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1063590

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date	18/02/2019
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	Venezuela: Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government is taking steps to identify (a) individuals and (b) institutions in the UK which have (i) facilitated and (ii) benefited from the movement of stolen and laundered Venezuelan funds through the UK; and which partners the Government is working with to (A) identify and (B) freeze all monies and assets in the UK that are Maduro regime pending transfer of those monies to the control of the government of interim President Juan Guaido.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	222579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The EU agreed targeted sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, against 18 individuals with senior positions in the Maduro regime. The UK is discussing with EU partners the possibility of increasing the number of individuals subject to sanctions.</p><p>In addition, the Government is currently considering what further bilateral measures might be implemented to increase pressure on the Maduro regime.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 26/02/2019 17:01:57 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1063608

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps he has taken to tackle serious and organised crime; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	222593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Serious and organised crime affects more of us, more often, than any other national security threat, persistently eroding our economy and our communities. It costs the UK at least £37 billion every year.</p><p>The newly updated Serious and Organised Crime Strategy, published on 1st November 2018, sets out how the Government will mobilise the full force of the state and align the collective efforts of key partners from the public, private and voluntary sectors to tackle serious and organised crime together in one single approach.</p><p>The cross-system approach is aligned to the four strategy objectives:</p><p>(i) Relentless disruption and targeted action against the highest harm serious and organised criminals and networks affecting the UK</p><p>(ii) Building the highest levels of defence and resilience in vulnera-ble people, communities, businesses and systems</p><p>(iii) Stopping the problem at source, identifying and supporting those at risk of engaging in criminality</p><p>(iv) Establishing a single, whole-system response, aligning the ef-forts of all those involved in responding to serious and organised crime as one, cohesive system.</p><p>The Government has already made some early progress in implementing the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. For example, we have established new community coordinators in five pilot areas to promote community resilience and divert people away from serious and organised crime. We have also recruited a new cross-government overseas policy specialists network to complement existing international law enforcement operational work</p><p>The Government is determined to prevent serious and organised crime, defend against it, track down perpetrators and bring them to justice. We will allow no safe space – online or offline – for these people and their networks.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 26/02/2019 16:45:56 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1063623

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Central European University
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Hungarian Government and (b) his counterparts in the EU on the future of the Central European University in Budapest.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	222610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has not discussed this matter with his Hungarian or EU counterparts. However, both the former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, and our Embassy in Budapest have discussed it with the Hungarian Government. If and when we have concerns, we raise them privately with our Hungarian counterparts, as you do with friends and allies.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 26/02/2019 17:03:25 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1063633

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Labour Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of redeployment opportunities for firefighters who have to work until the age of 60.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	222620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not collect data on redeployment opportunities for firefighters.</p><p>The availability of redeployment opportunities is a matter for individual fire and rescue authorities as employers.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 26/02/2019 16:37:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

1063641

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of maintained nursery schools that would close if they received no further funding guarantee for the period after 2020.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children.</p><p>MNS experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect MNS funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. We are aware that the supplementary funding for MNS currently accounts for about a third of their budgets - owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including MNS.</p><p>This government has an ambition to halve the proportion of children who finish reception year without the early communication and reading skills they need to thrive. To support this we are investing over £100 million in our social mobility programme. This includes £20 million in high quality, evidence-based training and professional development for pre-reception early years staff in disadvantaged areas; £26 million in a network of English hubs; and £10 million to understand ‘what works’ in partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation.</p><p>This ambitious work is underpinned by our early education entitlements - where we are making record investment. This includes the entitlement to up to 15 hours of free early education for disadvantaged 2-year-olds. Since its introduction in 2013, over 700,000 2-year-olds have benefited and take-up has risen and is now 72%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222633 question first answered 26/02/2019 17:23:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063646

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect on social mobility of the closure of maintained nursery schools.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children.</p><p>MNS experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect MNS funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. We are aware that the supplementary funding for MNS currently accounts for about a third of their budgets - owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including MNS.</p><p>This government has an ambition to halve the proportion of children who finish reception year without the early communication and reading skills they need to thrive. To support this we are investing over £100 million in our social mobility programme. This includes £20 million in high quality, evidence-based training and professional development for pre-reception early years staff in disadvantaged areas; £26 million in a network of English hubs; and £10 million to understand ‘what works’ in partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation.</p><p>This ambitious work is underpinned by our early education entitlements - where we are making record investment. This includes the entitlement to up to 15 hours of free early education for disadvantaged 2-year-olds. Since its introduction in 2013, over 700,000 2-year-olds have benefited and take-up has risen and is now 72%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222628 question first answered 26/02/2019 17:23:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063655

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost per detainee is of detaining someone at Yarlswood immigration removal centre; and how that cost is calculated.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	222642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Costs of individual Removal centres are commercially sensitive. The costs for calculating the average daily cost of a removal centre are as below.</p><p>The costs are derived at by dividing the Total Resource Costs of running Detention Centres (Contracts, staff, Rent, Rates, Utilities and Depreciation) by the average number of bed spaces (currently 3448).</p><p>The average cost to detain an individual in immigration detention is provided on a per day basis. The current daily cost per detainee is £88.29, which corresponds to an annual cost of £32,227 (£88.29 multiplied by 365 days). Data can be found at the link below</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-november-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/02/2019 16:18:21 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1063662

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will make it his policy to offer UK citizenship to EU citizens free of charge on the same basis as the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	222649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister announced on 21 January, there will be no fee for applications under the EU Settlement Scheme when we roll out the scheme in full by 30 March. Anyone who has applied during the pilot phase, or who does so, will have their fee reimbursed. The Home Office will set out further details in due course.</p><p>We have no plans to reduce or abolish the fee for British citizenship applications for EU citizens.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/02/2019 16:16:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1063663

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of maintaining majority ownership of Royal Bank of Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	222650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes that, as a matter of principle, firms best succeed under private ownership. Returning RBS to the private sector is the right policy for taxpayers, customers, and the wider economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government intervened in RBS to maintain stability at the height of the financial crisis. RBS was never a speculative investment made to generate a profit, and it is right that private investors, not taxpayers, should bear the risk of companies such as RBS.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s policy remains to return the financial sector assets acquired during the crisis to private ownership, when it represents value for money to do so, and market conditions allow.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 26/02/2019 15:59:10 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1063694

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department reported experiencing bullying or harassment at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	222679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>Bullying and harassment have no place in any workplace, including the Civil Service.</p><p> </p><p>In the most recent People Survey, an average of 11% of respondents across the Civil Service reported that they'd experienced bullying or harassment at work in the 12 months preceding the survey.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst this figure has remained stable since 2016, we recognise that certain groups of staff are more like to say they have experienced this type of unacceptable behaviour than others. This includes staff members with long-term limiting conditions who, in the vast majority of departments and agencies, were more likely to say they'd been bullied or harassed in the last 12 months than staff members with no long-term limiting conditions.</p><p> </p><p>We are strengthening the routes for staff to report bullying and harassment to ensure that all staff are fully supported throughout the process, and to ensure cultures are positive and inclusive.</p><p> </p><p>The high-level People Survey results for each organisation, including reported rates of bullying and harassment, were published last December on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>Each spring the Cabinet Office conducts and publishes a range of further analysis on the People Survey responses, including the results by gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and health status. Similar analysis will be conducted again this year and made available on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>The results for the 2017 survey are summarised below. A copy of this table has been placed in the House.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Civil Service People Survey 2017: results by organisation and health status</p><p> </p><p><em>Long-term health status is captured in the People Survey through questions J04 and J04A. J04 asks if the individual has a &quot;long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability?&quot; and, if they answer yes, J04A asks whether their condition, illness or disability has an impact on their daily activity or the work they can do.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Results are aggregated in to two broad categories: &quot;No long-term limiting condition&quot;, combining those who answer No to either J04 or J04A; and, &quot;Long-term limiting condition&quot;, those who answer Yes to J04 and who answer that their condition limits what they can do either &quot;a little&quot; or &quot;a lot&quot; at J04A.</em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Answered “Yes” to the question “During the past 12 months have you personally experienced bullying or harassment at work?”</p></td><td><p>No limiting long-term illness</p></td><td><p>Has a limiting long-term illness</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acas</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accountant in Bankruptcy</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Animal and Plant Health Agency</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>23%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Attorney General's Office</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cabinet Office</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Charity Commission</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Civil Service HR</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Companies House</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Competition and Markets Authority</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Commercial Service</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Electronics and Components Agency</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Equipment &amp; Support</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Communities and Local Government</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Education</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Exiting the European Union</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for International Development</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for International Trade</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Transport</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Work and Pensions</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department of Health</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disclosure Scotland</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 27/02/2019 10:19:26 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck