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416556

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of the G7's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition on small-scale farmers in Africa; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	8827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Every DFID programme which is contributing to the New Alliance initiative, including both country-level food security and nutrition programmes and funding for wider agricultural policy reforms, is subject to DFID’s annual review processes. In addition, partner governments conduct annual reviews of the effects of the New Alliance at country level. Reviews will help track progress against the top line New Alliance goal: to lift 50 million people in developing African nations out of poverty over ten years, through increasing investment in agriculture.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 11/09/2015 12:09:25 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

416557

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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	Housing Benefit: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2015 to Question 7129, whether his Department has considered the effect of changes in housing benefit on youth homelessness provision; and whether it is his Department's policy to classify residents of these services as vulnerable.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	8841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This government is determined to end long term youth unemployment, and support all young people into work. In order to prevent young people slipping straight into a life on benefits, from April 2017 we will remove automatic entitlement to housing support for new claims in Universal Credit from 18-21 year olds who are out of work.</p><p> </p><p>There are no planned changes to Housing Benefit entitlement as this policy change only impacts UC.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 12:02:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

416558

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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	Vulnerable Adults
	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 paragraph 1.159 of the Summer Budget 2015, what criteria his Department plans to use to classify people as vulnerable.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	9040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This Government is determined to end long term youth unemployment, and support all young people into work. In order to prevent young people slipping straight into a life on benefits, from April 2017 we will remove automatic entitlement to housing support for new claims in Universal Credit from 18-21 year olds who are out of work. This measure ensures young people in the benefits system face the same choices as young people who work and who may not be able to afford to leave home.</p><p> </p><p>However, we will ensure that vulnerable young people who are in need of support for their housing needs continue to receive it. Government will consider the impact in line with our legal obligations as part of that process.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We have invited key stakeholders to engage with the Department on this policy.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:57:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

391835

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Drugs: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions Clinical Commissioning Groups have not provided funding for a new drug treatment within three months of its approval in a NICE technology appraisal in each year since 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	8251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Commissioners are legally required to fund drugs and treatments approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in technology appraisal and highly specialised technology guidance within three months of final guidance being published.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the uptake of new NICE-approved medicines at clinical commissioning group level and estimates of expected national uptake (when available) are being developed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Information is published quarterly in <em>NICE Technology Appraisals in the NHS in England, Innovation Scorecard, Experimental statistics</em> and the most recent publication can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB17559" target="_blank">www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB17559</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 11/09/2015 13:45:29 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

391739

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Iraq: Arms Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British arms (a) the Government and (b) British companies have sold to Iraqi military forces to combat ISIL.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	8245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to assisting the Government of Iraq (GoI) in alleviating the suffering of those Iraqis targeted by Daesh, the so-called &quot;Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant&quot; (ISIL) group and to restore stability and security across the country.</p><p>Details of military goods sold by the UK Government to Iraqi military forces are published in the UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report at the following link:<a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategicexportcontrolsannualreport" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategicexportcontrolsannualreport</a>.</p><p>The most recent report, which covers 2014, was published in July 2015. Together with the previous report, it indicates that there were no Government-to-Government sales of military goods to Iraqi military forces in 2013 or 2014. In addition, there is no record of any sales of military goods from the UK Government to Iraqi military forces in the period from January to the end of June 2015. This period will be covered in the next Annual Report published in 2016.</p><p>With regard to military goods exported by UK companies to Iraq, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, is the appropriate UK licensing authority. The Government holds information on export licensing decisions for military goods from the UK to Iraq but it does not hold data on actual sales of defence exports and has no information on whether any such exports to Iraq have been used specifically to combat ISIL or for other defence or security purposes.</p><p>I can inform you that 30 Individual Export Licences have been issued for military goods from the UK to Iraq for the period from January 2014 to the end of March 2015. Data on these 30 export licences is publicly available via the Government's Strategic Export Controls: Reports and Statistics website https:// www. exportcontroldb.bis.gov. uk/sdb/fox/sdb/SDBHOME. Data covering the period 1 April to 30 June 2015 is due to be published in October 2015, while data on the export of military goods from the UK to Iraq prior to January 2014 is also available on the same website.</p><p>In addition the UK Government is providing extensive support to the GOI in the continuing fight against ISIL, with the gifting of equipment forming a significant part of this. Previously, Her Majesty's Government has gifted 50 tonnes of non-lethal support, 40 heavy machine guns and nearly half a million rounds of ammunition to the Kurdish Peshmerga. The latest equipment to be gifted to the Peshmerga consists of additional medical supplies. The supplies consist of items such as tourniquets, bandage kits and dressings for wounds and fill a significant gap in their resources, leading to the preservation of life and proper treatment of injuries sustained in combat.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 11/09/2015 13:12:01 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

416606

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Highways England: Industrial Injuries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff of Highways England or the Highways Agency and their contractors have been (a) injured and (b) killed while removing litter or refuse from the strategic road network since January 2010; what the causes of those accidents were; and what injuries were sustained by those staff.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>There have been no incidents of staff being killed as a result of litter removal on the strategic road network since January 2010. The number of injuries during this period is 44, the cause and nature of the injuries are outlined in the tables below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Primary Cause</strong></p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Injuries Sustained</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hit by a moving vehicle</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Bruising / abrasion</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hit by a moving, flying or falling object</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Burn</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hit something fixed or stationary</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Cut / laceration</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Horse play</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Foreign body (ingressed)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Injured while handling lifting or carrying</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Fracture</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slipped, tripped or fell on the same level</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Strain / sprain</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>44</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>44</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p>All of these injuries relate to contractor personnel.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 11/09/2015 11:08:16 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

416595

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Signs and Markings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2015 to Question 2645, if he will make it his policy to consider new authorisations for traffic signs before the new Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions come into force.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to lift the moratorium on traffic sign authorisations prior to the new Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (TSRGD) being introduced. The moratorium does not, however, apply to all traffic sign categories and officials will continue to consider authorisations for those signs not covered by the moratorium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 28 August the Department launched a further consultation on the draft TSRGD which runs until 6 October. The new TSRGD is scheduled to come into force in Spring 2016, subject to Parliamentary approval.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones grouped question UIN 8506 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:19:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

416605

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Signs and Markings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2015 to Question 2645, if he will lift the moratorium on any new authorisations for traffic signs until the revised Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions are introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to lift the moratorium on traffic sign authorisations prior to the new Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (TSRGD) being introduced. The moratorium does not, however, apply to all traffic sign categories and officials will continue to consider authorisations for those signs not covered by the moratorium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 28 August the Department launched a further consultation on the draft TSRGD which runs until 6 October. The new TSRGD is scheduled to come into force in Spring 2016, subject to Parliamentary approval.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones grouped question UIN 8934 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:19:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

416599

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Baby Care Units
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether neonatal units are classified as children's in-patient services for the purposes of Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment are annual ‘snapshot’ assessments of a range of non-clinical services in National Health Service and independent sector organisations. Decisions as to whether neonatal units are classified as children’s in-patient services for the purposes of this assessment are made locally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/09/2015 10:57:16 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

416598

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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 estimate he has made of the change in the number of electors in each constituency and as a result of the provisions of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 1520).
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Individual electoral registration is essential to tackle electoral fraud and ensure a clean democratic process. 96% of electors in Great Britain have already transferred to the new IER registers. The latest figures on electors yet to be registered, broken down to local authority level, are available here:</p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0007/190465/IER-May-2015-electoral-registers-data.xlsx" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0007/190465/IER-May-2015-electoral-registers-data.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures do not take into account the current annual canvass, which will help encourage the remaining eligible retained electors to register individually ahead of December. As the Electoral Commission has said, many of these retained entries are likely to be redundant, for example because of electors moving home. Figures at a Parliamentary constituency level are not available.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 8453 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:06:40 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake