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1088245

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date	13/03/2019
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	Public Houses: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many pubs closed in the 12 months (a) before the business rates revaluation came into force in 2017 and (b) after that revaluation.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	231972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not hold the requested information.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 21/03/2019 17:21:41 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1088260

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold a public consultation on changes to the (a) guidance and (b) principles related to the regulation of pesticides in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, any future changes would follow the Cabinet Office guidance on consultation principles. This would entail public consultation if a substantive policy change was proposed. Changes to guidance could conceivably have significant or very minor effects, so a judgement would be needed if public consultation was warranted based on the specific circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 21/03/2019 17:44:00 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088262

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Expert Committee On Pesticides
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will increase the (a) capacity and (b) operating budget of the Expert Committee on Pesticides in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 will ensure the plant protection products regime can operate in a national context, if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement. These Regulations contain provisions enabling the UK competent authorities to take independent scientific advice, in areas where this was previously provided by the European Food Safety Authority in the EU regime. This includes the ability to seek independent scientific advice as part of the process for approving active substances used in plant protection products. Independent scientific advice would be sought from Defra’s existing Expert Committee on Pesticides from the day we leave the EU, and we would continue to build on these arrangements in the future.</p><p> </p><p>We have been working closely with the Expert Committee on Pesticides and its secretariat within the Health and Safety Executive to assess the Committee’s capacity in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal and to ensure that plans are in place to enable it to access both the scientific advise and resourcing it would need to deliver this expanded role.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231976 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:47:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088264

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
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 steps his Department is taking to include independent scientific advice within the authorisation process for active substances used in plant protection products in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 will ensure the plant protection products regime can operate in a national context, if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement. These Regulations contain provisions enabling the UK competent authorities to take independent scientific advice, in areas where this was previously provided by the European Food Safety Authority in the EU regime. This includes the ability to seek independent scientific advice as part of the process for approving active substances used in plant protection products. Independent scientific advice would be sought from Defra’s existing Expert Committee on Pesticides from the day we leave the EU, and we would continue to build on these arrangements in the future.</p><p> </p><p>We have been working closely with the Expert Committee on Pesticides and its secretariat within the Health and Safety Executive to assess the Committee’s capacity in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal and to ensure that plans are in place to enable it to access both the scientific advise and resourcing it would need to deliver this expanded role.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231975 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:47:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088265

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
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 steps his Department has taken to ensure that the UK's future pesticide regime will provide equal levels of accountability and scrutiny to the EU pesticide regime in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>If the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, the Government will retain the current EU regulations on plant protection products with only such changes as are required so that the regime can operate sensibly in a national context. Ministers will be more accountable for decision making than at present as this will be their direct responsibility (along with the devolved administrations), rather than being subject to voting by all EU Member States.</p><p> </p><p>There will also continue to be effective scrutiny. For example, there will be a formal public consultation process on each active substance with full supporting documentation such as the draft assessment report published, in the same way as there is under the EU regime. In addition to our national regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we have put arrangements in place to ensure that we have access to independent scientific advice from exit day from the Expert Committee on Pesticides and we will continue to build on these arrangements in future. HSE will publish its assessment reports online (less any confidential data). The Expert Committee on Pesticides also routinely publishes its minutes online so its advice will be open and transparent.</p><p> </p><p>The powers to extend active substance approvals and product authorisations will be retained and repatriated to national level, with no changes to the provisions setting out how they can be used. These powers will therefore continue to be available under the national regime to be used where necessary, as the European Commission has done routinely under the current EU regime. It would clearly be inappropriate to attempt to extend approvals and authorisations indefinitely.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231978 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:53:42 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088267

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
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 steps his Department has taken to ensure that renewals for approvals of (a) active substances used in plant protection products and (b) plant protection products cannot be extended indefinitely by the relevant public bodies in the event that UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>If the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, the Government will retain the current EU regulations on plant protection products with only such changes as are required so that the regime can operate sensibly in a national context. Ministers will be more accountable for decision making than at present as this will be their direct responsibility (along with the devolved administrations), rather than being subject to voting by all EU Member States.</p><p> </p><p>There will also continue to be effective scrutiny. For example, there will be a formal public consultation process on each active substance with full supporting documentation such as the draft assessment report published, in the same way as there is under the EU regime. In addition to our national regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we have put arrangements in place to ensure that we have access to independent scientific advice from exit day from the Expert Committee on Pesticides and we will continue to build on these arrangements in future. HSE will publish its assessment reports online (less any confidential data). The Expert Committee on Pesticides also routinely publishes its minutes online so its advice will be open and transparent.</p><p> </p><p>The powers to extend active substance approvals and product authorisations will be retained and repatriated to national level, with no changes to the provisions setting out how they can be used. These powers will therefore continue to be available under the national regime to be used where necessary, as the European Commission has done routinely under the current EU regime. It would clearly be inappropriate to attempt to extend approvals and authorisations indefinitely.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231977 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:53:42 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088268

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Cervical Cancer: Screening
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 28 February 2019 to Question 223982 on Cervical Cancer: Screening, if he will make it his policy to (a) require CCGs to monitor and report to him on the availability of cervical screening appointments at GP surgeries and (b) request the information necessary to allow him to monitor regularly the rates of attendance for cervical screening appointments.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England publishes cervical screening coverage by clinical commissioning group (CCG), which shows coverage by practice for the current period and the previous screening interval period of 3.5 years or 5.5 years. The information is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-coverage-and-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-coverage-and-data</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissioners oversee services so that performance and trends can be monitored locally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is accountable to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for how well it performs its responsibilities under the Public Health Functions Agreement including to commission high quality public health services, with efficient use of resources, seeking to achieve positive health outcomes and to promote equality and reduce health inequalities. Quarterly assurance reports, produced jointly by NHS England and Public Health England, include a performance indicator on cervical screening coverage rates.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a range of national statistics and other data on cervical screening including coverage rates at primary care and CCG levels is published by NHS Digital and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cervical-screening-programme" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cervical-screening-programme</a></p><p> </p><p>As part of the delivery of the General Practitioner Five Year Forward View, the National Health Service is investing more than £258 million to improve access to general practice. Patients are now benefitting from improved access to all routine appointments (including cervical screening), at evening and/or weekends.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Cervical Cancer screening programme saves an estimated 5,000 lives a year by detecting abnormalities of the cervix early and referring women for effective treatment.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/03/2019 16:22:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088270

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service spent on consultancies (a) in total, (b) per consultancy in each of the financial years (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	231973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Please find below the total spend on consultancy for HMCTS for the period requested. Please note the spend is taken from our Bravo spend tool and is an accurate figure of what has been invoiced within this period:</p><p> </p><p>(i) 2016-17 = £3,103,764.16</p><p>(ii) 2017-18 = £11,805,649.04</p><p> </p><p>Please see below table which outlines the consultancy projects for the periods requested for HMCTS, the information includes start dates, contract values and descriptions of the services:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Start Date</p></td><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>Total Value of Contract</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>BMT Hi-Q Sigma</p></td><td><p>£150,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>£795,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Concerto Partners LLP</p></td><td><p>£258,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Ernst &amp; Young LLP</p></td><td><p>£6,236,775</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>KPMG LLP</p></td><td><p>£1,129,875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>PA Consulting Services Limited</p></td><td><p>£2,415,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</p></td><td><p>£107,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Allen Lane Consultancy Limited</p></td><td><p>£3,657,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Deloitte LLP</p></td><td><p>£462,040</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Methods Business and Digital</p></td><td><p>£1,997,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</p></td><td><p>£30,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Veracity Consulting</p></td><td><p>£681,015</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Consultants are engaged to deliver short-term on projects where specialist skills required are not available within the organisation. As part of the governance process, approvals are sought from Finance Business Partner, HR Business Partner &amp; the Director General to ensure that project outcomes and budget are validated and to seek confirmation that internal resource is not available to deliver either due to the specialist nature of the project or due to capacity issues enabling delivery within the project timescales.</p><p><br> By making use of consultants, the department can save on salary, national insurance and pension costs associated with permanently employing individuals whose skills may not be needed after a set period.</p><p> </p><p>The government is investing £1bn to reform our courts and tribunals service, bringing new technology and modern ways of working to the justice system and benefiting all those that use it.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/03/2019 17:17:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1088274

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the provisions of section 8(1) of the London County Council (Improvements) Act 1900 had an effect on the (a) Government’s decision to locate the proposed Holocaust Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens and (b) development of plans for the Memorial and Learning Centre.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	231906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government decided to locate the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens so that the view of Parliament from the Memorial will serve as a permanent reminder that political decisions have far-reaching consequences. The development of plans will take proper account of relevant legislation and regulations.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 21/03/2019 17:30:47 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

1088418

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Cannabis: 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 18 January 2019 to Question 207185 on Cannabis: Medical Treatments, whether data on prescriptions of cannabis-based medicinal products will (a) be published in the public domain, (b) include UK-wide data and (c) include the numbers of people obtaining a such a prescription.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	232047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>NHS England is using extant systems to monitor use of the newly rescheduled unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use in England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are in the process of setting up similar systems.</p><p> </p><p>In England, these systems monitor the number of items dispensed and associated costs in primary care and the volume of products used and associated cost in secondary care. NHS England Controlled Drug Accountable Officers are also collecting local intelligence in both the National Health Service and independent sector. We expect this data to be available by end of March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 232048 question first answered 21/03/2019 16:18:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan