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1586116

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date	17/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterpart in the Scottish Government on income tax rates.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	146967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>HM Treasury Ministers and officials regularly engage with their Scottish Government counterparts on a range of issues, including tax matters.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/02/2023 15:46:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1586117

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Elections: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of voter ID measures on the levels of voter ID fraud in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	146968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Elections Act 2022 makes no changes to the voter ID measures in Northern Ireland with the exception of the addition of two new documents to the existing list of acceptable evidence that may be produced at the polling station. The two new documents are the Half Fare SmartPass and the biometric immigration document.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission will continue to report on their assessment of any electoral fraud following elections in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 23/02/2023 10:06:17 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1586118

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of funding through the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Fund was allocated to organisations in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	147028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a government priority. VAWG is an unacceptable, preventable issue which blights the lives of millions.</p><p>In the Tackling VAWG Strategy, the government committed to invest £3 million to better understand what works to prevent VAWG – to invest in high quality, evidence-informed prevention projects, including in schools, aiming to educate and inform children and young people about VAWG, healthy relationships and the consequences of abuse.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022, we ran an open competition through which five organisations secured multi-year funding to deliver this work.</p><p>Four of these organisations will deliver their work nationally. As these projects cover all of England and Wales, it is not possible to provide a precise figure for the value and proportion of funding that benefits the West Midlands.</p><p>However, the University of Birmingham was successful in its bid for funding through the ‘What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Fund’ and will receive £1,078,373 million across a three-year period.</p><p>The University of Birmingham project focuses on research into the WE PROTECT app, to assess whether remote services providing free and immediate legal assistance to domestic abuse victims (from across England and Wales) reduce victimisation rates and improve their physical and mental health.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 27/02/2023 15:52:44 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1586119

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Espionage: Airspace
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to counter the potential threat from surveillance balloons over (a) the UK and (b) UK military bases.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	146852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Deane to Questions 140020 and 140021 on 14 February 2023.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 23/02/2023 12:49:35 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey attachment 1 file name 140020 - Airspace Defence.docx title Airspace Defence
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1586120

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
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: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the consultation on the White Paper on Reforming Our Fire and Rescue Service, which closed on 26 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	147029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that further reform of fire and rescue services is necessary and is committed to delivering reform across key areas of focus within the White Paper.</p><p>The consultation response will be published as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2023 15:57:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1586121

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to The National Food Strategy: The Plan, Appendices 3 and 14, published in July 2021, whether her Department has taken steps to implement the Eat and Learn initiative for schools in that Plan; and whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing the requirement to serve meat three times a week from the mandatory School Food Standards in the context of developing a sustainability and health-driven national reference diet.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	147016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department believes it is vital that pupils are taught about food and nutrition. Making healthy choices is relevant at all Key Stages, which is why these principles are taught and applied throughout school. Early Years practitioners encourage children to learn the importance of healthy eating using both narrative and visual resources. Pupils are then taught to understand healthy eating and lifestyle, including cooking, through science, design and technology and health education curricula at both primary and secondary level. Since autumn 2022, pupils have had the opportunity to be taught about food through the Climate Leaders’ Award.</p><p>Older pupils can understand the employment opportunities and the pathways leading to careers in the food sector. Ten high quality apprenticeships are available across a range of catering and hospitality professions and a T Level in Catering will teach the core knowledge and skills needed to enter such occupations, from September 2023.</p><p>Regarding the School Food Standards, the Department believes the standards provide a robust yet flexible framework to ensure that pupils in England continue to receive high quality and nutritious food that builds healthy eating habits for life. The standards are being kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/02/2023 15:08:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1586122

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a comparative assessment of the equity of the application of the High Income Child Benefit Charge on total family incomes for families where (a) one partner earns above the threshold and the other does not work and (b) two partners each earn below the threshold but whose joint income would be above the threshold if it had been earned by a single person.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
uin	147070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government introduced the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) from January 2013 to ensure that support for families is targeted at those who need it most. The tax charge applies to anyone with an individual income over £50,000 who claims Child Benefit, or whose partner claims it, regardless of family make-up.</p><p> </p><p>HICBC is calculated on an individual rather than a household basis, in line with other income tax policy. Basing HICBC on household income would effectively introduce a new means test, which would be costly to administer and create burdens on the majority of families who receive Child Benefit.</p><p> </p><p>The current approach only requires a small number of Child Benefit claimants to complete a self assessment tax return to report and pay HICBC, while leaving the vast majority of claimants unaffected.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/02/2023 14:21:27 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1586125

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
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	Foie Gras and Furs: Imports
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 she will make an assessment of the impact of existing legislation on the import of (a) foie gras and (b) real fur on animal welfare.
tabling member constituency	Aldridge-Brownhills
tabling member printed	Wendy Morton
uin	146993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The Action Plan for Animal Welfare outlined our intention to explore potential action on the import of animal fur. We have since conducted a Call for Evidence on the fur sector along with other forms of engagement with interested parties. We are continuing to build our evidence base on the fur sector. We are also committed to building a clear evidence base to inform any potential future decisions relating to foie gras imports.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 22/02/2023 16:07:19 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton

1586126

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will take steps to review the decision relating to running HS2 from Birmingham to Leeds and York using a revised programme of delivery.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	147072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>As set out in the IRP, HS2 services from Birmingham will reach Newcastle via Manchester, Leeds and York.</p><p> </p><p>The IRP also included £100 million for further work to look at the most effective way to run HS2 trains to Leeds, including understanding the optimal solution for capacity at Leeds station, and starting work on the West Yorkshire Mass Transit System. The Government intends to publish the terms of reference for the HS2 to Leeds Study soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 24/02/2023 11:25:28 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1586127

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of waiting areas at railway stations for (a) parents and children, (b) disabled people and (c) people with mental health or neurodiversity requirements.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	147073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>Station operators are responsible for ensuring the stations which they manage are safe, secure and accessible. All station operators must establish and comply with an Accessible Travel Policy (ATP) that states how they will protect the interests of disabled passengers at stations, and provides an overview of the accessibility of station facilities and services. The ATP sets out, amongst other things, the arrangements and assistance that an operator will provide to protect the interests of disabled customers. As part of that operators must set out the waiting facilities that are provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 24/02/2023 10:21:44 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell