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1136873

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept id	90
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, if the Commission will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the new IPSA system.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	273316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>I have asked IPSA to reply.</p><p>The original April 2016 business case for IPSA’s new IT system, IPSA Online, estimated a cost of £4.641 million. IPSA expected the programme to be completed in 2017-18. The full costs incurred to ensure IPSA could go live with IPSA Online at the beginning of the current financial year were £8.253 million.</p><p>The increase in cost was due in part to the unexpected General Election of June 2017 which diverted IPSA work for up to nine months to supporting MPs who left or joined parliament, and increased supplier costs. Costs also increased following a change of suppliers in September 2018 to improve the quality of IT support. Testing the system took longer than anticipated in order to ensure it was fully secure and free of technical problems. The increases in cost have been partly mitigated by savings elsewhere in IPSA’s budget. A full internal audit of the programme is currently taking place. IPSA will report to the Speaker’s Committee for the IPSA later in the year on the overall costs and benefits of IPSA Online.</p><p>IPSA is committed to supporting MPs and their staff during this transition and will make appropriate adjustments to improve the system as it beds in, while ensuring strong financial control, improvements in value for money, and high data quality and data security.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 10/07/2019 14:22:06 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1136862

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Post Offices
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 post office branches advertised on the Post Office business opportunities website are (a) hard to place, (b) stranded branches and (c) stuck offices.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	273425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The management of the Post Office network is an operational matter for Post Office Limited. I have therefore asked Alisdair Cameron, the Group interim Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 10/07/2019 16:44:12 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1136863

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 at (a) NHS and (b) private facilities in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	273364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of people detailed in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 each year is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of detentions under the Act each year is shown in the following table. In these figures the same person will be recorded more than once if they have been detained more than once. These include both civil detentions under Part II and detentions via the criminal justice system under Part III of the Act, as well as detentions following use of a place of safety order or after the revocation of a community treatment order. They do not include uses of short-term orders under Sections 4, 5(2) and 5(4) or 135 and 136 of the Act.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year detention started</p></td><td><p>All detentions<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>National Health Service providers</p></td><td><p>Independent providers<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>44,543</p></td><td><p>41,434</p></td><td><p>3,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>46,600</p></td><td><p>43,507</p></td><td><p>3,093</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>46,348</p></td><td><p>43,326</p></td><td><p>3,022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>48,631</p></td><td><p>44,985</p></td><td><p>3,646</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>50,408</p></td><td><p>44,985</p></td><td><p>4,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>53,176</p></td><td><p>48,014</p></td><td><p>5,162</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>58,399</p></td><td><p>51,969</p></td><td><p>6,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>63,622</p></td><td><p>56,594</p></td><td><p>7,028</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>45,864</p></td><td><p>43,050</p></td><td><p>2,814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>49,551</p></td><td><p>46,552</p></td><td><p>2,999</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital (KP90 collection and Mental Health Services Dataset)</p><p><sup> </sup></p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> A person may be detained more than once in a year.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Data for 2016-17 and 2017-18 are incomplete and should not be compared to previous years. This is due to the change in data source from the KP90 collection to the Mental Health Services Dataset.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/07/2019 11:20:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1136865

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Boilers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer 11 June 2019 to Question 258961 on Boilers, whether the variables listed in that answer apply to the heating system and not the boiler.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	273312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The variables stated in the answer to Q258961 on 11 June 2019, apply to the in situ test context for the boiler, not to the heating system. The required test conditions for the boiler are described in BS 15502-1, sections 8.1.1 and 8.1.2, unless otherwise specified elsewhere in the standard for specific cases. These conditions include for example requirements on the preparation of test gases, test pressures, test room ventilation, ambient temperature, protection from solar radiation, physical mounting conditions, measurement conditions and tolerances, insulation of the test rig, establishment of thermal equilibrium, conditional control settings and several other similar items requiring closely controlled test room conditions.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 10/07/2019 11:26:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1136866

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Boilers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2019 to Question 266632 on Boilers, if he will publish the (a) country and (b) organisation that each of the 34 members of the CEN committee comes from.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	273313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>A list of the CEN committee members can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://standards.cen.eu/dyn/www/f?p=CENWEB:5" target="_blank">https://standards.cen.eu/dyn/www/f?p=CENWEB:5</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 10/07/2019 11:26:34 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1136867

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Boilers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer or 19 June 2019 to Question 266634, Boilers, what information his Department holds on any requirements to disable or remove any parts of the boiler in order to perform or complete the test.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	273314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>As stated in the Answer of 19 June 2019 to Question 266634, test conditions are specified in BS EN 15502-1 to ensure that the test results are repeatable and comparable. For example section 8.1.2.5 prescribes the requirement for tests to take place under thermal equilibrium conditions, with precautions taken to prevent thermostats or adjustable controls or an electronic temperature control system operating and affecting the gas rate, unless necessary for the specific test being conducted. The standard requires these precautions, where necessary, rather than stating an absolute requirement to disable or remove such boiler controls.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 10/07/2019 11:26:46 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1136869

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Public Health: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that public health funding is increased as part of the Government’s spending review.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	273408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>Future funding for local authorities’ public health responsibilities will be considered carefully in the next spending review, taking full account of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/07/2019 15:23:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1136870

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Affordable Housing: Rural Areas
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 steps he is taking to ensure that communities and local authorities work together to provide adequate numbers of affordable homes in rural areas when drawing up Local Plans and Neighbourhood Plans.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	273315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework makes it clear that in rural areas, planning policies should identify opportunities for villages to grow and thrive, especially where this will support local services. These opportunities should be explored in both local plans and neighbourhood plans that look to allocate housing.</p><p>The Framework also makes it clear that in rural areas housing development that reflect local needs should be supported. The rural exception sites policy specifically promotes the delivery of affordable housing in rural areas.</p><p>In addition, an £8.5 million ‘discounted homes’ pilot is being used to support communities who wish to bring forward affordable homes for sale through neighbourhood planning, many of these are expected to be in rural areas.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/07/2019 16:01:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 127765 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1136874

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure people have access to dental care in the area they live.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	273499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone in England has access to primary care dental services.</p><p>NHS England is responsible and has a duty to commission primary care dental services to meet local need and, ensuring where there are shortages these are addressed.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 12/07/2019 10:21:51 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1136878

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of school uniform grants in each local authority in England.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	273501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally as the Department does not collect figures on the number of local authorities that offer uniform grants. In England, some local authorities provide discretionary grants to help with buying school uniforms. Local authorities that offer these grants set their own criteria for eligibility.</p><p>Schools may also offer individual clothing schemes, such as offering second-hand uniform at reduced prices. This would be a decision for the school to make.</p><p>The Department’s non-statutory guidance on school uniform places extra emphasis on the need for schools to give highest priority to cost considerations. No school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to, or attend, a school of their choice, due to the cost of the uniform.</p><p>The Department’s guidance on school uniform is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/07/2019 13:40:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes