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	date	04/04/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2013, Official Report, column 914W, on financial services, what progress has been made on the continuation of money transfer services by UK banks; what recent discussions he has had with international partners and regulators on this matter; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	195376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting a healthy and legitimate remittance sector, and ensuring that UK citizens are able to continue to remit funds safely to family abroad. The Action Group on Cross Border Remittances has been established in accordance with the Written Ministerial Statement laid down in Parliament on 10 October 2013. The Action Group includes representatives for UK banks, the private sector, anti money laundering supervisors, civil society and international partners.</p><p> </p><p>Three Action Group meetings have taken place and a number of streams of work are underway; the Action Group is monitoring changes to the market, developing guidance for money service businesses (MSBs) and banks, promoting a shared understanding of risk and developing a ‘Safer Corridor' pilot for Somalia. We are also coordinating with international partners through the G20 framework.</p><p> </p><p>You may wish to keep up to date with the work of the Action Group by visiting its web page: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/helping-developing-countries-economies-to-grow/supporting-pages/enabling-the-continued-flow-of-remittances%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/helping-developing-countries-economies-to-grow/supporting-pages/enabling-the-continued-flow-of-remittances</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

48958

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many illegal stills or other set ups for distilling or brewing alcohol have been found in each institution in the prison estate in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	197141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The possession of alcohol or alcohol producing equipment is prohibited within prisons. Prisons carry out security operations to detect and remove such items and any prisoner caught with alcohol, or caught under the influence of alcohol, can receive up to 42 additional days in prison.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst finds of such equipment is recorded on a central incident reporting system, to determine the number of such finds since 2010 would require a manual analysis of over 40,000 incident reports which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty