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987718

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If she will take steps to improve access to home assessments for claimants of personal independence payment and universal credit who are unable to attend an assessment centre.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	907052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>It’s important to note that any claimant can request a home visit although I do recognise improvements can be made to ensure that those who need a home assessment are able to get one.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently considering aspects of our assessment processes, including how claimants requiring a home visit can be identified more effectively at the beginning of the process and the ease with which they can request one.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 15/10/2018 16:00:49 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

987719

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
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	What recent changes the Government has made to universal credit to protect the incomes of the most vulnerable claimants.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Bill Grant
uin	907057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>We have already spent £1.5 billion on improvements during the first assessment period. We have already committed more money to protect the most vulnerable, including the 500,000 people currently receiving the Severe Disability Premium. A million disabled people will be better off.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/10/2018 16:11:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4605 label Biography information for Bill Grant

985621

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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	Cancer: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps as part of the ongoing negotiations for the next Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme to ensure that increasing the number of combination treatments for cancer can be considered cost-effective and made available for patients.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	178268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting the United Kingdom life sciences industry and ensuring that patients can access cost-effective innovative cancer treatments and technologies at a price the National Health Service can afford. Discussions on a branded medicines voluntary agreement for 2019 onwards are ongoing and are constructive.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/10/2018 13:54:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

985625

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Hassan Mushaima
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Bahrainan counterpart on the case of the imprisonment of Mr. Hassan Mushiema in that country.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	178363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the honourable lady to the answer I gave to question 174028 on 11 October and in my response to the Westminster Hall Debate of 11 September.</p><p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Embassy in Bahrain continue to monitor the case of Hassan Mushaima closely and should we have concerns we will raise them with the Government of Bahrain as we have already done.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/10/2018 16:17:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

985626

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long they spent at the border in each of those visits.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	178369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>a) Details of Ministers’ overseas travel are published quarterly and are available on GOV.UK.</p><p>b) Details of business expenses incurred by senior officials include domestic and international travel. This information is also published quarterly and is available on GOV.UK.</p><p>The information requested for all officials in my Department is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 17/10/2018 15:10:28 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

985628

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long they spent at the border in each of those visits.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	178371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>Neither myself, nor Ministers or officials in my Department have travelled between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.</p><p>Details of Ministers’ overseas travel are published quarterly and are available on GOV.UK.</p><p>Details of business expenses incurred by senior officials include domestic and international travel. This information is also published quarterly and is available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 17/10/2018 12:20:16 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

985657

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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	Scallops: Fisheries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his French counterpart on ensuring that information resulting from the toxicity testing of scallop fishing areas in the English Channel is made available to British fishermen in a timely manner or at the same time as to French fishermen; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	178291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>As the responsible UK body, the Food Standards Agency has reiterated to the French Authorities the importance of ensuring that communications about the opening of fisheries, where raised toxin levels in scallops have resulted in their closure, are made to all of those affected at the same time.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 18/10/2018 12:21:21 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

985669

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of administering appeal tribunals for personal independence payment applicants.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	178384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The cost of personal independence payment hearings is included in the overall cost of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support Appeal).</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/10/2018 11:27:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

985674

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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	Haemophilia: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2018 to Question 167276 on haemophilia: medical treatments, whether those savings have been reinvested in supporting the haemophilia community; and whether any savings in the devolved nations of the UK have accrued to (a) NHS England or (b) the devolved administrations.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	178261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service achieves savings across all clinical services, and reinvests those savings within its overall expenditure limits set by parliament. The NHS does not usually ring fence funding for specific patient groups, but considers its funding responsibilities for all patients based on all sources of funding, including procurement savings. Savings from medicines used by the devolved administrations remain within those administrations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/10/2018 11:30:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

985682

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness Reduction Act 2017
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 since it came into force.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	178382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The Homelessness Reduction Act, the most ambitious reform to homelessness legislation in decades, came into effect on 3 April 2018, to ensure more people get the support they need before they face a homelessness crisis. It is currently too early to fully understand the effectiveness of the Act.</p><p>We intend to publish the first homelessness statistics since the Act came into force from our new case-level information system, in December 2018, as experimental statistics. We have also committed to reviewing the implementation of the Act, including its resourcing and how it is working in practice, within two years. We will shortly publish terms of reference for this review.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 18/10/2018 12:59:52 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley