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850746

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	3D Printing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will he make an assessment of the potential contribution of 3D printing to UK GDP by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The industry backed Additive Manufacturing strategy identifies that the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Sector can capture over £3.5bn per year (Gross Value Added) for the UK of the rapidly growing global market for additive manufacturing products (3D printing) and services by 2025, supporting 60,000 jobs in the knowledge economy and generating new, highly skilled employment opportunities. The industry led Made Smarter Review also identifies the contribution of digitally enabled technologies to manufacturing-including additive manufacturing- to the UK economy to be as much as £455 billion over the next decade.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Industrial Strategy, we are working closely with UK industry to create the right conditions for competitive, world leading manufacturing businesses to flourish and grow across the UK. Government recognises the importance of 3D printing and additive manufacturing and since 2012 The UK’s EPSRC and Innovate UK’s combined investment in additive manufacturing R&amp;D, including capital grants, has been well over £200 million, helping to develop and maintain UK capability in additive in the UK. In addition we have invested over £300m in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, including establishing the National Centre for Net Shape and Addictive Manufacturing housed in the Manufacture Technology Centre in Coventry. Its aim is to develop production-ready additive manufacturing processes, to overcome barriers to wide-scale adoption, and to work on legislative and standardisation issues to support the commercialisation of the innovation and new technologies such as 3D printing.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/03/2018 14:28:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850011

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the cost to EU citizens of applying for settled status after the UK leaves the EU will be equivalent to the cost of a British passport before or after changes to those costs announced on 29 January 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	129579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The Joint Report that the Government agreed with the EU in December sets out that documents “will be issued free of charge or for a charge not exceeding that imposed on nationals for the issuing of similar documents.” In the UK, this means that the fee for settled status documents will be no more than the fee for a UK passport (but not necessarily that it will be the same). We will set out the fee in regulations in due course and subject to Parliamentary scrutiny in the usual way.</p><p><br>In accordance with our agreement with the EU, for those who hold valid EEA permanent residence documentation, there will be a simple process to exchange this for a settled status document free of charge.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/03/2018 16:11:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

850671

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dublin Regulations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on the UK's refugee policies of (a) renewing and (b) ending inclusion in the Dublin III Regulation after 29 March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	129920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The Dublin III Regulation is an EU reciprocal agreement which requires agreement by both sides, and cannot be replicated unilaterally. We intend to continue to cooperate with the EU on asylum and illegal migration issues when we leave, and the exact nature of this cooperation will be a matter for negotiations.</p><p><br>While Dublin III deals with the management of asylum seekers in the EU, the UK has its own family reunion policy to reunite refugees and recipients of hu-manitarian protection with their immediate family wherever they are in the world, granting over 23,000 family reunion visas in the last five years.</p><p><br>The UK has a long and proud tradition of providing safe haven to those in need of international protection, and this will not be affected by our exit. The UK will remain bound by the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, and continue to provide protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/03/2018 16:07:22 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

850738

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Social Security Benefits
	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 29 January 2018 to Question 124424, on Refugees, whether her Department plans to publish the findings of its pilot by UK Visas and Immigration in the North East and Yorkshire and Humberside; and what criteria her Department used to determine that that pilot was tested successfully.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	129976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The Post Grant Appointment Service was put in place to ensure that refugees who wish to apply for benefits are assisted with their application and receive a prompt first payment of any benefit for which they qualify.</p><p>The scheme was tested successfully in the North East and Yorkshire and Humberside region by mid 2017, and national roll-out to all areas of the country where asylum seekers are accommodated by the Home Office was completed in early October 2017. The Home Office, working in partnership with the Department for Work &amp; Pensions, is continuing its evaluation on the implementation of the service, alongside it’s impact and will report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/03/2018 15:51:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

850739

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Applications
	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 23 January 2018 to Question 123573, if she will direct UK Visas and Immigration to introduce set standards for the judging of visa applications as complex by caseworkers.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	129977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>There are no plans to set standards for judging visa applications as complex at this time.</p><p>Visa applications are considered to be complex when an Entry Clearance Officer determines that additional information is required in order for a decision to be made. This usually means that the applications will take longer to process than the standard timescales.</p><p>In such circumstances UKVI will write to the customer within the standard processing time and explain what will happen next</p><p>The published information on processing times for visa applications is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/03/2018 16:02:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

850741

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Proof of Identity
	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 19 January 2018 to Question 123852, how much her Department has paid in reimbursement for costs relating to lost documents in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	129979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/03/2018 15:58:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

850743

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons Review
	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 29 January 2018 to Question 124249, on Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons Review, which bodies with an interest in immigration detention her Department plans to contact; what the timetable is for revising the guidance; and what assessment her Department has made of the recommendations or findings made by Stephen Shaw.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	129980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is currently engaging with a wide range of bodies on revisions to the adults at risk in immigration detention statutory guidance following a judgment handed down by the High Court on 10 October 2017, and will continue to do so.</p><p>The Government is required by the Court to respond to the judgment within a reasonable timeframe. Stephen Shaw CBE is currently reviewing the Department’s implementation of the recommendations contained in his report on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published in January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/03/2018 16:05:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

851572

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Transport of 27 February 2018, Official Report, column 794, what methodology is used to allocate revenue raised from vehicle excise duty to (a) road construction projects and (b) roads maintenance; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	130335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Future roads investment in England will be underpinned by a new Roads Fund paid for directly from the revenues of Vehicle Excise Duty from 2020-21. The split between operations, renewals and maintenance on the strategic road network will be decided as part of Roads Investment Strategy 2. The Government is currently consulting on the scope of and process for investment decisions on the Major Road Network.</p><p> </p><p>The Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive will receive Barnett consquentials on this funding in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 05/03/2018 11:40:51 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

850030

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	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	Troubled Families Programme
	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 and what proportion of families on the Troubled Families Programme had one or more children who were categorised as Children in Need in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Brentwood and Ongar
	tabling member printed	Alex Burghart
	uin	129598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>We track the characteristics of families on the Troubled Families Programme through our National Impact Study, which uses national administrative datasets. In our latest dataset 43.9 per cent of the 79,616 families for whom we have linked data had at least one child categorised as a Child in Need.</p><p>This means that children in families on the programme were eleven times more likely to be classified as a Child in Need than those in the general population. The latest Children in Need data we have access to is for families who joined the programme before the end of March 2016, and so our results are subject to time lags.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 05/03/2018 16:46:02 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart

851747

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many suspected benefit fraud reports from the public have been (a) received and (b) led to action by her Department in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	130510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP takes its responsibility to detect, prevent and recover benefit fraud very seriously. As the money paid in benefits is taxpayer’s money it is right that we ensure it is paid correctly, and recover any money that is paid incorrectly.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>All reported allegations of benefit fraud are recorded and appropriate action taken.</p><p> </p><p>In 2013 the total referrals received from all sources equated to 864,200. In the same year, there were 614,350 positive outcomes. A positive outcome is everything that is achieved apart from a no result outcome. This can include prosecution, Administrative Penalty, benefit correction and / or overpayment calculation.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014, DWP received a total of 823,450 referrals. There were 627,300 positive outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015, DWP received a total of 779,050 referrals. There were 589,900 positive outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016, DWP received a total of 752,400 referrals. There were 602,550 positive outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, DWP received a total of 825,000 referrals. There were 600,150 positive outcomes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/03/2018 17:58:40 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris