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517924

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Directors: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reason Companies House publishes the month and year of birth of company directors.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
	uin	36710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

517956

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Brighton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of employment and support allowance (ESA) applicants from Brighton and Hove are being sent to (a) Lewes and (b) Vauxhall for assessment; for what reasons such ESA applicants are being sent to those locations; what impact assessment has been made of sending ESA applicants to centres out of their home city; when and how applicants are remunerated for transport costs; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	36713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>All Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) customers within the Brighton and Hove postcode areas are being asked to attend for an assessment at Lewes Assessment Centre as Lewes is the nearest Assessment Centre to Brighton and Hove.</p><p> </p><p>DWP policy ensures that claimants do not have to travel for more than 90 minutes by public transport (single journey) for a consultation. However, this limit is an absolute maximum and for the majority of claimants their journey will be less than this. For example, it would take applicants from Brighton and Hove approximately 20-30 minutes by bus to reach Lewes Assessment centre.</p><p> </p><p>All claimants who are asked to travel to an assessment are reimbursed either by cheque or directly into a bank account via BACS.</p><p> </p><p>If an ESA customer is unable to attend an appointment, they are asked to contact the provider to discuss their individual circumstances. A home visit can be arranged if there is supportive medical evidence about the claimant’s inability to travel due to their medical condition.</p><p> </p><p>ESA claimants are not asked to travel to the Assessment Centre at Vauxhall which is specifically for claimants of Personal Independence Payment and not ESA.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/05/2016 13:49:55 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

517957

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Care Leavers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance had a self-indentified care leaver marker used by his Department against their record in (a) October 2013 to March 2014, (b) April 2014 to March 2015 and (c) April 2015 to September 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	36731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/05/2016 15:08:03 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

517955

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	HM Coastguard: Norwich
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the (a) land and (b) buildings on the site of the Marine Office in Norwich are worth.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	36712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The only value to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) for Norwich Marine Office is the value of the lease, which is 66k per annum. The value of the land and building resides with the landlord.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 11/05/2016 08:49:27 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

517954

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Doncaster Prison and Peterborough Prison: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a comparative assessment of the proven reoffending rates of the HMP Doncaster and the HMP Peterborough payment by results pilots.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	36738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>We have learned important lessons from these pilots, which have informed our probation reforms. The final process evaluation reports can be found at the following links:</p><p> </p><p>1) <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-impact-bond-pilot-at-hmp-peterborough-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-impact-bond-pilot-at-hmp-peterborough-final-report</a></p><p>2) <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmp-doncaster-payment-by-results-pilot-process-evaluation-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmp-doncaster-payment-by-results-pilot-process-evaluation-report</a></p><p> </p><p>The PbR pilot operating in HMP Peterborough began on 9 September 2010 and results for cohort 1 of this pilot were published on 7 August 2014. The final set of results will be published in due course. The PbR pilot that operated in HMP Doncaster started in October 2011 and closed at the end of 2014. Results for cohort 1 were published in August 2014 and results for cohort 2 were published in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The published results can be found at the following links:</p><p> </p><p>3) <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/final-results-for-cohorts-1-payment-by-results-prison-pilots" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/final-results-for-cohorts-1-payment-by-results-prison-pilots</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/payment-by-results-pilot-cohort-2-hmp-doncaster-results" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/payment-by-results-pilot-cohort-2-hmp-doncaster-results</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 11/05/2016 11:47:34 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

517953

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Ethiopia: Overseas Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations the Government has made to the Ethiopian government on the Integrated Development Master Plan; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	36724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government of Ethiopia withdrew the Addis Ababa Master Plan in January 2016 in response to the wave of protests it had triggered in Oromia. The UK government has raised concerns about the unrest in Oromia, and particularly the reports of a large number of deaths, with the Ethiopian Government on a number of occasions. The Secretary of State raised our concerns directly with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister at Davos in January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 11/05/2016 08:58:04 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

517927

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Money Laundering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 May 2016 to Question 35790, what data her Department holds on criminal assets abroad and whether such assets are recovered or not.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	36739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>As the Answer to Question 35790 set out, the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance states that there is no definitive measure of the scale of money laundering, but the best available international estimate, by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), of amounts laundered globally are equivalent to 2.7% of global GDP or US$1.6 trillion in 2009. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold data on criminal assets held abroad. Criminal assets recovered since 2009 under asset sharing arrangements were set out in the previous answer.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 11/05/2016 11:58:18 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

517945

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Royal College of Physician's report, Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction, published in April 2016.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
	uin	36728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department has and will continue to keep abreast of all evidence and consider it in developing policy. The report published by the Royal College of Physicians is consistent with the Government’s current policy that the best thing a smoker can do for their health is to quit smoking and quit for good, but we recognise that e-cigarettes have a role to play in helping some people to quit.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/05/2016 09:25:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

517946

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in a high-risk group for contracting HIV.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	36734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The PROUD trial was launched in 2012, coordinated by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit and Public Health England (PHE). The number of people enrolled in the trial, was 544.</p><p>Based on evidence from the PROUD study, PHE has made an assessment that of the 100,000 men who have sex with men who attend genito-urinary medicine clinics annually, 8,000 can be identified as being at ‘high-risk’.</p><p>The Department has not yet made its own assessment.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 36733 question first answered 11/05/2016 15:18:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

517947

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to conduct an annual review of the effect of the Tobacco Products Directive.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
	uin	36727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Comprehensive tobacco control measures act in concert. The Government monitors the impact of all tobacco control measures using a range of data sources, some of which are reported annually. The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 and The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Regulations 2015, which implement most elements of the Tobacco Products Directive in the United Kingdom, contain a review clause, with the first review of the operation of the legislation falling before 2021.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/05/2016 09:26:47 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main