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1327676

registered interest
date	25/05/2021
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	Trade Remedies: Iron and Steel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the role of trade remedies in protecting the UK steel industry.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Holly Mumby-Croft
uin	900542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade and I have discussed this on several occasions. Trade remedies are an important mechanism to protect UK industry from unfair international competition and I support her plans to review whether the UK's trade remedies framework should be strengthened.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 25/05/2021 12:26:56 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4867 label Biography information for Holly Mumby-Croft

1327677

registered interest
date	25/05/2021
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	Horizon IT System: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress the Government has made in compensating people affected by failings associated with the Post Office Horizon IT system.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	900534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government is providing sufficient financial support for the Historical Shortfall Scheme to proceed, and scheme payments have begun. We will also continue to work with Post Office Limited to ensure Postmasters whose convictions were overturned are fairly compensated.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 25/05/2021 12:26:11 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

1327679

registered interest
date	25/05/2021
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	Research: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to support UK research and development.
tabling member constituency	South Basildon and East Thurrock
tabling member printed	Stephen Metcalfe
uin	900532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>We have committed to investing £14.9 billion in R&amp;D in 2021/22, meaning Government R&amp;D spending is now at its highest level in four decades.</p><p> </p><p>We are working to ensure the benefits are felt nationwide, with our UK Innovation Strategy and R&amp;D Places Strategy due to be published this summer.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 25/05/2021 12:37:20 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4092 label Biography information for Stephen Metcalfe

1316978

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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	Ministers: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the correspondence since March 2020 between the Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health and the (a) Ombudsman and (b) Chair of the Parliament and Health Service Ombudsman on the use of the severity of injustice scale.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	5205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2021 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s correspondence database has shown there are two relevant letters, which are attached.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries attachment 1 file name 20210414 Rob Behrens to the Minister Nadine Dorries.pdf title 20210414 Rob Behrens to Minister Nadine Dorries 2 file name 260421 - MS(PSM) to Rob Behrens, PHSO.docx title 20210426 MS(PSM) to Rob Behrens question first answered 03/06/2021 09:40:28 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1316979

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will ensure that any proposed reforms to the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, will apply equally to (a) same-sex marriages, (b) heterosexual marriages and (c) civil partnerships.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	5273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 received Royal Assent on 25 June 2020 and the Government is working to implement its provisions. When implemented, the Act will deliver important reforms to minimise the potential for conflict in the legal process for obtaining a divorce, dissolving a civil partnership or obtaining a separation order.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 01/06/2021 14:58:01 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1316982

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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	Property Development: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many jobs Network Rail and Homes England estimate have been (a) lost and (b) displaced within the York Central Development Outline Planning redline area since March 2019; and of those how many are rail jobs.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	5210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government does not hold this information. However, the Ministry’s position is that development and regeneration are good for local economies, and are therefore likely to boost job numbers in the area.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 01/06/2021 15:20:23 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1316984

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the level of child poverty in (a) Wales and (b) Ceredigion.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	5250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>This Government is wholly committed to tackling poverty. Throughout the pandemic, our priority has been to support the most vulnerable including through spending an additional £7.4billion to strengthen the welfare system, taking our total expenditure on welfare support for people of working age to an estimated £112 billion in 2020/21. Additionally, in December 2020 we introduced our Covid Winter Grant Scheme, providing funding to Local Authorities in England to enable them to support people with food and essential utility bills during the coldest months. It will now run until June as the Covid Local Support Grant, with a total investment of £269m.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>National Statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. Data for Ceredigion is unavailable due to insufficient sample size.</p><p> </p><p>Latest statistics for the levels of children who are in low income in Wales, covering 2019/20, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2020</a>,“children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2019-20-tables” in table 4.16ts (relative low income, before and after housing costs) and in table 4.22ts (absolute low income, before and after housing costs).</p><p> </p><p>In the three years to 2019/20 the absolute levels of child poverty, before housing costs, for Wales, was 16%, down 8 percentage points since the three years to 2009/10</p><p> </p><p>The Department now publishes supplementary official statistics on the number of children in low income families at constituency level. Children in Low Income Families data is published annually.</p><p>In 2019/20 the absolute levels of child poverty, before housing costs, in Ceredigion was 16%. The latest figures on the number of children who are in low income in Ceredigion and in Wales covering 2019/20, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2020/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-fye-2015-to-fye-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2020/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-fye-2015-to-fye-2020</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Due to methodological differences, the figures in these two publications are not comparable.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/05/2021 13:57:40 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1316985

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the £20 uplift in universal credit on levels of child poverty in (a) Wales and (b) Ceredigion.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	5251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is wholly committed to supporting those on low incomes, including by increasing the living wage, and by spending an estimated £112 billion on welfare support for people of working age in 2020/21. This included around £7.4 billion of Covid-related welfare policy measures.</p><p> </p><p>We introduced our Covid Winter Grant Scheme providing funding to Local Authorities in England to help the most vulnerable children and families stay warm and well fed during the coldest months. It will now until June as the Covid Local Support Grant, with a total investment of £269m.</p><p> </p><p>As the economy recovers, our ambition is to help people move into and progress in work as quickly as possible based on clear evidence around the importance of employment, particularly where it is full-time, in substantially reducing the risks of poverty. We are investing over £30 billion in our ambitious Plan for Jobs which is already delivering for people of all ages right across the country.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 4737 5195 6168 6212 question first answered 27/05/2021 13:17:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1316986

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the announcement in the Queen's Speech that the Government plans to introduce a Bill to ban conversion therapy, when that draft Bill will be published; and when the consultation on that draft Bill will open.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	5268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, we will bring forward legislation to ban conversion therapy. We will also launch a consultation before details of the ban are finalised to hear from a wide range of voices on how best to protect people from conversion therapy while protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech and upholding religious freedom. We are considering all options for the scope of a ban and will be engaging the appropriate stakeholders to gather views. We will ensure the action we take to stop this practice is proportionate and effective, with no unintended consequences. We have also undertaken research to understand practices, experiences and impacts associated with conversion therapy and will publish this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 5269 5270 5271 question first answered 01/06/2021 15:43:35 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1316987

registered interest
date	21/05/2021
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to publish the findings of her Department's research into conversion therapy practices in the UK.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	5269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, we will bring forward legislation to ban conversion therapy. We will also launch a consultation before details of the ban are finalised to hear from a wide range of voices on how best to protect people from conversion therapy while protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech and upholding religious freedom. We are considering all options for the scope of a ban and will be engaging the appropriate stakeholders to gather views. We will ensure the action we take to stop this practice is proportionate and effective, with no unintended consequences. We have also undertaken research to understand practices, experiences and impacts associated with conversion therapy and will publish this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 5268 5270 5271 question first answered 01/06/2021 15:43:35 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper