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439393

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2015
	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	Dogs: Animal Welfare
	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 bring forward legislative proposals to ban the use of electric shock and prong collars for dogs before 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
	tabling member printed	Angela Smith
	uin	20579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <br /><p><del class="ministerial">Currently, we are looking to include strict advice on the use of these devises in a revised version of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs. If the devices are used in compliance with the Code, it would only be as a last resort and on the advice of a veterinary surgeon or a suitably qualified behaviourist or dog trainer and by a competent operator. The Code could be adduced as evidence used in court in order to determine whether an animal welfare offence has been committed. The impact of the Code will be assessed and compliance with the Code closely monitored, before any decisions are taken on possible future legislative action.</del></p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">Currently, we are looking to include strict advice on the use of these devices in a revised version of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs. If the devices were to be used in compliance with an amended Code, it would only be as a last resort and on the advice of a veterinary surgeon or a suitably qualified behaviourist or dog trainer and by a competent operator. The revised Code could be adduced as evidence in court in order to determine whether an animal welfare offence has been committed. The impact of the revised Code will be assessed before any decisions are taken on possible future legislative action.</ins></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 14:08:45 question first ministerially corrected 11/01/2016 20:10:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 36823 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

435694

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	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	Students: Loans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of changes in student loan repayments to freeze the £21,000 income threshold cap on students and graduates from lower and middle incomes.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
	uin	HL4269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p><del class="ministerial">The budget for the Tradeshow Access Programme was £11.05M in 2014/15 and the estimated spend in 2015/16 is £10.25M.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">For 2016/17 and beyond, UKTI will be reviewing how the Tradeshow Access Programme is aligned with other Export Services as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review settlement. It is therefore not possible to confirm the budget at this stage.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">I will respond positively to a request for a meeting with the Sponsors Alliance subject to diary commitments.</del></p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government published an Equality Analysis of the impact of freezing the student loan repayment threshold on 25th November.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">All borrowers whose earnings are above the repayment threshold will pay around £6 per week more (in nominal terms) by 2020/21. Those individuals with the lowest lifetime earnings will be affected the least, because they will either never earn above the earnings threshold, or will only do so for a more limited period of the loan’s life.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The full Equality Analysis is attached, but can also be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf</a></ins></p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 15/12/2015 16:20:37 question first ministerially corrected 21/12/2015 13:24:16 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park attachment 1 file name HL4269 attachment -freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf title Equality Analysis previous answer version 35662 answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham answering member 115
	tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

432082

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Screening
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to promote opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL3855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:42:42 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34227 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

426496

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Syria: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in what conditions the 114 Syrian refugees are being held at RAF Dhekelia in Cyprus; and if he will undertake to ensure that these conditions are inspected as to their appropriateness.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	15067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>The <del class="ministerial">temporary accommodation</del><ins class="ministerial">transit</ins> facility at Dhekelia Station in Cyprus where the migrants are being held provides access to three meals a day, shelter <del class="ministerial">with heaters</del>, duvets and blankets, privacy and communications as well as facilities for religious worship. <ins class="ministerial">The electrical supply is being upgraded to provide heaters for when the weather turns colder.</ins>Medical care is being provided if needed. The Ministry of Defence was advised by the Department for International Development (DFID) when designing and constructing the facility, and DFID continue to provide support and advice on the ground. It has been visited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Cyprus, who has said that the conditions of the facility exceeds the standard of comparable set-ups.</p><br /><br /> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/11/2015 16:24:35 question first ministerially corrected 13/11/2015 15:00:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt previous answer version 28737 answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

437150

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Environment Agency's 2014 Long Term Investment Scenarios recommended optimum overall investment in flood defences of £750m to £800m each year to 2019-20; and whether she expects that level of overall investment to be achieved.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	19675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Environment Agency's Long Term Investment Scenarios report represents the best currently available projections of potential long term costs to manage flood and coastal risk under a range of scenarios reflecting future uncertainties. It will be kept under review as any further evidence emerges.</p><br /><p>The report confirms that current Government investment plans to 2020, together with forecast local contributions, are in line with the level the Environment Agency’s assessment indicates is necessary to reduce overall flood risk <del class="ministerial">by 5%</del>.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/12/2015 15:36:34 question first ministerially corrected 16/12/2015 16:15:12 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 35407 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

416968

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	Tickets: Touting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in setting up the review of consumer protection measures for the secondary ticketing market.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
	uin	HL1888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>An announcement on who will lead the review, terms of reference and how it will run is expected shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/09/2015 11:23:01 question first ministerially corrected 24/09/2015 13:52:58 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe previous answer version 21943 answering member printed Baroness Neville-Jones answering member 3840
	tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones

62098

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	DNA: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for information held on the National DNA Database were received by her Department from other countries in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
	uin	200768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The first category relates to searches carried out against the National DNA <br />Database (NDNAD) of DNA profiles from outstanding serious crimes or for the <br />identification of an unknown deceased person believed to be a UK national.<br />The below figures are for requested searches undertaken on the basis of a <br />direct request from the National Crime Agency (NCA) formerly Serious Organised<br />Crime Agency (SOCA), with the report as to the outcome of each profile<br />search being issued directly to the United Kingdom National Central Bureau <br />for Interpol (UK NCB).</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Number of searched profile responses provided to NCA/SOCA<sup>[1][2][3]</sup></strong></td></tr><tr><td>2009/10*</td><td>377[4]</td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>548</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>469</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>443</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>409<del class="ministerial">4</del></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">*Data are not available for the period Oct 2009 – Jan 2010.</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second category includes requests for the DNA profile held for a subject on <br />the NDNAD, where fingerprints have been provided to the country that the <br />individual currently resides in. Again this is information provided to NCA/ <br />SOCA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Number of requests for subject profiles release to NCA/SOCA<sup>123</sup></strong></td></tr><tr><td>2009/10</td><td>138<del class="ministerial">4</del></td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>85</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">[1] The data have been extracted from logs produced by NDNAD (validated as the only source of this information) by the application of the specified criteria (requests directly received from NCA/SOCA). The data were extracted by the manual filtering of Excel Spreadsheets.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">[2] The UK NCB is not currently able to provide data on the number of requests received from other countries so these data relate solely to information supplied by the National DNA Database Delivery Unit (NDU).</td></tr><tr><td>[3] The data were extracted on 17th June.</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>[4] These figures have been verified on a 1:1 comparison basis.</p><p>The third category relates to database management information. This provides <br />the number of subject and crime scene DNA profile records held on the database <br />and the number of match reports generated. Countries which do not have a DNA <br />database use this information to demonstrate the success of the UK Database to <br />support their case for legislation in their own country for a DNA database.</p><p>Requestors are directed to the most recent published statistics on the Home <br />Office NDNAD website, at: <br />https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-dna-database-statistics <br />thus no figures are kept for the numbers of such requests.</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/07/2014 16:04:09 question first ministerially corrected 04/09/2014 13:52:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 10428 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

77965

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	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	Genetically Modified Organisms: Labelling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's position is in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations on labelling of products containing GM in the UK food chain; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Huw Irranca-Davies
	uin	205728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">This issue has yet to be discussed in detail within the framework of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. The Government will consider its negotiation position based on a range of factors including the environmental impact and public health benefit of such anti-microbial treatments that can reduce potential for foodborne illness.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The existing EU rules which require GM-derived food to be labelled are not expected to be discussed or reviewed as part of the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/07/2014 10:12:20 question first ministerially corrected 25/07/2014 08:04:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 11865 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1476 label Biography information for Huw Irranca-Davies

60645

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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	New Businesses: Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Start Up Loans applications have been supported by each approved provider of Start Up Loans mentoring services in each region in which the new company was based or planned to be based.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	199740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>All loan recipients in all regions receiving a start-up loan are offered mentoring, although take up of support services is not a mandatory condition of making the facility available. The number of loans made in each region will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/06/2014 16:49:08 question first ministerially corrected 17/06/2014 14:06:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name aTTACHMENT TO 199740.docx title Start up Loan applications previous answer version 1697 answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon answering member 88 attachment 1 file name aTTACHMENT TO 199740.docx title Start up Loan applications
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

61397

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) new passports and (b) passport renewals there have been in the last year; and what the annual change in such figures has been.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	200217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During the period between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office <br />received <del class="ministerial">1,446,983</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,425,885</ins> first time passport applications and <del class="ministerial">4,528,751</del> <ins class="ministerial">4,461,343</ins> passport <br />renewal applications.<br /><br />This compares with 1,346,246 first time applications and 4,036,267 passport <br />renewal applications during the period between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:03:02 question first ministerially corrected 02/09/2014 14:35:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 8681 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley