisotopes on the UK's ability to deliver radiotherapy for cancer patients.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	176159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Medical radioisotopes are essential in the effective treatment of many cancer patients and the Government believes it is vital to ensure consistent and timely access to these products for United Kingdom patients.</p><p> </p><p>As a responsible Government, we continue to prepare proportionately for all European Union exit scenarios, including the possible outcome that we leave the EU without any deal in March 2019. That is why on 23 August the Government announced details of its approach to no deal EU exit medicines contingency planning.</p><p> </p><p>Since writing to pharmaceutical companies, we have received good engagement from the industry who share our aims of ensuring patients maintain continuity of medicines supply. The Department continues to work closely with these companies to ensure that their UK supplies of medicines, including for cancer patients, are sufficient to cope with any potential delays at the border that may arise in the short term from the possible event of a no-deal Brexit.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that medical radioisotopes and some other medicinal products have short shelf lives and cannot be stockpiled. Where such products are at present imported to the UK from the EU/European Union Economic Area (EEA) via road haulage and roll-on, roll-off sea, road and rail routes, the Department is asking suppliers to ensure they have plans in place to air freight those products to avoid any border delays that may arise at the end of March next year in the event of a no deal exit from the EU. We will consider how the Department may support suppliers in making arrangements to meet this expectation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also provided information to the public and Parliament on the likely impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and Euratom on the importation of radioisotopes for medical use in the possible event that the UK leaves the EU without agreement, via a series of Technical Notices. Within these, the Government confirmed that in order to ensure continuity of supply in medicines, the UK will continue to accept batch testing of human medicines carried out in EU countries, other EEA countries and those third countries with which the EU has a Mutual Recognition Agreement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 176160 176162 question first answered 11/10/2018 16:01:10 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

982526

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve financial transparancy in academy trusts.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	176650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The department requires a high level of transparency of academy trusts. All academy trusts must have an annual independent audit of their annual accounts by a registered statutory auditor and academy trusts must be open and transparent and publish their accounts. This is not a requirement of local authority maintained schools.</p><p> </p><p>Academy trusts must prepare annual accounts. This provides considerably more information than other schools and provides a far higher level of public scrutiny than is required of local authority schools. Their financial performance is instead summarised within the authorities’ accounts. In addition, academy trusts are audited externally to international auditing standards, again this is not required of local authority schools.</p><p> </p><p>The department also publishes the ‘Consolidated Annual Report and Accounts’, based on returns from all academies in England. The reports are available for public scrutiny at GOV.UK. The most recent report covering 2015/16 is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academies-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academies-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</a>. We aim to publish the report for 2016/17 in October.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/10/2018 16:38:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

982542

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which organisations received more than £20 million from her Department in financial year 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	176134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The supply partners that received more than £20 million from DFID in financial year 2017-18 are in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Adam Smith International Ltd</p></td><td><p>KPMG LLP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AECOM Professional Services</p></td><td><p>Marie Stopes International</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>African Development Bank Group</p></td><td><p>Maternal Newborn and Child Health Programme, Pakistan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AgDevCo Limited</p></td><td><p>Medicines for Malaria Venture</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian Development Bank</p></td><td><p>Mercy Corps Europe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank</p></td><td><p>Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation</p></td><td><p>Ministry of Health, Government of Ethiopia</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BRAC</p></td><td><p>Mott MacDonald Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Council</p></td><td><p>Norwegian Refugee Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Red Cross</p></td><td><p>Oxford Policy Management</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CARE International</p></td><td><p>Pakistan National Cash Transfer Programme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CDC Group plc.</p></td><td><p>Palladium</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coffey International Development Ltd</p></td><td><p>Population Services International</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commonwealth Scholarships Commission</p></td><td><p>PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Agents Bank Limited</p></td><td><p>Save the Children</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Agents</p></td><td><p>SG Hambros Bank &amp; Trust Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DAI Europe</p></td><td><p>St Helena Corporate Finance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>European Commission (including the European Development Fund)</p></td><td><p>State Bank of Pakistan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>European Commission – Core Development budget</p></td><td><p>Tanzania Ministry of Finance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>European Investment Bank</p></td><td><p>The International Committee of the Red Cross</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Food and Agriculture Organisation</p></td><td><p>The Power of Nutrition.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)</p></td><td><p>The World Bank Group</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization</p></td><td><p>Trademark East Africa</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government of Montserrat</p></td><td><p>United Nations Foundation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IMA World Health</p></td><td><p>USAID</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IMC Worldwide Limited</p></td><td><p>Voluntary Services Overseas</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Organization for Migration</p></td><td><p>World Food Programme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Rescue Committee</p></td><td><p>World Health Organisation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Karandaaz Pakistan</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/10/2018 16:05:57 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

982648

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Amazon: Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish statistics on the number of employees of Amazon who have been in receipt of (a) working tax credits and (b) universal credit in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will publish the total amount paid to such employees in (a) working tax credits and (b) universal credits in that same period.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/10/2018 16:25:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982703

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	South Eastern Rail Franchise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason is the award of the South Eastern rail franchise delayed; what the revised timetable is for that award; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	176252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department continues to make progress evaluating bids for the South Eastern franchise. The Department will make an announcement on the intention to award in due course.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/10/2018 14:00:00 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

982766

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of people with an acquired brain injury.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	176030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>These data are not available in the format requested and no estimate has been made.</p><p> </p><p>Reference costs are the mandatory collection of costs data from all National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts. Whilst there is a very wide coverage of services delivered across the NHS collected in reference costs, the diagnosis and treatment of acquired and traumatic brain injuries are excluded.</p><p> </p><p>This is as per table 39 of the national cost collection guidance which can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/approved-costing-guidance-collections/" target="_blank">improvement.nhs.uk/resources/approved-costing-guidance-collections/</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 176029 176031 question first answered 11/10/2018 16:38:33 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

982807

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Radioactive Materials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to establish a State System of Accounting and Control for Nuclear Material and then negotiate a formal agreement with Euratom after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	176158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>As the White Paper on the UK’s Future Relationship with the EU makes clear, the UK is seeking a close association with Euratom through a broad and comprehensive Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between the UK and Euratom. The Government has also been clear that, irrespective of the outcome of negotiations, it will take legal responsibility for the application of nuclear safeguards in the UK once Euratom arrangements no longer apply. The new regime will be implemented by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).</p><p> </p><p>Parliament has passed the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2018 which provides the legal framework for setting up a domestic nuclear safeguards regime. Using these new powers, the Government intends to make the Nuclear Safeguards Regulations this year, which set out the proposed detail of the regime, following a public consultation which ran from July to September.</p><p> </p><p>The ONR will implement a UK State System for Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material (SSAC) as part of the new domestic regime. The ONR is working to ensure it will have in place by 29 March 2019 the IT systems and safeguards inspectors needed to operate the UK SSAC, meet international standards and to build, over time, to equivalent effectiveness and coverage to Euratom.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/10/2018 13:22:23 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

982811

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Radioisotopes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has made to ensure consistent and timely access to radioisotopes in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	176162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Medical radioisotopes are essential in the effective treatment of many cancer patients and the Government believes it is vital to ensure consistent and timely access to these products for United Kingdom patients.</p><p> </p><p>As a responsible Government, we continue to prepare proportionately for all European Union exit scenarios, including the possible outcome that we leave the EU without any deal in March 2019. That is why on 23 August the Government announced details of its approach to no deal EU exit medicines contingency planning.</p><p> </p><p>Since writing to pharmaceutical companies, we have received good engagement from the industry who share our aims of ensuring patients maintain continuity of medicines supply. The Department continues to work closely with these companies to ensure that their UK supplies of medicines, including for cancer patients, are sufficient to cope with any potential delays at the border that may arise in the short term from the possible event of a no-deal Brexit.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that medical radioisotopes and some other medicinal products have short shelf lives and cannot be stockpiled. Where such products are at present imported to the UK from the EU/European Union Economic Area (EEA) via road haulage and roll-on, roll-off sea, road and rail routes, the Department is asking suppliers to ensure they have plans in place to air freight those products to avoid any border delays that may arise at the end of March next year in the event of a no deal exit from the EU. We will consider how the Department may support suppliers in making arrangements to meet this expectation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also provided information to the public and Parliament on the likely impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and Euratom on the importation of radioisotopes for medical use in the possible event that the UK leaves the EU without agreement, via a series of Technical Notices. Within these, the Government confirmed that in order to ensure continuity of supply in medicines, the UK will continue to accept batch testing of human medicines carried out in EU countries, other EEA countries and those third countries with which the EU has a Mutual Recognition Agreement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 176159 176160 question first answered 11/10/2018 16:01:10 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

983092

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who have applied for universal credit advance loan payments in the last 12 months; and how many of those applications were successful.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	176262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon Member to the reply to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-07-11/162992/" target="_blank">162992</a> on 16 July.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, our latest internal management information data as of July 2018 shows that over 60% of new claims currently receive either a ‘New Claim’ or ‘Benefit Transfer’ advance which shows claimants are getting the support they need.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/10/2018 16:11:30 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

983097

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the enforcement of food labelling laws.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	176510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Enforcement of these Regulations is undertaken by trading standards and local authorities. Person(s) found guilty of an allergens offence may be liable to (since 2012) unlimited fines (England and Wales) and criminal sanctions</p><p>Defra, Food Standards Agency and DHSC are working together to review what changes are needed to food labelling, including how that may impact enforcement activities.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 11/10/2018 15:39:57 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss