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772087

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date	17/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Food: Marketing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on children's health of restricting the marketing of high in fat, salt or sugar foods before the 9pm watershed.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	108086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Current advertising restrictions in the UK on high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) products are among the toughest in the world. Strict new rules came into effect on 1 July banning the advertising of HFSS food or drink products in children’s media. These restrictions apply across all non-broadcast media including in print, cinema, online and in social media.</p><p> </p><p>In August we announced £5 million investment to fund a national institute for obesity research policy unit to provide a robust evidence base and deeper understanding of the causes of childhood obesity, including marketing to children and families. The unit’s findings will be fed into the department's future policy development and engagement.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 107438 107444 question first answered 19/10/2017 12:10:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

771331

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the Tourism Industry Emergency Response Group met over the last year.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	107752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Tourism Industry Emergency Response (TIER) has been active through all the terror attacks over the past few months, including convening four meetings since the first attack in March.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/10/2017 09:38:53 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

771337

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date his Department plans to publish its response to the Better Compensation consultation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	107769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s ‘<em>Better Combat Consultation’ </em>public consultation ran from 1 December 2016 to 23 February of this year. The Government is considering the views expressed during the consultation carefully and will publish a response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 19/10/2017 14:26:41 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

771343

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
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	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken to secure consular access to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe since recent new charges have been brought against her.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	107751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Our Ambassador in Tehran continues to raise all our dual-national cases, including pressing for consular access, with the Iranian authorities at every available opportunity, most recently in a meeting with the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister on 16 October. The Iranians have not granted us access on the basis that they consider them to be Iranian nationals. While there is no international legal obligation to recognise dual-nationality, we consider them to be British and will continue to request access.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/10/2017 15:03:38 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

771354

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
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	Universal Credit: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the hon. Member for Sefton Central of 12 October 2017 to the Leader of the House, Official Report, column 469, if he will remove the charge for telephone calls to his Department on universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	107750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>As announced by the Secretary of State at the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 18 October 2017, DWP plans to change the Universal Credit helpline to a freephone number over the next month.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 107919 question first answered 19/10/2017 14:07:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

771360

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to establish an online service to enable people to check if they are registered to vote.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Determining an individual’s registration status is the responsibility of Electoral Registration<br>Officers and only EROs hold up-to- date information allowing a citizen to check if they are<br>registered. This means that citizens can contact their local electoral administration office to<br>make enquiries about registration status.</p><p>Making information about registration status available on-line on a national basis would be<br>a significant undertaking and we have no current plans to introduce such a system. It may<br>be more appropriate for EROs to work with their software suppliers to make registers<br>available for checking on-line.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:24:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771362

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding was allocated by the Government to support (a) the registration of UK electors overseas and (b) residents without a fixed address in advance of the (i) 2017 General Election, (ii) EU referendum and (iii) 2015 General Election.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Most funding for electoral registration is the responsibility of local authorities. However, in<br>recent years (including all the years in question) the Cabinet Office has made available<br>extra funding to cover the additional costs of Individual Electoral Registration. Such<br>funding will have assisted with the cost of any targeted canvassing of groups such as<br>those without a fixed address or overseas electors. However it is not possible to estimate<br>the specific costs of such activity.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:27:58 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771363

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure consistency in Unique Property Reference Numbers for the database used by councils and the gov.uk/register-to-vote website.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Citizens applying to register to vote using the Government website must enter their<br>address. After verification, citizen applications are passed to Electoral Registration<br>Officers. The record passed to each ERO includes the Unique Property Reference<br>Number (UPRN) drawn from an Ordnance Survey database. It is up to each ERO how to<br>make use of this UPRN.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:26:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771364

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what safeguards are in place to ensure that people registered to vote outside of the UK do not register in more than one parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>British citizens outside the UK can only register as an overseas elector in the constituency in which they were registered to vote, provided that entry was in force within 15 years of them making an overseas elector&amp;#39;s declaration. Section 2(4) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 prevents a person from specifying more than one address on the declaration; and also prevents a person from having more than one declaration in force at any one time.</p><p>Registration Officers have the power to request information required to prove this. Providing false information to a registration officer is an offence and for England and Wales can result in up to 51 weeks imprisonment or an unlimited fine, and for Scotland up to 6 months imprisonment or a maximum fine of £5,000.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 10:54:21 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771370

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government has taken to implement the recommendations of Sir Eric Pickles' review of electoral fraud entitled Securing the ballot, not including the voter ID pilots planned for the May 2018 local elections.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	108084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s view is that electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level. Sir Eric Pickles’ review made a number of recommendations for strengthening the integrity of the electoral process. In addition to the voter ID pilots taking place in the May 2018 elections, Tower Hamlets will also pilot changes to postal voting. The Government is also seeking to end the practice of postal vote harvesting through measures that will prohibit party campaigners from handling postal votes, and apply a limit to the number of postal ballots that any one individual can hand in at a polling station. Additionally, the Electoral Commission has addressed 7 recommendations through guidance in response to the Pickles Review.</p><p>The Government is considering the way forward on the other recommendations made by Sir Eric Pickles, and will continue to consider how to improve the integrity of electoral processes more generally.</p><p><strong><strong><strong></strong><br></strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:20:18 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green